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• Missing police officer named as Bill Barker • Hundreds evacuated as riverbanks burst A policeman swept away during devastating flooding was trying to save lives by directing motorists off a bridge across a swollen river. PC...
Tory David Curry stood down as head of standards and privileges committee pending inquiry into second home claims The Tory MP in charge of the Commons standards and privileges committee, who stood down pending an inquiry into...
David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
Greg Hurst, Education Editor Universities have been warned to expect heavy cuts next year as the head of their funding body told them that the “golden age” of rising budgets was over. Fields for research funding would become...
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting. Mr Brown took questions from an invited audience at the Albert Hall ahead of the meeting. As part of the visit,...
Martin Bell tells Sarah Falkland about his general election plans The leading independent campaigner Martin Bell says he is "unlikely" to stand at the next general election. Mr Bell says he has not completely ruled out another...
The Prime Minister has paid tribute to the policeman who died in the floods in Cumbria in the early hours of Friday morning. Pc Barker, 44, was directing motorists off the bridge in Workington "saving lives" when it caved in as...
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commission If ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, this...
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical...
