TRUANTS who refuse to return to school when challenged in the street could be forced to do so by new powers which ministers hope to give to the police and education welfare officers. This sort of decision only serves to confirm to customers for coal that they were right.’. Politically, the implication appeared to be [...]

Although he’s already written a novel and a book on martial arts philosophy, he’s pretty much of a white belt on the word processor But then most people who buy this book won’t mind. However, the Defense Department announced that US troops would hold 17 days of war games in Kuwait, beginning next Monday, to [...]

Mr Goodall, like most engineers, is not very forthcoming about what an engineer actually does. Her attempts first to silence him and then to back down and let him continue generated some of the worst publicity a modern Speaker has been exposed to.Some MPs have also expressed concern at the unsubtle tactics she has used [...]

A Bristol & West spokeswoman said interest would be credited from the day after the investor’s cheque was received.One Independent reader complained that her deposit in the Fixed Rate Bond account was acknowledged on 28 July and she was still waiting for her passbook three weeks later.The spokeswoman said applicants should now be receiving passbooks [...]

They barely deserved that, but took all three thanks to a blunder nine minutes from time that presented Pat Nevin with a gift winner.Whether Tranmere have the resources to cling to such heights in the First Division is debatable.Without the injured John Aldridge they lacked punch and would have been severely embarrassed by a Bolton [...]

Could it not be self-serving?’It ‘very often’ was the case that agencies investigated themselves, Sir Nicholas said, in an instructive reply on the workings of what Mr Mates had repeatedly called ‘the system’.The Attorney told the House: ‘In relation to the SFO, I went straight away to the director of the SFO (George Staple) and [...]