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05/12/2008 12:00 AMTony Blair used Cherie's grief to protect Iraq strategy The Times interview with Cherie Blair | Speaking for Myself: book extract (part 1) | Book extract (part 2)
05/12/2008 12:00 AMLabour lampoon Edward Timpson in class war over 'safe seat' Labour is persisting with a high-risk strategy of class warfare in Crewe & Nantwich in a desperate attempt to avoid losing the by-election and further destabilising Gordon Brown’s troubled leadership.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMClampers stymied as Ford Fiesta is cut in half by Ian Taylor Tredworth A man whose car was clamped because the bumper was protruding from his driveway responded by cutting the car in half. The Ford Fiesta belonging to Ian Taylor, 40, was legally registered to be off the road, but a DVLA official spotted that a rear wheel was over a footpath and impounded it. When the clampers returned two days later to remove the car, Mr Taylor used a disc cutter to saw it in half. He then invited them to take the rear half away as that was the part infringing the law. The officials eventually removed their clamp and left both halves of the car with Mr Taylor.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMMiscarriage: ‘I'm afraid the baby's dead, Mrs Blair' Needless to say, I was astonished. Leo's birth had seemed like a miracle, and here I was nearly three years older. Although the idea was daunting, to say the least, I realised that it would be nice for Leo not to be what amounted to an only child. As before, I went to see Susan Rankin, who arranged for me to have a scan in-house.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMAward for world's best building – and it could be a bus garage Unsung local architects are to be pitted against the globetrotting mega-stars of the profession in an attempt to seek out the best new building in the world.
05/12/2008 12:00 AM5,000 foster parents are needed urgently for children in residential care Thousands of children are languishing in residential homes or being forced to travel miles to temporary placements due to a severe shortage of foster carers.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMThe night I hated Tony They broke my waters and put me on a drip and immediately I was right into a very painful experience. My firstborn appeared at about 11.30, after an epidural and a high-forceps delivery. So much for natural childbirth. As birth experiences go, it was utterly ghastly, including a third-degree tear because they yanked him out.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMTories threaten to revive the art of the pivotal by-election No wonder the Conservatives are so excited about their prospects at the Crewe & Nantwich by-election, with an ICM poll yesterday putting them ahead of Labour. A victory there on May 22 would end one of the least-coveted records in politics: the 26 years since the Tories last captured a seat at a by-election.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMLord Tebbit portrait by Daphne Todd goes on show at Messum's gallery London A portrait of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit and his wife is part of a collection by Daphne Todd that will go on show at Messum's in Cork Street, Central London, from Wednesday. It coincides with the publication of a monograph, Paint and Principle: The Life and Art of Daphne Todd, by Jenny Pery.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMSir Salman Rushdie favourite as readers vote for Best of the Booker award To celebrate 40 years of the Man Booker literary prize, a shortlist of six past winners has been drawn up, from which one will be picked by the public for a Best of the Booker award.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMDawn Primarolo says lower abortion limit could mislead parents A reduction in the legal limit for abortion from 24 weeks would give false hope to the parents of severely premature infants, the minister responsible has told The Times.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMJeff and Janie Ashton say fostering is 'the best job in the world' When Janie Ashton and her husband Jeff discovered that they could not have children of their own, they still felt they had a lot to offer a child, especially one that had not had the best start in life.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMGordon Brown appeases Chinese by barring Dalai Lama from No 10 Gordon Brown will not receive the Dalai Lama in Downing Street in an effort to avoid confrontation with China over Tibet, The Times has learnt.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMLeo: my miracle baby at 45 (and yes, he did have the MMR jab) Sitting there, raising a glass of champagne, there was only one little shadow on my immediate horizon: my period. Where was it?
05/12/2008 12:00 AMAcademics thwarted over attempts to return burbot to Britain's rivers Attempts to reintroduce a species of fish to British rivers have received a setback from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMFriends pay their respect to family of Jimmy Mizen at church service Scores of youngsters left their Roman Catholic church in tears yesterday after paying their respects to the family of Jimmy Mizen, the 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at a bakery in southeast London.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMStressed seaweed lives under a cloud of its own making Brown seaweed is to blame for some of those cloudy days at the seaside, scientists believe. Stress among the plants can alter weather patterns, according to researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and the University of Manchester.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMDiabetes UK calls driving ban for diabetics 'unfair' Exeter People with diabetes are unfairly being prevented from driving because of an unfounded fear that they will cause more accidents, a study suggests.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMThe Queen and I: relations with the royals While the Queen is very approachable, I can't say the same about Princess Margaret, whom I met several times at Balmoral. One evening I was at the Royal Opera House for some gala performance and was talking to her about what we'd seen, when Chris Smith came over.
05/12/2008 12:00 AMPrince Harry remembers fallen comrades in Cavalry Memorial Parade London Prince Harry, marched alongside soldiers with whom he served in Afghanistan at the Cavalry Memorial Parade in Hyde Park, Central London, yesterday. The Blues and Royals, of which Harry is a member, led the parade, which is held to remember fallen soldiers and as a reunion for former and serving soldiers.
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