News archive from 2 September 2013
MasterChef 2013: would Emma Dean have been your winner?
MasterChef: the judges ate their final plates in the grand finale Photograph: Channel 10 In the final challenge there were but millimetres of meringue between them - a few degrees of crunch that allowed Emma Dean to push ahead of Lynton Tapp and take...
Andrew Marr gets helping hand from archbishop on return to BBC show
Andrew Marr and John Sentamu on Marr's Sunday morning show. Photograph: Getty Images The archbishop of York, John Sentamu, held Andrew Marr's left hand – still weak after the stroke earlier this year that kept him off the air for months – and prayed...
Felliani's replacement? Everton fail with £12m bid for Wigan midfielder McCarthy
Everton have had a £12million bid rejected for Wigan midfielder James McCarthy as they continue to haggle with Manchester United over the sale of Marouane Fellaini. Talks were ongoing over the prospective £24million sale of the Belgium international...
Agency workers not being paid equally, TUC says
The UK is failing to implement European rules designed to give equal pay to agency workers, according to the trade union umbrella body, the TUC. Agency workers who have been with a company for more than 12 weeks should be entitled to the same pay as...
British soldiers 'attacked NY cop'
Six British soldiers have been arrested in New York after an off-duty NYPD policeman was beaten up and robbed outside a bar. The Royal Regiment of Scotland soldiers reportedly became embroiled in a row after travelling to Manhattan to play in a rugby...
Insight - India's crisis within a crisis; finance minister fights on two fronts
It was hardly a difficult decision for a government that needs to shore up its sagging popularity before elections due by next May. But officials familiar with the discussion say there was one dissenting voice over what is now destined to become one...
Ben Kaufman's Quirky quest to transform invention
Ben Kaufman started his first company - an iPhone accessories business that eventually created the popular Mophie battery pack - while still in school. In order to get the funding he needed, he convinced his parents to re-mortgage their house....
20,000 cram into overcrowded cells
Almost 20,000 prisoners were kept in overcrowded cells last year, figures obtained by a charity have revealed. About 19,140 prisoners on average were forced to share a cell designed for one person during the financial year 2012-13, the Howard League...
Delays to Chilcot report slammed
Campaign groups have attacked delays in the publication of the final report by the Chilcot Inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war as a "gross abdication of responsibility". The inquiry was launched in July 2009 to look into the...
Councils sell off voter information
More than 300 local authorities sold people's names and addresses to more than 2,700 companies and individuals over five years, privacy campaigners have revealed. According to Freedom of Information Act requests made by Big Brother Watch, councils...
Nine million tune in for X Factor
Ratings for this year's X Factor were up after more than 9 million people tuned in to watch the show's return. Saturday night's launch show pulled in an average audience of 9.2 million - 500,000 more than last year's debut. The ratings, which also...
20,000 cram into overcrowded cells
Almost 20,000 prisoners were kept in overcrowded cells last year, figures obtained by a charity have revealed. About 19,140 prisoners on average were forced to share a cell designed for one person during the financial year 2012-13, the Howard League...
Delays to Chilcot report slammed
Campaign groups have attacked delays in the publication of the final report by the Chilcot Inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war as a "gross abdication of responsibility". The inquiry was launched in July 2009 to look into the...
Councils sell off voter information
More than 300 local authorities sold people's names and addresses to more than 2,700 companies and individuals over five years, privacy campaigners have revealed. According to Freedom of Information Act requests made by Big Brother Watch, councils...
What we learned this weekend: Everton need to step up a gear, Young's not the player he was and Arsenal...
Ralph Ellis runs you through what we learned from this weekend in football. This week includes how Everton are failing to turn possession into points, Ashley Young needs to regain the form he was in prior to Euro 2012 and Arsene Wenger has done the...
Realtime News
- 10:43 Arson investigation begins after two cars and restaurant set alight...
- 10:43 Voting now open for MyMirfield Community and Business Awards 2019
- 10:42 Worksop man arrested and charged for having a knife
- 10:42 Sunderland packaging firm has £1.5m investment all wrapped up
- 10:42 Brexit causing ‘palpable decline’ in UK influence at the UN
- 10:41 Chorley boss Vermiglio: Elliot Newby will be ready for final 12 as...
- 10:41 Man jailed after helping smuggle drugs and knife into prison
- 10:40 Captain material? Ander Herrera makes beeline for struggling Alexis...
- 10:40 St Helens residents raise more than £500k to help young homeless...
- 10:38 Scarborough man arrested after car is spotted being driven erratically
- 10:38 CCTV image issued after bike theft
- 10:37 Brexit questions loom over the major banks’ reporting season
- 10:36 The Paul Merson prediction that will surprise Wolves and Manchester...
- 10:36 ‘The force is with us’ - Wolves fans dare to dream after landing...
- 10:36 Banbury college students beating the blues
- 10:35 Row breaks out over plans to move Helmsley Easter market to Good...
- 10:35 Arson investigation begins after two cars and restaurant set alight...
- 10:35 A glittering event to celebrate the LGBT community
- 10:35 Islamophobia has crept into the Conservative party, and trickled...
- 10:34 Boy of 16 in court after fatal stabbing outside Joseph Chamberlain...
- 10:33 Woman dies after falling from 11th floor of Glasgow high-rise flat
- 10:32 This is when you can watch the RAF Tornado flypast over Yorkshire...
- 10:32 Yorkshire rail passengers warned to prepare for five weekends of...
- 10:32 Arson investigation begins after two cars and restaurant set alight...
- 10:31 Ben Cohen and Strictly's Kristina Rihanoff to open 13,000 sq ft...
- 10:31 The state of Northamptonshire’s roads is revealed!
- 10:31 ‘Superhero’ Northampton dad got to meet baby daughter born 3 hours...
- 10:31 Paris Gourtsoyannis: Breakaway Labour MPs hope for Macron-style...
- 10:31 Established Valley business expands its operations to former site...
- 10:29 Planetarium plan for Doncaster as museum’s friends group boosts...
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