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London is expected to see the largest number of job losses as a result of government cuts, but Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and North-east England are likely to suffer more proportionally, a new report claims.

Rich Iott, a Republican and Tea Party candidate for Congress in Ohio, has run into trouble after a photo of him dressed as an SS soldier found its way to the press.

Otto von Bismarck, the famed Chancellor of 19th century Germany, is famously said to have remarked that in life there are two things that it is better not to know how they are made: laws and sausages. Watching the first episode of the new series of "The Apprentice" I can't help but feel the old man was right.

A few days ago the BBC aired "Start Your Own School", a documentary following the fortunes of author Toby Young who, with similar minded parents, is attempting to set up a "Free School" in West London.

It was entirely predictable that even though Pastor Terry Jones of Florida called off his distasteful Koran burning to mark 11 September, others, with even less sense than he had, would go ahead with their own burning.

Britain and Ireland are apparently the worst places to live in Europe, at least according to a survey conducted by price comparison website uSwitch.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the Macondo oil well was declared "dead" by US officials yesterday.

During his visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI has spoken against what he called "aggressive secularism", which he accused of attempting to drive God and religion out of the public sphere with an intolerance that has faint echoes of Nazism and Communism.

Pope Benedict XVI has come to Britain with a message of friendship and warning, in what is the first Papal visit since that of the previous pope, John-Paul II, in 1982.

There are certain rights of passage that every student goes through, including drinking your own bodyweight in alcohol, shagging around like a dog on heat and writing assignments at 3am on a caffeine high having done little to no research.

In an Experian survey 71% of companies found "serious lying" going on in CVs, and there's nothing worse than an austere fib. By all accounts the current financial situation has inspired even more creativity among desperate job-hunters, as another report showed that those in the 36-40 age bracket were the worst CV liars!

The RMT union, which was jointly responsible for recent strikes on the London Underground, has called for the Trades Union Congress to call a summit at which union bosses will attempt to coordinate a wave of strikes to protest the coalition government's cuts.

"After the Allied victory of 1918...the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of...and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career...watching the people within those borders burn".

London is set to be thrown into travel chaos once again as the RMT and TSSA unions prepare to launch a tube strike this evening.

Dispelling the myths and uncovering the dark truths behind legendary characters.

Transport for London has unveiled a set of plans aimed at minimising the impact of a major tube strike, due to take place on Monday, following the breakdown of talks yesterday.

On Wednesday Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist, appeared on More4 to launch his latest attack on all things God-related by laying into faith schools and their supposedly menacing impact on our society and its children.

Norris Atthey of Morpeth Red Squirrels said he was defending the honour of fellow squirrel killer Raymond Eliott.

A-level results, released today, have improved for the 28th year in a row, with one in 12 exams being taken awarded with the new A* grade. The results are likely to fuel speculation that exams are not proving rigorous enough for the students who take them.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he will be donating the proceeds of his soon to be released memoirs to a centre run by the Royal British Legion aimed at rehabilitating seriously injured soldiers.

A couple of events in the last few weeks got me thinking about the debate about whether we as a nation should ban the burka and other such items of women's clothing deemed socially unacceptable.

Two more British servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced today.

The conciliation service Acas has said that talks between BAA and Unite union will be held as soon as possible in a bid to avert a strike action at BAA airports, such as those at Heathrow, Stanstead and Edinburgh.

Around 1,200 British holidaymakers have been left stranded in uncertainty, mostly in Spain, after travel company Sun4U announced that it had collapsed.

England's international football team are to play Hungary in a friendly today in what will be its first appearance since being severely thrashed by the Germans in the knock out stage of the World Cup earlier this summer.

England have defeated Pakistan in the second test at Edgbaston with a comfortable nine wicket lead, despite some spirited batting yesterday from the visitors, acting as a stark contrast to their earlier performance.

Over a thousand young Muslims have gathered at Warwick University to hear the Pakistan-born Muslim scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri explain why terrorism can never be justified according to the Koran.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for killing ten people whom the group described as "Christian missionaries", one of whom is believed to be a British woman.

Jack Straw has said that he will resign from frontline politics after 30 years as a frontbench politician.