Baroness Warsi faced calls last night to stand down as the Conservative Party co-chairman following allegations she claimed House of Lords expenses while staying rent-free at a friend's house.

Baroness Warsi faced calls last night to stand down as the Conservative Party co-chairman following allegations she claimed expenses while staying rent-free at a friend's house.

With three days to his appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, fresh pressure was piling on Jeremy Hunt over his links with News Corp. The Culture Secretary, pictured, was urged to quit by one of his Tory predecessors, while Nick Clegg delivered a warning about politicians ending up "in the pockets of media moguls".

A serving Scotland Yard officer appeared in court today charged with trying to meet a child on the internet for sex.

The idea that visual art is only what can be spread flat across a canvas is one that has long since been abandoned. With sculpture and large-scale installations, the 2D print has become not so much outdated, but rather had to give up its monopoly over the art world and make way for more innovative uses of space.

Relations between senior civil servants and Downing Street are at an all-time low, with both sides engaged in a bitter blame game.

Strategy chief's 'Bungalow Bob' jibe at top mandarin in clash over reforms

The minicab firm run by Conservative donor John Griffin is to lose a lucrative contract with the Government, it emerged yesterday, hours after the company was banned from encouraging its drivers to illegally use bus lanes.

David Cameron's strategy to prevent an independent probe into his Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was last night dramatically undermined by the Leveson Inquiry.

So the Duke of Westminster has fallen on hard times?

Labour surges to biggest poll lead since election while new Coalition split on 'green deal' emerges

More than a third of Britain's most senior civil servants have left their jobs since the Coalition government took power, new figures have shown.

You might not notice them, but the fonts used on signs and shops can define a city, discovers Simon Usborne

It's the dots that do it, on the "i's". Except that they're not dots at all, but diamonds. The adornments on an otherwise beautifully simple typeface are an identifying quirk of Johnston Sans, a font that is as synonymous with London as Big Ben. It has become known as the "handwriting" of the city, but can you identify it? Did you even know its name?