New research from the Liberal Democrats reveals that the most expensive train companies in Britain charge more than four times as much per mile as the cheapest. The figures have been released ahead of the announcement of the government's new rail strategy expected today. Research reveals:
A group of Fife scientists believe they have moved a step closer to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. St Andrews University biologists claim to have developed a compound which has successfully prevented the disease killing brain cells. It also appeared to improved memory and learning ability already damaged.
The number of prescriptions handed out to children under 16 for depression and mental health disorders has quadrupled in a decade, official figures indicate. GPs in England wrote more than 631,000 such prescriptions for children in the last financial year, compared to just 146,000 in the mid-1990s.
Nigel Bakhai and the Liberal Democrats have soured Gordon Brown's honeymoon, slashing the Labour majority in Ealing Southall to just 5,070 votes. The Labour to Lib Dem swing was 5.2%. The Tories, despite five visits by David Cameron and a handpicked 'local celebrity' candidate, trailed home in third place in yesterday's by-election, picking up 22% of the vote.
There should be a "wholesale review" of the laws on peerages in the wake of the cash-for-honours inquiry, Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell has said. He said the Electoral Commission should be strengthened and the House of Lords made "wholly, or mainly" elected. "I think what we need now is a wholesale review of the law in relation to this matter. "We need to have proper regulation that's properly enforced by a revamped, strengthened Electoral Commission and of course right at the heart of this is to have reform of the House of Lords so that it's either wholly, or mainly an elected chamber."
Having a degree and excellent skills count for little if you are disabled and live in residential care. Why? If your CV read like Doug Paulley's, you would probably expect to spend a lifetime as a high-earning IT professional. First-class degree, excellent IT skills, head-hunted more than once as a web designer, age 29.
