A pledge by Gordon Brown to end a "culture of excess" in the public sector was overshadowed when four key government advisers on efficiency were recruited to work for the Conservative Party.
The annual New Year's Day Parade through London will march the route in reverse to satisfy American television broadcasters, organisers said yesterday.
UK charities are facing a severe funding crisis as public service cuts affect their budgets and donations are predicted to remain at rock-bottom for at least another year.
An Iraqi taxi driver who overheard two military commanders talking about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was allegedly the “intelligence sub-source” quoted in the Government’s dossier to prove that chemical missiles could be fired in 45 minutes, according to a report by a Tory MP.
The ICC insists that Mark Benson’s withdrawal from officiating in the second Test between Australia and West Indies that finished in Adelaide this morning was entirely owing to ill health and the pressure of being an elite umpire rather than any disenchantment with the referral system.
People who dislike contemporary art often complain that it will not endure like the masterpieces of bygone eras. In the case of last night’s 2009 Turner Prize winner they have a point, though not quite the one that the sceptics who picket the ceremony every year might make.