What is acceptable dress in a court case? Some High Court judges wear a court coat and waistcoat, bands and a skirt or trousers beneath a black silk gown, and a wig.
Dhiren Barot was sentenced to at least 40 years in prison last week for what the judge said were "plans to bring indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery first in Washington, New York and Newark, and thereafter the UK on a colossal and unprecedented scale".
In a crushing blow to George Bush, US voters last week voiced their dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq, the declining economy, and ethics in government.
The witch-hunt against Muslims continued this week with sensational allegations splashed over newspaper front pages that university campuses across Britain were being infiltrated by "Islamic extremists".
Low paid workers, many on the minimum wage, are in a bitter battle over pay against their multi-millionaire employer in Wigan.
A delegation of JJB strikers travelled to London on Thursday of last week to demand government action over the use of agency labour during their strikes.
George Bush and Tony Blair’s chatter about new sweeping peace initiatives in the Middle East will come as little comfort to the 1.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Israel, the US’s ally in the region, has unleashed another bloody assualt on civilians in the besieged territory.
Sir Clive Thompson and his wife left their Kent mansion this week and jetted off to a sunshine holiday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Suddenly, debate on both sides of the Atlantic centres on what was once seen as impossible – withdrawal of US and British forces from Iraq.
Five hundred students, staff and parents marched through local streets near Hurlingham and Chelsea School to protest against plans by Tory Hammersmith and Fulham council to shut the school.
Chief executives grabbed pay packages 98 times more than the typical British employee last year. That’s two and a half times the gap that existed little more than five years ago.
House prices in London are going through the roof, pricing ever more people out of the housing market and fuelling an "increasing social divide", according to a recently released report.
