New sex offender laws

Home Office reveals child sex offenders to face tighter travel restrictions but Gary Glitter attempts to stay in Thailand

Food waste buckets pricked town conscience

Within months of starting food waste collections in Ludlow the amount wasted by each family fell dramatically

Anaerobic digestion is win-win-win scenario

Anaerobic digestion really is the way forward: you put rubbish in one end and get valuable products out of the other

Another gold for Scottish Labour in Missing the Point

Team GB faces £100m shortfall for London 2012

Despite taking 12 golds in Beijing Britain’s Olympic heroes will return to a political wrangle over a hole in sports funding

Cross me at your peril, Brown warns plotters

In a move to face down threats to his leadership, Gordon Brown is to tell disloyal ministers they risk losing their jobs

Cameron tells of attack of the white van man

In a new book, the Tory leader speaks frankly about his political vision, family and how a push nearly threw him onto a car

Economic slump puts 300,000 jobs on the line

British Chambers of Commerce predicts by 2011 number of unemployed will be close to 2 million Watch our video

Early poll ‘would get bad news out of way’

Gordon Brown is holding talks about the timing of the Glenrothes by-election, which could be as soon as September 11

Think tank: US politics may have a vulgar edge

... but that’s the price of true democracy... but that’s the price of true democracy. Politics in America is open and democratic....

Spies urged to come in from the closet

MI5 teams up with gay lobby group to recruit more homosexuals and to encourage spies to be open about their sexuality

The true face of British espionage

Aston Martins and martinis? Two of Britain's most formidable spies explain how it was more like trains and tea

DNA files on 40,000 cleared child suspects

Home Office admits that almost 40,000 innocent children are on the national DNA database – a rise of 15,000 in two years

Exam firm sacked – now the tests may go

US-company ordered to repay £24m in move seen to be an opportunity to bring forward plans to reform the much-hated tests

Time to visit Sunderland, before it comes to visit you

The Times investigates whether, as a report claims, it is 'time to stop pretending there is a bright future for Sunderland'

Tory party no longer nasty, just grumpy

Michael Gove has admitted that David Cameron is proving popular because he 'is not just a Conservative like any other'

Council let exec work from home, in Australia

Taxpayers' Alliance condemn decision to let council official stay in the sun while hard-pressed families struggle here

Bank and Treasury clash over housing plan

Bank’s Governor has dismissed measures being considered by Alistair Darling to end mortgage drought Watch our video

Brown faces new Scottish by-election headache

Death of Glenrothes MP John MacDougall threatens another reverse for Prime Minister at hands of Scottish Nationalists

Mervyn King concedes UK at risk of recession

As 20,000 jobs go in worst month since the 90s, the nation braces for 12 months of severe economic pain