Church Street Labour Councillors Barbara Grahame and Aziz Toki, together with local campaigner Ahmed Hamid, have outlined their priorities for Church Street Ward over the coming years. Housing Housing problems predominate in Church Street. With 12,000 adults crammed into this tiny patch, many in social housing, including many elderly and very young, from all over the world, different cultures, dif...

Parliamentary authorities advertised for official, who will be paid more than £17,000.

More could be done to prevent up to 50,000 early deaths a year hastened by air pollution, says a report by MPs.

Back in the 1990s, when a tottering Conservative government under John Major was being hit by sleaze case after sleaze case, two backbench Conservative MPs were caught out by the Sunday Times. They were offered £1,000 to ask questions in the House of Commons by the reporter's 'front' company. They were only too happy to oblige, one of them describing himself as a bit like a "taxi for hire". They ...

Buried deep in the Sunday Times is the Tories’ answer to the problem that is Lord Ashcroft. James Tyler is a fund manager who has donated £250,000 to the Tory party since 2007. He is that rare creature: a multi-millionaire who is both resident and domiciled in merry old England. Tyler’s chief attraction for the Tories is his virulent opposition to what he terms ‘the morons&#...

A couple of interesting developments as things come down to the wire and comedy turns into farce. Today was the day of a massive anti-Obamacare demonstration in DC with something like 30,000 attending. And wouldn't you know it? The Angry left at places like PuffHo is breathlessly reporting that those racist, fascist tea partyers called two members of the Congressional Black Caucus the N-word!...

MORE than 60 people were arrested and several injured after violent clashes broke out between around 4,000 right-wing and anti-fascist extremists yesterday.

AROUND 80 local authority staff in Scotland are earning six-figure salaries.

A PUBLICLY-OWNED construction quango set up by former Glasgow council leader Steven Purcell has donated a total of £4,000 to Labour, Scotland on Sunday has learned.

FROM MORNING STAR by Paul Haste  Thousands of British Airways cabin crew are about to be forced out on strike after hard-line airline bosses declared war on their union. More than 12,000 low-paid cabin crew will shut down 1,000 BA flights when they walking out at midnight at the start of a three-day strike to stop executives slashing the