date: 2009-12-30 00:00:59

Documents detailing Government plans to rule from an underground bunker have been revealed.

date: 2009-07-02 21:41:10

The highest ranking Army officer to be killed since the Falklands War is one of the two latest casualties in Afghanistan.

date: 2009-07-02 21:27:10

The events of 28 June took everyone by surprise – shooting in the night in Tegucigalpa, followed by the exile to Costa Rica of the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya. Suspicions persist that the US was behind his overthrow. Sunday’s overthrow of the Honduran president, José Manuel ...

date: 2009-07-02 17:33:04

Justice Secretary Jack Straw provisionally refuses an appeal for a pardon for jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields.

date: 2009-07-02 16:43:13

Two RAF air crew have been killed after a Tornado jet crashed on a hillside during a training flight in Argyll.

date: 2009-07-02 13:34:05

Commons Speaker says his deputies should no longer be selected by party whips The Commons Speaker John Bercow has called for MPs to be able to elect his three deputy Speakers this autumn. In a statement to MPs, he said that in a modern democracy it was unreasonable for the deputies to simply be ...

date: 2009-07-02 11:31:22

The Ascent of Money is an essay in financial history. Do you think the current crisis is due in part to the lack of a historical sense?It’s a central theme of the book that ignorance of financial history can be a cause of financial crisis. I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a ...

date: 2009-07-02 11:26:08

Peter Blake on Lewis Carroll’s Alice My friend Graham Ovenden and I were commissioned to illustrate Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass some time around 1969. I took on Looking-Glass. The cost of making the books eventually became prohibitive, so my watercolours were ...

date: 2009-07-01 21:30:39

The UK is facing extreme weather on two fronts, with storms in some areas and a raised heatwave alert in others.

date: 2009-07-01 19:53:32

Mollie Sugden, best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?, has died after a long illness, her agent has said.

date: 2009-07-01 16:34:09

Virgin Atlantic, the airline owned by Sir Richard Branson, says it will cut back on winter services and may cut up to 600 jobs.

date: 2009-07-01 09:14:38

National Express loses control of London-to-Edinburgh route as chief excutive resigns The government has announced that it plans to nationalise the East Coast rail service, after refusing to bail out the struggling rail operator National Express. The troubled company was forced to abandon the ...

date: 2009-07-01 09:05:08

Supermarket chain reported to have shown interest in nationalised lender Tesco is considering a bid for Northern Rock as the government tries to sell off the nationalised bank before a general election. Britain’s biggest supermarket chain is reported to have shown “provisional” interest in ...