Telephone codes may all be changed again

Ofcom has raised the prospect of introducing 'overlay' codes as the regulator tries to overcome a drought in numbers

Special forces provide unique abilities

The SAS have already crippled car bomb networks, killed or captured hundreds of key targets and rescued several hostages

Independent Scotland could pay the price

The freedom that Mr Salmond says would liberate the Scottish economy, now looks in the present climate to be shackling

British Library to return looted 12thC book

The Benevento Missal, stolen from a cathedral in 1943, could be returned to Italy within months under new Holocaust law

Salmond unveils independence White Paper

First Minister says he is‘prepared to be flexible’, but all three Unionist parties in Scotland oppose ‘white elephant’

Independence gets chilly reception

The people of Edinburgh react to the prospect of a referendum on the future of Scotland

To spend, or to save: that is the question

Figures show that consumers are choosing to pay down their debts and are not spending as much as the Government had hoped

Camera-shy badgers take peanut butter bait

Wildlife photographer Richard Costin got through ten jars of the spread luring the nocturnal animals for a perfect close-up

Rail passengers face chaos over Christmas

Passengers in much of England will have to prepare themselves for upheaval on the rail networks due to maintenance

Inside the EU’s anti-piracy bunker

From a basement in Northwood, Middlesex, a joint task force is tackling pirates in the world’s most dangerous waters

Austen is all the greater for writing in pain

The debate goes on about what killed Jane Austen but she revealed much in her character by writing as she was dying

Piracy is costing shipowners millions in insurance

The cost of insuring container ships to travel through high-risk routes has risen fivefold in the past year

Was Jane Austen killed by bovine TB?

New study of author’s papers sheds new light on her death

Vince Cable forced to water down ‘mansion tax’

Lib Dem Treasury Spokesman increased starting threashold for proposed property tax from £1 million houses to £2 million

CERN 'a threat' to nuclear energy research

Physicists fear that costs of Hadron Collider experiments could leave programme for new power stations in disarray

Poor whites 'deserve help like ethnic minorities'

John Denham, the Communities Secretary said white working class communities feel a justifiable sense of grievance

Bush raised Iraq with Blair three days after 9/11

Mr Blair told President he would require "very compelling" evidence to justify military action, Iraq inquiry told