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• Services under threat: Longer waits for cancer tests – and firefighters
• Keep your hair on, Nick!
• New scheme a 'drop in the ocean' for disabled people
• Danny Alexander: We did the right thing, says defensive axeman
• Rescuers should be able to choose risks, says 7/7 survivor
• What drives a child to commit sexual abuse?
• Disorder in the House as Sir Ted's legacy leads to row
• A tale of two towns: We're all in this together... Oh, really?
• Red-Top Week: Strange world of tea, teeth and tabbies
• Huge areas of woodland to be sold by government
• The new slaves: Children forced to work as farm labourers
• The drama behind the 'Lady C' defence

Services under threat: Longer waits for cancer tests – and firefighters Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Government spending cuts may become a matter of life and death, it was claimed last night, as it emerged that almost two million people could wait longer for cancer tests and up to 10,000 firefighters face the axe.

Keep your hair on, Nick! Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT 1963 Nick Robinson is born in Macclesfield. As a baby, prone to tantrums and seems especially angry if distracted when being filmed for winsome home videos. An aunt who inadvertently walks into shot as he gurgles at the camera is banned from family gatherings.

New scheme a 'drop in the ocean' for disabled people Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Only the most severely disabled people in Britain will be supported into work by a new scheme that the Department of Work and Pensions launches tomorrow. Called Work Choice, the Government has set aside £470m to help just 23,000 of the most disabled into jobs.

Danny Alexander: We did the right thing, says defensive axeman Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Politicians always say they take no notice of opinion polls. This is always rubbish. But Danny Alexander is adamant that even the recent Liberal Democrat collapse to just 10 points will not make him flinch from wielding the axe on public spending – and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Rescuers should be able to choose risks, says 7/7 survivor Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Insurance broker Michael Henning was 10 feet from Shehzad Tanweer, a suicide bomber who blew himself up on a London Tube train at Aldgate station killing seven people and seriously injuring dozens more.

What drives a child to commit sexual abuse? Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT A unique insight into why young children sexually abuse other children is to be revealed in a ground-breaking study. The research, which has yet to be formally published, was on boys aged 10 or under who have molested siblings, classmates, or friends. It found that they are invariably born into families in which abuse, violence and neglect has become routine over several generations.

Disorder in the House as Sir Ted's legacy leads to row Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT The fate of Sir Edward Heath's legacy, his former home in the Close of Salisbury Cathedral and his personal artefacts, lies in the hands of the Charity Commission after a group of supporters challenged a decision to shut the house for good.

A tale of two towns: We're all in this together... Oh, really? Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT WITNEY

Red-Top Week: Strange world of tea, teeth and tabbies Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT The Sun got to the nub of prime ministerial hypocrisy with "Tea perk is axed in No 10 cutbacks". Civil service mandarins won't get tea served to their desks, according to a source quoted as saying that David Cameron "wants to prove we really are all in this together" – except that the PM will still have his tea brought to him.

Huge areas of woodland to be sold by government Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Great swathes of Britain's forests are to be privatised, it emerged last night.

The new slaves: Children forced to work as farm labourers Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT Seven Romanian children – some as young as nine – were found being forced to work as farm labourers in near-freezing conditions in Worcester last week, The Independent on Sunday has learned.

The drama behind the 'Lady C' defence Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT For 50 years, historians have assumed the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial could hardly have been more entertaining than it actually was. There was the snobbishness of the prosecuting counsel, his listing of every F-word and C-word in the book, the three-day pause in proceedings while the jurors were made to read the lubricous text, and an Anglican bishop appalling many of his flock by claiming from the witness box that the sex enjoyed by Lady C and gamekeeper Mellors was somehow "sacred".

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