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Tube strikes for Christmas as peace talks break down

NEW: Threat of Christmas Tube strikes increases dramatically after peace talks over pay and conditions broke apart  Comments 
Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown exposed as soldier's mother records call

Latest: Gordon Brown's authority dealt a heavy blow after a row with the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan was captured on tape  Comments 

David Cameron

Cameron to give charities cash in drive to beat welfare ‘failure’

David Cameron attacks the 'moral failure' of state-run welfare as he announces radical plans to use taxpayers’ cash to fund charities helping the poorest in society  Comments 

David Miliband

David Miliband: I won't take European job

NEW: David Miliband appears to clear the way for a future Labour leadership bid after ruling himself out of the running for a top Brussels job  Comments 

Dominic West

Boris attacks top Tory's claim that crime in London is like The Wire

Boris Johnson lashed out at shadow home secretary Chris Grayling for claiming that parts of Britain suffer from crime similar to that portrayed on US TV series The Wire  Comments 


Police arrest

Arrested teenagers' DNA to be kept on record for six years

Thousands of innocent teenagers will have their DNA kept on the national database into adulthood  Comments 

iPhone

iPhone users can watch Sky TV for £6 a month

Sky launches the first commercial TV service for Apple's iPhone, allowing subscribers channels live on their handset for the first time  Comments 

Shoppers

Recession blamed for increase in shoplifting

Shoplifting fuelled by the recession surges to record levels in the UK this year, according to reports  Comments 

Olympic Park’s first completed building

First venue of £6bn Olympic Park is finished: a tin shed

It may not win any architectural prizes but a lime-green building made of old shipping containers has become the first London 2012 Olympic Park venue to be completed  Comments 

The buildings LSE may use

Conran’s £25m designer digs for students

Architect in talks with LSE over London's grandest student accommodation  Comments 

Call of Duty game arrives

Protect children from this ‘brutal’ warfare game, MP demands

Politicians call for restrictions on a computer game that allows players to kill innocent civilians  Comments 


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Repairs at 4-year-old hospital

Flagship hospital built using private funds is being repaired four years after it opened, it has emerged  Comments 

An impression of the new Fulham beach

Welcome to Fulham-sur-Plage

First picture: This is the first image of plans to create central London's only permanent urban beach  Comments 

Luella forced to shut up shop after backers pull the plug

One of Britain's top fashion labels has been forced out of business because of the recession  Comments 

Killers Sheehan and Philip

Life for arsonists who murdered girl and granny

Latest: Two men were jailed for life for murdering a teenage girl and her grandmother by setting fire to their flat as they slept  Comments 

Jacqueline Gold

'Women with toy boys are fuelling demand for IVF'

Spanish fertility centre says the British women it treats are more likely to be significantly older than their partners compared with other nationalities  Comments 

Fatal car crash

Three killed in crashes on London roads over 24 hours

Three people were killed and two others seriously injured in three crashes on London's roads in less than 24 hours  Comments 

Lorries remove earth

50 lorries a day in West End to take Crossrail earth away

Swathe of London faces months of disruption when 50 lorries a day start carrying earth dug from the Crossrail tunnel out of the capital  Comments 

Harrow is seeking 'Neighbourhood Champions'

Citizen snoopers recruited to spy on Londoners

Latest: London council recruits 2,000 residents to report 'crimes' committed by their neighbours as critics fear expansion of 'surveillance society'  Comments 

Home cinemas

Home cinemas replace swimming pools as must-haves for the wealthy

Home cinema replaces the swimming pool and gym as the must-have room in the modern home  Comments 

Andrew Motion

Motion 'rips off historian' in Remembrance poem

Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of 'ripping off' a military historian's research for his Remembrance Sunday poem about shell-shocked soldiers  Comments 

Rachel Weisz

Evening Standard theatre awards: Rachel Weisz and Lenny Henry fight stage giants for top prize

Stars of the British stage including Rachel Weisz, Samuel West and Lenny Henry will battle it out at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards  Comments 

William and Suzue Curley

Capital's gourmet chocolate hotspot

Britain's top chocolatier William Curley opens his first central London shop in Pimlico Green  Comments 

Lisa Smith

'Driver ordered us off bus in heavy rain'

Mother tells of her disgust after a bus driver ordered her and her toddler to get off and walk in the pouring rain  Comments 

money

BT staff share £45m Euro lottery jackpot

Group of BT call centre workers from Liverpool have won Britain's biggest lottery prize, a £45.5 million share of the Euromillions jackpot  Comments 

Keyboard

Email snooping powers to win go-ahead despite abuse warnings

Ministers vow to press ahead with new powers to retain the email, text message, computer and phone records of every citizen despite warnings that the safeguards against abuse are inadequate  Comments 

Quick Reads

Conran designs digs for LSE students

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Lotto winners share £91m jackpot

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The O2 is named world's top arena

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Nuclear timetable

New plants to make UK 25% nuclear by 2025

Huge expansion of nuclear power was announced as Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband argued it was crucial in the fight against global warming  Comments 

Sarah Driver-Jowitt and Martin Kelly

Hospitals teach foreign doctors how to rebuild children's faces

Britain's top plastic surgeons are heading a project to help severely disfigured children from around the world  Comments 

Andy Burnham

Minister urged to help thalidomide victim

Health Secretary asked to intervene to help a London woman denied 24-hour home care by the NHS  Comments 

West End

‘Recession vacation’ lifts West End

West End shops are enjoying an early Christmas sales boom thanks to bonus-spending City bankers and tourists taking advantage of the weak pound  Comments 

Money

2012 Olympics budget 'now £12billion'

Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion  Comments 

Go Go Pets

Go Go get your robotic hamster now ... while stocks last

Robotic hamsters are the new must-have toys this Christmas, sales figures showed  Comments 

Football fan brushing his teeth

Football fan brushes his teeth as Chelsea paste United

Video: Football fan becomes an instant internet hit when he appears on TV brushing his teeth in the stands at Stamford Bridge  Comments 

Shahid Malik

Games' Legacy minister 'is failing to make voice heard'

As minister for Olympic legacy, Shahid Malik's onerous task is to help deliver the jobs, homes and regeneration the Government promised as a benefit to Londoners of hosting the 2012 Games  Comments 


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