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Census officers may fine householders refusing to fill in form

100-strong 'non-compliance' unit authorised to visit homes and conduct interviews in bid for more complete surveyA 100-strong unit of "non compliance" officers is authorised to visit any home where the...

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Syria unleashes force on protesters demanding freedom as unrest spreads

Reports of many killed as marchers take to streets, plus confrontations in Jordan, Yemen and BahrainDemonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces...

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Sudoku 1,831 hard

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...

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Sudoku 233 Killer

Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...

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Fearne Cotton and Edith Bowman join BBC's royal wedding team

Radio 1 DJs among presenters to join Huw Edwards for coverage of wedding of Prince William and Kate MiddletonRadio 1 DJs Fearne Cotton and Edith Bowman will be among the BBC presenters joining Huw...

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Whitehall: very special advisers | Editorial

The official civil service code is intact, but a powerful whiff of hypocrisy lingers on the Whitehall airWhen power was just a glimmer on the horizon, Conservative MPs used to delight in attacking...

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Unthinkable? Filling in the census properly | Editorial

Protest about Lockheed Martin's involvement by all means: but not by ignoring the form. Silence is only a denial of identityDefying the census began as a contrarian stunt. In 2001 390,000 people listed...

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Sian O'Callaghan police take 'step into the unknown' in search for second body

Forces looks at possible links to unsolved crimes after suspect leads officers to Gloucestershire fieldPolice investigating the murder of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan admitted they were "stepping into...

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Sixth police spy in protest movement unmasked

Mark Kennedy, the first infiltrator to be exposed, says he may sue Scotland Yard for causing post-traumatic stress disorderA sixth police officer has been unmasked as an undercover spy in the protest...

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Good to meet you: Kate Cook

From Peckham to Chester, the Guardian has been with this week's reader through all the stages of her lifeI love the Guardian and I have done for a long time. My father was an Irish immigrant, a good...

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Letters: Marching for an alternative

Today will see the largest march in London since the 2003 protests over Iraq. People will march to Hyde Park in support of an alternative to the coalition government's savage cuts. These cuts are not...

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This week: George Osborne, Carole Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor

Lucy Mangan on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysBad to worse George OsborneDon't know if you've heard – there was a budget. Motorists can look forward to changes that will knock...

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Corrections and clarifications

• An advertisement feature promoting a video examining the nature of land ownership in Ethiopia wrongly stated that 13 million people needed food aid in the country. In fact there are 2.8 million...

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Letters: More challenges to budget plans

As the budget has shown, the planning system is an easy target (Osborne's message to Britain: forget the cuts, fill up your tank, 24 March). There is, however, little evidence to support the claim that...

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Letters: Libya and Europe's divisions over foreign policy

Timothy Garton Ash is right to highlight how domestic political pressures have led to serious differences between EU leaders on Libya (Comment, 24 March), but it would be too simplistic to argue that...

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Letters: Birds of a feather

I enjoyed Frank Keating's thoughts on the boat race (Sport, 23 March), but have to take issue with his attribution of exclusivity to Hammersmith Terrace. Perhaps now you have to be a multimillionaire...

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Letters: Cox faces the music on volume controls

Thank you for giving Brian Cox the opportunity to clarify his views on the reduction in volume of the soundtrack with Wonders of the Universe (G2, 24 March). I am hearing-impaired and wear two hearing...

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Simon Hoggart's week: We won't be taken for a ride, cabbies

Businesses which are reluctant to reduce prices will learn the hard way✒ There may be a recession, but some people evidently haven't heard. London taxis are probably the most expensive in Europe, but...

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Country diary: Bedfordshire

My eyes are drawn up the tramlines of spring-sown wheat. Up the slope to the wood at the top of the rise, along a bit, then down again. For more than an hour I have walked and scanned these huge open...

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Spending cuts: From protest to persuasion | Editorial

The marchers at the rally in London, and Ed Miliband, face three formidable obstacles in the way of a wider campaignThe fuzziness of the rallying cry – March for the Alternative – is easily mocked, but...

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