Prince Andrew's rage at bungling Palace police: Duke tore into gun-toting officers who mistook him for an intruder in broad daylight

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The Queen's son, pictured, erupted in fury when two heavily-armed policemen shouted at him to 'verify his identity' as he walked in broad daylight. A royal source said: 'He was incredibly, incredibly angry. It was very much a case of guns being pointed at him and "halt who goes there".' The fifth-in-line to the throne stood his ground and was said to have 'made his thoughts plain' during the highly-charged confrontation that followed. The incident at around 6pm on Wednesday came less than 48 hours after a break-in at the Queen's home.

Girl, 16 months, plunges 65ft from fifth floor of block of flats... and SURVIVES

Horror plunge: The block of flats in Plymouth, Devon, where a 16-month-old baby fell from the fifth story and survived

The 16 month old toddler fell around 40 feet from the window of her home in Savage Road in Plymouth, Devon, at 8.30am on Saturday morning.

Beaming with pride, VC hero Johnson Beharry shows off son Ayden as he reveals he has had replica medals made for the newborn

Hero: Sergeant Johnson Beharry is showing off his newborn son Ayden in an interview with Hello! magazine

Sergeant Beharry, 34, is showing off his son Ayden for the first time in an interview with Hello! magazine and said that he never imagined he would become a father.

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BBC ordered to name the 150 bosses who were secretly given huge payoffs after quitting

Facing off: Former director-general Mark Thompson and Lord Patten blame each other over who was responsible for the generous payoffs

Former director-general Mark Thompson and Lord Patten blame each other over who was responsible for the generous payoffs.

Eight in 10 nurses say A&E; strain is putting lives at risk as bosses warn of hospital crisis to come this winter

Under pressure: Nearly nine out of ten nurses said the pressures had grown in the last six months due to rising numbers of patients and too few staff

Eighty-nine per cent of nurses said the pressures had grown in the last six months due to rising numbers of patients and too few staff.

British man and his fiancée both drown in Italy after she got into trouble and he went in to rescue her

Tragic: The body of Andrew Sturgess on the beach in Tre Fontane near Campobello in south west Sicily

Andrew Sturgess, 34, and his girlfriend Carmen Spiridon, 25, died despite the efforts of brave off duty lifeguards who pulled them from the sea off the coast of Sicily.

Village 'liberated' by Syrian rebels... who then forced Christians to convert to Islam

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Terrified Christians claim Syrian rebels ordered them to convert to Islam on pain of death when they 'liberated' their ancient village. Opposition forces including fighters linked to Al Qaeda gained temporary control of the village of Maaloula after fighting with regime forces. The reports have reignited fears about western support for the rebel groups, which are increasingly being infiiltrated by Islamic extremists. A resident of the village said the rebels shouted 'Allahu Akbar' which means 'God is great' before attacking Christian homes and churches shortly after moving into the area.

2,000 of our schools are coasting, says watchdog as it cracks down on educational mediocrity

Tougher times: Thousands of British schools have been ordered to improve or face action by Ofstead

Previously schools were rated by Ofstead as outstanding, good, satisfactory or inadequate. However, the satisfactory rating has been scrapped.

Will MPs cave in to pressure to publish bombshell list of blue-chip firms which hired private detectives?

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Publication could be halted after MPs, including Keith Vaz, pictured, were put under pressure by police and Information Commissioner.

Reborn TSB will support local communities again: Boss pledges to keep the original formula and focus on honesty

TSB boss: Paul Pester is facing his biggest challenge yet

Paul Pester, chief executive of TSB, promises that Britain's newest bank will focus on communities and honesty.

Hate Brussels sprouts? Try a red one! Growers radical plan to rehabilitate unpopular Christmas vegetable

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Generations of children have groaned at the appearance of Brussels sprouts on their plate. But now a major new campaign is being launched to introduce a variety of different tastes to the leafy green vegetables.

Judge refuses to let couple rekindle their marriage after they ask for permission to get back together

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Natalie Nash, 23, applied to Gloucester Crown Court to lift a seven year restraining order on her husband Daniel, 24.

Dementia patient was left lying on the floor of care home for TWO HOURS because ambulance staff were 'too busy' to come and help

Harold Dowers, 82, was forced to stay on the floor of the Marple Lodge care home in Stockport for two-and-a-half hours while waiting for an ambulance

Grandfather Harold Dowers was forced to stay on the floor of the Marple Lodge care home in Stockport as staff are not allowed to move fallen residents.

Has Jonathan Aitken's socialite daughter Alexandra split from her Sikh warrior husband after just three years?

Alexandra Aitken, the socialite daughter of Jonathan Aitken (right) is said to have split from her Sikh warrior husband Inderjot Singh (left and centre).

Former 'It girl' Alexandra Aitken, daughter of former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken (right) gave up her life as a glamorous Mayfair socialite to wed Inderjot Singh, a devout Sikh warrior (left and centre). However, the couple are now said to have gone their separate ways, leaving Ally to take solace in her new-found Sikh faith.

A nation of prescription drug addicts: More Britons die from abusing painkillers and tranquillisers than heroin and cocaine

Addiction: Deaths from prescription medication last year outstripped those from cocaine and heroin

There were 807 fatal overdoses involving prescription drugs last year, a rise of 16 per cent in five years, official figures show.

Why Britain should expect more from the disabled for their own good, by the paralysed doctor in charge of assessing benefits claims

Outspoken: Dr Stephen Duckworth says disabled people should be encouraged to do more for themselves

Dr Stephen Duckworth, who broke his neck during a rugby accident 33 years ago, said society is letting down the disabled by not demanding a contribution from them.

There's no proof £50billion HS2 plan will give voters value for money: Damning report by MPs warns of spiralling costs

Expensive ticket: According to Treasury officials, the £50billion cost will balloon to £73billion when VAT and inflation are factored in

Plans for the HS2 high-speed rail link are unrealistic and there is no real evidence that it will provide value for money, a report warns.

Legal expert who worked as State prosecutor accused of murdering defenceless woman, 72, in her home

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Thomas Blazquez, 50, is suspected of smothering Rosemary Shearman (inset) to death before attempting to kill himself.

Only one in four Scots wants to be independent, says poll in latest blow to Salmond's referendum campaign

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Polls suggest a crushing defeat for Alex Salmond, pictured, in next year's referendum. Many had ‘very little idea’ which areas of government are based Westminster.

End of the line for annoying announcements on trains as scientists discover that quieter messages can be just easy to understand

Relief: Scientists' finding could make public announcements in places such as train stations less annoying

Scientists from Edinburgh Univesity claim they have designed a way to make public announcements not only clearer, but also quieter.

Why did they kill Wilma? Dog owner's agony after his beloved pet is shot dead by pest control on hotel golf course

Four-year-old whippet Wilma was killed, just yards from her owner's garden

John Kirby's four-year-old whippet Wilma (left) was mistaken for a rabbit and shot by pest control at the Marriott Meon Valley Hotel and Country Club near Winchester, Hampshire (bottom right). Mr Kirby (pictured top right with daughter Amelia), whose £400,000 house borders the hotel's golf course, had let his dog out into the garden and after hearing a 'muffled crack' found her dead, shot through the chest.

Man arrested after his girlfriend is found dead in a barber shop as police close the street to hunt for clues

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The body of Lisa Jane Banks (right), 46, was found inside Sole'O barber shop in North Shields, North Tyneside, at 11.18am this morning.

Police fitness test 'is biased in favour of fat male officers' because it prioritises strength and forces women to endure 'sexist' conditions

Overweight: Obesity is an increasing problem in many British police forces (file photo)

The ‘fat-friendly’ test given to new recruits could contribute to the problem of blobby bobbies if extended to serving officers under plans to modernise forces.

My brother's a victim of persecution mania says Maurice Saatchi as he claims, 'Without CCTV in bedrooms, no one knows the truth'

Lord Saatchi appeared to suggest his brother Charles was a victim of 'persecution mania' following the throat-grabbing incident with his wife Nigella

Maurice Saatchi was on the Andrew Marr show to discuss his new book ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’ when the host decided to quiz him on his brother's marriage.

Seventy per cent of sunbeds fail council safety tests putting users at risk of cancer as they receive three times recommended level of UV rays

A woman lies on a sunbed but according to new research at least seven out of ten fail council safety tests

Their output of UV rays breach the legal limit by more than three times in the worst cases and put users at increased risk of cancer.

A world on the brink... and a British PM furious his weekend with his young mistress was ruined: The human stories behind the outbreak of WW1

War opinions: Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told his mistress the Austrian people were' the stupidest' in Europe

Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was less enthusiastic about WWI, telling his girlfriend: 'The Austrians are quite the stupidest people in Europe.'

Downtown's etiquette errors give Countess the vapours: Stately home hostess reveals blunders in period drama dining scenes

All wrong: The set-up for the dinners on the popular ITV show are incorrect according to Lady Carnarvon of Highclere

The Countess of Carnarvon, the mistress of Highclere Castle where Downton Abbey is filmed, has criticised the ITV1 drama’s repeated faux pas.

'Miliband's a schoolboy living in cloud cuckoo land': As another union slashes Labour's funding, barons deliver their withering verdict on the leader

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Unison boss Dave Prentis said it would cut its annual funding to Labour by £210,000 following Ed Miliband's new 'opt-in' support reform.

Did PM leave red box on train unattended? Passenger says yes... No10 says no

Risky? David Cameron, pictured with his red box on a train to Cardiff two years ago, is said to have left it unattended on a train on Saturday

David Cameron had been using the distinctive briefcase, bearing his title of ‘Prime Minister’, to carry official papers as he travelled to a wedding in Yorkshire.

Britain's turning a corner, Osborne insists as he says supporters of Plan B 'have lost the argument'

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Britain's economy is making a sustained recovery from Labour's 'Great Recession', George Osborne will say today.

Hague warns that Britain's global standing could be 'diminished' by vote against military action in Syria

The Foreign Secretary warned that Britain could lose its place on the global stage after deciding against military action on Syria

The Foreign Secretary said he and the Prime Minister were working to ensure Britain does not 'matter less' in the wake of the landmark vote.

Women MPs must stop whingeing - and man up: JANET STREET-PORTER asks if it's really tougher in the Commons than working in a factory

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MP Sarah Teather (right), who will stand down at the next election, joins Louise Mensch (left) in my slop bucket of female MPs who've let the side down.

Seven miscarriages...now we've had triplets! Baby joy at last for couple who refused to give up in the face of tragedy

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Jenny and Nathan Cash from Bar Hill near Cambridge, refused to stop trying after suffering seven miscarriages, and were rewarded in the end with triplets. After years of heartache the couple welcomed their first child, Alessia, in 2011. They were astonished when Mrs Cash fell pregnant again earlier this year, and even more surprised when doctors revealed she was carrying triplets. The babies, two boys and a girl, were delivered safely earlier this year. Mr Cash relived the moment they were born likening them to 'a litter of kittens, with little tiny cries'.

EU says there is 'strong evidence' Assad was behind devastating chemical attack but urges world to wait for UN report before launching strikes

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EU ministers ended days of division at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, agreeing that chemical attacks appear to have been the work of President Assad

Mental health patient, 31, drowned on a canoeing trip despite TWICE being rescued from the water

A man, believed to be a mental patient, drowned while canoeing at a beauty spot

The 31-year-old was a mental health patient on an organised trip to Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Josh is young, fit and well.. so why is he fighting for the right to end his life? His family has been blighted by disease that leaves victims unable to walk, talk or even swallow - and he knows it will strike him too

Battle for life and death: Josh Cook, 22, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, has been diagnosed with Huntington's disease, which will see him slowly lose control of his body

Josh Cook, 22 ,is a 6ft prop forward for Huddersfield Rugby Union FC and exudes youthful vitality, yet he is he is already planning his death.

Cameron's 2am row over Syria and gay rights with preening Putin at 'juvenile' G20 summit

All for show? There may have been public smiles, but there remains much disagreement between Putin and Cameron - not least with regard to Syria

The G20 began with juvenile jinks over the seating at dinner and ended with open feuding among presidents and prime ministers representing two-thirds of the world’s population.

Jim Davidson's rant at 'unfunny, smug' MasterChef star Ade after comedian criticises him for 'racist' humour

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Davidson, 59, mocked Edmondson because his wife Jennifer Saunders is ‘more talented’ and ‘more famous’ than him.

Teenage exorcists who say Harry Potter has corrupted the world head to Britain armed with Bibles and Holy Water to tackle hotbed of occult activity

Truth or fiction? The Reverend Bob Larson says he has cast out over 15,000 demons

Brynne Larson (centre), and sisters Tess and Savannah Scherkenback (left, right), claim British youngsters are inviting demons to possess them by reciting the spells in the Harry Potter books.

Army colonel who commanded Bloody Sunday troops is second ex-Para to be killed in Kenya within a fortnight after being shot dead by robbers while visiting his son

Army colonel who commanded paratroopers during Bloody Sunday shot dead by robbers while visiting his son in Kenya

Colonel Edward Loden, 73, (top left) who commanded the unit that fired all the fatal shots during the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972 (right), was attacked while on holiday visiting his son Jamie in Nairobi (bottom left).

What if sickness hits the health of YOUR marriage? Act to avoid splitting up like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas

Divorce: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones separated after 13 years of marriage during which she was treated for bi-polar disorder

Mental illness will require both partners to adjust and find ways to cope with the changes, writes psychotherapist ANNA ALBRIGHT.

Vaccination jab at 70 will ward off shingles across the UK

Protected: The UK-wide vaccination programme is set to protect elderly against shingles

This month sees the launch of the UK shingles vaccination programme, where all adults aged 70 and 79 will be offered a jab.

It's the latest celebrity diet - a liquid detox that promises to make you gorgeous - but as Fit in the City discovers... Woman cannot live by juice alone!

Juiced up: Ruby Warrington put herself through a three-day liquid detox

After a holiday in Mexico, where cocktails flowed and breakfast was chips and guacamole, RUBY WARRINGTON decided to put juicing to the test.

The paper and pencil cure for skin cancer: Surgery has 99 per cent success rate and less scarring than other treatments

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The surgical technique, known as Mohs micrographic surgery, involves ‘mapping’ skin cancer tumours using a paper and pencil.

Jail accused of wasting money after rushing sick guinea pig called Reggie Kray to the vets in a van… but it died anyway

Really? Prison officials have been criticised after spending money on a mercy dash - for a guinea pig

Following treatment he was returned to HMP Eastwood Park, at Wotton-under-Edge, to be reunited with his brother Ronnie, but within two hours he had died.

Behind the locked doors of an Edwardian asylum: Dilapidated hospital where the mentally ill were held over 50 years ago that is still waiting to be demolished

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The 300-acre site of Severalls Hospital built in May 1913 to house some 2,000 patients and closed in 1997, was designed so that no one would ever need to leave

What a difference three days make! Week of extremes as Britain sees blazing sunshine followed by blizzards (but the usual autumn drizzle is on its way)

What a difference three days make! Week of extremes as Britain sees blazing sunshine followed by blizzards (but the usual autumn drizzle is on its way)

After last week’s mini-heatwave, which culminated in 30C heat, the summer was washed away by dramatic floods in the North and hail storms in the South. Meanwhile in Falmouth, Cornwall, last week’s heatwave, which brought families sunbathing on the beach (left), came to an abrupt end with an intense 20-minute hailstorm which turned the town white (right), with cars reportedly left sliding on roads.

Was Alps murder victim involved in a shady work deal? French police probe father's business deal as tapes reveal the level of hatred between feuding brothers

Theory: A hired assassin with military experience may have murdered a British family and a French cyclist in the Alps for just £420 each, a witness has claimed.

Saad Al-Hilli (pictured) made 'meticulous recordings' of every phonecall leading up to his murder which French police say contain 'very precise details.'

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Brazilian stroke victim cannot stop helping others after developing pathological generosity because of changes in the brain

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A 49-year-old man in Brazil who became unable to stop giving things to people after suffering a stroke was studied by researchers in Rio de Janeiro.

French government crisis talks after Marseille football club director's son is shot dead in the city's 15th gun killing in the crime-ridden city this year

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Adrien Anigo, son of Olympique Marseille's director, was the second person killed around the southern port city on Thursday, bringing the total murders there to 15 this year

Nazi Rudolf Hess was 'murdered by British agents in prison to stop him revealing war secrets but Scotland Yard was told NOT to investigate'

Deputy Nazi party leader Rudolf Hess was allegedly murdered under orders from the British to stop him revealing wartime secrets

A doctor who was treating Nazi deputy leader Rudolf Hess (pictured) supplied Scotland Yard with the names of two agents suspected of the murder, the report says.

20,000 North Koreans held in huge prison camp have simply 'disappeared', claim human rights group

Missing: Thousands of prisoners are unaccounted for after Camp 22 was closed by Kim Jong-un

Thousands of prisoners of North Korea's notorious Camp 22 are feared dead following its closure as leader Kim Jong-Un (pictured) consolidated his grip on power.

Real-life heartbreak behind Love Actually: Director Richard Curtis reveals being dumped by girl at Oxford University inspired him to write his romantic comedies

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The director behind films including Love Actually said Carolyn Colquhoun, whom he dated in the 1970s, 'broke my heart, as a result of which I wrote about unbroken hearts for ten years'

Executions, murders and graphic floggings on screen: But will controversial slavery film that prompted viewers to walk out go on to take top spot at the Oscars?

Director Steve McQueen had Toronto Film Festival in floods with his new film 12 Years a Slave

Hardened critics sobbed and gasped their way through the premiere of 12 Years a Slave, which stars British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (bottom right with co-star Michael Fassbender). Director Steve McQueen is tipped to score the best director Oscar for the film, which is based on the true story of African American Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped and sold into a brutal life of slavery in 1841.

What lies beneath: Astonishing underwater photos that give a fish eye's view of the world

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A Swiss wildlife photographer has delved into the depths of nature to capture underwater environments all over the world.

'I've done three or four. I've had the best night of my life': Paranoid schizophrenic raped three women in less than an hour near train station after voices told him to 'get everyone'

Serial rapist Thomas Hall, 33, attacked four sex workers after prowling around Picadilly train station, in Manchester

Thomas Hall, 33, a paranoid schizophrenic since he was a teenager, attacked four women after prowling around Piccadilly train station (pictured), in Manchester.

Smoothies are BAD for you: Fruit juices are packed with sugar and we would be better off having vegetable drinks, say scientists

Defence: Innocent, owned by Coca Cola, claims smoothies contain the same amount of sugars as whole fruit

Claims fruit juices and smoothies (pictured) are good for you have been described as 'deceiving' by the two men who exposed the corn syrup scandal.

Falklands soldier undergoes a sex change and switches name from Trevor to Treva but STAYS with his wife who remains the 'love of his life'

Despite Trevor's transition to the feminine Treva, the couple claim they are happier than ever together

Before Trevor Askey (right) became a woman, he married Victoria (left) in a white wedding. A former soldier, he once served in Bosnia and the Falklands.

Time to put my feet up! Clog-maker who runs father-and-son business finally closes the doors after 65 years making wooden shoes

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Joseph Strong & Son its closing its doors after 65 years of making clogs. Will Strong has been working at the shop since 1972.

Foreign doctors ‘to face language tests before they can work in hospitals’ after complaints about poor care

Powers: The government is seeking for a change to EU law to allow the GMC to test language skills of doctors

Patients lives are being put at risk by doctors whose English language skills have never been tested because it is banned under EU law.

Assad's commanders 'begged to use chemical weapons for four-and-a-half months'... but did dictator even know they had been deployed?

A German newspaper has reported claims President Assad's government inflicted the chemical weapons attack without receiving his personal permission

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Syrian government forces may have carried out the chemical weapons attack without President Bashar al-Assad's knowledge or approval.

America may still go to the UN over Syria as Obama launches new bid to win support for air strikes

US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) said last night no decision had been made with regard to America launching an air strike on Syria

America last night refused to rule out seeking a United Nations resolution for action in Syria, potentially delaying any air strike even further.

Australia's new prime minister gets on his bike and heads to work after being elected on vow to cut taxes, aid and immigration

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Australia's new prime minister, set to work yesterday on a right-wing policy agenda that many Tories could only dream of carrying out in Britain.

Shock for Putin as his fiercest critic surges in election to become mayor of Moscow

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A political earthquake rocked the Kremlin as exit polls showed Vladimir Putin’s foe, far right, making a sensational showing in Moscow’s mayoral elections.

Fresh horror in India as three are killed trying to protect a young woman from harassment... and then 26 die in the riots that followed

Anger: Military police argue with rioters after riots between two communities in Muzaffarnagar, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

The deadly riots saw Hindu and Muslim groups turn on each other with guns and knives in Kawal, Uttar Pradesh state, northern India.

Dennis Rodman calls Obama and Clinton 'a**holes' over fate of U.S. prisoner that he had promised to help free from North Korea

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Retired NBA star Dennis Rodman left North Korea on Saturday after a five-day meeting with the country's autocratic leader Kim Jong Un.

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Gillian Metcalf, 50, pictured (centre holding onto the seat) on holiday in the Amazon in the days before her death. The mother was killed yesterday in a boat crash on the Rio Negro river        

A one-time haven for Union radicals, Congress House's £4.2million corporate makeover means the TUC is breaking bread with the enemy

Corporate: Congress House, the TUC's London headquarters, which for decades was a centre of industrial militancy, has been given a £4.2million corporate makeover

Congress House, the TUC's London headquarters, is being hawked around as a venue for big business shindigs, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

The election of Australia's new PM Tony Abbott is clear evidence that genuine conservative policies can win elections

True blue: Tony Abbott is a 'conviction politician', with a strong moral sense rooted in his religious faith

A true conservative won a general election on true conservative principles, says MELANIE PHILLIPS

Ineffably ordinary. That's me - just like our family Ford Focus. But I'm afraid my wife yearns for something rather more racy

With a look of martyred resignation, Tom's wife pushed a paper towards him and pointed at the headline: 'Greatest car of the last 25 years? Bugatti? Aston Martin? Ferrari? Why the Ford Focus, of course'

For me, like the Ford Focus Mk1, my British suburban semi - and the way of life that goes with it - is also the best, by TOM UTLEY.

Sorry Minister, computer says NO: Why can't the 'Rolls-Royce minds' at the DWP come up with an IT system that, for once, is 'fit for purpose'?

Yesterday, it was Iain Duncan Smith's turn in the ducking stool after it was revealed that his plan to introduce a single, universal welfare payment was being held up by an incompetently designed IT system

Yesterday, it was revealed that Iain Duncan Smith's plan to introduce a single, universal welfare payment was being held up by an incompetently designed IT system.