there will be an official commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The event, confirmed by veterans minister Derek Twigg, will be centred around a service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on November 11 at 11am.

Deep sea life

Microbes have been discovered thriving more than 5,000 feet below the ocean floor, making them the deepest living life forms known. They were in 100 million-year-old sediment samples from the ocean floor off Newfoundland, Canada.

Europe House

The former Conservative Party Central Office is to become Europe House, the new UK headquarters of the European Union, it has been announced.