Heavy overnight rain and squally showers throughout the morning meant that no
play would be possible at all today and so the match between Kent and the
New Zealanders has been abandoned as a draw.
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD,
has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his book on the
mind-altering substance said.
Gordon Brown confirmed today that he personally intervened to block plans to
increase prisoners’ pay rates by 37.5 per cent - their first rise for more
than a decade.
The UK’s competition watchdog today unveiled a planning shake-up in a bid to
boost competition in the £95 billion grocery market.
Nearly two-thirds of the teenage girls removed from a polygamist sect earlier
this month are either pregnant or have already given birth, officials said
yesterday.
On the day that the Royal and Ancient confirmed they could not act decisively
enough to bring in drug testing at this year’s Open Championship, the game’s
governing body at least expressed a commitment to eradicate the curse of
slow play.
The price of power and who foots the bill for Britain’s rocketing energy costs took centre stage yesterday as the oil giants Shell and BP unveiled huge combined profits of £7.2bn, made in just three months, and consumers were hit with a new round of steep rises in prices from gas and electricity to air travel.