On Friday a service was held at St James' C of E School in Bermondsey to mark the retirement of Trevor Gibb, the school caretaker for more than 20 years.

This week the EU launched its scheme to reward cities working towards a green future.

EUROPEAN Union leaders took a small step closer to an agreement on climate change after healing a rift over how to pay the costs - a move hailed by Prime Minister Gordon Brow

BRITAIN is not a happy land. It is a place filled with disgruntlement, anger and resentment. This is about more than anxieties caused by recession. Instead, people have a sens

LOOKING back, the moment the SNP won the Glasgow East by-election last summer was obvious. Visiting the Garrowhill Bowling Club in Baillieston one Saturday morning, Alex Salmo

FILLED to the brim with the purest political motives and unsullied by the expenses scandal, 300 teenagers made history yesterday when they became the first non-MPs to sit in t

THE UK government's chief drugs adviser was forced to quit yesterday in the wake of a row over the dangers of class A drugs.

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw has ordered his officials to abandon "simply unacceptable" election cost-cutting measures that would have reduced the number of polling st

SPENDING cuts on education and other key public services could "condemn the Scottish economy to further recession", a trade union leader has warned.

TONY Blair's chances of becoming Europe's first president were either boosted or, more likely, buried last night by French leader Nicolas Sarkozy.

DAVID Miliband is to visit Russia next week in the first such trip by a British foreign secretary for five years.

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband remained defiant last night over his criticism of the neo-Nazi past of a Tory EU ally as David Cameron demanded he retract his accusations.

FAMILIES who have lost loved ones during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan released hundreds of white balloons in their memory yesterday.

HUNDREDS of people lined the streets for the funeral of a British serviceman killed in Afghanistan.

If ministers care so little for independent scientific advice, they should save public money by sacking the entire group of experts," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary.

With only 1,000 days left until London 2012, the Government is running out of time to secure the legacy they promised," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary.

School pupils and UK Youth Parliament members took the opportunity to grill Liz Lynne and other top Worcestershire politicians at County Hall to celebrate Local Democracy Week 2009.