Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by a Scotland Yard officer at the G20 protests

'Compensation deal close' with family of man who died after being pushed to ground during G20 protests

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Birmingham City striker Marlon King arrested over hit-and-run incident

A man was left with a head injury after the incident in central London

During hot weather, government fans would be issued to workers only once the temperature reached '30C or higher'

Civil servants told not to take electric fans to work

Whitehall officials told air coolers could have 'potential impact on electrical supplies' and present a 'risk to electric shock'

Jill Finney, the City and me

Lessons from the market-place, where bullying was normal. Plus,the late Mick Aston and a dirth of straightforward television

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Google is among 13 companies taking part this week in an online protection summit called by Maria Miller

Google pledges $5m to battle child porn on the web

Internet giant pledges global funding to help charities find and remove exploitative images

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Woolwich backlash: EDL supporters march through London

Supporters of the English Defence League marched through central London today.

Government looks to France to get civil servants to fulfil policy

Blue notes are issued when a minister makes a decision, with a timescale for its execution

Google chief Eric Schmidt to meet David Cameron days after MPs maul search giant over tax affairs

Commons Public Accounts Committee members yesterday branded company 'devious,' 'calculating' and 'unethical'

The Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has asked a think tank to examine how other Westminster-style governments operate

Radical plans to make top mandarins 'chief executives'

Civil servants seen as 'untouchable and unaccountable' could also be put on four-year contracts

Abu Qatada made his request from Belmarsh prison

Abu Qatada asks Archbishop of Canterbury for prison meeting

The radical cleric Abu Qatada has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking for a private meeting at Belmarsh prison. Abu Qatada is understood to have written to the Most Rev Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace recently, to ask him for a personal visit, even providing him with a prison visiting order.

Conservative MP Stewart Jackson was one of 29 MPs told to hand over a total of almost £500,000 to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa)

Expenses watchdog takes action against Tory MP Stewart Jackson in £54,000 dispute over taxpayer-funded homes

The MPs' expenses watchdog has launched legal action to recover £54,000 from an MP who claimed taxpayer cash to pay mortgage interest on a property in his constituency.

More than five miles of tunnelling have already been built under London for Crossrail. This image is near Whitechapel station

In pictures: the massive 24-hour-a-day construction project to provide huge boost for London's harassed commuters

More than five miles already built of Crossrail's 26 miles of tunnels

Construction of platform tunnels at Whitechapel station

In pictures: the massive 24-hour-a-day construction project to provide huge boost for London's harassed commuters

More than five miles already built of Crossrail's 26 miles of tunnels

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