A damning report into the Baby P scandal will today pile pressure on the £100,000-a-year council boss responsible for protecting vulnerable children to resign. Sharon Shoesmith is widely expected to quit as head of children's services at Haringey. ...read
Jack Straw said he was 'very surprised' by the nature of the police raids on Conservative MP Damian Green's homes and offices.
The acting head of the Metropolitan Police is reconsidering his application to succeed Sir Ian Blair. Sir Paul Stephenson was said to be contemplating withdrawing from the contest ahead of the noon deadline.
The Bank of England must slash interest rates to just 2 per cent this week, the lowest level since 1939, say economists.
Middle class families will bear the brunt of Alistair Darling's £20billion pound giveaway as a series of tax reforms leave them up to £1,500 worse off than they were when Labour took power in 1997.
Labour's public sector spending has created a wave of 'Soviet' boroughs where around half the population depends on the state for work, figures have revealed. An analysis of council statistics showed that in ten areas more than 40 per cent of the workforce is employed in the public sector. Many are deprived areas. ...read
Homeowners have been thrown a lifeline as one of Britain's leading banks promises to give six months' respite to those who fall behind with mortgage repayments.
A bombshell disclosure that senior Cabinet ministers want to dump the pound for the euro was made today by the president of the European Commission.
Budget airline Ryanair has announced a new takeover bid for its Irish rival, Aer Lingus.
An NHS nurse has broken the £100,000 pay barrier for the first time as the drive to cut waiting lists brings lucrative rewards for senior staff.
Dragons' Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is reported to be among more than 10 'serious' potential bidders for collapsed high street chain Woolworths.
Net mortgage lending dived by nearly 70% during October to just £459 million, the Bank of England said today.
Retailers were today scrambling to complete changes to their pricing systems ahead of the VAT reduction which comes into force tomorrow.
Forget tougher sentences and more bobbies on the beat, the latest weapon in the war on drunk yobs is... bubble blowing.
When Santa got stuck up a chimney, there was no fire service on hand to give him help.
Two people have been critically injured after a gas explosion partially destroyed a block of flats.
Driving with a hangover is four times more dangerous than getting behind the wheel wide awake and sober, scientists say.
A judge has condemned an apparent police assault on a soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall, 24, was thrown to the ground by three uniformed officers after a night out with friends and punched eight times. The violent arrest - caught on CCTV - shocked a crown court judge, who called it appalling. But astonishingly Lance Corporal Aspinall was himself hauled before the courts and convicted of assaulting the police. ...read
A man has been shot dead by police after a stand-off at a cathedral.
He was gunned down outside Guildford Cathedral after armed marksman were called to reports of a man carrying a gun in the city.
The 17th-century cottage, with its quintessentially English garden filled with flower beds and herbs, has long been a place of pilgrimage for devotees of Jane Austen.
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The NHS rationing watchdog could be forced into a humiliating U-turn over its ban on life-extending kidney cancer drugs within weeks, it emerged yesterday.
It is far from an achievement to be proud of - research suggests that British men and women are the most promiscuous in the Western world.
Homeowners have been thrown a lifeline as one of Britain's leading banks promises to give six months' respite to those who fall behind with mortgage repayments.
The Department of Health has ordered its clinical watchdog NICE to draw up guidance on the safety and running of donor milk banks.
It is usually husbands who crack the jokes about difficult, interfering mothers-in-law. But their wives probably have more reason to complain.
Parents are being offered a £100 DNA test which promises to reveal which sport their child is most suited to play.
It led to weeks of protests, 42,000 complaints, a series of resignations and a grovelling apology from the BBC. Yet remarkably, Jonathan Ross has been defended by the controller of BBC1.
Their arms are wrapped around each other as they sleep peacefully. But this picture of serenity is one Faith and Hope's parents might never have seen. For when Laura Williams was told she was pregnant with Siamese twins, she and her husband Aled, 28, were advised to abort them. Although the survival rate for conjoined babies is very low, the couple, from Shrewsbury, refused on moral grounds. ...read
The leader of Britain's biggest union demanded almost £100,000 compensation to move out of his grace-and-favour home, it was claimed yesterday.
Leading universities are operating unofficial blacklists of 'soft' A-level subjects that bar pupils from entry because they lack academic rigour, a study has suggested.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to India not to punish his country for last week's attacks, saying militants could precipitate a regional war. His warning came as it was revealed intelligence of the devastating attacks was 'lost in the system'. ...read
The British lawyer who told the BBC of his ordeal from his barricaded hotel room in Mumbai came home to the arms of his family on Saturday.
Zimbabwe health authorities say 425 people have died in a cholera outbreak and they are concerned it will worsen with the onset of the rainy season. More than 11,000 people have been sickened since August.
A close female friend of the British shipping tycoon killed in the Mumbai massacre has told how his death has left her ‘drowning in pain’.
Michelle Obama is to receive this £20,000 thank you from her husband for her support during the election.The Harmony ring is made of rhodium - the world's most expensive metal --and encrusted with diamonds.
Hillary Clinton will today become the most powerful woman in the U.S. government when she is appointed Secretary of State.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon, locked in a war with violent drug cartels, has said that half of the police recently tested are unqualified to do their jobs.
Empty planes were flying out of Bangkok's two main airports while tens of thousands of tourists remain stranded in the Thai capital.
The architect who designed the iconic Sydney Opera House has died aged 90.
Heartbroken wildlife officials, mourning the death of 150 small whales when they were smashed against rocks in Tasmania, admit there will probably be other mass strandings in the weeks to come.
The Bank of England must slash interest rates to just 2 per cent this week, the lowest level since 1939, say economists.
The Queen's Speech is being hastily rewritten to put fighting the economic crisis at the heart of Gordon Brown's last full programme before a General Election.
Nick Clegg's relations with his frontbench team were in crisis last night after he dismissed the ability of some of his colleagues and blurted out plans for a reshuffle.
Pensioners who are relying on a 'property pension' have seen £45billion wiped off their retirement savings in just 12 months, research reveals.
David Davis has placed himself at the head of a cross-party campaign to challenge the Speaker over his role in the police raids on Damian Green.
With one crude act, the notion that fair justice is the cornerstone of our democracy was ruthlessly shoved aside last week in an act of political vandalism.
The insolent police raid on Tory frontbencher Damien Green's homes and offices raised many questions, some of which I ask here that perhaps which you did not care to, for fear of finishing up in a cell yourself.
Around the world, people reacted with horror to the vile atrocities in Mumbai. There was a sense in Britain that this has nothing to do with us, but the atrocities show that a war is being waged against civilisation.
Though Advent has only just begun, I had my first Christmas card a fortnight ago. Such a thrill, isn't it, the first card? Such a welcome reminder that we truly have entered the season of peace on earth, goodwill to all men.
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