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Tory grandees who make thousands from their job on the side

19.10.09

Tory grandees criticised during the expenses scandal have been raking in thousands of pounds from second jobs, the Standard reveals... more

Schoolgirl lost fingers in art class accident

12.10.09

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Young Briton dies in mountain fall

04.08.09

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Day two and plinth plumbs the depths

07.07.09

It was a plea for better water sanitation, not a comment on modern art, when Oliver Parsons-Baker took to the fourth plinth dressed as a turd... more

Lib-Dems and Tories gain ground as Labour is hit heavily at polls

05.06.09

Labour suffered a fresh blow as the first local election results showed it was sustaining heavy losses across the country ... more

Banker jailed for turning girl into a 'sex slave'

29.05.09

A City banker, who used his position as a top table tennis player to turn a schoolgirl competitor into a sex slave, was jailed for 12 months... more

Get back in fashion with classic beach huts

21.05.09

Classic beach abodes are back in fashion and Felice Hardy knows where to find them... more

Those who lie down with Hoggs

13.05.09

The revelations about MPs' expenses - Tories, in particular - has left a string of City folk looking red-faced... ... more

You are what you eat

10.05.09

One-upmanship over the origins of your meal is the latest game for foodies... more

Get a move on, Ed, or sun will set on our wind-power dream

16.04.09

Energy analysis: Seen any sign of those 300 wind turbines the height of Nelson's Column going up in the Thames estuary for the promised London Array, "the world's biggest offshore wind farm"?... more

Prince Harry flies high

17.02.09

Prince Harry has taken the controls of an aircraft for the first time during his pilot training - days after failing his theory exams.... more

Prince Harry flies high after failing his pilot's theory test

17.02.09

Prince Harry has taken the controls of a training aircraft for the first time during his pilot training - days after failing his theory exams... more

Foreign labour strikers go back

05.02.09

Power workers who sparked wildcat walkouts in protest over foreign labour have agreed to return to work... more

Strikers in foreign workers row win offer of 102 posts

04.02.09

Wildcat strikers claimed victory in the foreign workers row after an offer to give 100 jobs to British workers... more

Goodbye Polish nannies, we’ll miss you

03.02.09

Let’S be honest, and admit the real reason why Gordon Brown’s slogan “British jobs for British workers” has drawn such tutting from the London middle class... more

Frightened Italians return home

02.02.09

Several Italian workers hired for a Ł17million building contract at a British refinery have returned home because of safety fears... more

Nuclear plants shut by mass strikes over foreign workers

02.02.09

Two nuclear power plants were hit by wildcat strikes over foreign workers... more

Brown's 'jobs for Britain' row

30.01.09

A wave of Seventies-style wildcat strikes broke out across Britain in protest at foreign workers taking jobs... more

Runaway and 'abductor' hid at refugee night shelter

22.01.09

Runaway schoolgirl Laura Stainforth stayed in a French refugee centre full of UK-bound migrants with an alleged abductor she met on the internet... more

Woman dies in crossing crash

05.01.09

A woman was killed as she tried to reverse her car out of the path of a train on an icy level-crossing... more

Terrific dishes at Terroirs

19.11.08

Thought, love and precision in execution have gone into the dishes at new London bistro Terroirs, says Fay Maschler.... more

Olympic stadium rises from the dirt

23.09.08

This is the 40-acre building site that is being transformed into the Olympic stadium... more

Three are still critical after fatal coach crash

19.08.08

This is the dramatic aftermath of a fatal crash in which a coach carrying more than 70 passengers plunged down a steep embankment and into a garden... more

Boo, hiss, it's Jade Goody - playing the pantomime villain

07.06.08

Jade Goody last attracted boos and hisses for her comments in the Celebrity Big Brother House.... more

Britain's electricity network 'can't cope'

28.05.08

Britain's electricity network cannot meet demand, experts say... more

The biggest breakfast... if you can crack it

02.05.08

On sale in London, they weigh an eye-watering 3lb and are 24 times bigger than those squeezed out by the average chicken... more

The day Girls Aloud went naked (well, on their faces at least)

08.04.08

Fresh-faced and casual, Girls Aloud seemed to be having a day off from being fashionistas as they emerged from a studio yesterday. Wearing little more than a slick of make-up, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle, Kimberly Walsh and Nicola Roberts looked less like a glamorous girl-group and more like normal young women in their twenties... more