PLANS have been unveiled to increase the number of council homes in West Lothian.

Will you look at this eh? Across the partnership, sales increase by 7.5 per cent… to take pre-tax profit to £155m. This was down on last year’s £282m, So, item one, a fall in profits. staff will share £151m as a bonus Bonuses amount to an eyewatering 97.5% of profits. That’s item two. Item two

Two by-election results just in – both saw a reduction in the Conservative vote and increases in the Liberal Democrat vote: Dacorum BC, Adeyfield West ward: Con 486 (32.8%; -8.6%) Lab 429 (29%; -13.3%) LD Steve Wilson 362 (24.5%; +8.1%) BNP 203 (13.7% +13.7%) Turnout 35.8% Con HOLD Wellingborough BC, Redwell West ward: Con 570 (58.2%; -0.8%) Lab 169 (17.2%; +2.2%) BNP 84 (8.6%; -7.1%) LD

Labour has pledged to impose no new tax rises despite being warned that increases are the only way to cut record public debt.

Any remaining pretence that the Lib Dems are on the centre-left has been smashed by Nick Clegg's nauseating praise for Margaret Thatcher in the Spectator today ( There's a useful way to work out exactly where the Lib Dems are on the political spectrum, which is to look at the proposed mix of tax increases and public spending cuts the three main parties are proposing for tackling the deficit. These...

Union members at Aberdeen City Council are to hold a mass meeting over plans to withhold an annual pay increase to staff.

This week’s poor balance of payments figures for last month revealed two worrying facts. Despite the sharp falls in the pound, there has been no surge in exports to show us gaining market share as we become more price competitive. At the same time, imports have increased sharply as destocking

From the Guardian letters page: "My friend John Kampfner (I want to vote for a progressive Labour platform. So I'm backing the Lib Dems, 9 March) is amnesic and myopic. His memory of Labour "changes for the better" omits the highest level of employment in UK history, the massive increases in NHS, education, science and overseas development investment, child and pension tax credits, and several oth...

European efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions could be undermined by Russian plans to dramatically increase energy production from coal, Western experts said in Brussels yesterday (9 March).

GORDON Brown's strategy to drag Britain out of the current economic crisis is "not credible", it was claimed yesterday as new figures revealed a dramatic increase