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• Voting reform campaigners gear up for tough fight
• A new voting system – is it really what Britain needs?
• CSI chief condemns forensic cuts
• Are the Joanna detectives without a clue?
• Rise in flood risk could make one million homes uninsurable
• MoD 'will politicise covenant'
• Straw under fire for linking race to sex attacks
• Cyclists 'left unprotected by police and courts'
• Demands for inquiry after fresh claims hit Alder Hey
• Mail privatisation will force thousands of post offices to shut
• How we can get Britain's wasted talent working
• Max Mosley joins 'NoW' row with claims of blackmail
• Is this the most unusual by-election ever?
• Ministers clamp down on Britain's uninsured drivers
• Detectives retrace Joanna Yeates's last steps
• White girls 'easy meat' to Pakistani men, says Straw

Voting reform campaigners gear up for tough fight Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Voting reform campaigners have privately declared the Liberal Democrats "toxic", fearing Nick Clegg's plummeting popularity in the polls will choke off their hopes of winning this year's referendum on a new voting system.

A new voting system – is it really what Britain needs? Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST YES

CSI chief condemns forensic cuts Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST America's top forensic scientist has warned that axing the UK's Forensic Science Service (FSS) will increase the risk of miscarriages of justice.

Are the Joanna detectives without a clue? Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Avon and Somerset Police have defended their handling of the investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates, claiming last night that the disappearance of the 25-year-old landscape architect from Bristol had been dealt with as a murder investigation in all but name from the moment she was reported missing on 19 December.

Rise in flood risk could make one million homes uninsurable Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Homeowners living near rivers and the coast face losing up to 40 per cent of the value of their homes as flood risk makes them uninsurable.

MoD 'will politicise covenant' Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST The Ministry of Defence stands accused of "politicising" the military covenant, under plans to scrap an independent review of the Government's progress in honouring the nation's pact with servicemen and women.

Straw under fire for linking race to sex attacks Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST A row around race and sexual exploitation flared last night as opponents and supporters reacted to a suggestion by Jack Straw that Pakistani men were grooming white girls for sexual abuse. The former home secretary was accused of attempting to "stereotype a whole community" after he suggested that some Pakistani men in Britain see white girls as "easy meat". He was also criticised for not speaking out on the issue when his party was in power.

Cyclists 'left unprotected by police and courts' Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Greater protection for cyclists on Britain's roads is being demanded after a former British heavyweight boxing champion was killed on his bicycle last week. Gary Mason, 48, died after a collision with a van while cycling in Wallington, south London. He is the second cyclist to die in the UK this year.

Demands for inquiry after fresh claims hit Alder Hey Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Patients' groups and MPs are demanding a fresh inquiry into procedures at the Liverpool hospital previously at the centre of one of the worst scandals in British medical history.

Mail privatisation will force thousands of post offices to shut Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Privatisation of the Royal Mail could result in 4,400 post offices – more than a third of the national network – closing, according to an independent watchdog.

How we can get Britain's wasted talent working Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Britain's top businessmen today warn that a generation of youngsters will be lost to unemployment without urgent action to help them into work, training or education.

Max Mosley joins 'NoW' row with claims of blackmail Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST Max Mosley, the former boss of Formula One, launched himself into the News of the World phone hacking row last night when he attacked the paper's claim of "a zero-tolerance approach to wrongdoing".

Is this the most unusual by-election ever? Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST For Elwyn Watkins, this Thursday's by-election should have been a coronation. The more likely prospect for the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate is dispiriting defeat.

Ministers clamp down on Britain's uninsured drivers Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST A million uninsured drivers on Britain's roads face having their cars impounded under new laws which ministers hope will mean lower premiums for law-abiding motorists.

Detectives retrace Joanna Yeates's last steps Posted: 08 Jan 2011 12:15 AM PST Detectives investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates have retraced the steps she took three weeks after she was last seen alive in a bid to catch her killer.

White girls 'easy meat' to Pakistani men, says Straw Posted: 08 Jan 2011 12:04 AM PST Former home secretary Jack Straw has accused some Pakistani men in Britain of seeing white girls as "easy meat" for sexual abuse.

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