The dreaded phrase 'unexpected item in the bagging area' could soon be a thing of the past at thousands of self-service checkouts in high street supermarkets around the UK.

A report by the social mobility and child poverty commission will call for priority to be given to low-income families. Chairman Alan Milburn warns schools against expensive uniforms and tricky forms.

Professor Dan Jurafsky, of California's Stanford University, analysed 6,500 restaurant menus for length and claims dishes with longer words in their descriptions cost more - at a rate of 11p per letter.

One in six want to work in the capital, while the UK as a whole is the world's second favourite place to work, just behind the USA. Canada was the third most popular destination, and new poll shows.

Eager music fans sent internet servers into meltdown as they snapped up an eye-watering 5,769 tickets per minute for the festival, with Fleetwood Mac rumoured to be performing.

The poll was put together by children's charity the NSPCC, which is launching a campaign to raise awareness of the importance pearls of wisdom can have in shaping a child's life.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will issue an information sheet to the public this month explaining how to best undertake secret surveillance.

The Deputy Prime Minister, whose party is languishing on just 6 per cent in the polls, said he would 'certainly not allow' the Tories to get rid of the deficit through spending cuts alone.

In an interview yesterday, the Treasury chief secretary was ‘p****d off’ at the Tories claiming credit for tax cuts for low-income workers and Britain’s economic recovery. 

Tumbleweeds practically blow through the Lib Dem conference exhibition hall here in Glasgow, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

The Top Gear presenter described the terrifying experience of being chased and threatened by an angry Argentinian mob. He claims the controversial number plate was not intentional.

The race was cut short by nine laps as Marussia driver Jules Bianchi went off at the same site as Adrian Sutil's Sauber -which was being recovered by marshals and machinery at the time.

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The 59-year-old said she hoped to rally older people into joining her in a political debate to take away the word’s negative connotations.

Sitting hunched over a computer screen for hours at a time means three-quarters of us now suffer from back pain, according to the British Chiropractic Association.

Former grammar school pupil Shabazz Suleman, 18, from High Wycombe, and Hisham Folkard, 26, are thought to be among as many as 180 fighters exchanged by Turkey in the deal with ISIS.

The Deputy Prime Minister said he ‘wouldn’t advocate’ attacks against Islamist fanatics in Syria – despite David Cameron’s public backing for airstrikes outside Iraq.

Police believe Yusra Hussien from Bristol was communicating online with a British woman in Syria just weeks before she and a 17-year-old friend from London left the UK.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has opened up about dealing with those who 'detest' him and his fractious relationship with David Cameron as Lib Dems today met for a conference in Glasgow

In years to come, the Liberal Democrats might be used as a case study by political historians in much the same way as Kodak is used by business schools.

The Chancellor said that for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the principles of enterprise and business as a force for widespread prosperity were ‘up for grabs’.

James Wilson, 28, from Bradley Stoke, Bristol, was clearing out an old wallet when he stumbled across the EuroMillions ticket, which turned out to be worth more than £50,000.

Elisabeth Lorentz, 48, finally married Eric Holder, who is three years her junior, in the parish church in the small village of Dabo in Alsace-Lorraine, north-east France.

Ray Cole, 69, from Deal in Kent had been visiting a Moroccan man in Marrakesh who he had met online when the pair were approached by police at a bus stop and arrested.

Four British explorers, including two who were wounded in Afghanistan, fly out today to begin the five-week mission backed by Prince William which echoes that taken by Shackleton in April 1916.

Belgian Helga Wauters, 45, admitted having a 'pathological problem' with alcohol. Yesterday she was in custody charged with aggravated manslaughter and faces up to five years in prison.

Mizanur Rahman, who was jailed for six years in 2007 after calling for British soldiers to be brought back from Iraq in bodybags, manages the Siddeeq Academy in Tower Hamlets.

Kris Newton, 34, was driving his father’s Subaru Impreza in Walker, Newcastle, with a friend at around 10am yesterday when he accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brakes.

Abdul Murshid, 46, claimed £700 a month in housing benefit he was not entitled to while working at a Welcome Break service station in north London.

The classic British 1960s television series, which was as much loved for its rousing introduction as its puppets' jerky movements, is set to return to the small screen 50 years after it first went on air. 

The navy says it is bringing the engineers to the city because of cuts to staff numbers in the government's 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, believe chemicals in green tea could be used to combat cancer and target tumour sites.

Tommy, an ex-circus chimp, lives in a cage on a trailer park near New York where the Nonhuman Rights Group says he is no better than a 'table or chair'.

It only took 20 minutes in the Chelsea v Arsenal Premier League clash for Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho's long-running feud to boil over.

A host of wacky designs, held at the National Archives in Kew for 150 years, have been revealed for the first time and made into a book. They include a ventilating hat and a combined knife and fork.