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Former MP Eric Illsley has been jailed for fiddling his parliamentary expenses

Ex-MP jailed for expenses fraud

Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Illsley has been jailed for 12 months for fiddling his parliamentary expenses.

Mubarak to speak on Egypt future

President Hosni Mubarak is set to speak to the nation after Egypt's military stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that the leader will meet their demands.

Anti-government protesters stamp on a poster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, as fears grow for a Briton missing in Cairo

Briton missing in Egypt for 10 days

The UK is "deeply concerned" about a Briton missing in Egypt for 10 days and has demanded to know if he is being held by the authorities, a Foreign Office minister said.

Six killed in Irish plane crash

Three British citizens, two Irish people and a Spaniard have been killed in a plane crash at Cork Airport in the Irish Republic.

Liberal Democrat council chiefs accused Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles of refusing to work with councillors

Osborne rejects Lib Dem cuts plea

Chancellor George Osborne has brushed aside appeals by senior Liberal Democrat councillors to slow the pace of the coalition's spending cuts.


Latest Sport
Martin Johnson

England name unchanged team

England manager Martin Johnson has named an unchanged team for Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Italy at Twickenham.

Clarke leads tributes to Bailey

Former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey has died after a fire at his home on Thursday morning. He was 87.

Branislav Ivanovic

Ivanovic signs long-term Blues deal

Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic has signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract with the club.

Kuqi joins Magpies

Newcastle have confirmed the signing of Finland international striker Shefki Kuqi until the end of the season.

Fabio Capello

Capello: I made no deal with clubs

Fabio Capello has insisted no deals were struck with England's Champions League contenders about how he was going to handle their players in Denmark this week.



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Eric Illsley

Ex-Labour MP Eric Illsley jailed over �14,500 expenses scandal

Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Illsley has been jailed for 12 months for fiddling his parliamentary expenses  Comments (10)

Claudia Aderotimi

Buttocks operation girl found sex-swap 'doctor' on web

American detectives are hunting a transgender woman over the death of a London student who died after a botched operation to enhance her buttocks  Comments (39)

Cheryl Cole

Showbiz: Cheryl Call: wheelie down-to-earth Cole rings and orders own bin

Cheryl Cole has shown she is not too grand to muck in herself when it comes to tackling domestic duties at her rented home in the affluent north London suburb  Comments (17)

Toni Rudman

Man who 'wanted to hurt someone' jailed for kicking woman stranger to death

Teenager who kicked a stranger to death because he 'wanted to hurt someone' after a row with his girlfriend was convicted of murder and jailed today  Comments (24)

Jim Devine

Former Labour MP Jim Devine guilty over expenses fraud

Former Labour MP Jim Devine found guilty of fiddling his expenses after submitting false invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling almost �9,000  Comments (11)

Scotland Yard

Boris Johnson's 'extra police' pledge blasted by Ken Livingstone

Hundreds of extra police officers will be patrolling London's transport system, streets and schools by this time next year, Boris Johnson said  Comments (11)

Officers swoop on a house in Leytonstone

Teenagers arrested in raids to take lethal 'pen gun' off streets

Two teenage gang members were arrested during a series of raids today over a dangerous new weapon being used on London's streets

Leo Boland

Boris Johnson's City Hall chief makes himself redundant with �300k pay-off

Boris Johnson's top civil servant is set for a pay-off costing taxpayers almost �300,000 after suggesting that his job should be scrapped  Comments (18)


Sport Sport feed

West Ham's plans for 2012 Olympic Stadium

Olympics: Spurs ready for legal battle as West Ham win Olympic stadium bid

Tottenham Hotspur are threatening to launch a legal battle over their failed bid for the Olympic stadium  Comments (40)

Ashley Young is congratulated by his team-mates after scoring England�s winner against Denmark

Football: Frank Lampard: Now we're ready for big Euro showdown

Frank Lampard is thrilled England have rediscovered winning ways before next month's crucial clash with Wales in Cardiff  Comments (2)

Barry Hearn

Football: Barry Hearn: My friends at West Ham may think they have won, but I won't give up the fight

Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn insists he still wants a judicial review if his rivals are named as preferred bidders for the Olympic Stadium tomorrow  Comments (7)

Harry Redknapp

Football: Spurs to move for Kieran Richardson

Harry Redknapp is known to admire the Sunderland man, who can play in every position across the midfield as well as at left-back  Comments (11)

Business Business feed

Bank of England

Bank holds firm on interest rates as UK manufacturing dips

The Bank of England maintains its high-wire balancing act between the twin perils of inflation and a flagging recovery  Comments (6)

Easyjet

Stelios back on the warpath with easyJet

Easyjet's founder and biggest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou indicates his ceasefire with the budget airline's board is over as he pledges to vote against executive pay at its AGM  Comments

Sir John Rose

Rolls-Royce beats forecasts as Rose prepares for departure

Rolls-Royce's results comfortably beat City forecasts and helping offset some of the damage done to the company's reputation from last year's Qantas A380 engine failure  Comments

Diageo

Diageo has a slump hangover

Recession-hit Britons and Europeans are not turning to drink for solace according to figures from Diageo, the world's biggest spirits group  Comments (1)


Entertainment Entertainment feed

The Children's Hour

Theatre: Keira Knightley and 'Peggy' shine but unknown dazzles in The Children's Hour

For many, the biggest attraction of this production of The Children's Hour will be not Keira Knightley but Elisabeth Moss  Comments
Rating: 4 out of 5

esben

Music: A forbidding triumph for Esben & the Witch

Brighton trio Esben & the Witch, named after a Danish fairytale, maintain a sense of mystery amid their volatile music  Comments
Rating: 4 out of 5

Children's Hour

Showbiz: Stars come out for Keira Knightley's new play

Hollywood star Danny DeVito anda actress Miriam Margolyes were among the crowd who turned out to see Keira Knightley in the opening night of The Children's Hour  Comments

Russell Brand

Showbiz: Katy Perry and Russell Brand hot 'n' cold amid rumours of marriage counselling

Katy Perry is reportedly seeking a marriage counsellor only three months after she wed Russell Brand  Comments (8)

WInning team:  manager Yann Chevris, left  and head chef Thierry Laborde

Restaurants: South-West France in SW1 at Chabrot Bistrot D'Amis

Chabrot Bistrot D'Amis is un vrai bistrot complete with red and white linen from the Basque company Moutet Tissag  Comments
Rating: 3 out of 5

Chris Martin, Producer of the Year Brit Award winner Marcus Dravs and BPI Chair Tony Wadsworth backstage at the Music Producers Guild awards

The BRIT Awards 2011: Coldplay and Mumford producer lands BRIT Award

Marcus Dravs, the producer behind Mumford & Sons hit album, who is currently working on Coldplay's next release, has landed an early Brit Award  Comments

Lindsay Lohan

Showbiz: Judge warns Lindsay Lohan as star pleads not guilty to necklace theft

Lindsay Lohan was accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace from upmarket Californian boutique Kamofie & Company  Comments (1)

Flamenco

Theatre: Reimagining of moves at the Flamenco Festival

The eighth Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival got off to an intriguing start with a one-off solo recital by Israel Galv�n  Comments
Rating: 4 out of 5


Life & Style Life & Style feed

Rich pickings: lapdancers can make �300 to �500 on an average night and sometimes much more

Would you ever take your girlfriend to watch a lapdancer?

Most women would explode if you suggested it, but the owner of a new London lapdancing club tells Simon English how he plans to change that  Comments

Sebastian Faulks

Books: Sebastian Faulks gives us his take On Fiction

Sebastian Faulks wants to transmit his enthusiasm to others and keep the habit of reading alive  Comments

wine

The discerning drinker: Pink champagne for Valentine's day

My wife would probably call it a failure of romantic imagination, but I'm recommending ros� champagne for Valentine's, as usual  Comments

yoghurt

Frozen yoghurts are like little pots of gold

Frozen yoghurts are the new cupcakes. Small wonder, then, that Kate and Wills may serve them to their wedding guests, says Katie Law  Comments (2)

LucyWalker

Waste Land is the Slumdog Millionaire of documentaries

Lucy Walker braved disease, dogs and drug gangs to make Waste Land; her Oscar-nominated film of the extraordinary characters who live off the largest landfill in the world  Comments (1)

Edgelands

Books: Explore unofficial countryside in Edgelands

Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness, by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts is a series of co-authored short essays  Comments

Birdcloud

Books: Bird Cloud is Proulx's property porn

Bird Cloud: A Memoir, is a collection of essays and recollections by Annie Proulx, loosely themed around the idea of home  Comments

Dr Christian Jessen

Health & Beauty: Marathons can hurt you in the long run

Dr Christian Jensen explains how marathons can do more harm than good  Comments


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