IT IS the Yuletide Whitehall farce to end them all.

EUROSTAR has cancelled all its services for today as the company strives to avoid a repeat of the chaos that saw thousands of passengers trapped in the Channel Tunnel in free

LORD Foulkes, the only MSP who is also a peer, has been criticised for claiming almost £44,000 in House of Lords expenses in 2008-9.

TODAYThis year's Christmas Number One will be revealed on BBC Radio 1. The favourites for the spot are X Factor star Joe McElderry and rap-metal act Rage Against The

GOVERNMENT staff have defrauded the taxpayer of more than £12 million over the past three years in a series of organised scams and expenses fiddles.

PASSENGERS left their luggage on a plane at Heathrow after being told by baggage handlers they wouldn't be unloaded because staff were not being paid overtime.

FORMER X Factor contestant Lucie Jones has been signed up by a modelling agency.

A TORY MP asked the equality watchdog whether it was offensive to "black up" as part of a one-man campaign against "political correctness", it emerged yesterd

RUSSIAN billionaire Alexander Lebedev, who owns the London Evening Standard, is in exclusive talks to buy the Independent and sister newspaper the Independent on Sunday.

POLICE have named a 90-year-old woman thought to have been killed by a fellow care home resident.

KATE and Gerry McCann yesterday spoke of their "heartbreak" at having to face a third Christmas without their missing daughter Madeleine.

A SEARCH is under way for an 18-month-old girl who was taken from a police station by a mystery woman.

GERRY Adams's niece has accused her father of subjecting her to years of sexual abuse as a child.

NEWSREADER Fiona Armstrong is set to return to the BBC as part of its drive to recruit more female presenters over the age of 50.

A WOMAN was covered in bleach and attacked in her home by raiders who fled with her jewellery and cash.

A BRITISH soldier from 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

A MAN has died after his car plummeted from a harbour and into the sea, police said yesterday.

SENIOR politicians have criticised Tony Blair's confession that he would have invaded Iraq even if it was known then that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass dest

HAVE yourself a merry cut-price Christmas. Retail analysts have found that more high street shops than ever before are slashing prices in the run-up to the festive season.

THE Westminster Government has been accused of treating pensioners in an "underhand and shabby" manner after it was disclosed that its promised 2.5 per cent rise did