Fighter’s best friend denies role in robbery and kidnap

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

The best friend of the alleged mastermind behind Britain's biggest cash robbery yesterday made an impassioned denial that he knew anything about the heist.

	Councillors resign and six staff suspended over Baby P
	Tue 2 Dec 08
	The head of children's services and five other staff at Haringey Council were suspended yesterday as the council's leader and its cabinet member for children resigned.

Double first for Nobel winner as he receives two honorary degrees

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A Nobel Prize-winning economist has been awarded honorary degrees from two Scottish universities.

New job fears over £1.4m scheme for drama tuition

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A new structure of drama tuition for Scotland was revealed yesterday, including £1.4m in new funds for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

First Minister backs £4m bid to finish Burns museum

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Alex Salmond has backed an ambitious public fundraising campaign for £4m to complete a national Robert Burns Museum in the bard's birthplace of Alloway.

Reports reveal ‘damning failures’ at council

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

By yesterday, when Children's Secretary Ed Balls delivered his verdict on the independent inquiry into the Baby P case, the effect of superlatives had worn thin.

Victims’ families call for C Diff inquiry

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Families of men and women who died after contracting the Clostridium Difficile bug in a Scottish hospital yesterday took their fight for a public inquiry to the Scottish Parliament.

NHS doctors ‘intended to murder on a terrible scale’

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Two NHS doctors accused of planting car bombs in central London and Glasgow intended "murder on a terrible scale" and nothing else, a court heard yesterday.

Shannon’s mother lied and lied and lied, court told

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

The mother of Shannon Matthews "lied and lied and lied again" as she gave five different accounts of her daughter's disappearance, a jury was told yesterday.

Senior police officer to review Home Office leaks probe

10:15am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A senior police officer has been appointed by Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to review the handling of the police inquiry into Home Office leaks, Scotland Yard announced today.

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