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2012 Olympics budget 'now £12billion'

09.11.09
Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion... more

Universities bail out their students as loans system fails to cope with surge

09.10.09
Up to 175,000 students are still waiting for their grants and loans a week after starting university amid chaos at the Student Loans Company... more

MPs owe £140,000 in unpaid food and wine bills

17.09.09
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Met 'spends £12m in three years flying business class'

24.08.09
Met spends more than £12million on first and business-class flights over three years, according to reports... more

Childbirth and maternity failures cost NHS £27m a year in compensation

18.08.09
Poor maternity care in London is costing the NHS almost £27 million a year in payouts and compensation... more

Government defends GPs on £300,000 a year

04.08.09
Government defend GP earnings after an investigation found some were taking home more than £300,000 a year... more

BBC’s latest Cannes of worms: French villa used ‘for jollies’

03.08.09
BBC admits to routinely hiring a £20,000-a week villa in Cannes for entertaining media executives... more

City Spy: For Carter's pal, no wheat - just chaff

23.07.09
What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more

Tate Bodyspacemotionthings show injures 23 people

13.07.09
Tate exhibition which closed in the 1970s after a string of visitors hurt themselves, has injured another 23 at its revival show ... more

‘Plot to rid council estates of poor’

09.07.09
David Cameron's favourite Tory town hall is being accused of planning a "social cleansing" programme of demolishing council estates... more

More than half of cannabis smokers fail to pay £80 fines

06.07.09
More than half of Londoners given £80 on-the-spot fines for possessing cannabis have failed to pay, the Standard can reveal... more

More than 250 Met officers facing racism allegations

01.07.09
A total of 255 Metropolitan police officers are facing accusations of racism, according to new figures... more

London is home to the noisiest neighbours

01.07.09
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Dangers are mounting for BBC that won't listen to critics

01.07.09
Does the BBC have a death wish? I dislike lining up with the corporation's knee-jerk critics, but I have to admit that I am rapidly becoming an exasperated supporter of Britain's, and the world's, most renowned public service broadcaster.... more

Fire chief’s £396 cab fare

26.06.09
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BBC chief defends massive expenses as 'reasonable'

26.06.09
Mark Thompson, BBC's director-general, defends Corporation's multi-million pound gravy train... more

BBC under fire for concealing executives’ celebrity expenses

25.06.09
The BBC was attacked today over refusing to disclose how much executives spend entertaining celebrities... more

One in 10 Met constables from ethnic minority

25.06.09
The number of ethnic minority officers in the Met is poised to break 3,000 for the first time... more

One in 10 Met constables is now from ethnic minority

25.06.09
The number of ethnic minority officers in the Metropolitan police is poised to break 3,000 for the first time... more

BBC bosses' multi-million pound gravy train revealed

25.06.09
Dossier reveals the salaries and expense claims of top BBC bosses which run into millions of pounds of licence fee-payers' money... more

Forces reject plans to extend use of taser guns

22.06.09
A number of police forces have rejected plans to extend the use of Taser weapons to non-firearms officers, it was revealed... more

Behind the story: How the expense scandal has rocked Westminster

18.06.09
Were it not for the famous leak of MPs' expenses details to the Daily Telegraph, today's publication of claims on the Internet would have opened a window on the previously secretive world of Westminster allowances ... more

Just one in five Tube sex offenders is caught

01.06.09
Transport police are only tracking down one in five sex offenders who strike on the London Underground... more

Speaker was 'leant on' to fight expenses case

28.05.09
Commons Speaker Michael Martin was leant on by "very senior political sources" to fight efforts to make MPs' expenses more transparent, it was claimed... more

Jack Straw tries to trump Cameron with ‘people power’ call

26.05.09
The public could be allowed to boot out their MP in the wake of the expenses scandal, Justice Secretary Jack Straw signalled... more

Public are just jealous, says MP

21.05.09
A Tory grandee who was forced to quit over his expenses claims said that he is a victim of “jealousy”... more

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