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Remembering Damilola: The killing goes on, but the fightback is under way
Miliband faces fractious party
Lib Dems to stress coalition policy victories
Pop the question! The great royal wedding quiz
A cup of tea and game of cricket? What is it to be English, today?
PM to cancel his Thai Christmas
Farewell Maggie: The day the lady finally was for turning
Plagues of roaches, rats, and bedbugs sweep Britain
Gove promises teachers the right to inspire pupils
Four in court over man found dying in van
Two-year contract plan for council house tenants
Hague raises doubt about Euro's future

Remembering Damilola: The killing goes on, but the fightback is under way

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Damilola Taylor was only 10 when he was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle and left to bleed to death in the stairwell of a south London council estate. The "lively and joyful" football-mad boy, who dreamed of being a doctor, had nothing to do with the gang culture that had been developing on Britain's streets. His death – 10 years ago on Saturday – finally stirred the nation into action. It led to public soul searching and a recognition that something must be done about a problem that had been largely ignored.

Miliband faces fractious party

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Members of Ed Miliband's frontbench team who backed his brother for the Labour leadership have warned that he has until Christmas to put his stamp on the political agenda.

Lib Dems to stress coalition policy victories

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

The Liberal Democrats are to adopt a new strategy of laying claim to aspects of coalition policy in an attempt to reverse the impact of government spending cuts on their poll ratings.

Pop the question! The great royal wedding quiz

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

1. Who wrote these words in the press last week: "When I heard William had popped the question to Kate, I had a nice cup of tea for them. Later on, I might even put some Buck's Fizz in my veins in their honour. This is a beautiful love story and I like that."?

A cup of tea and game of cricket? What is it to be English, today?

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

A "crisis of Britishness" is prompting growing numbers of people to redefine themselves as "English", raising troubling questions about national identity and the extremes of home-grown Islamic radicals and the far right.

PM to cancel his Thai Christmas

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

David Cameron is to cancel a planned family holiday to Thailand this Christmas, following complaints from campaigners about the country's human-rights record.

Farewell Maggie: The day the lady finally was for turning

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

At 6.30am, two men arrived at the gates of Downing Street asking to be let in to see the Prime Minister. The policeman on the gate phoned through to Charles Powell, who was already at his desk. The two turned out to be Tory backbenchers Michael Brown and Edward Leigh. Powell gave them coffee and explained the PM was dressing and asked them to wait. They waited and waited – in vain. They were still there when the Cabinet convened at 9am. They were put out of their misery only when the PM's political secretary John Whittingdale told them what they had already guessed. She was resigning. Tears streamed down Brown's face as he left No 10 by a back door, thus avoiding waiting TV cameras in Downing Street.

Plagues of roaches, rats, and bedbugs sweep Britain

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

They spread disease, feast on our blood and destroy our clothes. And their numbers are soaring. Britain's populations of rats, mice, cockroaches, bedbugs, wasps and moths are growing, in some cases unchecked, as more local authorities charge for extermination – or simply stop offering the service altogether.

Gove promises teachers the right to inspire pupils

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Plans to sweep away a "culture of compliance" in schools and replace it with more freedom for teachers to teach what they want will be unveiled by the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, this week. He is promoting the changes to encourage more inspirational teaching.

Four in court over man found dying in van

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 03:33 AM PST

Four men were remanded in custody today when they appeared in court charged with murdering a man found dying in the back of a van.

Two-year contract plan for council house tenants

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 03:10 AM PST

New council house tenants could be kicked out of their homes after as little as two years under Government plans.

Hague raises doubt about Euro's future

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 01:49 AM PST

William Hague raised doubts about the future of the euro today, saying it was impossible to know whether the currency would collapse.