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Mimicking of Sir Trevor lands ITV with £5m lawsuit

Lisa Aziz claims that Steve Scott regularly impersonated the famous Afro-Caribbean newsreader’s accent during rehearsals

Citizenship language scam exposed

Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to buy certificates that give them the right to settle in Britain

Second conjoined twin wakes with a raspberry

Krishna, the second conjoined twin, has woken up and blown the signature raspberry her guardian has been waiting for

Sport News  

Premier League - live!

Follow all the action from this afternoon's Premier League games, starting with Bolton Wanderers against Blackburn Rovers

• Liverpool draw little comfort

• Sam Allardyce to undergo angioplasty

Evra: Henry deserves a statue

Team-mate quick to defend striker following France's controversial World Cup playoff win against the Republic of Ireland

Westwood wins Dubai World Championship

Lee Westwood has won the Dubai World Championship and secures the European Tour money list title

Business news  

Shamed MG Rover chiefs bank extra £11m

The windfall will bring to £42m the total they have extracted from the company in one of Britain’s biggest business scandals

Bankers are forced to disclose pay

Financial institutions will this week be ordered to give details of the wages and bonuses of all their high-rolling employees

Waitrose ‘chubby grocer’ tipped for Morrison

Mark Price has emerged as a leading contender to replace Marc Bolland as the new chief executive of Morrison

Comment  

Call me a spoilsport but I’m glad my dad wasn’t a lesbian

Banning a lesbian from parenting would be as cruel as banning someone because they had an interest in golf or had ginger hair

• Jeremy Clarkson

Mandelson bets on two sure-fire losers

Labour and Europe look united on one thing: neither is prepared to take itself seriously

• Martin Ivens

Lighten up – Kate Moss is right

In the 21st century, thin equals success; rich footballers marry skinny birds and fat is no longer just a feminine issue

• Eleanor Mills

Life and Style  

Cash in on the Christmas housing market

The run-up to winter holidays is usually the worst time to sell, but this year is different as the rules are upended

Ferrari 458: red and sexy, but is it any good?

The firm has always made status cars for those with money to burn but the new supercar seems geared to a greener buyer

Test Bench: Windows 7 netbooks

The pared-down laptops known as netbooks have proved hugely popular, and Microsoft has finally launched software to suit them

Arts & Entertainment  

Blur: triumphant reunion of the year

For Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree and fans the band's comeback was about more than the songs

Where the Wild Things Are comes to the cinema

Director Spike Jonze tells how he turned his favourite childhood book by Maurice Sendak into a film with James Gandolfini

Short story by award-winning writer Helen Simpson

This week is the last chance for published authors to enter the prestigious Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award