Edward Barton (You Tube search) lived on the Planet Hulme in 1983 when this delightful confection came out on fabled indie Cherry Red. Along with a goodly proportion of the City Life Magazine collective, and Morrissey's brother who played for the White Horse pub footie team, and future star lad editor James Brown, a cheeky little sod then managing power punk misfits Big Flame and fixing the I...

Teachers call for clear guidance on new regulations giving schools and colleges in Wales the power to screen and search pupils for weapons.

MPs are spending half of this week's time for business debate looking at the future of the Horse Race Betting Levy.

One point that fans of the original story might note is that Drewe, who in the original story is a columnist and interviewer for an unspecified newspaper, has been given a job at the Independent for the purposes of the film. Frears said he had consulted the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger,

Ministers have backed a new report recommending that teachers are given the power to search pupils for drugs and alcohol.

David Cameron has unveiled his plan to bring Westminster and the devolved governments of the UK closer together: a Council of the Nations. It is a breathtakingly original idea, groundbreakingly original in its originality. We've never heard anything like it before, it's so gosh darn original. Yes, this is a truly original idea. Why has nobody ever thought of it before? The mind boggles.

So. DuckDuckGo. A hybrid search engine. This one though, doesn’t collect personal data. Which many people would say is A Good Thing. What DuckDuckGo also does is prevent what they call ‘search leakage‘… At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that

Tabloid editor Dominic Mohan and Times editor James Harding recalled to Leveson inquiry into phone-hacking

I'm trying out a new search facility on the Wardman Wire from a company called Lijit. The search facility uses the Google search results, but allows me to nominate a network of websites from which an alternative set of search results are selected - so the service incorporates features of social networking websites into the site-search. I have set up some of the other contributors to the Wardm...

Young Gordon bought a horse from a farmer for £100. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day he drove up and said: "Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The horse has died." Gordon replied: "Well, then just give me my money back." "I can't do that," the farmer said. "I've already spent it." "OK," said young Gordon. "Just bring me the dead horse." The farmer...