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Sajid Raza, the founder and former principal of the Bradford free school Kings Science Academy, has been charged with fraud over his involvement with it, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

A 13-year-old boy has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the murder of Christopher Barry, 53, who was stabbed during an altercation when a gang of youths tried to get into a party at a block of flats in Edmonton, north London, in December last year.

The Dawn probe has entered orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres as planned.

• Read more: NASA's Dawn probe set for historic rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres

The small planet is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Social care for all over 65s would be free under the Green Party, leader Natalie Bennett has announced.

In a speech to the party's spring conference in Liverpool, Bennett said the policy would become a manifesto pledge because it was vital in a "decent, humane" society.

A vote for the Greens would be a vote for "hope not fear"', she told the audience.

"This election can be a turning point in history. The moment where we can deliver a better Britain, a Britain which works for its people. A Britain which cares," she said.

A 53-year-old who claimed he was branded an "old buffer" and made to dress up as Santa while working at Dow Jones has won his unfair dismissal claim against the firm.

Accounts manager James McClellan, 53, claimed he was sidelined and forced out of his job in the payroll department at the Rupert-Murdoch owned publishing giant.

He told Central London Employment Tribunal his manager Azmina Airi had branded him "rigid and stuck in my ways" after she was appointed in October 2013.

Less than a year later, Mr McClellan said he was forced to resign from his £72,000-a-year job as it had become impossible.

The tribunal panel found he had been constructively and unfairly dismissed.

But they said while he may have been "hurt" to be asked to be Santa, it did not find he was the victim of ageism or sexism.

Read more: Dow Jones employee claims firm 'made him dress as Santa'

Ed Miliband has accused the Prime Minister of "running a mile" from the televised leaders' debates.

Speaking at his People's Question Time session, the Labour leader said David Cameron "was not so much born to rule as determined to hide."

Alan Yentob told the High Court he felt "invaded and sickened" by phone-hacking by journalists from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

The BBC's creative director said he had been profoundly shocked by the true extent and intensity of the intrusion into his private life.

Mr Yentob was giving evidence at a hearing in London to decide the amount of compensation to be awarded in eight representative cases involving himself, actress Sadie Frost, ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, soap stars Lucy Taggart, Shane Richie and Shobna Gulati, flight attendant Lauren Alcorn and TV producer Robert Ashworth.