Trouble on the buses as pensioners go free

Some local authorities are facing huge shortfalls in their transport budgets after pensioners given free bus travel

Hundreds of crime checks were wrong

Home Office says errors were 'regrettable' after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people had been branded as criminals

Knife crime 'overtakes terror as police priority'

Senior officer admits that moves to stop teenagers carrying weapons are not working as new knife-crime unit is announced

My Week: Peter Mandelson

I find it perfectly tiresome when minor European dignitaries seek to involve themselves in the serious business of politics

G8 summit costs could treat 4m HIV patients

Japan is spending £285m at a time when industrialised countries are threatening to renege on their aid commitments to Africa

Benefit cheats to be forced to earn their keep

Unemployed people could be forced to undertake full-time community service in return for receiving benefit in new reforms

Solution to Africa’s problems is not just aid

As G8 leaders prepare to meet in Tokyo, reports show that their influence in the continent is flimsy and getting weaker

MPs' expenses: No 10 dismay, as aides block reform

Downing Street claims the Prime Minister wanted the reforms to be passed but his aides voted against tougher scrutiny

MoD signs deal for biggest UK super-carriers

Massive, twin 65,000-tonne Royal Navy super-carriers will be built, ten years after original government announcement

Tempers fly as as MPs block expenses reform

One Labour MP tells David Cameron to f**k off as MPs threw out plans to overhaul their expenses by a margin of 28

Deputy Mayor denies sex and cash claims

One of Boris Johnson's most prominent appointees forced to deny allegations of inappropriate conduct and financial irregularities

Chickens are coming home to roost

Mr Darling has had to cope with a predecessor looking over his shoulder - he has not been allowed to be his own master

Sketch: They are John Lewis MPs: never knowingly overpaid

Treasury humiliated as watchdog rejects accounts

Senior officials spoke last night of a collapse of morale at the Treasury after a string of U-turns and interference by No 10

Johnson deputy faces sexual and financial inquiry

Ray Lewis dismissed the claims, which relate to his previous role as an Anglican priest, as 'completely unfounded'

Brown signals freeze on fuel duty

Prime Minister has pre-empted the Chancellor by giving strongest hint yet that 2p increase will not go ahead in September

Sergeants swamped by paperwork

Report finds frontline sergeants are spending 45 per cent of their time on paperwork in embarrassment for the Home Office

Gordon Brown 'running away' from Glasgow East by-election

Labour Party activists are angered by the Prime Minister's decision not to break with convention and visit hustings

Dave serves up a vote-deal ambush

To centre court at Westminster where there was quite a lot of shouting and grunting, but I regret to say no biceps were flexed

Brown's stand queried over mining chief

Prime Minister's moral leadership questioned over reappointment of Anglo American chief executive to his Business Council