'Ethics' MP faces questions over house 'flipping'

Andrew Dismore, who serves on Commons Standards and Privileges Committee, made £65,000 in claims on two properties

Doctors and nurses ‘need help to be healthy’

High rates of obesity, smoking, absenteeism and poor mental health are having a direct impact on patient care, audit says

Lure of deep proves irresistible to science

Life in the deep has a special lustre for scientists because it is all but unexplored and the discoveries keep on coming

Worries turn to saving businesses

The community that relies on tourism and local traders must work hard to avoid becoming a ghost town after flood damage

Flood-hit towns could be cut off for months

Thousands of people face massive disruption after more than a dozen bridges were swept away or damaged by flood waters

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

Commuters in a spin as Circle becomes a tadpole

One of the oldest Tube lines is being extended to Hammersmith in West London with a tail added to the existing track

Crimes dealt with by 'clip round the ear'

Ad hoc penalties are being brokered by police officers who have been encouraged to use common sense and abandon targets

Tough deadline for Iraq inquiry to establish truth

Conclusions must quell public unease over the most controversial military and foreign policy action for half a century

Police reforms bring reward of £50m savings

Chief Constable Chris Sims is trying to balance the populist demand for local policing with tackling serious crime

World of Warcraft: fantasy or reality?

Five years since creation, game is blamed for divorce and death

British to train Afghan militias

UK attempts to step back from frontline operations by training local militias to take responsibility for Afghan security

First Tory Budget would ‘go for growth’

The Conservative leader will strike a more optimistic note on the economy when he addresses the CBI conference this week

Stormy weather into December

The Met Office says a logjam of depressions means that powerful storms and yet more rain will be with us into next month

Whitehall agrees to hand Holyrood power over airguns

A ban on airguns in Scotland moved closer after the UK government agreed to add Calman recommendations on gun law to White Paper

Scottish invention promises power revolution

A new, efficient, light and robust electricity generator invented in Scotland offers a major step forward in renewable energy

Silver reward to peace-broker up for auction

A silver bowl and salver given to a diplomat for preventing war between Britain and Russia are to be sold in Edinburgh

Good schools add £20,000 to house prices

Schools where every 11-year-old gets a level 4 in their Sats exams lift local house prices by 11 per cent, survey finds

Ulster 'spectacular' feared as 400lb bomb found

Security chiefs fear that the breakaway groups will try to mount a terrorism ‘spectacular’ in the run-up to Christmas