Atos Healthcare has been paid £754m for the tests since 2005

Agency asks Lord Selsdon for further information about his Westminster statement

Lord Lloyd-Webber’s new musical is about Stephen Ward, who introduced Keeler to Profumo

The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of a “revolution in the area of sexuality” while announcing a campaign to stamp out homophobic bullying in Church of England schools.

Up to £100,000 will be spent sprucing up two toilets in the House of Lords, it has been revealed.

Peers alleged to have boasted about influence with MoD officials to secure contracts for private firms

Peers vote convincingly FOR same-sex marriage

Some Lords have been receptive to Out4Marriage's email campaign

The House of Lords standards commissioner has begun investigating the three peers caught up in a lobbying scandal, it was announced today.

Unlike any other job it is virtually impossible to get sacked from being a Member of Parliament or a peer.

Brian Mawhinney served as a Conservative minister in Northern Ireland for six years, during which time some 500 people on both sides of the great divide were killed. As he was leaving a Londonderry college after an official visit, a bomb was found a few yards further down the path on which he was walking; the IRA announced later that they decided not to assassinate him in case innocent bystanders were injured.

The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as “swivel-eyed loons”, it emerged on Sunday.

Opponents say changing the law could put vulnerable people under pressure 'not to be a burden on others'

Some of the providers of the new NHS non-emergency advice line have delivered an "unacceptable service", a Health Minister said today.