John Prescott

BRIEF: Search for health sciences VP continues

Nov 12, 2008 (The Dominion Post - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Several physicians who left WVU in recent years have cited turnover in the administration as part of the reason they left the university....

Set The Video: Rich Kid, Poor Kid, Channel 4, Thursday, 13 November, 9pm

Thanks to a sneaking suspicion that The Tories are going to get in to power, people have gone class-mad. For a while, the whole class thing has been on the back burner as the buoyant housing enabled loads of people to shift...

Pong of those things in DNA

Who nose? ... it could be we all smell different Here's how some celebs might smell ROCKER Pete Doherty would be identified by the smell of stale fags, beer, crack ash and pork scratchings. Former Deputy PM John Prescott would...

'Elite' MPs' £13,000 salary hike will land taxpayers with £1.5m bill

MPs were at the centre of a new pay row last night over plans to spend £1.5million on a fresh layer of Commons bureaucracy that would give some backbenchers a £13,000 salary hike. Plans have been put forward to create new...

A British Obama? Not while the 'Yes Massa' instinct is still the order of the day for the Tories

Derek Laud: 'The odds of Britain producing a black head of government are roughly on a par with John Prescott winning the Nobel Prize for physics' Barack Obama is not the first black President of the USA. Even then, they had to...

Two-mortgages Prezza: How credit crunch will lose John Prescott £200,000 on luxury London flat

John Prescott's attempt to follow Tony Blair in becoming a property magnate is lying in tatters as he falls victim to the housing crash. A two-bedroom Central London flat the former Deputy Prime Minister bought for £740,000...

James Corden: 'I had a confidence problem - too much of it'

Let's go for a drink, says James Corden. Here we go. I've seen him in action on Gavin & Stacey. Blimey, he can put 'em away. We're sitting in a chauffeur-driven car. Corden has just been filming his new sketch show with Mathew...

TV review: The Prescotts are in a class of their own

Do you agree with Stephen Pile's view of the week's TV? Rude Tube (E4, Wed) was a desperate attempt by television to interest the YouTube young who are upstairs on the computer. And we blame Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for...

Functional learning jeopardising education, says head

A focus on "functional" learning is jeopardising the education of modern-day schoolchildren, it has been argued.Bernice McCabe, the headteacher of top independent school North London Collegiate, has suggested that traditional...

Prêtarapporter: the return of the rock Tshirt and Pauline Prescott

Pauline Prescott has had to put up with a lot from her husband Sarah Mower on how the return of printed T-shirts has her mutton monitor on full alert, and praises the class act that is Pauline Prescott It is weird, the...