School place lotteries are on the increase with at least one school using random allocation in one third of council areas a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found.
THE latest series of postal strikes came to an end last night with millions of items of mail caught up in a huge backlog and further disruption threatened this week.
VOTERS are strongly opposed to either Tony Blair or David Miliband taking up top Brussels jobs to be created under the Lisbon Treaty, according to a poll published last night.
GORDON Brown's stewardship of the Afghanistan war was condemned last night after it emerged that the most senior British soldier to be killed in the conflict complained th
SOLDIERS returning home from the Afghan war zone were given a rapturous welcome yesterday as thousands lined the streets to cheer their arrival in Liverpool.
FURIOUS investors are set to sue the directors of Lloyds TSB for £250 million after claiming yesterday that its decision to buy HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) had bee
SOMALI pirates holding a retired British couple have justified their demand for more than £4 million in ransom by claiming boats from other countries are plundering Somali
FOUR people were arrested at an anti-fascist march in Leeds yesterday, while in London demonstrators calling for Sharia Law in Britain cancelled a march amid security fears
THE Irish government yesterday insisted no effort would be spared to free an elderly priest kidnapped in the Philippines after his abductors demanded a £1.2 million ransom.
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into how a poorly pensioner was locked inside an ambulance for five hours when the driver forgot about him and clocked off duty.
SCOTLAND Yard has apologised after actors from a hit film were mistakenly identified as football hooligans being sought after riots at a West Ham game.
LEADING jockey Darryll Holland has been arrested in connection with passing counterfeit cash in Cyprus. Holland's manager, Peter Merchant, said he was hoping his client wo
