City council tax payers subsidising care

London boroughs have paid out an estimated £800m to subsidise services in other parts of England over three years

Ruling reinforces 'divorce capital' reputation

Divorce decision in Nigeria would have left woman in hardship but her UK connections lead to award of £275,000

EXCLUSIVE: Edited extracts of interview

Peter Moore, who was released after being held hostage in Iraq for two and a half years, speaks to The Times

Pink Floyd win court battle with EMI

Seventies supergroup Pink Floyd wins High Court battle with EMI to block sale of single downloads from concept albums

Chatsworth reopens amid £14m restoration

Dukes and duchesses across the generations to have exhibits and eccentricities put on show in 'house built to show off'

Wine quango prepares to ignore last orders

The tax-funded body that decides which vintages to add to the cellar is carrying on despite reports of its imminent demise

British journalist Paul Martin freed by Hamas

Islamist group accused the reporter of spying for Israel but said it had decided to "deport" him rather than press charges

Expenses MPs above the dock but not the law

The three MPs didn't want to be in the dock. Others who thought it beneath them include Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic

Oldest whisky piped in to Edinburgh Castle

The Mortlach 70-year-old Speyside was put into a Spanish oak cask in 1938 and opened generations later by the same family

North Devon termite colony survived 12 years of attempts to kill it

The £190,000 eradication programme appears to have failed after the latest survey found evidence of new infestation

BA worker 'planned terror attack during strike'

Software developer allegedly provided information on training and security to contacts in Yemen, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Lib Dem aims to go from porn to Parliament

Anna Arrowsmith - director of Hoxton Honey, Southwark Sugar and Hand of the Law - is selected as candidate for Gravesham, Kent

School application cheats escape prosecution

Schools Secretary gives children a fortnight's reprieve while offending parents would have a chance to explain themselves

No new tax rises, Darling will say at Budget

The Chancellor will use his statement to insist he has no need to raise extra cash to meet his central economic pledge

Women who use Pill live longer, vast study finds

Forty-year project looking at the lives of 46,000 people finds that taking oral contraceptive is not linked to long-term risks

Denise Fergus meets the Justice Secretary

Jack Straw was questioned by the mother of James Bulger over the circumstances of Jon Venables’s recall to prison

Formby's signed ukulele comes up for sale

A signed instrument played by the cheeky singer and given to his England footballer friend is expected to fetch £800

Protests over £30bn high-speed rail network

By 2032, the Government hopes it will be complete, putting Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield within 75 minutes of London

TIMELINE: Peter Moore and his days in captivity

Timeline of a kidnapping in Baghdad that took place in 2007 and ended in the release of the IT worker last December

‘It should be a protected space’

Thelma Mensah tells how a woman photographer entered her postnatal ward and asked if she wanted pictures of her new daughter