Labour's London elections campaign has received a much-needed council by-election boost in a key marginal assembly constituency.

Holding back the tears, Michael restores faith in a magical voice

Have you been on a train recently?

A former nun who left her order hating God, then became a prolific theologian, has at last returned to faith – but still has no time for organised religion

Fraudster spent cash from bogus hedge fund on fleet of luxury cars and antiques

His name will always be synonymous with his TV talk show, but there's more to Jerry Springer than spoof operas and fighting dwarfs. James Rampton meets a fiercely political animal who's coming to terms with a painful family history

Street market society

The tube can be as packed as a sardine can, or as empty as the Gobi Desert

Two decades ago I spent three months in India. My companion was Turnbull St Asser, the last scion of a north-country dynasty of enormous antiquity (they came over with the Cro-Magnons), who had dedicated 30 generations to dissipation and dilettantism.

A SENIOR Treasury official who killed his wife in a hammer attack and then threw himself under the wheels of a van in a suicide attempt was yesterday committed to a mental hospital.

Y ou notice them from time to time: little signs, like snowdrops, of a gradual thaw in the ice-age of Thatcherism. Esso stops charging customers for the use of its air pumps. A sort of Labour Party wins an election. And the BBC acts on a listener's suggestion sent to Feedback.

Saturday's Rugby League Challenge Cup final will be the last at the `old' Wembley. Dave Hadfield remembers the best moments of the annual pilgrimage to London

The battle between companies and mainstream universities for the hearts and minds of British youth is growing in intensity as global competition heats up.