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'Let's get on' with climate fight, urges Alistair Darling

06.11.09
NEW: Chancellor Alistair Darling urges finance ministers from the world's leading economies to 'get on' with tackling climate change... more

Scores trapped as torrential rain lashes UK

02.11.09
Much of the UK was on flood alert after torrential rain and strong winds caused scores of rescues and travel misery... more

Best of British for Mercury Prize

10.07.09
As it's nearly time for the annual UK album contest that is the Mercury Prize, David Smyth names his 12 favourites of the year.... more

Diageo takes the axe to 900 whisky jobs

01.07.09
Diageo today added to the troubles of the Scotch whisky industry with plans to axe 900 jobs in a move to cut costs ... more

Brown defends £500 paint bill for summer house

19.06.09
Gordon Brown defends claim of £500 for painting the garden summer house of his constituency home... more

Brown vows: No blackout on future expenses

19.06.09
Gordon Brown pledged to lift the blackout of MPs' expenses with new statutory rules on future publication of claims... more

Sir Fred Goodwin to hand back £4m of pension pot

18.06.09
Disgraced banking boss and former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin - known as Fred the Shred - agrees to hand back around £4million of his pension pot so he can get another job... more

Greens are London's biggest winners as Labour plunges to fifth in suburbs

08.06.09
Labour suffered a humiliating rout in the European elections as it was pushed into fifth places in dozens of areas around Britain - although it clung on to second in London... more

Grim start to life in big brother's bleak house

05.06.09
The Big Brother contestants are adjusting to life in a house stripped of all creature comforts... more

Chip in and chill out at St Andrews hotel

03.06.09
The Old Course at St Andrews is man heaven, but there's more to the home of golf than plus-fours and Sloaney students... more

PM under pressure over bill for cleaning services

08.05.09
Gordon Brown’s expenses claims were under the microscope after it was revealed he paid more than £6,500 for a cleaner whom he jointly employed with his brother... more

Brown: My Downing St flat is not free - I pay the council tax on it

08.04.09
Gordon Brown has been forced to defend his two homes funded by the taxpayer... more

Labour hopes for by-election boost from rate cut

06.11.08
Labour was hoping for a last-minute bounce in its Glenrothes by-election campaign as the drama of the interest rate cut sank in... more

A hair's breadth of hope for Gordon and Sarah

29.10.08
With a week to go before the Glenrothes by-election, Team Brown has closed on the Scottish nationals. But defeat in Fife will scotch all the talk of Mr Brown’s political recovery... more

KT Tunstall weds her drummer boy on the Isle of Skye

07.09.08
It resembled a music festival rather than a wedding, with folk-singing guests and outdoor chemical toilets. But yesterday Scots singer KT Tunstall married her fiance, drummer Luke Bullen, on the Isle of Skye.... more

CDs of the week

29.08.08
Brian Wilson rehashes the Beach Boys, James Yorkston puts out a hypnotic album and Charles Lloyd is captured on record.... more

Black Watch wins hearts

25.06.08
Gregory Burke's play showing the venerable Black Watch under fire in Iraq and under threat at home is rich, exciting, humane and moving.... more

Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman doing well after safely giving birth to son Rudy

10.06.08
Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman has safely given birth to a baby boy, it was announced today. Earlier this year Bowman said giving birth could put her life at risk due to a serious heart defect... more

Mavericks of malignance

29.10.07
The 10 plagues visited upon Egypt revisited the Barbican in song form, making for an unparalleled evening of pestilence.... more

Critic's choice: Top five gigs

27.07.07
Basement Jaxx warm-up for the imminent V Festival and the Scissor Sisters play two giant Dockland shows this weekend.... more

Critic's Choice: Top five gigs

08.09.06
Rowdy Scottish rock quartet The View, supercool Brazilian band CSS and hard-working Toronto punk band Billy Talent are among the highlights of this weekend's live music in the capital.... more

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