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At 10pm on Friday night the tribesmen in the villages of North Waziristan heard a sound they have learnt to fear. The hum of American planes high above the lawless tribal lands that span the Pakistan-Afghan border usually presages an imminent strike by Predator drones, targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters who shelter in their midst.

Maureen Lipman, who once played the proud Jewish mother Beattie in the 1980s BT commercials, has admitted she took the hallucinogenic drug LSD, as well as cannabis.

Building a third runway at Heathrow would make it “impossible” to meet legally binding targets on air pollution, according to Lord Smith, head of the Environment Agency.

A young, almost unknown British actor has been catapulted to stardom in America this weekend with the release of a low-budget vampire film called Twilight.

A senior financier has lost a deposit of £500,000 after having to walk away from a deal to buy a £3.25m north London property because of the credit crunch.

Gurkha soldiers who braved Taliban machinegun fire to rescue a wounded colleague have spoken for the first time about their actions.

Two months ago Martyn Drake and his wife Jennifer, from Woking in Surrey, became so fed up with paying £139.50 for the BBC licence fee that they gave their television set away.

The former transport minister Stephen Ladyman has been using his parliamentary office to lobby officials for contracts for a private company.

Prince Andrew enjoyed a four-day holiday in Tunisia last week in which he accepted hospitality from a convicted gun smuggler before visiting Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan leader. His office says he is repaying the cost.

For decades, she was one of Tony Blair’s most trusted – and most discreet – courtiers.

One of Britain’s least active MEPs has been receiving more than £40,000 a year for office expenses despite having no office in his constituency.

The incoming head of the British Army has warned in a leaked document of widespread fraud by officers and soldiers fiddling allowances and pilfering.

Cuts in Vat are to form a key plank of Gordon Brown’s emergency economic rescue package to be unveiled tomorrow.

“A step into the unknown” – that was how one eminent retired mandarin described Gordon Brown’s planned “fiscal stimulus”, the predicted £15 billion of tax cuts and increased spending designed to jump-start the British economy.

The Pope has finally forgiven John Lennon for claiming that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

John Sergeant’s emergence in his sixties as one of Britain’s favour-ite funny men, capped by his exploits on Strictly Come Dancing, is generally seen as a remarkable turn of fortune, for most television viewers were long familiar with him as the solemn face of political reporting, first on BBC and then on ITN. But for those who’ve known John longer, the real surprise is that this has only happened now.

The familiar 1950s police box has beamed 10 successive Time Lords through time and space. If some of the early producers of Doctor Who had had their way, however, the Tardis would have looked more like a plastic bubble.

The government is under pressure to disclose what it knew about an American missile strike that has reportedly killed a British terrorist suspect in Pakistan.

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has broken ranks with David Cameron and the Conservative party by announcing plans to study the potential benefits of an amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In July this year, Stephen Ladyman, the former Labour minister, wrote to the official in charge of London’s transport. As an MP he might have been expected to be complaining about overcrowded trains for a constituent, but Ladyman had a different agenda. He was pitching for business.

ALISTAIR DARLING will announce tomorrow he has bowed to the threat of businesses quitting Britain by saying he will introduce a tax exemption on foreign dividends.

JAGUAR LAND ROVER (JLR) is in secret talks with the government for a £1 billion loan, just nine months after Tata, the Indian conglomerate, bought the luxury-car marque.

A STRING of state-owned household names including the Met Office, mapmaker Ordnance Survey and the Forestry Commission, are being prepared for sale by the government in the next two years to raise cash for the stretched public purse.

THE management of Woolworths was locked in crisis talks this weekend about securing a revised rescue deal to save the group from imminent collapse into administration.

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, the country’s biggest lender to small businesses, will today try to head off government charges that banks are starving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of finance by launching an aggressive plan to bolster lending to the sector.

THE government will launch the auction of land set aside for new nuclear-power stations within two weeks, setting into motion a process that is expected to be hotly contested by Europe’s biggest energy companies.

THE chairman of Gala Coral, the betting and gaming giant, is to leave the company at Christmas – 10 months earlier than expected.

THE global financial meltdown finally hit where it hurts last week, as two popular holiday resorts collapsed into insolvency.