£1.1m council parking fines doesn’t stop service making loss

Parking wardens handed out more than £1.1m in parking fines last year across Northamptonshire UK, but the overall service still made a loss, new figures revealed. A report still to be published by ...

MPs vote for a real terms cut in the European Union's budget.

David Cameron has suffered a humiliating defeat in the Commons on Europe, with more than 50 Tory MPs rebelling against the Prime Minister. MPs voted by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13, in favour of a rebel ...

Scandal of 4.8m on less than the living wage

Britain's worst double-dip recession since the 1950s has left a fifth of all workers struggling to get by on less than the living wage, a major report to be published today will reveal. Almost five million...

Why Conrad Black is blustering

There is little surprise that Conrad Black returned to London this week to pursue his resurrection. Black passionately wants to get back to business and restore his social status. Sentenced in Chicago in ...

Child benefit: would someone give IDS a brain scan and quickly?

I would like to volunteer to be shrunk and placed inside Iain Duncan Smith's brain. I'm reluctant (who wouldn't be?), but after his declaration that poor unemployed people with more than two children should lose...

Lord Bichard says the retired should take up community service

Outrage as former head of benefits agency Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard says the retired should take up community service or have their pensions docked Lord Bichard said older people had to make 'a more...

Tory MP Raymond Mawby sold information to Czech spies

The BBC has discovered evidence that a Conservative minister in the 1960s provided information to communist spies in return for money. The files - found in the archives of the Czech Security Service - show...

UK emerges from double-dip recession

George Osborne says 1% growth in the third quarter of 2012 shows the 'economy is healing'. The figures, announced by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday, mean the chancellor will be able to deliver his...

George Osborne 'forced to pay £160 first class train upgrade'

George Osborne has been forced to pay for an upgrade after sitting in a first class train carriage with a standard class ticket. An aide to Mr Osborne initially refused to pay the £160 supplement and said the...

Anti-austerity march set for London, Glasgow & Belfast

Saturday 20th October 2012 Tens of thousands of people are expected to march through central London, Glasgow and Belfast today in protest against the government's austerity measures. Labour leader Ed Miliband is...

Obama On Daily Show: President Defends Libya Response To Jon Stew

Read more: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/10/obama-on-daily-show-president-defends.html President Barack Obama rejected allegations of confusion within his administration following the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya while taping an appearance on "The...

David Cameron refuses to come clean over Rebekah Brooks emails

David Cameron is under pressure to release private emails exchanged with Rebekah Brooks that he has withheld from the Leveson Inquiry, after extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons in which he refused to ...

Cameron forces energy companies to give customers cheapest price

The Prime Minister has decided to take on the energy companies, after they announced a series of above-inflation price increases over the last few days. He is holding talks with Nick Clegg, the deputy...

Tory privatisation plans dealt blow in Cornwall

Conservative plans to privatise council services plans were dealt a fresh blow on Tuesday when the leader of Cornwall council was acrimoniously ousted for trying to push through a £300m sell-off. The project...

Cold War Missile Sites Given Listed Status

Cold War Missile Sites Given Listed Status Fifty years since the Cuban missile crisis left the world on the brink of nuclear war. Two military sites which were readied for...

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