Don Porter, a key figure on the party board, felt David Cameron was too remote from local Tories and, in 2009, wrote a frank memo to the PM warning that the party was heading for a hung Parliament.

According to a new unauthorised biography on David Cameron by Lord Ashcroft, there is no great love lost between Samantha Cameron and George Osborne's wife Frances.

A proposed deal between Communities Secretary Greg Clark (pictured) and housing associations would create exemptions where associations could refuse to sell people the home they are living in.

Lord Sumption, a Supreme Court justice, has claimed that rushing to put more women at the top of the legal profession could have 'appalling consequences' for British justice.

Experts have warned that many employees are putting aside a 'completely inadequate' amount for their pension, as average contributions to retirement schemes have almost halved in a year.

The online survey of 2,000 parents for insurers Confused.com found that 36 per cent had never broached the subject of the 'birds and the bees'.

A study by Which? found that around nine out of ten homebuyers would not settle for fewer bedrooms to get a house they could afford.

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Ofcom announced today that mobile phone operators will have to pay £199.6 million a year for accessing 2G, 3G and 4G networks used by millions of their customers.

Art historian Hartwig Fischer, 53, will succeed Glasgow-born Neil MacGregor as director of the popular tourist attraction in London. The decision is awaiting David Cameron's approval.

Cambridge researchers behind the discovery hope that it will lead to women being routinely offered tests on their tumours as soon as they are diagnosed with breast cancer.

The blood cleansing treatment could help stop women with dangerously high blood pressure from giving birth early. Premature births are the world's biggest killer of newborns.

The four and five-year-olds at Haydonleigh Primary School in Swindon got a little more than they bargained for when the officers responded by setting off the siren in their panda car.

The SNP leader, who has complained about the focus on her looks, joked that the Labour leader's dress sense 'has been subject to as much commentary over the past couple of weeks as mine.'

Mr Byrne, who left the Labour frontbench when the new leadership took over, claimed that Mr Corbyn could start Labour 'on the route back' to power.

The government insisted the airstrike which killed Reyaad Khan was legal under the right to self-defence but opponents have today launched the first step towards a judicial review into the attack.

One hundred years ago today - September 25, 1915 - the London Irish Rifles devised a plan to dribble six footballs towards enemy trenches in a show of unrivalled bravery at Loos.

John Burgess, known as Joe, was struck by the train while waiting on a crowded platform at Stockwell station in south London during the morning rush hour.

Biker Richard Collins, 49, crashed off the B645 road, near the village of Tilbrook (pictured), Cambridgeshire, which borders Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.

Sacha Wheeler, 14, became the fourth fatality in five years at a 'high-risk' rail crossing when she was knocked down by a London commuter train travelling at 50mph in Whitstable, Kent.

Alistair Calvert died after suffering a cardiac arrest on a street in Bexley, south-east London. Police initially said he may have been taking nitrous oxide but a post-mortem said it was natural causes.

The unnamed victim was savaged by Jay Blades, James Canning (pictured) and Amy Gaines, all in their early 20s, in a flat in Doncaster. All three attackers were given lengthy prison sentences.

Jason Conroy, 19, attacked Melissa Mathieson, 18, in her bedroom at the residential home in Bristol where they both lived, just hours after she had told staff he had been 'stalking' her.

Richard Gladwin, 31, co-owner of 'wild food' restaurant Rabbit, has been arrested after he was seen quaffing champagne while allegedly pointing a shotgun at passers-by on the King's Road.

Dean Cambage, 33, was drinking at a pub in Bournemouth, Dorset, with a friend when he changed his mind about his next drinks order after the barman had already poured the beverage.

Clutching a dead goose with a childish grin etched across his face, this disturbing footage shows a fox hunt steward pretending to have sex with the bird.

Mother-of-four Caroline Starmer, 28, admitted lying to police after claiming she had been assaulted by a Primark security guard while breastfeeding her daughter in the retail giant's Leicester store.

Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti, of the Khyber Pass takeaway in Nottingham, were responsible for an outbreak of E.coli that saw 142 customers fall seriously ill.

Tour operator Thomson mistakenly emailed out the travel plans, home addresses and flight details of 458 customers on an email sent to 500 people across the country.

Alvaro, 13, and Ignacio Escolano, 11, moved from Malaga to Newark, Nottinghamshire, three months ago to join their father Jose, who works as a civil engineer, but cannot yet join RHP Colts.

Bankers have more confidence in the future of the UK capital after the Conservatives won a majority at the last election, lifting the threat of a new crackdown on business by Labour.

Giovanni Revedin di San Martino (pictured) said he was knocked off his motorbike by a white Mercedes sprinter in South Kensington in July 2012. He is now suing the driver for loss of earnings.

Zaha Hadid, who has just won one of the prestigious awards in the business, objected to questions about the cancellation of her project to build Tokyo's Olympic stadium.

Officers were responding to reports of banging coming from inside a lorry parked at Gaydon Service Station, off the M40 in Warwickshire, when they made the discovery.

Before the publication of a study suggesting that Alzheimer's could be transmitted by medical procedures, Dame Sally Davies spoke to a journal in a bid to play down the results, it has emerged.

National Geographic is currently calling all professional and amateur photographers alike to submit their best photos for the magazine's 2015 photography contest.

Champion Bobby Gunn once fought for the huge prize but Russian mobsters refused to pay and turned a gun on him and his ex-gangster promoter. They now hope to bring it to the mainstream.

Fleetwood Mac singer Christine McVie, 72, has put her sprawling Grade II-listed country home, dubbed The Quaives, in the Kent village of Wickhambreaux on the market for £3.5million.

Hadeel al-Hashlamun (pictured), 18, the Palestinian girl shot by Israeli soldiers after a tense stand-off in the West Bank, was a first year university student and the daughter of a doctor.