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Labour breaches rules on privacy with phone call campaign

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:26:36 GMT

£12,000 for Korea trip but BBC boss gives free camera to charity

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:12:20 GMT

BBC executives spent more than £12,000 of taxpayers' money on a trip to Korea, according to the latest figures on staff expenses revealed today.

Hundreds of car owners flood Toyota phone lines amid Prius recall

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:56:55 GMT

Toyota is overwhelmed with more calls from worried drivers after it recalled 8,500 Prius cars over brake problems

Lover battered garden expert to death after sex in woods

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:50 GMT

Gardening expert at the centre of a love triangle was killed with a rock after one of her partners found out about the other, the Old Bailey hears

Tories break smell test pledge to repay hundreds in expenses

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:11 GMT

David Camerons pledge to 'smell test' the expenses of Tory MPs is undermined today by the disclosure that some have yet to make repayments that were announced seven months ago

Barclays bank chief: Barack Obama may harm global recovery

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:46:03 GMT

Barclays chief executive John Varley warns that Barack Obamas plans to cut the size and limit risk-taking by banks could damage the global economic revival

Pollution is taking 10 years off the lives of Londoners'

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:34:35 GMT

Londoners are having up to 10 years wiped off their lives by poor air quality, a leading academic warns

David Camerons A-lister Twitters against party dinosaurs

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:30:10 GMT

Tory party scrambling to rescue career of one of David Camerons favourite women candidates after her campaign for a key London seat descended into chaos

London graduates face salary and job cuts as employers freeze recruitment, warns report

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:26:24 GMT

Graduates in London are facing a struggle for jobs as leading firms cut salaries and freeze recruitment

Ali Dizaei stripped of his £90,000 Met salary as he begins jail term

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:18:11 GMT

Disgraced police chief Ali Dizaei was stripped of his £90,000 salary as he starts a four-year prison term on a wing for vulnerable prisoners at Wandsworth jail

Brown takes firm stand on voting reform

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:17:49 GMT

Schoolgirl asked to do community work for scratching Oyster card

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:13:40 GMT

An 11-year-old girl faces a one-year free travel ban after she was stripped of her Oyster card because it was 'scratched'

Lawyers seize Abu Hamzas home to pay bills

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:09:22 GMT

Hate preacher Abu Hamzas west London house has been seized and will be sold to pay his £300,000 legal aid bill

More babies born in hospital on Christmas Eve than any other time of year

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:08:38 GMT

Christmas Eve is the day when more women give birth in hospital than any other time of the year

Boys, 10, accused of raping eight-year-old

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:03 GMT

Two 10-year-old boys appear in court in their school uniforms accused of raping an eight-year-old girl

French accuse Tony Blair of Soviet-style' propaganda in run-up to Iraq war

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:57:16 GMT

Tony Blair was accused by the French government of 'Soviet-style' black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found

Miserable millionaire raffles his lifestyle for charity

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:50:33 GMT

An Austrian who is giving away his £3million fortune because it makes him unhappy has launched an online raffle for his Alpine villa

Drunk train guard ignored red light and refused to let passengers off

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:33:45 GMT

Drunken train guard signalled his driver to go through a red light and refused to open doors to let passengers on or off during a terrifying journey between Waterloo and Kingston

UK's trade deficit widens to hit recovery hopes

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:43 GMT

Hopes of a strong, export-led recovery in the UK are dashed after the trade deficit unexpectedly swelled to its widest level in almost a year

FSA chief Hector Sants steps down

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:19:08 GMT

The Citys top regulator, Hector Sants, is quitting as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority

Paul Gascoigne arrested twice in two days

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:18:48 GMT

Former England football star Paul Gascoigne is held by police again, just after being bailed for another arrest

Five British soldiers held over Lanzarote brawl

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:55:23 GMT

Outrage over BBC cover-up of stars £230m pay

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:52:18 GMT

BBC accused of a cover-up over how much it pays its top presenters and stars as corporation reveals performers received £229million

Londoner held in Iraq on terrorism charges for more than a year speaks of ordeal

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:23:36 GMT

London businessman locked up in Iraq for more than a year on terrorism charges has spoken of his ordeal for the first time after being reunited with his family

'Robin Hood' tax on banks could raise £250bn a year to fight poverty

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:19:07 GMT

Charities launched a campaign calling for a 'Robin Hood Tax' on banks to raise £250 billion a year to tackle poverty.

Jail for Tube and bus gang who terrorised commuters

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:02 GMT

Eight teenagers in a gang called the 'Smooth Money Makers' have been sentenced to between two and four years each for attacking and robbing terrified Tube and bus passengers

Pensioner killed after bus mounts pavement

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:44:07 GMT

London Dungeon's new scent of history: burning flesh

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:33:01 GMT

Visitors to the attraction can experience a smell which has not been unleashed on the streets for 300 years burning human flesh

Rugby player set fire to clubhouse after disabled mother died

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:32:50 GMT

Rugby player who burned down Feltham Rugby Football Club's clubhouse is spared jail after a judge hears his disabled mother died in his arms

BNP to contest borough mayoral elections

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31:13 GMT

Politicians show their anger at the British National Party's decision to field candidates for the May mayoral elections in three London boroughs

Pub bars grandmother for wearing beret

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:30:37 GMT

Bayswater gastro pub refuses to serve 77-year-old after she refuses to take off her purple beret

Tate displays Arshile Gorky art remembering his mother

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:29:31 GMT

Two haunting paintings of artist Arshile Gorky and his mother can be seen together for the first time at the Tate

Chelsea fans to get free health checks on matchdays

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:27:54 GMT

Chelsea fans are being offered health checks before weekend home matches in a mobile screening unit at the ground

Oldest swingers in town: £40,000 playground for pensioners in Hyde Park

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:27:45 GMT

London is to get its first 'pensioners' playground' in the heart of Hyde Park after approval was given for an outdoor gym for the over-sixties

Rio Ferdinand stars in National Portrait Gallery's latest pitch to public

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:26:35 GMT

England football captain Rio Ferdinand is the new face of the National Portrait Gallery in a campaign which has coincided with his rise to the role after John Terrys fall from grace

Paul Nash show reveals artist's 'missing' landscapes

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:23:56 GMT

Curator spends five years tracking down missing works by the artist Paul Nash for the first major exhibition of his paintings in London for 35 years

Border Agency under fire as hundreds of immigration errors highlighted

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:48:13 GMT

Britain's immigration system is not operating effectively and faces a damaging loss of public support, a report warns

Hero Heathrow pilot tells of crash as report into incident reveals fuel flow fault

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:38:14 GMT

Hero BA pilot who averted disaster when his plane crash-landed at Heathrow airport tells of his fear that all 152 people on board were going to die

Heavy snow to hit London as Britain braces for freezing temperatures

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:29:07 GMT

Fresh blasts of wintry weather will hit Britain, bringing more snow and icy conditions, forecasters said

John Terry: Chelsea fans support has been 'incredible'

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:26:47 GMT

Embattled Chelsea captain praises the backing he has received from the club's fans