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Ann Keen's answer to expenses question: Get stuffed

16.10.09
Five London MPs are refusing to say if they are being asked to repay part of their Commons expenses... more

Male and pale: how our children see MPs

23.09.09
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Haringey sent child to live with Heathrow bomb plotter

11.09.09
Exclusive: The council at the centre of the Baby P scandal sent a foster child to live with the ringleader of the airline bomb plotters... more

Haringey 'squanders' £24m on consultants as Baby P suffered

02.09.09
Haringey 'squandered' equivalent of 700 social workers’ salaries as overstretched staff failed to save Baby P... more

Met under pressure over 'racist' form

01.09.09
Scotland Yard under pressure to scrap a 'potentially racist' risk assessment form which asks venues to reveal what kind of music they are playing... more

Baby P carers demand payouts

11.08.09
Six carers in the Baby P case who lost their jobs are demanding taxpayers’ money in compensation as the child's killers are revealed at last... more

Fire chief’s £396 cab fare

26.06.09
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Campaign to oust Speaker gains cross-party support

18.05.09
15 MPs back historic motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker Michael Martin... more

Great Ormond Street ‘tried to hide Baby P failings with spin campaign’

15.05.09
Great Ormond Street Hospital has been accused of mounting a spin campaign to cover up its failings over Baby P... more

Doctors raised alarm over ‘high risk’ at Baby P clinic

12.05.09
Great Ormond Street managers ignored top-level warnings... more

London MPs face pay probe as they prepare to pocket 9% increase

31.03.09
A full inquiry into the scandal of MPs' pay and perks was speeded up as dozens of London MPs were set to pocket an inflation-busting rise of more than nine per cent... more

Baby P chief faces quiz over her record on child protection

12.03.09
The head of the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal faces questions over a series of other child protection failures ... more

Abuse death questions for head of Baby P taskforce

13.02.09
The woman leading the Baby P taskforce faces questions after two children died from abuse on her watch, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

The war hero who defied a tank and the MP he’s taking to court for being a ‘bone idle disaster’

06.02.09
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I blundered in vote, admits MP fighting Heathrow expansion

29.01.09
A Labour MP who has campaigned against Heathrow expansion spoke of his "huge embarrassment" for siding with the Government over plans for a third runway... more

Anger as sacked Baby P chief launches fight for six-figure payout

06.01.09
The shamed head of Haringey's children's services is attempting to win a six-figure payout for being sacked over her handling of the Baby P case... more

New Baby P council chief faced questions over two child deaths

22.12.08
The man charged with turning around Haringey's failing social services faced a string of critical reports in his previous job after two children died in cases of suspected abuse... more

MPs grill Ofsted head on 'glowing report' it gave Shoesmith

10.12.08
Ofsted boss Christine Gilbert faces a grilling over how inspectors could give Sharon Shoesmith a glowing report just weeks after Baby P died... more

£19,000 spent on spin doctor for care chief

08.12.08
Haringey council spent £19,000 on spin doctors hired to rebuild the image of former head of children's services Sharon Shoesmith... more

Second Baby P case revealed in Haringey

02.12.08
A second child in Haringey has been seriously harmed in another suspected case of abuse, the Standard can reveal... more

Sacked: the chief who failed Baby P

01.12.08
The social services chief who refused to quit over Baby P last month has been sacked by Children's Minister Ed Balls... more

The rotten borough of Haringey?

21.11.08
The dreadful death of Baby P has brought the wrath of the nation down on one London locality, already notorious for Victoria Climbie. But a leading expert says there are hundreds of other children across London who could suffer the same tragic fate... more

Ofsted knew of Baby P tragedy when it gave council glowing report

14.11.08
Government inspectors knew about the death of Baby P when they praised Haringey in a glowing child protection report... more

Haringey issues apology over Baby P

13.11.08
Haringey Council has finally apologised for the catalogue of blunders that left Baby P to die... more

Experts to investigate failures over Baby P

12.11.08
A government hit-squad of inspectors is set to be sent into Haringey to investigate the death of Baby P... more

Fuel's gold ... games firm's free petrol stunt causes traffic chaos

05.09.08
A stunt in which thousands of pounds of free petrol was given away to promote a computer game has been branded "irresponsible and dangerous"... more

Clinton campaign manager joins the Paddick team

10.03.08
A senior US political strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hired by Brian Paddick... more

Shabi the whizz and the battle for our post office

26.02.08
Jerry Boyle bursts through the door carrying a tray of steaming polystyrene cups. "Anyone for tea?" he asks. "No thanks, Jerry, not this time," replies Shabi Islam, serving customers behind the counter. "You get the Nobel Prize for smiling," Jerry says, laying down the tea, bought from his own pocket, and turning to chat to a woman in the queue. It is 9.30am but Jerry, a local gardener between jobs, will be back to offer more impromptu refreshments later in the day because, he says, "I love Shabi and this is my second home".... more

The best fun on the Fringe

14.08.06
A story brimming with mad ideas and ridiculous coincidences, Improbable Frequency melds song and dance seamlessly with absurdist theatre in a production that fizzes with energy.... more

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