London Underground passengers faced fresh delays today when services were disrupted on three lines because of problems including a failed train.

For Davies, it's a chance to squeeze back into the songs that made his name – as any man of 66 might wish to revisit an old pair of jeans.

Thousands of London Underground passengers suffered fresh disruption today when a Tube line to the City was suspended because of a signal failure.

Waterloo Road – now into its sixth series – is kept fresh by periodic decapitation. One head goes and another arrives, to be stitched into place on the bleeding stump. The operation doesn't always take, though it's probably too early to say whether Amanda Burton, the latest replacement, will ultimately be rejected by the host body. She's certainly a matching donor in terms of her character, this particular headship calling for a melodramatic back-story (one recent headmistress had spent time working as a prostitute) and a positively magnetic ability to attract trouble. Mrs Fisher meets the first requirement since she's just taken a year and a half off to cope with the psychological trauma of having her oldest daughter go missing and things look very promising on the second count too. As one of her staff members put it – a little way into the chain of catastrophes that fills the timetable at Waterloo Road – "Parental punch-up, mass evacuation, asthmatic pupil... talk about a baptism of fire."

Shed Media said it overcame a "turbulent" television market in the first half of the year as it reported a 22 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax profits.

A generation of schoolchildren has grown up without knowing who Miss Havisham was and thinking Nelson won the Battle of Waterloo, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said yesterday.

A lock of hair that was cut from Napoleon Bonaparte's head after he died has sold for £8,600 at an auction in New Zealand.

Rifles cracked, artillery thundered and the cavalry charged. Having sent in the Imperial Guard, Napoleon Bonaparte beats a hasty retreat under an onslaught of enemy forces. In a rainswept field in Belgium yesterday, tens of thousands of spectators gathered to watch a recreation of Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Around 3,000 historical military enthusiasts from across Europe, armed with heavy guns and supported by 150 cavalry, were willing participants in the reconstruction of five scenes from the battle, which took place 195 years earlier on 18 June 1815.

The proposed management buyout of Shed Media, the producer of New Tricks, collapsed yesterday, although a deal may not be dead after it revealed separate talks.

Today's may Day bank holiday is forecast to be cold and wet. After the third sunniest April in 100 years, May has ushered in a national washout, with the heavy downpours that began on Friday evening continuing through the weekend. Temperatures slid below freezing in parts of the north.

A trainee teacher said she was "ecstatic" today after being cleared of having sex with one of her pupils.