As Britain struggles to cope with the big freeze, David Randall says this is nothing

Ethics are shoved down your throat at Indian Veg. But there's still plenty of room for the all-you-can-eat buffet

A father spoke today of his horror at seeing his two sons shot in the head in front of him.

Shell has put a significant portion of its 34 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum up for sale for $3.3bn (£2bn), fuelling speculation that Australia's largest oil and gas firm could become a bid target.

Cabbie John Worboys is believed to be the UK's most prolific sex offender after it emerged today he may have attacked at least 102 women.

Money-laundering, suicide and an owner implicated in spot-fixing. But the fans can ensure the Rams survive.

A growing number of councils were treating their workforce like "dirt" by issuing statutory notices warning of redundancies as part of spending cuts, union leaders claimed today

The chairman of a football club caught up in the Pakistan match-fixing scandal is thought to have taken his own life, it emerged today.

A friendly gesture from Everton, who have allowed the Manchester United museum to borrow what is claimed to be the oldest known United programme. It is for a game in April 1889 between Everton and Newton Heath, forerunners of United, who went bankrupt some 13 years later.

Warrington Wolves 22, Huddersfield Giants 34

Two different movies seem to have been bolted together here, one a memoir of a horribly abusive childhood in council-estate Croydon, the other an everyday story of rise and fall amid the opportunist frenzy of the 1980s.

Never mind the so-called and surely outmoded "Big Four" of English football. According to the European Clubs Association, the umbrella organisation that succeeded and expanded more than tenfold the G14 group, England now has a Big Five and a Not-Quite-As-Big Five.

So, who are Croydon Athletic, propelled on to the news pages last week by the revelation that their owner is Mazhar Majeed, the friend and alleged fixer to the Pakistan cricket team? Theirs is a classic story of a small club rising through the ranks with great speed and attracting much controversy along the way. Barely two decades ago there was Wandsworth & Norwood FC, amalgamated from a club that played on Wandsworth Common and another from the Herne Hill cycle track. The name was changed to Croydon Athletic, "The Rams", in 1990 and they would have moved through the leagues even faster but for their ground needing improvements along the way. Majeed, born in Croydon, became co-owner in 2008, stating that his ambition was to reach the Conference, one tier below the Football League. Operating on what appeared to be a far greater budget than most, Athletic comfortably won the Ryman League First Division South last season to reach the Premier Division. Majeed boasted to the News of the World 's undercover reporters about using the club to launder money from his gambling winnings. The former chairman Dean Fisher has been sent to prison for three months for defrauding his employers of more than £525,000, some of which, he claimed in court, went to the club. Meanwhile the team have made a confident start at the higher level, with two away wins and a home draw. The club, and the Ryman League, have promised to co-operate fully with investigations being made by the police and the Football Association.

Jammed on Underground platforms, putting out fires, digging families out of air-raid shelters, waking to find an unexploded bomb in the garden, getting separated from siblings: ten recount their experiences