Taking away support can only be achieved by demonising recipients as scroungers in mansions

Psychological benefits may be the reason why so many people like to be beside the seaside.

A leading light in British comedy and one of the most-proven funnymen on the planet, Paul Merton is back with his first UK solo tour since 1999, but Out Of My Head is far from the quality you might expect, being weak virtually from start to finish.

Although his political career came to a disappointing end with his defeat in the 1997 general election and his failure to secure selection for the European Parliamentary elections in 1999, Tony Newton continued to make a substantial contribution to public life, not least in the often underrated task of chairing a major mental health provider, the North Essex NHS Trust from 1997 to 2001, and then as Chairman of the Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust from 2001 until 2008.

Spending on welfare payments, schools and hospitals will have to be slashed by billions of pounds more than the Government has planned for as a result of economic downturn, Treasury estimates revealed yesterday.

A further £10 billion will need to be slashed from the welfare bill by 2016 to protect other departments from deeper cuts, George Osborne warned today.

The anger of those who lose out is greater than the gratitude of those who continue to benefit

As the Cheltenham Festival's third day passed yesterday without an equine fatality, the British Horseracing Authority said that the state of the ground was not responsible for the five deaths that occurred on the first two days of the meeting.

His screams exploded in the night at the tiny base in southern Helmand as he fought liked a trapped animal to escape his one man mosquito net. The terror of his nightmare was so vivid that it took four of his fellow US Marines to hold him down.

David Cameron was last night accused of deploying "smoke and mirrors" to avoid imposing an immediate ban on wild animals in travelling circuses.

Job tsar's appointment raises fresh questions over David Cameron's choice of key advisers

'Willpower is not like intelligence – you can learn it'

Moody Views: At 23, Halfpenny is the oldest of the back three, a testimony to the coaching staff's faith in youth