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Breastfeeding leads to better behaviour in children, researchers claim
Interaction between mother and child seen as significant factor in research based on Millennium Cohort StudyBabies who are breastfed are less likely to have behavioural problems by the age of five than...
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Police chief faces sack over nepotism claim
Disciplinary hearing over allegations of favouring a relative in recruitment procedureA police chief charged with serious misconduct over alleged nepotism during a botched recruitment drive is...
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NHS chiefs' pay up by 2.5% despite cuts
New research finds 69% of medical directors of NHS organisations received packages worth more then £150,000NHS bosses' pay is increasing despite the health service's years of flat budgets, a £20bn...
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Lottery aid for Windermere Steamboat Museum and Hastings pier
Kew Gardens and British Museum among beneficiaries but Tate Britain loses out in heritage fund's first roundHastings' fire-damaged Victorian pier, Kew Gardens' huge temperate house and the British...
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NHS reforms could leave cancer patients with worse care, say charities
Andrew Lansley's plans to stop funding for regional cancer networks could leave GPs without vital advice, it is claimedCancer patients could receive poorer care as a result of the government's plans to...
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In praise of … dandelions | Editorial
Irrepressible and raffish, this weed is a rebel, an outsider and saboteur of neat lawns and raked bedsIn human terms it would be the child you would rather yours didn't play with, raggedy-muffin,...
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Danny Alexander: I'm not George Osborne's bodyguard
Liberal Democrat architect of coalition agreement says party needs to spell out disagreements with ConservativesDanny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat most responsible for the coalition agreement, has...
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Letters: Call to reinstate terror academic
We write as academics deeply concerned by the suspension of Dr Rod Thornton, a lecturer in counter-terrorism in the school of politics and international relations at the University of Nottingham...
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Letters: Tagore's teardrops
Re Annabel Downs's letter (6 May): the government has no plans to change the rules requiring councils to provide allotments to local communities. What we are doing is reviewing old and unnecessary...
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Daily Telegraph censured by PCC over Vince Cable tapes
Press Complaints Commission condemns Daily Telegraph for undercover recording of Cable and other Lib Dem ministersThe Daily Telegraph is criticised by the Press Complaints Commission today for secretly...
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Royal wedding and sunny April help retailers
High street gets much-needed boost after poor March sales, says BRC, while Rics housing survey finds signs of an upturnThe royal wedding, a late Easter and a sunny April wooed consumers back to the...
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Letters: Huhne must be firm on climate change
Climate minister Chris Huhne must resign if the government rejects its official climate change adviser's call for UK global warming targets to be strengthened (Adviser warns of defining moment for...
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Corrections and clarifications
• Noting that the cabinet must soon decide whether to accept recommendations from the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) about cutting greenhouse gas emissions, an article said that this...
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Letters: Fees challenge
I'm glad Professor Peter Scott thinks I am reasonable (Higher education must suffer while the parties slug it out, Education, 3 May). And if David Willetts picked up the phone, I would not hang up on...
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Letters: Thoughts and reflections on the NHS
In your article (Clegg and Cameron agree key changes on NHS plans, 9 May), there is nothing to suggest that Clegg and Cameron have agreed substantive changes to the NHS bill going through parliament....
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NHS bill: the Lib Dems, spinach-fed and six-pack stomached. Ripped!
MPs are none the wiser about Tory concessions despite the great big health debateYesterday we had the big debate on the health bill. This is the one that has been stopped in its tracks by the...
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Liberal Democrats head for coalition clash with Conservatives on police
Party wants to delay introduction of elected police commissionersThe Liberal Democrats are heading for their first coalition showdown with the Tories since last week's elections in the House of Lords...
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Health service: the concession that counts
Unfortunately for Andrew Lansley, the more the small print is studied, the more it is dislikedComing to the Commons as the face of a bill which is currently being rewritten by other people, the health...
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Ian Tomlinson death: Thoroughly disappointing
The failure to act promptly on the three officers' evidence prompts serious questions for the City force and the IPCCThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) yesterday published three...
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Weatherwatch: weekly global round-up
A major cold front brought unusually low temperatures to many central southern US states early last week, as a chilled mass of air pushed southwards. With clear, calm conditions on the night of 3/4...
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