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Public sector cuts: Centre helping those with learning disabilities faces 33%...
West Sussex council plans to save £2.2m over the next year, and 9,000 vulnerable people will have their needs reassessed9Aldingbourne Trust W Sussex Cut up to 33% For 14 years, four days a week, Andrew...
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Public sector cuts: Rise in youth crime feared as key teams are reduced
Ministers told that councils will find it 'exceptionally difficult to maintain a basic youth offending team'White Gold project, RedruthCut: £185,000A crime prevention project in Cornwall that has...
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Public sector cuts: Brain injury unit to close
The treatment centre for people with brain injuries, part of the Edgware community hospital in London, is about to close its doors More than 1 million people visit A&E every year with a head...
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Madonna's Malawi charity 'squandered millions'
Managers ousted after damning audit reveals that £2.4m has been spent, but school project has not even broken groundThe managers of Madonna's charity in Malawi have been ousted after they squandered...
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Anti-cuts march: police prepare for violent minority
Officers prepare new tactics to contain criminal activists, but have no strong intelligence on what TUC insists is a family protestPolice chiefs believe "a small but significant minority" will try to...
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Andrew Lansley takes rap from MC NxtGen over health policy in viral video
Success of YouTube video criticising Department of Health white paper prompts health minister to respond to rapper criticThree years ago, when he was 19, a young rapper calling himself MC NxtGen hoped...
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TV's repeat prescription | Mark Lawson
Viewers are supposed to hate recycled shows. But the evidence points to an appetite for the familiarThose newspapers that pursue a sceptical view of British broadcasting, and especially of the BBC,...
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MPs accepted Middle East regimes' hospitality 107 times in a decade
59 parliamentarians including Alan Duncan, Liam Fox, Clare Short and Keith Vaz went on paid-for visits to regionMPs have accepted hospitality with a value of more than £1,000 from authoritarian regimes...
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Ignore the sneers. This march is a real alarm-clock moment | Polly Toynbee
There is an alternative to the brutal cuts agenda, and thousands of people from all walks of life will demonstrate that in London• Why we're marchingWill the march make any difference to anything?...
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The Return of Ulysses – review
Young Vic, LondonEnglish National Opera's annual Young Vic residency frees the company up to do more intimate work, and while Benedict Andrews's Monteverdi production doesn't consistently fire on all...
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Lawyers in civil cases face bonus cap
Ministers attempt to tackle position in which lawyers can be awarded greater proportion of payouts than claimantsThe government will next week announce a clampdown on "fat cat" lawyers in civil cases...
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The Saturday interview: Ken Clarke
Ken Clarke eclipsed the chancellor this week when he was spotted snoozing during the budget. But he was listening George, really...There may only be one real star in the choreography of budget day –...
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Portugal needs its sleeping king now more than ever | José Manuel Fernandes
The abrupt departure of José Sócrates is yet another chapter in my country's economic and political decayThe discussions had barely started on Wednesday night when the then prime minister, José...
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BBCSSO/Hardenberger – review
City Halls, GlasgowHåkan Hardenberger is top of his field, about as internationally celebrated as it's possible for a classical trumpet soloist to be. Haydn's C major concerto is the repertoire...
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Inside Gaddafi's brutal prison: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's Libyan ordeal
While reporting the war in western Libya, award-winning Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was seized by Gaddafi's militia. Here he describes two weeks inside the regime's brutal prison systemWe...
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French stereotypes: They do not work that hard
Life is not one long holiday on the beach for the French. They get a lot of time off but when they are at work, life is no picnicIn August in Paris, American tourists are often scandalised by the...
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LSO/Gergiev/Kavakos – review
Barbican, LondonValery Gergiev's fascination with the music of Rodion Shchedrin continues to puzzle. The latest offering in the LSO's ongoing survey of his work was Lithuanian Saga, written in 2009 to...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – review
Crucible, SheffieldClearly not director Erica Whyman. She growls with real conviction at Edward Albee's great bloody beast of a play set on a New England college campus in the early 60s, where the...
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Nash Ensemble, Richard Rodney Bennett – review
Wigmore Hall, LondonA composer who has always brought style, humour and professionalism to his notably varied music, Richard Rodney Bennett has distinguished himself on the screen and the cabaret stage...
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Libyan crisis: Kenneth Clarke warns UK at risk of new Lockerbie
Muammar Gaddafi could stage Lockerbie-style attack in revenge for UK's role in Libya campaign, warns lord chancellorKenneth Clarke has ratcheted up government pressure to depose Colonel Gaddafi by...
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