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10:47 am (3 hours ago)
England's healthcare regulator may have covered up knowledge of its own failings after a series of baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital, a report says.
1:42 pm (12 minutes ago)
Families of soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the government for negligence and bring damages claims under the Human Rights Act, the Supreme Court rules.
9:33 am (4 hours ago)
New Man Utd boss David Moyes faces a trip to Swansea as the 2013-14 Premier League fixtures are announced.
1:33 pm (21 minutes ago)
The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai announces.
11:09 am (3 hours ago)
Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans is arrested on suspicion of three counts of indecent assault.
12:29 pm (an hour ago)
Brazil is to send a national security force to five major cities to help restore order after massive protests, the justice ministry says.
12:59 pm (55 minutes ago)
The bodies of two missing divers are found close to a wrecked German warship in Scapa Flow in Orkney.
7:03 am (7 hours ago)
Measures including criminal sanctions to make bankers responsible for their own failings, are called for in a new report.
1:08 pm (46 minutes ago)
A teacher accused of abducting a schoolgirl to France will not give evidence in his defence, a jury is told.
1:47 pm (7 minutes ago)
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is to launch an investigation into BSkyB over the supply of its sports channels to rival broadcasters.
12:55 pm (59 minutes ago)
US President Barack Obama is to speak at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where he is expected to call for cuts in US and Russian nuclear arsenals.
12:10 am (14 hours ago)
A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.
10:32 am (3 hours ago)
High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope, strontium-90, have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.
11:34 am (2 hours ago)
The average single person in their twenties will now have to save for over 14 years before they can buy a home, says the housing charity Shelter.
9:04 am (5 hours ago)
North Korea denounces a report that leader Kim Jong-un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday.
1:11 pm (43 minutes ago)
Entertainer Freddie Starr is bailed for another two months by officers investigating allegations of sexual offences.
1:08 pm (46 minutes ago)
Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay make the shortlist to become the UK's second City of Culture in 2017.
11:13 am (3 hours ago)
The global monetary organisation is going to try to teach the world about public finances.
1:21 pm (33 minutes ago)
The Chancellor, George Osborne, is expected to outline the government's plans for the future of Lloyds and RBS during his speech at the Mansion House.
12:04 pm (an hour ago)
Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese property developer, says it will spend £1bn ($1.6bn) to buy a British yacht maker and property in London.
12:30 pm (an hour ago)
BT chief executive Ian Livingston is to leave the company to join the government as a trade minister, David Cameron announces.
9:37 am (4 hours ago)
MPs will get a vote on whether the UK should arm Syrian rebel forces before it happens, Commons speaker John Bercow says.
5:12 am (9 hours ago)
Five organisations receive coroner's letters highlighting the "disturbing" death of a woman after paramedics were called to a care home.
Yesterday 10:04 pm (16 hours ago)
Ministers are considering a ban on face-down restraint in English mental hospitals as figures show the technique is being widely used.
12:36 pm (an hour ago)
Careers advice is on "life support" in many schools in England with teenagers having little knowledge of the workplace, the director general of the CBI, John Cridland, claims.
2:04 am (12 hours ago)
Many UK universities do not consider candidates' backgrounds when offering places, research suggests.
12:03 pm (an hour ago)
A system software update has rendered some PlayStation 3 consoles unusable, manufacturer Sony confirms.
Yesterday 6:48 pm (19 hours ago)
Two junior doctors develop giant 3D animations of human body parts to make medics' lectures more memorable.
5:08 am (9 hours ago)
The Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn is going to picture the ringed planet in a special photo that also includes a distant Earth.
1:04 am (13 hours ago)
The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests.
1:04 pm (50 minutes ago)
Sally Gardner, a dyslexic author once branded "unteachable" at school, wins the prestigious Carnegie Medal for her book Maggot Moon.
11:04 am (3 hours ago)
Daniel Radcliffe impresses reviewers with his "understated" performance as a disabled teenage orphan in Martin McDonagh's play The Cripple of Inishmaan.
1:35 pm (18 minutes ago)
In much of the UK, many young people have no prospect of getting on the property ladder. How can they prepare for decades of renting?
Yesterday, 1:35 pm
Fixed odds betting terminals, a kind of super-powered fruit machine, are driving profits in betting shops. Some councils are now fighting back.
9:00 am (5 hours ago)
Scottish Premier League champions Celtic will kick off next season at home to Ross County on 3 August.
10:44 am (3 hours ago)
Rafael Nadal could play Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer as early as the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
8:23 am (6 hours ago)
British and Irish Lions wing George North has overcome injury ahead of the first Test against Australia on Saturday.
12:01 am (14 hours ago)
The 2012 Derby winner Camelot faces recent conqueror Al Kazeem in the feature race of day two at Royal Ascot.
10:13 am (4 hours ago)
The FA Cup final will be played at the end of the domestic season for the first time since 2010 in the 2013-14 season.
12:30 pm (an hour ago)
A private consultancy firm is chosen to run Doncaster's troubled children's services department.
7:53 am (6 hours ago)
A second man is arrested in connection with an arson attack on a mosque in Gloucester.
1:18 pm (35 minutes ago)
Sex education at a younger age and free contraception for people as young as 13 are needed to cut teenage pregnancy rates, according to a Holyrood inquiry.
12:41 pm (an hour ago)
The murder of a woman whose remains were discovered on Corstorphine Hill in Edinburgh a fortnight ago is to feature on BBC's Crimewatch programme.
10:30 am (3 hours ago)
A factory in Larne, County Antrim, that makes medical devices is creating 416 new jobs
12:18 pm (an hour ago)
Chief Constable Matt Baggott has said the G8 summit in Fermanagh was "the most peaceful and secure" in history.
1:18 pm (36 minutes ago)
The man who created Groggs, the hand-carved caricatures celebrating sporting heroes and other celebrities, dies at the age of 78.
12:52 pm (an hour ago)
Internet addicts can suffer a form of cold turkey when they stop using the web - just like people coming off drugs, according to research.
1:12 pm (42 minutes ago)
A gun-battle has lasted for more than an hour inside a UN office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, following a suicide bombing, witnesses say.
12:49 pm (an hour ago)
Gunmen on motorbikes kill 48 people in an attack on a remote village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, an official says.
1:02 pm (52 minutes ago)
Military helicopters lead rescue operations in India's flood-hit northern states, where 130 people are now known to have died.
4:34 am (9 hours ago)
Australian Adrian Bayley is jailed for the rape and murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher, with a minimum jail term of 35 years.
1:08 pm (46 minutes ago)
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski apologises for a political appointment that plunged his three-week-old government into crisis.
10:01 am (4 hours ago)
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades urges eurozone leaders to help his country's biggest bank and sharply criticises the bailout agreed in March.
Yesterday 10:10 pm (16 hours ago)
The Chilean Supreme Court approves the extradition of former Argentine judge Otilio Romano, accused of human rights abuses under the military government.
Yesterday 6:26 pm (19 hours ago)
An Oregon motorist suspected of fatally running down a US man on a quest to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil for charity is arrested.
5:43 am (8 hours ago)
The UN says 7.6 million people became refugees in 2012, the highest number since 1994, with the conflict in Syria a major new factor.
12:23 pm (an hour ago)
A suicide bomber on a motorbike kills two people in Yemen's northern town of Saada, which is under the control of Houthi Shia rebels.
1:50 am (12 hours ago)
The head of the US electronic spying agency tells Congress surveillance programmes leaked to media helped thwart 50 attacks since 2001.
4:22 am (10 hours ago)
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passes a bill to restrict abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception.
Yesterday 2:38 pm (23 hours ago)
Mass protests in Brazil
Yesterday, 12:59 pm
Twenty-four hours of news photos: 18 June
Yesterday, 7:24 am
Forest fires in Indonesia create haze
Yesterday, 9:00 am
Marking World Refugee Day
Yesterday, 12:49 am
Thwarting high-profile militant attacks
Monday, 4:05 pm
Twenty-four hours of news photos: 17 June
Monday, 3:30 am
Healers in Tanzania’s southern highlands
Monday, 3:34 am
Images from the last days of India's telegram service
Sunday, January 13th, 7:49 pm
Prime Minister David Cameron is making a statement on the recent G8 summit.
10:35 am (3 hours ago)
Mental health services in England could be banned from using face-down restraint and many are training their staff to resolve issues without physical intervention.
10:12 am (4 hours ago)
It is not just planes and helicopter on display at the Paris Air Show, as the BBC's Theo Leggett found out when he tried on some of US defence firm Raytheon's new kit.
Yesterday 10:46 pm (15 hours ago)
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha have lunch with Irish rock star Bono and visit Glendalough.
7:15 am (7 hours ago)
A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.
Yesterday 9:17 pm (17 hours ago)
Portraits by 19th century photographers Henry and Charles Meade are subjects of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
3:15 am (11 hours ago)
Thousands of people gathered in front of Sao Paulo Cathedral on Tuesday for a new protest which was largely organised through social media.
Yesterday 2:17 pm (24 hours ago)
Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei unveils its latest mobile handset, which the company says is the thinnest on the market.
Yesterday 10:51 pm (15 hours ago)
The UK's recent run of damp summers could be down to a cyclical warming of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists and meteorologists have said.
12:43 am (13 hours ago)
As witnesses die, will the Holocaust be forgotten?
1:42 pm (12 minutes ago)
Possible models for intervention as West mulls action in Syria
10:50 am (3 hours ago)
The strange linguistic legacy of the telegram
12:47 am (13 hours ago)
The new play that keeps its audience in the dark
12:13 am (14 hours ago)
Where is the middle class growing around the world?
8:56 am (5 hours ago)
Russia falls again for eggs once despised as tsar’s playthings
2:14 am (12 hours ago)
Is down-at-heel Detroit on brink of a comeback?
12:18 am (14 hours ago)
The 13-year-old taking fashion blogging by storm
4:11 am (10 hours ago)
Fears for author of 'I'm Queer' blogpost
9:24 am (5 hours ago)
Commission says Lloyds ready for privatisation
11:23 am (3 hours ago)
Don’t call time on Abenomics yet
10:56 am (3 hours ago)
Troubling secrets of England’s mental hospitals

Press Releases

January 2013

NMJ Insurance Brokers acquires further Glossop Broker

NMJ Insurance Brokers Ltd (NMJ) has announced that it has acquired the general insurance business of M J Stansfield. This is the fourth business acquired by NMJ since 2010. Read More

July 2012

NMJ Insurance nominated at British Insurance Awards 2012

NMJ Insurance is celebrating after being named as a finalist at the prestigious British Insurance Awards 2012. The British Insurance Awards showcase top class performance and innovation, rewarding achievement and raising standards across the industry. Read More

February 2012

NMJ Insurance celebrates 40 years of supporting local communities

This year represents a special milestone for NMJ Insurance Brokers Limited as two of its offices celebrate 40 years of providing insurance services to the local community. Read More

August 2011

NMJ Insurance Brokers makes its largest acquisition to date

Following the acquisition of Ridge Insurance in Glossop and Protheroe Insurance in Belper last year, NMJ Insurance has now acquired Barry Fenton Insurance based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. Read More

May 2011

NMJ Insurance Brokers supports the Aldermanbury Declaration

NMJ Insurance Brokers Limited ("NMJI") has confirmed its support of the Aldermanbury Declaration. The Aldermanbury Declaration encourages UK insurance firms to commit to a common framework of professional standards. Read More

August 2010

NMJ Insurance Brokers announces second acquisition in Derbyshire

NMJ Insurance Brokers Limited (“NMJ Insurance”), the branch-based broking network established by former Equity Insurance Brokers’ Managing Director, Nick Potts and Acquisitions & Insurer Development Director, Mike Hutton has announced its second acquisition. Read More

January 2010

NMJ Insurance Brokers completes first acquisition of Ridge Insurance Services and also announces new office opening

NMJ Insurance Brokers Limited (“NMJ Insurance”), the new branch-based broking network established by former Equity Insurance Brokers’ Managing Director, Nick Potts and Acquisitions & Insurer Development Director, Mike Hutton has announced its first acquisition. Read More

July 2009

NMJ New Champions of the High Street

Former Equity Insurance Brokers’ Managing Director, Nick Potts, and Acquisitions & Insurer Development Director, Mike Hutton, have announced that they are seeking FSA authorisation to re-enter the industry with their new venture, NMJ Insurance Brokers Limited (NMJI). Read More