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Speculation on what deals could be made in the event of a hung parliament are raging in Westter and Fleet Street. The Liberal Democrat ...

A new agricultural strategy to meet future food demands and the challenges of climate change, is to be published today. Food 2030 aims to ...

Ten years since scientists first mapped the human genome, the man who runs the Wellcome Trust - which spends hundreds of million of pounds ...

New evidence has emerged that computer software faults may have caused the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in which 29 ...

British theatre appears to be one of the few businesses to be largely unaffected by the recession. Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones has ...

According to one poll published last year, public trust in politicians has reached an all-time low. When asked, 82% of voters said they did ...

It has not been a good year for democracy in the small Central American country of Honduras. One of the great political sagas of 2009 ...

Guest editor Robert Wyatt is concerned about life in our town centres. Candida Lycett Green, columnist for the Oldie Magazine and author of ...

Why is TV crime drama so popular? PD James is famous for her crime novels, a number of which have been successfully adapted for TV. She was ...

Guest editor PD James was a governor of the BBC from 1988 to 1993. For her programme she interviewed the corporation's director general ...

The relationship between a football club, its players and the fans is often impenetrable. Guest editor Tony Adams, comedian and writer Alan ...