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No Headlines Available - Showing BBC Headlines Instead for 19/07/2013 Olympics boost to UK 'nearing £10bn' The UK economy has seen a £9.9bn boost in trade and investment from hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, research suggests. Tax cut for shale gas firms planned The government outlines plans to give tax breaks to companies involved in the UK's shale gas industry, but faces criticism from environmentalists. England heatwave spreads westwards The heatwave warning is raised to "level three" by the Met Office for north-west England, while it is reduced for south-east England and London. Alcohol deaths 'up' in young women Deaths from alcohol-related disease in women born in the 1970s are rising, contrary to the overall trend, a study suggests. Wales heatwave 'may have killed 100' As many as 100 people may have died in Wales as a result of the heatwave so far, according to research. Teenager dies after river fall A 15-year-old boy dies after falling into the River Roe near Limavady, County Londonderry.

PROFILE: Perhaps the most famous of Britain's quality newspapers, The Times is a daily national newspaper published in London since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch. Though traditionally a moderately centre-right newspaper and a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to tabloid size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public transport. An American edition has been published since 6 June 2006. The online version has been behind a paywall since July 2010. Profile extracted from Wikipedia and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Circulation: 449,809 (April 2011)   Political Outlook: Centre-Right, Moderately Conservative   See our UK Newspaper Guide.