Almost £10 million worth of fraud and errors have been identified following a national detection exercise by Audit Scotland working together with other public bodies. The 2006/07 National Fraud Initiative (NFI) formed part of the audits of 74 participating bodies,
Matthew Hoggard has been ruled out of the second npower Test at Old Trafford after an x-ray revealed he sustained a fracture to his right thumb while playing for Yorkshire against Durham.
Rajasthan Royals maintained their perfect home record and moved to the brink of a semi-final place with an emphatic 65-run win over Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League.
Stephen Moore became the first batsman to complete 500 runs this season when leading Worcestershire to safety in their rain-interrupted LV County Championship clash with Gloucestershire at New Road.
The decision to prune the number of books it produces and other cost controls has strengthened cash flow at Bloomsbury Publishing, which was responsible for the Harry Potter cycle, the company said in a trading statement.
Gallery preview: Seized! Revenue and Customs Uncovered at Merseyside Maritime Museum , Liverpool (permament). A new permanent gallery at the Merseyside Maritime Museum takes visitors into the world of patrolling the borders for smugglers.
A miraculous survivor of Britain's Victorian merchant fleet, which was threatened with the scrap heap earlier this year, has been thrown a lifeline by London's Crossrail project.
The website for the craft-centric Harley Gallery in Worksop is simply a pleasure to behold. Make sure to have a look at the Treasures (use left and right cursors to move between objects).
Aged ten she was a fully fledged bulimic, self-harmer and manic depressive. By 14 she was alcoholic and sleeping with strangers just to get drugs. Then things went really downhill. Here, in an extract from her devastatingly frank memoir, Marya
We received a lot of positive feedback from Mike 'Twid' Turner's article ACCIDENT REPORT: Please don't tell my MumMike was witness to this incident and helped out, wrote a report about it...
