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Adele is our best British songbird

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE British singer Adele picked up six Grammys on Sunday night in Los Angeles and thanked her mum.

Now send Abu Qatada back

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WITH impeccable timing - as the row over Abu Qatada continues - Jordan has passed a constitutional amendment to ban the use of evidence obtained through torture.

Benefit crime that a single parent so easily commits

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

YOU are a mother, a single parent claiming benefits. But as often happens your circumstances change and now you're living with someone.

Riots in Athens could be just the start for Europe

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT IS understandable if you reacted to the pictures of rioting Greeks with a shrug of the shoulders and the thought: "Serves them right."

A life lived for others is the only true way to find happiness

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT IS a story warm enough to melt this sub-zero month of snow and ice and yet it barely made the news last week.

Farewell to a troubled soul

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IN her early years Whitney Houston combined the voice of an angel with a clean-living lifestyle and a smile that would light up any room.

We need a bigger society

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

NO DOUBT there were dozens of different reasons why commuters walked past unconscious 14-year- old Oliver Tiplady.

David Cameron must get a grip on our overspending MPs

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE MPs' expenses scandal did not centre around public fury that parliamentarians were not claiming enough money in allowances.

Glory and greed of the last royal Diamond Jubilee

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT IS a sign of the times. tickets for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at extortionate prices, touts cashing in and politicians concerned about the vast cost of the landmark celebrations. it is enough to make you think wistfully of a different age, when Britain had dignity and values... but the profit- driven rogue elements are not symptomatic of modern society.

Positive way to beat gangs

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

POLICE and -local authorities were last week -given new powers to -apply for gang injunctions for 14- to 17-year-olds. They are intended to stop young people going into -certain areas and to force them to take part in rehabilitation -activities.

Time to battle 'green' follies

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

NASEBY is one of Britain's most important heritage sites, the scene of a decisive battle of the Civil War and the birthplace of parliamentary democracy. -Visitors to this well-preserved -battlefield can still climb the ridge one mile north of Naseby where the New -Model Army massed to crush Charles I's field force on a foggy June morning in 1645.

Hol lot to offer the world

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

AS THE country looks forward to the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics, it's timely that some of Britain's best-known faces will be fronting VisitEngland's Holidays at Home campaign.

Dunce's cap for MP David

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

JUST a week ago, Labour MP David Lammy sounded as if he had some common sense when he said that the lack of discipline in today's children might have been responsible for last summer's rioting.

A menace in any language

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HUMAN rights legislation has been responsible for an awful lot of the evils in our society recently but, even so, using it to allow people to pass driving tests after having an interpreter in the car is a disgrace.

Global woes show why we must fight Army cutbacks

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT IS difficult to believe that a mere 30 years ago, Britain sent a task force half-way across the world to safeguard our ownership of the Falkland Islands. It is more difficult still to believe that only a couple of decades prior to that we ran an empire that extended across the globe.

Michelle is a class act

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MICHELLE DOCKERY, who plays aristocratic Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, has shocked the show's American fans by speaking of her working-class origins.

Law behaving like an ass

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT IS hardly a confusing principle that all should be equal in the eyes of the law and yet it often appears to be beyond the comprehension of police forces.

Attacks on Christianity are impossible to ignore

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE High Court ruling that holding prayers before council meetings is an unlawful burden on non-believers is, to coin a phrase, beyond belief. Had such an issue come to light in America, where the secular nature of the state is enshrined in the constitution, one could have understood. But Britain is not America.

Should Britain get involved in a Syrian civil war?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

What drives this woman to defend terror suspects?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ABU QATADA has united Conservative and Labour MPs in disgust at his continued presence in britain. a judge called him "bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" and even a Guardian leader writer described him as a "very likely dangerous individual". but fortunately for him he can still count on the support of one person who sometimes seems to possess more power than all these people put together: his lawyer Gareth Peirce.

A pair with all to play for

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

LOTTERY winners Cassey Carrington and Matt topham are as decent a young couple as anyone could wish to meet. At just 22 they suddenly have £45million in the bank. Only a dedicated sourpuss could begrudge them a single penny of it.

Good news at Bombardier

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

REMAINING workers at the bombardier train-building plant in derby yesterday heard that their jobs are safe for the foreseeable future. that is great news - though prospects for the factory would have been far brighter still had the giant Thameslink contract not been awarded by ministers to German engineering giant Siemens.

The European Commission should make economies

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HOW appropriate that in a week that has marked the bicentenary of the birth of Charles dickens a story should come to light that is all about a request for "more".

The case for three amigos

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WHEN it comes to friendships David Beckham is right to say that quality is more important than quantity.

A memorial to true valour

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE latest capital grant to the Bomber Command memorial has the effect of wiping out its tax bill, meaning public donations will go to the memorial alone and not to the tax man.