The Government has unveiled radical proposals to reform the UK's "antiquated" benefits system, pledging the biggest overhaul in decades in a drive to simplify the structure and make work pay.
Lord Prescott had doubts about intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the inquiry into the war has heard.
LONDON (Reuters) - A complex web of benefits for the unemployed and low paid could be replaced with a single payment under plans to overhaul the 87 billion pound welfare system, the government said on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) - An exhibition running until October aims to provide visitors to Buckingham Palace with a rare insight into the Queen's many and varied day jobs.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Edinburgh's annual Royal Military Tattoo marks its diamond jubilee in August with the massed pipes and drums of 12 bands from around the world setting the scene for the world's largest annual military show on the esplanade of the castle towering over the city.
LONDON (Reuters) - Bradford & Bingley, the mortgage lender which was nationalised after running into problems during the credit crisis, said on Friday it had swung to a first-half profit after making a loss a year earlier.
Three former Labour MPs and a Tory peer have lost appeals over a ruling that they are not protected from prosecution by parliamentary privilege over allegations that they fiddled their expenses.
British Airways has said cabin crew strikes and Iceland's volcanic ash cloud sent the beleaguered airline £164 million into the red for the three months to June 30.
