Green tax on holidays and food splits United KingdomLabour Party. Consumers could be hit by steep price rises for a range of goods from food to hotel breaks under plans to tackle climate change being considered.(The Times)
The ex-magistrate, a nude cleaner and her £250,000 bill: Fetish for callgirl domestic help almost bankrupted employer and still left house 'absolutely filthy'. (The Times)
'Dead' oil man calls wife saying he's coming home as his grieving family prepare his funeral, believing he had died of malaria while being held hostage in the Nigerian jungle. (The Times)
The United KingdomHome Office reveals that two terror suspects who are subject to control orders have absconded and are on the run. One suspect had escaped some months previously and the second had gone missing in the last two weeks, but authorities had kept these security breaches out of the public domain until this date. (BBC)
It is revealed that UK Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered prison staff to machine gun prisoners during a riot in 1988, regardless of loss of life.(BBC)
Official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that migration to the UK is at an all-time high, with one in 19 workers in 2005 being from outside Britain. (BBC)
A man is charged with possession of a knife and assaulting a police officer, after scaling the railings at Prime MinisterTony Blair's official residence in Downing Street, London, and struggling with police. (Reuters)
New laws against age discrimination in the workplace - officially titled the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 - come into force in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
