- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
Columnists
Alan Dee: How purple paint could prick the binge booze boil
SO, our whole economic system is suffering from a massive hangover but it’s binge drinking that’s going to get sorted out.
The green shoots of growth come to MK
THIS week saw the release of the latest national unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Matt Adcock’s film review: Ghost Rider - Spirit of Vengeance
t hunger. The Rider’s gonna come out. And when he does, he’ll destroy whoever’s got it coming.”
Geoff Cox’s guide to new DVDs
BLEAK but brilliant TYRANNOSAUR (18: Studio Canal) is so harrowing at times that it’s not for the faint-hearted.
What bright spark decided to turn the electricity off in winter?
I HAD the usual rubbish mail through the post this week but I did happen to notice something in between the mountain of garbage suggesting that I should try various frightening ready made meals – and I am glad that I did.
Iain Stewart-fromthehouse
Olympic year has potential to make it mark on history
AS this is my first column of 2012, let me start by wishing all readers a very happy New Year. 2011 was a turbulent year by any standard, with the ongoing economic crisis, the summer riots and natural disasters across the world. I am hopeful, however, that 2012 will be a year of which we can be proud.
The Way We Were
When scrap metal was vital to the war effort
MUCH as expected, many of the specimens involved in the current spate of metal theft appear to be the less finely honed implements in the tool box.
History of heretic who certainly wasn’t stuffy
AS a word, ‘history’ is probably a right turn off for many people, with connotations of boring dates and stuffy Kings and Queens.
Heroes of the skies
AS a little lad, one of the highlights of the long summer holidays was to cycle over to the aerodrome at Cranfield, peer expectantly over the perimeter hedge, and hope to see a Lancaster bomber run up its engines, taxi out and power majestically into the Bedfordshire skies.
Banking in Bletchley
EXCEPT as a Stringfellows’s talent scout, career wise I’ve never had much idea of what I’ve wanted to do.
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Weather for Milton Keynes
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Light rain
Temperature: 9 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 28 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: South west
