It was, said Niranjayan Joseph Deva - the Conservative member for Brentford and Isleworth - "part of the historic tradition of this House that an MP should be able to speak about an injustice that has befallen one of his constituents".

The three main party leaders are to be targeted today in a campaign to persuade black voters to go to the polls at the general election.

The daughter of a wealthy businessman was found guilty yesterday of smuggling more than pounds 400,000 worth of cocaine into London.

Sir: Like many millions of Hindus across the world, I recently celebrated Diwali. For me only one thing marred the occasion: I received a specially printed Diwali card from the Labour Party addressed to the "Patel Family".

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Dangerous prisoner flees at supermarket

Sir: Polly Toynbee (27 August) makes three errors in assuming that I advocate subscription funding replacing the licence fee simply in order to benefit Sky.

From money-losing albatross around the neck of media mogul Rupert Murdoch to the country's most profitable television company in five scant years. That is the story - at least so far - of BSkyB, the dominant pay- TV broadcaster, which is now racking up profits of pounds 700,000 a day.

On World Environment Day, Sue Wheat suggests some options for the green tourist

It is a measure of how far buyers now call the shots in the property market that the word "bespoke" has started to creep into the vocabulary of house building. In an industry long associated with off-the-peg uniformity, the idea of a tailored personal service seems unlikely. But it is a carrot being dangled increasingly in front of prospective customers to persuade them to part with their money.

As England struggle in the World Cup, Tom Chesshyre finds that a talent drought is damaging the nation's grassroots

Inside Parliament

A schizophrenic was sent to Rampton top security psychiatric hospital indefinitely yesterday after he admitted stabbing to death a tourist and attempting to murder another woman within days of being bailed.

In its 100-year life, the car has killed half a million people in Britain. But often the families of victims are excluded from court cases and even from the aftermath of an accident. Chris Arnot reports