Â£2m lifeboat's rescue called off
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Efforts to free a Â£2m lifeboat, stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, are called off for the day.
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Helicopters and lifeboats involved in sea rescue after 19 people stranded on ferry in Irish Sea
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Rescue operation under way after trawler fire leaves 23 crew members stranded without power.
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One of Britain's biggest property funds shuts its doors to withdrawals after panic selling
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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A volunteer coastguard quits after being investigated for not using safety equipment during a dramatic cliff rescue.
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A strike by London Underground which crippled tube services has been called off following peace talks.
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Fierce weather conditions are today severely hampering a rescue operation to tow a stricken Canadian submarine to safety.
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Spain has called off the two-day search for some 50 African migrants whose crowded boat capsized in rough seas off the Canary Islands, officials said Saturday.
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The DEC is to end advertising of the tsunami aid appeal as donations head towards Â£200m.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground, coastguards said.
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Five people were rescued by coastguards today after spending eight days at sea in a life-raft. The survivors were picked up off the coast of Cornwall this morning and are being treated in hospital, a coastguard ...
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Wild weather was tonight hampering an operation involving British forces to rescue a Canadian submarine. Five British vessels are en-route to the stricken HMCS
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Rescuers are  winding down their hunt for  Steve Fossett two weeks after his plane vanished over Nevada.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were  airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the  Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground,  coastguards said.
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An application for a privately funded visitors' centre at the Giant's Causeway is turned down.
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A roll-on roll-off ferry which ran into trouble in high winds in the Irish Sea runs aground off the Blackpool coast.