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Letters: The centre-left needs new ideas
Polly Toynbee vindicates Saturday's mass protest by citing the Jarrow marches changing the conscience of affluent Britain (Ignore the sneers, 25 March). The severity of social deprivation and economic...
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Letters: Standard batteries key to electric cars
Many of us would welcome electric cars which closely match the practicality of those propelled by petrol engines (A new Leaf, 26 March). But the greatest impediment is the lack of international...
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Letters: Squawkcrust pastry
"Last week, were you ... working as an employee?" asked the census (Question 26) yesterday (Unthinkable, 26 March). How different might the answers have been had the census been a week or so later, as...
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Letters: Osborne's budget impacts the poor and the vulnerable
Your report on the budget (Osborne strategy risks being blown off course, 25 March) gave a rather rosy view of the impact of the cuts on the poor. The chart shows income falling by 6.5% for the poorest...
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Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
My son phoned to say he was climbing Helm Crag with two of his children, on a quest to see the Lion and the Lamb rocks. I left my computer desk and drove the three-some miles to Grasmere, hoping to...
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Ministry of Defence says sorry for murder of Majella O'Hare
• Schoolgirl shot dead by paratrooper in 1976• Letter to mother formally apologises for killingMajella O'Hare was 12 years old. It was a bright summer's day in 1976 and the schoolgirl had just walked...
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Arts Council told to sell off masterpieces in damning report by MPs
• Funding body 'spending far too much on itself'• Report comes at start of crucial week for the arts The Arts Council in England has been told to sell works from its art collection – which includes...
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In praise of … Poohsticks | Editorial
It's a fair bet that thousands of spontaneous games rippled out from the World Poohsticks Championships in Little WittenhamIt may have been a sunny spring day, just like yesterday, when Winnie the Pooh...
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University finance: Richer by degrees | Editorial
There are fresh problems for a coalition that has already been badly strained by the fees issueIf you have ever witnessed customers walking into a store and instinctively reaching for the most...
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French local election gains for socialists and far-right
Pressure on Sarkozy a year before he faces electorate after good results for oppositionFrance's opposition Socialist party comprehensively won local elections Sunday as the far-right National Front...
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Japanese nuclear firm admits error on radiation reading
Tokyo Electric Power says initial reports of levels 10m times higher than normal in parts of No 2 reactor were inaccurateFresh doubt has been cast on the handling of the Fukushima nuclear crisis after...
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Super Glue inventor dies aged 94
Harry Wesley Coover Jr created the glue by accident while working for Tennessee Eastman CompanyHarry Wesley Coover Jr, known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee,...
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George Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo named as witnesses in Berlusconi trial
Hollywood actor and footballer could be called to give evidence when Italian prime minister answers 'bunga bunga' chargesGeorge Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo may be called to testify in defence of...
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Japan nuclear plant gets help from US robots
Obama administration sends shipment of robots to help regain control over stricken Fukushima nuclear plantThe Obama administration is sending a squad of robots to Japan to help efforts to regain...
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The Officers Club calls in the administrators
Clothing company closes with Blue Inc taking over 46 storesThe Officers Club clothing outlet has become the latest victim of the troubled retail sector, going into administration with the loss of 500...
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Pret A Manger boosted by sales of 50,000 porridge pots a week
Sandwich chain announces 37% profit increase, partly on the back of an increased demand for a humble breakfast cerealFor years it has been a distant reminder of Britain's austere past and of the days...
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Kenneth Clarke unveils plans to tackle compensation culture
'No win, no fee' claimants will be liable to pay their own lawyers' success fees under plans outlined by the justice secretaryProposals to tackle Britain's "damaging compensation culture", control...
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BAA breakup gets fresh look from Competition Commission
Airport operator breakup moves step closer as Competition Commission asks interested parties to look again at ruling on BAA's monopolyFerrovial, the Spanish industrial group, could on Wednesday move...
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Libya's rebel government in waiting – and in hiding
Revolutionaries who once imagined they would topple Gaddafi in days have had to cobble together an administration from scratchMost of their names are kept secret. They often meet in hiding – at times...
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SFO raids offices in Luxembourg over failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing
Kaupthing's former Luxembourg subsidiary believed to be among the premises searched Investigators from the Serious Fraud Office have raided five offices and homes in Luxembourg as part of their...
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