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BBC ready to film BNP debate at secret site

21.10.09
BBC chiefs have drafted emergency plans to shift the venue for Question Time if protests against BNP leader Nick Griffin turn violent... more

Atiha Sen Gupta is the playwright for today

20.10.09
21-year-old Atiha Sen Gupta is one of a new generation of writers who are putting the most vexed contemporary issues centre stage.... more

Animal-human embryo studies 'being forced out of Britain'

05.10.09
Research into the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos is being driven out of Britain, it has been revealed... more

Sugar plumbs new low in Pimlico

09.09.09
There was once a laughable suggestion that Alan Sugar could run for London Mayor. Surely there is no chance of the star of TV’s The Apprentice and Gordon Brown’s recently ennobled business adviser, taking to the hustings — given that he keeps firing off solicitors’ letters to anyone who has the temerity to criticise him... more

There's no such thing as a boring family history

22.07.09
Poor Michael Parkinson. He claims he was "gutted" the other day when the makers of the BBC series on genealogy, Who Do You Think You Are? told him that "my story was so boring they had to cancel the entire project"... more

Swine flu helplines are flooded with panicked callers

14.07.09
Health chiefs call for calm as more than 50,000 patients overwhelm NHS Direct with calls about swine flu... more

Swine flu virus has mutated in London, scientists warn

14.07.09
London has already developed its own mutated strain of swine flu as sheer number of infections leads to unique virus... more

Swine flu made us feel we were under house arrest

06.07.09
As the Government admits the disease can't be contained, one film critic tells of his family's absurd week of having to obey the restrictions... more

FIRST PICTURE: 11-year-old British boy in jet crash

03.06.09
This is the 11-year-old British boy who was on the Air France flight that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean... more

Vultures have the funds - now for the feeding frenzy

22.05.09
There will soon be more vultures in the sky than turkeys on the ground if this week's spate of pledges to buy distressed property is anything to go by ... more

The Secret Millionaire who’s betting that property will recover

13.05.09
The City can’t get enough of Nick Leslau and has already pledged to back his new £200 million listed property investment vehicle ... more

Lift £3,000 cap on fees or we'll lose our elite status say universities

29.04.09
Britain's leading universities warned they are in danger of losing their elite status because student fees fail to cover the costs of tuition... more

HSBC's still wrestling with the new order

08.04.09
The self-styled "world's local bank" stepped into controversy last year when it used a fat white man called Brian as the model for a Sumo wrestler in an advertising campaign. ... more

‘I’ll never know for sure what happened to me’

13.03.09
Caroline Symonds has relived the night she fell victim to John Worboys again and again to try to piece together what he did to her... more

Black Caribbeans 'less likely to be pushed by teachers'

05.09.08
Black Caribbean pupils are less likely to achieve academic success because of lower teacher expectations and "institutional racism", a study has claimed... more

Exam targets fail to boost standards, admit ministers

03.09.08
Gordon Brown's "burdensome" school targets have failed to improve the results of children who struggle most in class, the Government has admitted... more

Millions flee New Orleans as Gustav bears down

01.09.08
New Orleans is a rain-lashed ghost city, with just a handful of remaining citizens hiding in their homes as they await Hurricane Gustav... more

A cocktail of knowledge beats exams

21.08.08
The GCSE results are published today and, for anyone who ever took an exam, this is a time when a cloud of retroactive butterflies are released... more

Bloodied Brown now faces lions' den of union bosses

25.07.08
Wounded Gordon Brown is set to limp into a key summit with union chiefs who have drawn up a huge shopping list of demands... more

Unions demand right to secondary strikes

18.07.08
Union chiefs will present a shopping list of demands to ministers as the cash-strapped Labour party draws up new policies... more

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