Tim Peake begins stay on international space station.

 UK astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the International Space Station, which will be his home for the next six months.

 Mr Peake and fellow crew members, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra, floated through the hatch from their Soyuz space capsule to be greeted by the resident ISS astronauts.

 The three new passengers arrived at the space platform following a six-hour journey after launch from Kazakhstan.