Speeding: ‘two strikes’ ban proposal
Drivers caught breaking the speed limit by a certain margin twice could face an automatic ban under new Government plans. A consultation paper on road safety suggests increasing the number of penalty points speeding drivers receive for offences where the speed limit is broken by a particularly large margin.... [continued]
Woolworths for sale at just £1
The venerable high street retailer Woolworths is to sell its 820-store chain, founded in 1909 and once worth £830m, for just £1. The announcement that the company is seeking a buyer in mid-november reveals that it must be dangerously close to bankruptcy: Woolworths makes 90 per cent of... [continued]
The business pages 
Families plead for tanker hostages
The families of two British men being held hostage on the Sirius Star, a Saudi oil tanker hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, have appealed for their safe return. Peter French, 44, from County Durham is the ship's chief engineer, while James Grady, from Strathclyde, is its second... [continued]
In pictures: Pirates of Somalia
Somalia, home of the entrepreneurial spirit
Briefing: Who are the million dollar pirates?
Somalia: A victim of Bush's recklessness
Police scour BNP membership list
Police forces across the UK are scouring a list of the BNP's 13,500 members for the names of serving officers. Police officers and prison guards are formally banned from joining the far-right party, and yesterday the Merseyside force confirmed it was investigating one officer who appears on the list.... [continued]
Google takes a romantic view of the BNP
Russian murder tried in secret
Supporters of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian campaigning journalist who was shot dead on her Moscow doorstep in 2006, have condemned a surprise decision to hold the trial of three men accused of complicity in her death in secret. The trial was due to begin in open court yesterday,... [continued]
October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya is shot dead
Four children a week die of abuse
As many as four children die every week in England from abuse or neglect, according to the children's services watchdog Ofsted. A new report shows Ofsted received notifications from local authorities of 424 serious incidents, relating to 282 deaths of children in 17 months. The report also showed that... [continued]
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