Author: Press Association
The morning presenter advanced the unconventional argument at a tax tribunal
in which she argued she should be permitted to claim hairstyling, clothing
and cleaning costs as expenses to keep up her appearance on screen.
Read more on I’d read the news naked, Sian Williams tells tax tribunal…
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
For the last six days, she has barricaded herself inside her office in Paris to prevent her members from firing her. Ms Pujol, 61, part of a family which owns hotels and restaurants in the southern town of Carcassonne, winches bags of food up to her third-floor office on the end of a severed television cable.
Author: By Stephen Howard, Press Association
In what a Court of Appeal judge described as a “most unfortunate and
regrettable dispute”, Eileen Cook took out a possession order against her
only daughter, Pauline Thomas and her husband, Wyndham, 76.
Read more on Woman ordered to quit 92-year-old mother’s home…
Author: By Holly Williams, Press Association
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said annual staff costs will rise by a
further £47.7 million to £350 million as it beefs up its workforce by around
14% this year.
Read more on Financial Services Authority to hire 460 new staff…
Author: By Joe Churcher, Press Association
The Prime Minister told Sir John Chilcot’s panel when he appeared before it
earlier this month that the defence budget was “rising in real terms
every year”.
Read more on Gordon Brown admits inquiry slip over defence spending…
At the beginning of each episode, Graves would undertake a ritual that became ingrained in the minds of television viewers worldwide. Turning on a tape recorder, he heard the words: “Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is…” The pay-off line was always: “As usual, should you or any member of your IM Force be captured or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.” The sequence was as famous as the theme tune by Lalo Schifrin.
At the beginning of each episode, Graves would undertake a ritual that became ingrained in the minds of television viewers worldwide. Turning on a tape recorder, he heard the words: “Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is…” The pay-off line was always: “As usual, should you or any member of your IM Force be captured or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.” The sequence was as famous as the theme tune by Lalo Schifrin.
Author: By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor
Peers of all parties are lining up to condemn the plans ? announced by the Prime Minister at last year’s Labour conference ? as rushed, under-funded and counterproductive. Mr Brown claimed that more than 400,000 people would benefit from this autumn, including 280,000 older and disabled adults who would be guaranteed free care.
Read more on Brown’s home care plans set for defeat in the Lords…
Author: By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Lord Patten of Barnes told a conference of independent headteachers in London yesterday that he would do a deal with the Government and accept a limit on state funding, in exchange for the freedom for universities to charge whatever fees they wanted.
Read more on Universities should set own fees, says Oxford chancellor Patten…
The move would potentially affect current government plans to test independently financed news consortiums in several regions including Wales, Scotland and the Borders, which would produce regional bulletins for ITV1. Eight bidders are currently in a tender process for three pilot schemes with a decision expected next Thursday.
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