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Prime Minister pledges to 'bring down bills'

17.10.11
David Cameron has admitted the Government needed to work "harder and faster" to bring down energy bills ahead of a summit... more

'Joanna Yeates suffered 43 injuries in desperate fight against strangler'

11.10.11
Joanna Yeates fought a desperate battle for survival against her killer, a court heard... more

Royal support for victims of violence

17.08.11
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the refuge and advice centre set up in Tottenham for victims of the riots... more

Families left homeless by rioters' fires still waiting to be rehoused

15.08.11
Dozens of families left homeless by the riots that devastated Tottenham face another week of uncertainty before they can be given permanent places to live... more

Remember you're a #RiotWomble

10.08.11
Feature: From Enfield to Clapham, Londoners have been rolling up their sleeves and showing their community spirit by pitching in to help clean up after the riots. Liz Hoggard joined them... more

Westminster axes Sunday free parking despite protest

02.08.11
Free on-street parking in the evenings and on Sundays is to be scrapped across the West End as Westminster Tories vote to press ahead with charges to boost the council's annual parking income... more

Flood leaves 3,000 London homes without gas

23.06.11
Salvation Army handing out hot meals and people washing in leisure centres after 3,000 homes in London lost their gas supply ... more

City Spy: Beeb brazens out link with debt collector

20.06.11
The radio editor of the BBC's top magazine, Radio Times, has blasted the corporation's management after reports that private-equity firm Exponent is the "preferred partner" in the sale of BBC Magazines... more

Friends pay tribute to dead Salvation Army major

21.03.11
Friends of a retired Salvation Army officer found dead while on holiday in Hong Kong have paid tribute to her ... more

Raising hell: Tiger Mother vs Slow Dad

11.02.11
Tiger Mother's tough love parenting style has the world cowering and there's only one man who can stop her. But is Slow Dad too laid back to care? Gavanndra Hodge weighs up the contenders. ... more

Passenger fury as rail boss says network is 'working well'

22.12.10
Rail boss provokes passenger fury after declaring the national train network was 'fully open' and 'working well'... more

Eurostar 'shambles' attacked as the queues continue to grow

21.12.10
Family caught up in the travel chaos gripping Eurostar services told today how the big freeze had trapped them for four days... more

Police turn away Eurostar passengers as thousands queue in freezing cold

20.12.10
Police forced to turn away Eurostar passengers trying to get home for Christmas as thousands queue for up to six hours at St Pancras... more

The Dispossessed: You’re hired! Help for the homeless with business brain

16.12.10
New Aspire Foundation workshops aim to show that homelessness doesn’t mean helplessness, by guiding the way to employment. Our grant is funding a course ... more

Sam Cameron the Salvation Army Santa

06.12.10
Samantha Cameron helps to wrap some of the 150,000 Christmas presents which will be sent out from the Salvation Army headquarters in Southwark to families all over Britain... more

Charity begins with knowing how best to give

09.11.10
Now that the weather has turned wild and Christmas decorations are in the shops, the homeless are banging on the door of our consciences again... more

Let’s eat, drink, shop - and give to others

24.12.09
While today may seem like a festival of consumerism, the festive season is nonetheless underpinned by the Christmas story. ... more

Universities are set an impossible task

23.12.09
Lord Mandelson has given universities a difficult task. He wants to cut funding by £135 million.... more

Making an ass of the law

22.09.09
The range of construction schemes ripped off demonstrates how builders operate: from the bare-faced cheeky to the downright disgraceful ... more

Lord Sugar conned by dodgy builders in Mayfair deal

22.09.09
NEW: Sir Alan Sugar was ripped off by dodgy builders in a multimillion pound redevelopment of a fashion market in the heart of London... more

Protest over lap dancing club near infants school

23.02.09
Residents are fighting plans to set up a late-night lap dancing club in a north London suburb... more

CDs of the week

05.12.08
Akon's third album drops most of the hip-hop, you can almost smell the dope in Neil Young's 1968 concert and David Byrne is unfussy. ... more

Good old days in Wink the Other Eye

24.07.08
Wink the Other Eye blinks and misses its chance; with a tedious, rambling narrative and not a flying trapeze artist or escapologist in sight.... more

Boys from broken homes join gangs to find an alternative family

08.07.08
Children turn to gangs to fill the gap left by poor relationships with their own families, a report said... more

Ian McEwan's long-lost brother tells the story of how he was given away at birth

27.06.08
It could be an Ian McEwan novel: an only child given away at birth tracks down his secret family and discovers he has a famous brother. The twist? It’s true ...and the brother IS Ian McEwan. Here,they tell their extraordinary story ... more

Shaw's war of ideas is still sallying forth

05.03.08
Major Barbara, a great, ironic comedy by Bernard Shaw, speaks to us with even more chilling urgency than it did at its 1905 premiere.... more

Crockett? Johnson is more Tubs as main Guy

19.01.07
Casting Don Johnson, best remembered as smoothie detective Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, as Nathan Detroit in spiv musical Guys And Dolls was always going to be a high-risk gamble. ... more

Critic's choice: Top five plays

07.11.06
The stars of Dirty Dancing are kicking up their heels, Faustus offers a smorgasbord of theatrical delights and Faust provides an evening you're unlikely to forget.... more

Gunning for ideological purity

23.10.06
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is well revived at the Orange Tree and the audience never feels far from murderous gunfire in Sam Walters's production.... more

Debut lacks song and dance

08.08.06
Patrick Swayze's legions of fans will no doubt have the time of their lives seeing him in the flesh in Guys and Dolls, but lovers of musical theatre are unlikely to be impressed.... more


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