Ruth Kelly stands down as MP - then one day
later buys £1.8m house on doorstep of top
Catholic schools

Labour's former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was last night
accused of hypocrisy for buying a near-£2million house next to
two of Britain’s best state schools.
The JCB build with foreign parts - and the truth that our politicians don't
want to talk about

We have heard promises of jobs and growth, and talk of public
spending. But one sector has been absent from any agenda:
manufacturing
PETER HITCHENS: Oh dear, the Tories now face an
even better Blair imitator than Cameron
Roman Abramovich's fortune increases by £400m in
a year as Rich List reveals remarkable recovery of the
the ash cloud that never was: How volcanic plume over
UK was only a twentieth of safe-flying limit and blunders
BBC lectures us incessantly on climate change.
So why did their bosses make 68,000 domestic
flights in two years?

At a time when BBC programmes regularly highlight the
environmental impact of air travel, licence-fee payers have
funded more than 68,000 internal trips over the past two years.