A passer by has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich yesterday.

A passer by has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich yesterday.

British households will save £45bn, or £1,600 apiece, if the government hitches its electricity supply to low-carbon sources such as wind and nuclear rather than gas, a parliamentary advisory committee has estimated.

Terrorism returned to the streets of Britain yesterday when a soldier was murdered by two suspected Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him as he left a barracks, in the first deadly attack since the 2005 London bombings.

David Cameron insisted Britain would “never buckle” in the face of terrorist attacks as he led political condemnation of the soldier's murder, which he described as “absolutely sickening”.

The residents who gathered around the scene of the barbaric attack in Woolwich this afternoon struggled to articulate their horror.

David Cameron insisted Britain would “never buckle” in the face of terrorist attacks as led condemnation of the “absolutely sickening” murder of a soldier in Woolwich.

Terror experts said that the murder is a "departure" from previous attacks and represents a "new round of terror threats in this country".

Terror experts said that the murder is a "departure" from previous attacks and represents a "new round of terror threats in this country".

A billionaire fraudster is set to lose three of his luxury properties in Britain's most exclusive postcodes after a High Court ruling.

A sadistic killer, who murdered three children he was babysitting before impaling them on railings, could be given a new identity if the parole board agrees to transfer him to an open prison.

The security services listened in on the phone calls of King Edward VIII at the height of the abdication crisis as Whitehall desperately sought to prevent news of his imminent departure from leaking out, according to previously unseen documents.

A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street near the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.

Britain flirted with the idea of launching a wave of assassinations of senior Nazis, from Field Marshal Rommel to railway chiefs, to coincide with the  D-Day landings, according to newly released documents.

Eyewitnesses today described seeing the "crazed" Woolwich attackers "hacking" at their victim and posing for pictures before charging at police wielding meat cleavers.

Eyewitnesses today described seeing the "crazed" Woolwich attackers "hacking" at their victim and posing for pictures before charging at police wielding meat cleavers.

A majority of MPs on the House of Commons specialist media committee have written to the Privy Council to protest over the press industry's proposals for its future regulation.

The room would be vaguely familiar to anyone who attended a school infirmary built in a certain period: white tiled walls, slightly yellowed by the passage of time, and the pervasive smell of mildew. At one end is a door that today simply leads outside, but in the past led to certain death.

Commander Simon Letchford gives a statement on the serious assault in John Wilson Street in Woolwich in south east London

After Ukip’s success in the local elections there has been growing interest in what sort of people the party attracts. In Lincolnshire, Chris Pain, leader of the 16 Ukip councillors who are now the main opposition on the county council, denies writing offensive comments posted under his name on Facebook. “My email has been hacked several times. I have got someone looking into this, but it has been a shock to find out how easy it is to do,” he tells me.

Opponents of gay marriage warned of a “long, protracted battle” ahead as they prepare for a last-ditch attempt by peers to scupper the plans.

Conservative MPs are to defy David Cameron again by demanding that a referendum on Europe is held on the same day as the next general election.

A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street outside the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.

A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street near the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.

A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street outside the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.