Sunday, 15 November 2009

Labour's 'pink paper fix' gives Mandy the freedom of Hartlepool

Mandelson

A bitter row erupted last night over a decision to make Peter Mandelson a freeman of Hartlepool, the town he used to represent as an MP.







Arch-Blairite Stephen Byers to step down as MP... months after his dodgy £125,000 expenses claim was revealed

Mr Byers is one of the most prominent Blairites on the Labour backbenches and has been a critic of Gordon Brown's performance as Prime Minister.







More than half of the UK population doesn't accept climate change is man-made

Pollution

Poll shows only 41% of Britons accept human responsibility for climate change as a scientific fact.








'Staying alive is like a lottery': Haunting last letters of bomb disposal hero blown up in Afghanistan

Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid

Bomb disposal expert Staff Sergeant Olaf 'Oz' Schmid revealed the horrors of his final months in Afghanistan in a series of letters to his wife.