Author: By Nicky Burridge, Press Association
Chester Square in Belgravia, London, held on to its title as the most
expensive place to live in 2010, with the average property there costing
£6.6 million, according to housing information website Mouseprice.
Read more on Prices surge in ‘most expensive street’…
The pier had a long heyday. Designed by the Victorian seafront architect
Eugenius Birch, it was given a glorious Art Deco face-lift in the 1930s
before hosting musical legends of the Sixties and Seventies such as The
Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Genesis and Pink Floyd. But today
Hastings Pier is falling into decrepitude: unsafe, closed to the public, and
in the hands of a Panama-registered company that so neglects the landmark
that it failed to turn up at a court case recently brought by the borough
council.
Author: By Chris Moncrieff, Press Association
This cruel epitaph is sadly how Foot will be remembered above all else. For he
was a politician who was far more at home on the backbenches, freely
dispensing discursive and sophisticated argument and debate, than as a
frontbench man hemmed around by official policy lines which he was compelled
to adhere to.
Read more on Michael Foot: Leftwing fighter who led Labour to poll collapse…
Author: By Joe Churcher, PA
The shadow chancellor said his “people’s bank bonus” would reward taxpayers
for the £850 billion ploughed by the Government into propping up crisis-hit
financial institutions.
During the financial crisis, the Government nationalised Northern Rock and
took stakes in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group in
return for bailing them out.
Read more on Tories to sell cut-price shares in state-owned banks…
Author: By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor
Information released by the party, claimed that more than half of girls ? 54 per cent ? in the most deprived communities fell pregnant before their 18th birthday. The claim, in a document detailing the gap between the Britain’s richest and poorest areas, was breathtaking. It was also untrue: a crucial decimal point was missing from the actual figure, which is 5.4 per cent.
Read more on Conservatives get their hundreds and thousands mixed up…
Author: By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor
Information released by the party, claimed that more than half of girls ? 54 per cent ? in the most deprived communities fell pregnant before their 18th birthday. The claim, in a document detailing the gap between the Britain’s richest and poorest areas, was breathtaking. It was also untrue: a crucial decimal point was missing from the actual figure, which is 5.4 per cent.
Read more on Conservatives get their hundreds and thousands mixed up…
Author: By Joe Churcher, PA
Shadow chancellor George Osborne hailed the policy as the biggest shift of
power to workers since Margaret Thatcher introduced the right to buy council
houses in the 1980s.
Meet Jonathan Gaunt, 46, the most rabid right-wing ranter on British radio,
the bogeyman of the liberal media and the bete noir of this newspaper’s
Matthew Norman. “You don’t get punished in this country,” wails “Gaunty”
to listeners of his weekday morning show on TalkSport radio, in a familiar
lament over a nation turned soft, before pining for the return of the Poll
Tax. “It was fair!” he screams, blaming the demise of Margaret
Thatcher’s hated levy on the “great unwashed, the students, the
layabouts and the lefties”, who, he claims, never pay their taxes
anyway.
Mr Cameron’s prediction was right. But two and a half years on, Conservative MPs are becoming unsettled again. The Tories remain around 10 points clear of Labour, and an election victory is still on the cards. But Labour has narrowed the gap to as little as seven points in one survey; there is confusion over their fiscal policy, and the Prime Minister appears to be enjoying a late resurgence thanks to Britain emerging ? just ? out of recession. The “dip” is not as deep as the summer of 2007, but Mr Cameron’s once-smooth path to Downing Street suddenly looks a little more bumpy.
Read more on Tory lead shrinks: Jitters… or something more?…
Author: By Andy McSmith
After a long delay, the Deputy Commissioner Graham Smith has decided that the public should not have to wait for the usual 30 years before finding out who told the truth about the meeting. But he may yet be overruled by the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, in case it sets a precedent for more recent Cabinet discussions, such as the one that preceded the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.
Read more on Details of Westland row that sparked rift to be revealed…
