On Tuesday 3rd November Simon took part in an online Q & A session to discuss the Copenhagen Climate Change summit, coming up in December. Bloggers put questions to Simon and for an hour he answered as many as possible.

8.30pm GMT Wed 25th Nov 2009, at Fetcham Village Hall, The Street, Fetcham, KT22 9QS

THE UK's chief science adviser has said he agrees with the views of the government's former chief drug adviser, who was sacked after saying many illegal drugs were le

A NEW bill to plot the future of crofting will be presented to the Scottish Parliament by Christmas but crofting communities are divided on the way forward, five years after r

SHY, skint, and most certainly not a Strictly man, Gordon Brown has spoken candidly about his personal faults.

AN ACADEMIC lawyer and former TV host is to chair the body responsible for the shake-up of MPs' expenses, it was reported last night.

EUROPEAN rules which require millions of pounds worth of dead fish to be dumped at sea were again attacked yesterday by the Scottish Government.

BORIS Johnson gave the Queen a tour of the 2012 Olympics site in east London yesterday, after being hailed as a "knight on a shining bicycle".

PLANS for a minimum price for alcohol and a ban on promotions in off-sales may lead to Scots buying drink in England, an industry body said yesterday.

MEMBERS of the government's drug advisory body yesterday questioned its future in the wake of the sacking of Professor David Nutt, and demanded showdown talks with Home Se

MINISTERS have been accused by Glasgow City Council of not playing fair, after it revealed that it had plugged a government funding gap in the M74 project only to have the Gla

CAMPAIGNING in the Glasgow North-East by-election intensified yesterday as the SNP candidate faced accusations he sought electoral advantage by changing the details of his bir

THE chief executive of the charitable arm of Lloyds Banking Group last night said it had missed out on a £2 million windfall after being excluded from the bank's initial

The three deputy speakers of the House of Commons should be elected in a secret ballot of all MPs, rather than nominated by party whips, a Commons report said yesterday.

FOREIGN secretary David Miliband yesterday pressed Russia to turn over the main suspect in the 2006 killing of the former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has met the man charged with reforming MPs' expenses, two days before his eagerly anticipated recommendations are published.

BRITISH National Party leader Nick Griffin was racially abused by a man who made threatening "gun gestures" towards him, a court heard yesterday.

TALKS on reforming Westminster and Holyrood procedures to improve devolution will open today in London.

Liberal Democrat MP Willie Rennie has demanded that rail services to and from Inverkeithing should not be amended except to be improved while the line is under public ownership, following confirmation that east coast mainline services are to be nationalised

Liberal Democrat MPs Michael Moore and Sir Alan Beith have repeated their demand that rail services to and from Berwick-Upon-Tweed will not be amended except to be improved while the line is under public ownership, following confirmation that east coast