THE LORD Chief Justice has described the local Labour Party in Newark as "riven by personal animosity" and suggested that the faction- fighting led to the conviction of the former MP, Fiona Jones.

AN INQUEST jury returned a verdict of accidental death yesterday after hearing how a 47-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her car's airbag.

The comeback mouse

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I'd like to offer a short story in this column - not a commentary on a movie, but an account of things that could happen in Los Angeles, or anywhere else that movies apply. It's made up, yet that's not to say that hundreds in LA won't think it belongs to them. Instead of to all of us.

LORD WOLFSON, chairman of Great Universal Stores, just cannot seem to get this Argos business out of his system. He reckons the former Argos directors made inaccurate statements during the heat of the bid battle, and he wants them to suffer a public humiliation to make up for it.

THE RAC Club, which is selling its breakdown services to an American company for pounds 450m, has been accused of sex discrimination for refusing to pay women members a pounds 35,000 windfall that will go to their male counterparts.

Pensions are a topic of confusion and controversy for many. Andrew Couchman asks a few pertinent questions

Good news costs money. Bad news costs a fortune. Paul McCann works out the price of the kiss-and-sell over three of seven cols. By Name

...and write himself a novel. But where? Douglas Kennedy was swept off his feet by a Herman Miller Aeron chair

For the suited scooterist, Piaggio's new Hexagon has got everything bar the ashtray, writes Andy Gillard

THE Conservative government was guilty of "Arthur Daley economics," a minister claimed yesterday as new criticisms emerged of financial practices before the general election.

They tried to ban it, but why fight human nature? Cayte Williams reports on how business has come to terms with love at work

Buildings For The 21st Century: Procurement Executive Hq, Ministry Of Defence, Abbey Wood, Bristol: The sixth IoS Green Building Award has gone to a sylvan office complex. By David Nicholson-Lord reports there is to say here alright