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What should Apple do with its $81bn?

20.10.11
It is hard to find a chink in the armour of Wall Street's technology titans. Apple's figures may have disappointed Wall Street this week, but it is all relative... more

Red or Black axes two contestants

08.09.11
Simon Cowell's 'Red or Black' has axed two contestants after tightening security checks... more

Boris: Weaker criminal checks on cabbies will put the public at risk

01.08.11
The safety of Londoners is at risk because checks on cab drivers are being watered down, ministers are warned... more

Healthcare Locums probes two execs over 'misconduct'

04.07.11
Two senior recruiters at crisis-riven healthcare employment agency Healthcare Locums have been suspended pending investigations into serious misconduct allegations that will fuel criticism of the use of profit-driven private contractors by the NHS... more

How you can transform the lives of hundreds of children

06.06.11
Make a difference to youngsters in the capital by giving up just 90 minutes of your time a week ... more

NHS to revive contract with clinic suspended over death of patient

06.01.11
A private health company banned from working for the NHS following the death of a patient is to reopen in 20 London boroughs... more

'Woman’s lies cost me 20 years of my life but she got off lightly'

04.01.11
Father of three says he has lost two decades of his life after being falsely accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl... more

Capita warns that spending cuts are starting to bite

18.11.10
Back-office outsourcing firm Capita admits that the long-heralded bonanza of government contracts is not going as well as it had expected... more

House-sitting for the cash-rich and time-poor

18.11.10
Entrepreneurs: Marcus Simpson started his business while out of work and after watching a daytime TV show on how to earn extra cash in the recession... more

Nursery 'was the ideal sex abuse environment' for paedophile Vanessa George

04.11.10
Nursery provided 'an ideal environment' for a paedophile to sexually abuse young children, an official report revealed... more

Shake-up could end need to disclose a criminal past

22.10.10
Thousands of people guilty of minor offences would no longer have to tell their prospective employers about their criminal past under Home Office plans unveiled today... more

David Cameron hails public sector cost-cutters

05.08.10
David Cameron has praised Britain’s public servants after they came up with thousands of money-saving ideas on how to run the Government... more

Old Mutual leaps on Standard Chartered buzz over Nedbank

12.05.10
Market Round-up: Speculation that Standard Chartered is eyeing up one of Old Mutual’s businesses boosts the insurer’s shares ... more

My mother, the secret litter lout of Wimpole Street

12.03.10
What does it say about Britain today when a council hires 50 inspectors to go through old ladies’ binbags? ... more

Teacher on child sex charges is killed in bridge crash fireball

03.03.10
Primary school teacher accused of rape dies after crashing his car into a bridge a day before he was to stand trial... more

Sir Thomas Legg smear campaign demeans politicians

20.10.09
The smear campaign by MPs facing large repayments of expenses against the independent auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, can only add to the impression that standards in public life have reached new lows... more

Pregnant mother in Facebook paedophiles case worked at nursery

13.10.09
Pregnant mother of eight charged in connection with the Facebook paedophile ring is a former nursery school worker... more

Paedophile gets job at nursery after failed safety checks

02.10.09
Paedophile given job at a south London nursery after it failed to carry out security checks, it admitted... more

Capita surges on Labour’s spending

23.07.09
The Government may be in terminal decline but Capita, the public sector outsourcing firm which has benefited from Labour’s reforms, is still flourishing ... more

NHS staff still lack training after Baby P

16.07.09
There are worrying gaps in NHS child protection services in the wake of the Baby P case... more

Top primary hired teacher in rape case with no check or references

19.06.09
The school where Boris Johnson sends one of his children has been condemned by an official inquiry for failing to protect pupils from sex offenders... more

Rotten flipside of ‘the good times’

29.05.09
The scandal of MPs’ expenses has shocked the nation more perhaps than it should. The warning signs have been with us for years had we taken the trouble to look, or better, to question what our politicians were telling us ... more

Police support officer accused of assault at 'apartheid' station

27.02.09
A suspected child sex attacker was allowed to join the Metropolitan Police and is being investigated over an indecent assault on a woman colleague... more

New database will put children at risk, say parents

26.01.09
Security fears have been raised over a government database listing the personal details of every child in the country... more

143 London nurseries condemned for 'failing'

22.07.08
Dozens of childcare groups in London have failed to properly safeguard children... more

I launched Childline to protect the most vulnerable - but unleashed a politically correct monster

08.07.08
TV presenter Esther Rantzen talks speaks about how her revelation of child abuse in the BBC programme Childwatch in the Eighties sparked of years of political correctness. ... more


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