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Lib Dems could steer Cameron to No 10

Lib Dems will only support biggest party in hung parliament as new poll shows that Tory lead over Labour has slipped

Neighbours held after schoolboy killed

Residents in the crime-hit council estate St Helens are in shock after a 15-year-old boy was found in a pool of blood

More than 17,000 new underwater species found

A ten-year compilation of a census of the deepest seas has discovered sea angels, jewel squid and a 2m-wide octopod

Business news  

Thames ready for legal challenge to Ofwat

Ofwat’s ruling will fix the amount Britain’s water companies can charge consumers and spend on networks between 2010-15

National Express fundraising in hands of creditors

Action by leading creditors likely to fuel concern about growing influence of hedge funds over fate of British companies

Nestlé joins queue of buyers for Cadbury

Kraft has said it would consider raising its bid if a rival offer from the likes of Nestlé were to emerge

Sport News  

Murray opens with victory on people’s Sunday

British No 1 defeats Juan Martín del Potro, the US Open champion, as the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals get under way

• Andy Murray is a fighter

• Murray has tough path to home victory

Schumacher silent despite rumours of return

F1 grapevine is humming as speculation mounts that the German driver has been asked to replace Jenson Button at Mercedes

Bold Collingwood gives command performance

South Africa v England: batsman marks record-breaking 171st one-day appearance with a century, a catch and two wickets

Comment  

A gross insult to the people of Europe

The EU should be trying to woo the public, not alienate them. They should listen to the sceptics

• William Rees-Mogg

They’re still wriggling to avoid the flak on Iraq

By the time Chilcot reports, we’ll have moved on – and that’s the intention. But we should never forget the postwar failures

• Melanie Reid

Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too

Even if the science was reliable (which it isn’t), we should not force the world’s poorest countries to cut carbon emissions

• Nigel Lawson

Life and Style  

AA Gill reviews: Chez Bruce

Gill used to live in Wandsworth. But does this top-rated restaurant in his old stomping ground make the grade with him?

What will the rich get for Christmas?

Despite the recession, the super luxury market is still booming. What are the billionaires are giving each other this year?

How I lost the gift of joy for a while

Last year, Giles Andreae, the man behind the Purple Ronnie cards, was hit by depression. He gives a searing account of the illness

Arts & Entertainment  

Abi Titmuss hits the stage in Macbeth

Former glamour model has put her clothes on to play Lady Macbeth. And it looks like the lads’ mag favourite really can act

Blur's greatest gig ever, in their own words

A headline slot at Glastonbury in 2009 was the groups’s biggest test - and their finest hour according to band members

Nightmarish power of Maurice Sendak's classic

Where The WIld Things Are, now a Spike Jonze film, is disturbing and dark: precisely what today's children need