British taxpayers may be dragged in to eurozone rescue package after leading forecaster warns that crisis has brought this country's economy "grinding to a halt".

THE world's largest economies are close to grinding to a halt, with the UK facing near stagnation, according to an influential global economic think tank.

Progress in closing the gender pay gap appears to be "grinding to a halt", according to a report into discrimination and disadvantage in Britain.

Moves towards equal pay for men and women appear to be "grinding to a halt", according to the report, How Fair is Britain?

The chancellor will cut rapidly and decisively. He is cheerfully aware of the consequence. His political opponents will accuse him of not only grinding the faces of the poor, but of revelling in doing so. None of that will bother him, writes Bruce Anderson

BRITAIN'S biggest unions have formally backed joint industrial action if "attacks" on jobs, pensions and public services go ahead.

IT HAS been a week dominated by booze. Not for me, you understand - though in the midst of conducting a grinding proof at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in the course of my day job t

BILLIE HOLIDAY : TRAGEDY AND DEFIANCE By Terry Liddle Ask the man on the street to name a famous woman jazz singer and it’s a fair chance he would name Billie Holiday. Even my 16 year old neighbour, who is into ear-grinding noise of the worst sort, has heard of her. And I’ve just been seen by a nurse in her thirties who loves Billie Holiday’s songs. Looking at Billie Holiday&rsqu...

Young Ted high fives Governor Palin in a piece he wrote as part of TIME's 100 people Who Most Affect Our World: If Sarah Palin played a loud, grinding instrument, she would be in my band. The independent patriotic spirit, attitude and soul of our forefathers are alive and well in Sarah. In the way she lives, what she says and how she dedicates herself to make America better in these interesti...

Yes, we all know it’s damn near impossible to get fired from it but: Hiring someone in the prison service involves grinding through a gruelling 39 steps. The National Audit Office found that at HM Revenue & Customs it typically took 212 days to hire someone. That’s absurd.