Sir Fred Goodwin’s RBS pension pay-out will be £32m
The full market value of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin's controversial £693,000-a-year pension is twice what the bank has admitted. Insurer Standard Life worked out the cost of buying an annuity to deliver the former RBS boss's retirement benefits as £32.7m. An expert said: "Companies with final salary schemes [are often] over-optimistic about investment returns and life expectancy.” Treasury lawyers are set to investigate Goodwin's expenses. (Sunday Times)
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David Cameron pays tribute to ‘wonderful’ Ivan
Tory leader David Cameron has spoken publicly for the first time about his feelings over the death of his six-year-old disabled son, Ivan. In his weekly email to supporters, Cameron - who is on compassionate leave for two weeks - wrote: "We gained more than I ever believed possible from having such a wonderful child... We knew Ivan wouldn't live forever but we didn't expect to lose him so young and so suddenly." Ivan suffered from cerebral palsy and a rare form of epilepsy. (Independent on Sunday)
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Lord Mandelson attacks mail rebels
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has gone on the attack after Government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail caused dismay among Labour rebels and unions, with at least 130 Labour MPs and two cabinet ministers opposed to them. Mandelson accused the postal union of dishonest "scare tactics" which could cost workers their pensions or jobs and said there would be no turning back. He told Labour MPs they had to "make tough choices or lose the election". (Observer)
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Parents warned over child medicine
The Government is to advise parents not to give most over-the-counter cough and cold remedies to children because they can be harmful and do not work. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency says a review of 69 products, some specifically labelled for children, "found no robust evidence that these medicines work" and warns that "they can cause side effects, such as allergic reactions, effects on sleep or hallucinations". The medicines will now carry warnings on packaging. (Sunday Telegraph)
Israel assassination squad revealed
Israel's military policy of targeted killings has been illuminated as, for the first time, a member of an assassination squad breaks his silence to speak of his role in a botched ambush that killed two men in addition to the two militants intended as targets. The former sharp-shooter says he was left with psychological scars by the operation eight years ago which he describes as "the first face-to-face assassination of the intifada". He says he shot one man in the head 11 times. (Independent on Sunday)
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UK lagging on ‘green stimulus’ plan
The UK is lagging behind other major economies in terms of spending on 'green' economic stimulus, despite Government promises to "lead the world". The study reveals that China has devoted well over 100 times as much money to such schemes. (Independent on Sunday)
The CBI has warned that millions of private sector workers face a pay freeze or cuts while public sector employees enjoy pay rises. A spokesman for the British Chambers of Commerce said it was "unacceptable" that the public sector should not share the "pain". (Sunday Times)
The BBC and Granada are investigating after it was revealed that one of Gail Trimble's teammates on her winning University Challenge side, Sam Kay, was no longer a student during the filming of part of the programme, having graduated in 2008. (Observer)
Antonia Quirke: Airtime
A newly rediscovered 16th century poem suggests that cricket was invented in Belgium, and brought to the UK by migrant workers, challenging the traditional theory that the sport evolved from children's games played in England since Anglo-Saxon times. (Sunday Telegraph)
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The Treasury is under pressure to publish confidential documents relating to the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB. The existence of the secret documents emerged after HBOS shareholders challenged the decision to allow the takeover. (Observer)
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The Government is to advise the public to take siestas, change out of formal clothes and avoid eating hot food as part of a national emergency plan to deal with hot weather caused by climate change. Heatwaves are expected to rise over the next 20 years. (Sunday Times)
Winnie Mandela to be an ANC MP
Nelson Mandela's controversial first wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has shocked South African politics by emerging as a top ANC candidate for April's general elections. Madikizela-Mandela could secure a cabinet job as well as becoming an MP. (Observer)
South Africa sickened by Zuma’s Mandela ‘kidnap’
A defiant Robert Mugabe used his 85th-birthday celebrations yesterday to affirm that land seizures in Zimbabwe would continue. He said: "The few remaining white farmers should quickly vacate their farms as they have no place there." (Independent on Sunday)
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The richest man in China is now in police custody, and other so-called 'red billionaires' are in debt or political disgrace. The communist nation's relationship with capitalism has soured as the global recession bites, with at least 20m workers losing their jobs. (Sunday Times)
Hedge fund: bank share slide is over
Lansdowne Partners, a large and successful London hedge fund, has told its investors it believes the UK bank slide is over. And it has emerged that the fund has taken £100m profits from short-selling shares in Barclays over the last two years. (Observer)
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Europe's largest bank, HSBC, is to close its troubled US mortgage lending operation HFC. And chairman Stephen Green (left) will tomorrow announce that the bank intends to raise £12bn in a deeply-discounted rights issue and cut its dividend. (Sunday Telegraph)
Pros and Cons: Bonuses for bankers
Opposition MPs are calling for an independent review of the use of tax havens by state-funded UK banks. Lloyds has more than 125 offshore companies while RBS has 238. The Liberal Democrats accused the banks of "biting the hand that feeds them". (Sunday Times)
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HBOS exec advises No 10 on arts
Concerns have been raised that the former head of failed bank HBOS has remained as chairman of a subcommittee which advises Downing Street on honours for figures in the arts. Lord Stevenson recommended Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin for a CBE. (Sunday Times)
A new biopic of notorious robber Charles Bronson, known as Britain's most dangerous prisoner, has been criticised for glorifying violence. Bronson advised on the film from jail, where he was visited by Tom Hardy, the actor who plays him. (Observer)
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State-owned paintings worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been lost, damaged or stolen while on loan to Government departments around the world and in the UK, it has emerged. Nineteen works have vanished since 2005. (Independent on Sunday)
Gail Trimble, the 'brainbox' who led her team to victory on University Challenge, has crowned a good month by getting engaged. (Sunday Times)
Labour MP Diane Abbot used to receive £4,000 a month for appearing on the BBC's This Week, but her fee has now been cut to £2,500. (Observer)
Richard Bean, author of controversial play England People Very Nice, has been confronted on stage at the National Theatre by placard-waving protesters accusing him of racism. (Sunday Telegraph)
Paleontologist Jack Horner, whose career inspired Jurassic Park, is funding research to 'reverse-engineer' a dinosaur from a chicken by altering its DNA. (Sunday Times)
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes is unconcerned his new film The Young Victoria features anachronistic electric lights, several decades before their invention. (Sunday Telegraph)
Rubina Ali, one of the child stars of Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire, now back home in an Indian shanty town, is at the centre of a tug-of-love row between her mother and step-mother. (Independent on Sunday)
Friend of Peter Mandelson and formerly a strong Labour backer, PR man Roland Rudd held a networking dinner for Boris Johnson last week. (Observer)
Tory MP James Gray claims the Government will call a snap election on June 4 after a giveaway budget. (Sunday Times)
Cherie Blair urges the Catholic and Anglican churches to stop "marginalising" women in a new Channel 4 documentary. (Sunday Times)
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, is in talks with Bloomsbury to publish his autobiography. The Vatican disapproves of Bloomsbury's biggest sellers, the Harry Potter books. (Observer)
"If you write a novel, it has to include a sex scene these days and I can't write one of those" - General Sir Mike Jackson on his plans to follow up his successful autobiography, Soldier. (Sunday Telegraph)
PR guru Tim Bell, best known as the man who reinvented Margaret Thatcher, is in talks to take on South African presidential candidate Jacob Zuma as a client. (Independent on Sunday)
Bookmaker William Hill is offering 6-1 odds that Sir Fred Goodwin's notoriously large pension will be cut before the end of the year. (Sunday Times)
"I've referred the buggers to the Equalities [sic] and Human Rights Commission!" - Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone on pay inequality at Cambridge University (Independent on Sunday)
Reality TV star Jade Goody, told by doctors she is dying of cancer, pleaded with her new husband Jack Tweed not to move her into a hospice. (People)
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was only a trialist with Glasgow Rangers and was lying when he said on Desert Island Discs in 2002 that he played for the first team. (News of the World)
Bankrupt Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona has had another of her luxury cars reposessed. Katona now owns only two, having lost her Lamborghini and Aston Martin. (News of the World)
The owners of Twycroft Zoo in Leicestershire where astounded when 3,000 people arrived on site and queued up to apply for just 150 seasonal zoo jobs. (People)
Wild-child actress Lindsay Lohan is converting to Judaism to prove her devotion to her Jewish girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson, visiting a London synagogue. (Sunday Mirror)
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