Sunday, 13 September 2009

The snooper's handbook: Guide that will ensure no home improvement escapes the Council Tax inspectors

Loft extension

If you have just proudly added an en suite bathroom to your house or laid a tiled floor in your conservatory, then beware. Tax inspectors have been inspectors have been armed with a new ‘snoopers handbook’.






What recession? Cherie Blair spends £250,000 on antique furniture for her opulent country pile

Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair has spent more than £250,000 buying antiques from Christie’s and Sotheby’s for her £5.75million country mansion.

What recession? Cherie Blair spends £250,000 on antique furniture for her opulent country pile 


Labour's master election planners turn backs on embattled Brown 


PETER HITCHENS: Our children can't hold a knife and fork, so what does UNESCO teach them?


Minister lands top job with French power firm - just a year after giving it the go-ahead to take over British nuclear plants

Energy talks: John Hutton

The Cabinet Minister behind a £12.5billion nuclear power deal with French-owned energy giant EDF is set to take a highly-paid job with the firm.







RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If this royal pardon is justice, then I'm a Bulgarian


A.N. WILSON: What kind of country has this become when we are ALL treated as potential paedophiles? 


Up to two million march on US Capitol to protest Obama's 'socialist' spending in biggest 'tea party' yet

Tens of thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against government spending