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Britain faces deepest slump since 1990s

Recession looms because Government has left itself no room to cut taxes.

• 10p tax row: retired women to lose out

• MP: food crisis means children should eat up

Lord Snowdon's mistress reveals affair

The Earl of Snowdon's mistress broke her silence after details of their relationship appeared in a biography of Lord Snowdon.

• Princess Beatrice "to work at the FT"

• Cherie Blair: The Queen likes to do the dishes

• Prince of Wales saves British apple breeds

Sentamu blames Labour for greedy UK

They are to blame for creating a selfish and greedy society, says the Church of England's second most senior bishop.

• Football success 'better than pay rise'

Car taxes 'will hit majority of drivers'

David Cameron attacked Gordon Brown over plans to sharply increase road tax for millions of drivers which he said would lead to higher bills for more than 80 per cent of cars.

• Top Tory MEP did break spending rules

• Will Brown stand up and fight Cameron?

Israel: stop nuclear Iran 'by any means'

Ehud Olmert has sought to increase pressure on Iran by saying "all possible means" must be used to stop the Islamic republic from acquiring nuclear weapons.

• Sacked atomic workers 'security threat'

• Reactor leak triggers Europe-wide alert

BBC accused of fuelling race attacks

Conservative MP Danny Kawczynski said the BBC's coverage of immigration issues tended to concentrate on Poles, resulting on a rising number of attacks on them.

• Novel of migrant's struggle wins book prize

• Immigrants need 'sense of humour'

• 1,400 foreign convicts released early

• Slovakian jailed for killing policeman

Teenager, 17, drowns in flash flood

Friends desperately tried to save Max Sullivan-Webb's after his legs become trapped in a submerged drain during a flash flood in Oxfordshire.

New James Bond book tops bestseller list

US WWII tank unearthed in France

Roof collapse kills man in Midlands

Banks braced for damning report into PPI

Shakespeare first folio fetches £435,250

St Paul's opens new churchyard

Asian policeman wins third race payout

Council plans £81,000 press officer

Morgan Tsvangirai released from custody

The Zimbabwean opposition leader has been released from police custody after being held for eight hours.

Man, 21, charged with Arsema Dawit's murder

Thomas Nugusse has been charged with the murder of a schoolgirl found stabbed to death in a block of flats, near Waterloo railway station

• Arsema Dawit's 'stalker' taunted love rival

• PM: prosecute teens caught with knives

• Mayor: Teach classics to cut knife crime

Drinking more 'halves arthritis risk'

Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks a week can halve the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, a new study shows.

• Depression: returning to work can help

• 'Three parent' embryos to fight disease

Burma's junta turns away US aid ships

Four American navy ships, laden with relief supplies, are steaming away from the Burmese coast because the military junta will not allow them to help cyclone victims.

• Secret filming inside Burma's delta

• Half of cyclone survivors without aid

'Fry him' joke 'infects' Entwistle jury

Sudan on the brink of civil war, says UN

Britons trace Australian ancestors online

Buy one home, get one free in US

Films on iPods after Hollywood deal

Bardot fined for inciting racial hatred

Scarlett Keeling: rape forensic failure

Channel Islands money-laundering claim

Sex-change author remarries wife