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Coleen Rooney has been named Ambassador of the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards 2014 and will help find incredible mums to be honoured at the awards ceremony next year.

Following in the footsteps of Denise Van Outen and Sara Cox, Coleen is encouraging the public to name the most deserving mums in the UK, who will be celebrated at a glittering star-studded luncheon at a luxury hotel in London the weekend before Mothers’ Day, next year. “Coleen was chosen to be our Ambassador because charity work lies very close to her heart. She manages to juggle a busy home life with two young boys...

The government has lent its support to encourage people to leave money to charity in their wills.

As part of this week’s Remember A Charity in your Will campaign the Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd will call on UK solicitors to raise the topic with clients.

The joint letter from the minister and Remember A Charity will accompany a nationwide poster campaign and social media campaign to raise public awareness.

Already supporting the campaign are the Co-operative Legal Services which will be promoting charitable bequests to customers in the process of writing...

Ed Miliband will today (Tuesday 10 September) declare his ambition to build a mass membership One Nation Labour Party rooted in the lives of working people and communities across Britain.

In his speech to the TUC in Bournemouth, he will acknowledge that the reforms he proposes are a massive challenge and that some people are worried about change. But he will say the current system of affiliation for trade unionists must change so that they have a real choice as individuals about being part of the party - and a real voice within it.

Mr MIliband proposes that individual union...

A 16-month-old toddler is described as being in a "serious but stable condition" in Derriford Hospital after falling more than 100ft (30 metres) from a fifth-floor flat on Saturday morning.

The girl, who has not been named, suffered internal injuries after the fall from the window of her home just off Savage Road, in the Barne Barton area of Plymouth.

Police and ambulance crews were called to the scene of the incident which happened just before 8.30am on Saturday 7 July. The little girl was quickly taken to hospital.

Although Devon and Cornwall Police are continuing...