News from the Guardian
Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities
Rising public resentment blamed on government focus on alleged 'scrounger' fraud and inflammatory media coverageThe government's focus on alleged fraud and overclaiming to justify cuts in disability benefits has caused an increase in resentment and abuse directed at disabled people, ...
Snow forces Heathrow to cancel half of flights
Heavy snowfall causes transport chaos with trains delayed, cars abandoned and flights cancelled across Britain? Have you taken any great snaps of snow or travel chaos? Send them to us at pictures@guardian.co.uk and we'll feature the best? ...
Joblessness and 'toxic relations' with police are blamed for Tottenham riot
Citizens inquiry reports that London borough suffers from lack of employment and 'low self-esteem' after interviewing 700 localsA "citizens inquiry" into the riots in Tottenham will conclude they were partly caused by high youth unemployment and toxic relations with local police, ...
Cold weather lessons have been learned ? but UK's real test is yet to come
The latest winter storms have not caused as much travel chaos, but Labour says questions remain about the country's responseAnother winter, another big freeze and travel chaos. The Christmas before last Britain was seized by days of snow and freezing ...
Paul Dacre calls for new certifying system for journalists
Daily Mail editor in chief tells Leveson inquiry he wants tough sanctions for those who break the law or lower standardsThe editor in chief of the Daily Mail has called for a new system of certifying journalists, with tough sanctions ...
Letters: Why the west should avoid the drumbeats of war
Simon Jenkins, in a timely article on the geopolitics of western interventionism, raises a number of issues that urgently require further analysis (Still Britain rattles sabres. Nothing has been learned, 3 February). In the context of the chaotic occupation and promised "...
Country diary: Portland, Dorset: Contrasting coastlines
Portland, Dorset: As the ground sloped away on the sheltered side, there was a change; we came to a little enclave with a character anything but bleakThe eastern side of Portland was sheltered, even on a windy day, with views ...
The NHS bill could finish the health service ? and David Cameron | Polly Toynbee
The market ideology of the health and social care bill shows that the pragmatic prime minister is on another planetAndrew Lansley's last refuge is his most disreputable argument so far: his health and social care bill must pass as so ...
Letters: The march towards independence
John Harris's very perceptive feature on Wales and devolution ('People have a new sense of what it is to be Welsh', G2, 2 February) touched on an issue which has so far tended to be ignored in the debate around the ...
Paul Dacre ? the Ferguson of Fleet Street ? rides the tackles| Michael White's sketch
For most of his three-hour grilling at the Leveson inquiry, clumsy questions bounced off the Daily Mail editor's granite certaintiesShortly after lunch on Monday Paul Dacre swore an oath. On his own admission this is a pretty routine procedure for ...
The Children Act is an act of kindness | Liz Trinder
There's no systematic bias against fathers in family courts, so no need for ministers to tinkerShould there be a change in the law on shared parenting after relationship breakdown? The government has now published its long-awaited response to the Family ...
Ian Paisley taken to hospital after suffering respiratory problems
Former Northern Ireland first minister, 85, is being treated in Ulster hospital, his wife confirmsFormer Northern Ireland first minister Ian Paisley is in intensive care in hospital after suffering respiratory problems.The family of the 85-year-old founder of the Democratic Unionist ...
The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left | George Monbiot
Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly objectSelf-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as ...
Jeremy Clarkson injunction terrified me, ex-wife tells MPs' committee
Alex Hall said she planned to write 'witty self-help book' about effects of having a relationship with a celebrityJeremy Clarkson's ex-wife said she was "terrified" when she discovered the Top Gear presenter had taken out an injunction to stop her ...
ISP asks new customers to set access controls
TalkTalk customers will be unable to activate broadband until they specify which categories of website children can accessParents purchasing a new broadband service will have to say if they want their children to have access to porn, gambling, self-harm and ...
Mating call of an extinct bush-cricket rings out again after 165m years
Scientists have used the exquisitely preserved, fossilised remains of a Jurassic bush-cricket to recreate its chirpA love song that carried on the wind through the ancient forests of the late Jurassic has been reconstructed by scientists in Britain.Researchers pieced ...
Love song of Jurassic cricket reconstructed - video
...
Why has Abu Qatada not stood trial in the UK?
Lawyers say the government was determined to pursue deportation, which was thought to be the easy optionWhy cannot Abu Qatada, described as a dangerous man who poses a grave threat to Britain's national security, be charged with criminal acts and ...
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre gives evidence at Leveson inquiry - video
Paul Dacre told the Leveson inquiry that he was aware the Daily Mail was using private detectives to access information before 2007, but was not aware of the extent. Dacre was asked for his opinion on how the current system could ...
Jeremy Clarkson, and a whole lotta shakin' going on
TV presenter's ex-wife Alex Hall has the privacy committee laughing ? but not because of her bonkbusting anticsJeremy Clarkson's ex-wife gave evidence to the committee on privacy. It was a surreal occasion. Alex Hall, as she is called, was wearing a ...
Bonus outcry brings boardroom dilemma for No 10
Tory party funders are worried David Cameron is running scared or feeding the anti-business moodNo 10 and the Department of Transport will be breathing a sigh of relief that the bosses at Network Rail have decided to forgo their bonuses this ...
The Olympic legacy will be a festival of the people | Dennis Hone and Andrew Altman
The Olympic Park is not going to be sold off. Housing, jobs and sports facilities will be a public legacy for generations to comeAnna Minton asserts that the Olympic Park will be "entirely private, sold off piecemeal to the highest ...
Church of England General Synod - live blog
Riazat Butt with all the developments and debates from the Church of England's General SynodHello and welcome to the Guardian's live blog from the Church of England General Synod. Why are we liveblogging this? Because we're the Guardian and we'll ...
Paul Dacre's witness statement to the Leveson inquiry - full text
...
Sue Akers's witness statement to the Leveson inquiry
...
Russian scientists drill into Antarctic lake sealed off for 15 million years
Sampling the waters of Lake Vostok could reveal clues about evolution and reveal unknown forms of lifeRussian scientists have drilled into an Antarctic lake that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for about 15 million years. Sampling ...
Nick Clegg defends wind power subsidies after Tory-led attack
Deputy PM targets green investment after backbenchers call for cut in subsidy for onshore wind farmsNick Clegg has led a fightback against concerted attacks by Conservative MPs on government subsidies to support wind power.A letter to the prime minister ...
Boy, 11, drowned in respite centre pool after carers were distracted ? inquest
Adrian Pullman, who had learning difficulties, drowned in shallow end after being unsupervised for no more than five minutesAn 11-year-old boy with learning difficulties died in a swimming pool at a council-approved respite centre after the couple who ran it ...
Super Bowl show sparks outcry
Madonna upstaged in half-time show after British rapper MIA uses obscene gesture seen by millions worldwideMadonna's half-time Super Bowl performance contained a giant throne, a platoon of centurions and hits from four decades, but in the aftermath most of ...
Faster progress needed on cyber-security, says adviser
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones says corporations are heading in the right direction but people still do 'silly things'Ministers need to speed up work on cyber-security because the public and a vast swathe of business have yet to appreciate the threats posed ...
Truro Sight Centre
01872 261110
