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Site: BBC News | UK News | UK Politics | World EditionTories 'best' to tackle poverty
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne will use a speech to claim the Tories are the party best placed to tackle poverty.
Laws tighten on paedophile travel
Measures to tighten controls on the movements of paedophiles are announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Miliband denies 'Labour cold war'
Foreign Secretary David Miliband denies relations between himself and the prime minister are frosty.
Call to tackle UK business waste
The government should do more to curb waste using tax as an incentive, a House of Lords committee has said.
'No extra money' for London Games
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell tells the BBC there will be no more money beyond the £9.3bn allocated to the 2012 Games.
Miliband in Georgia support vow
The foreign secretary has pledged UK support to Georgia during a visit to the country's capital Tbilisi.
Extent of data losses is revealed
Whitehall departments lost data potentially affecting more than four million people in a year, BBC analysis shows.
Court case over MoD job cut plans
A union challenges the terms on which the Ministry of Defence is said to be seeking to shed 5,000 civilian jobs.
Major urges more sports funding
Former prime minister Sir John Major calls for all parties to back guaranteed lottery cash for grassroots sports.
Decision on 'eco-towns' delayed
It will be early next year before up to 10 "eco-towns" planned for England are approved, the government says.
Third official quits mayor's team
Tim Parker resigns from his post as Boris Johnson's First Deputy Mayor just after a month after taking up the post.
Council defends one-day-a-week 'Down Under' finance job
A district council says keeping its finance chief after he moves to Australia will save taxpayers money.
Holiday's over
PM facing pressure on several fronts as he returns to work
Bites the dust
Another of Boris's team in London steps down
Cameron's cue?
Tory leader not the first to talk of 'broken society'
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Passengers test new face scanners
Facial recognition scanners are introduced at Manchester Airport in a bid to improve security and reduce passenger congestion.
Cash for youth diversity projects
Children's Minister Beverley Hughes allocates £4.5m to programmes to unite youngsters from different backgrounds.
Footballers make knife-crime plea
David Beckham joins other England football stars to call for an end to knife crime deaths.
Brown 'fears double poll defeat'
Gordon Brown wants to hold European and local elections on the same day for fear of losing twice, the Tories say.
Miliband urges Pakistan reforms
Foreign secretary David Miliband urges "thoroughgoing reform" of Pakistan after president Pervez Musharraf quits.
Recession in UK 'is months away'
Recession looms in the UK as firms face "a difficult and risky climate", the British Chambers of Commerce warns.
DNA of 'blameless' youths stored
Ministers confirm the profiles of nearly 40,000 children never convicted of a crime are retained on the DNA database.
Cameron targets 'broken society'
Tory leader David Cameron pledges to be as radical a social reformer as Margaret Thatcher was an economic reformer.
PM leads tributes at MP funeral
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has led the tributes at the Fife funeral of Labour MP John MacDougall.
Minister calls for 'tax on rich'
A minister suggests a tax on high earners to help the middle classes through the current economic slowdown.
Prince 'must prove anti-GM claim'
The environment minister tells Prince Charles he must prove his claims that GM crops could cause global disaster.
MPs' Queen oath faces legal fight
Anti-monarchy campaigners hope to force a legal challenge to the oath of loyalty MPs swear to the Queen.
Sats marking contract is scrapped
The contract between exams authority the QCA and troubled marking firm ETS is ended by "mutual consent".
'Time right' for UK Iraq troops
The outgoing commander of British forces in Iraq indicates that most of the UK troops in the country could be withdrawn within a year.
Tougher lap dance licensing urged
Councils are powerless to stop the spread of lap dancing clubs and laws need to be tightened up, the government is urged.
UK firms face migrant work fees
Businesses who use skilled workers from outside of the EU will need to pay fees of up to £1,000 from later this year.
Miliband demands Russian retreat
The foreign secretary condemns "Russian aggression" and demands the country withdraw from Georgia immediately.
Brown calls for Russia withdrawal
Gordon Brown joins calls for Russia to withdraw from Georgia, in a phone call to the Georgian president.
Thousands strike in pay dispute
Council workers are staging a 24-hour walkout over pay, disrupting services like schools, bin collections and ferry crossings.
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Inquiry into city underpass flood
A special inquiry is to examine how a city centre underpass became flooded below 20 feet of water.
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Rise in free prescriptions issued
Official figures show the first year of free prescriptions in Wales saw the number of items dispensed rise by 5%.
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Pakistan's Musharraf steps down
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is resigning after nine years in power, amid impeachment charges based on claims he violated the constitution.
