Now and again, very rarely, an MP makes a speech that is actually funny. Not just whimsical in a "gosh we parliamentary folk know how to have fun too" kind of way, but designed to make you laugh out loud. Stephen Pound was talking about smoking, and the blanket ban which the house debated yesterday.

A brother and sister who netted thousands of pounds in an ingenious fraud of London's bus pass system were jailed today.

Ealing Town Hall was up in lights when filming of the BBC1 drama New Tricks took place last week.

GRAFFITI scrawled on a Catholic church and convent is believed to have been left in memory of a teenager who died after being hit by a train just days before Christmas.

THE family of a 71-year-old woman who died after being struck by a bus have said they are in shock over her death.