No 11 catering courtesy of Marks and Sparks

THE Chancellor's bash for the regional media at 11 Downing Street tonight showed him in a different light. Normally diffident and reluctant to work a room, tonight he was completely at ease, joking and talking to journalists and receiving plenty of `hear...

Dave's `private past'

THE revelations circulating around David Cameron about his smoking pot at Eton, for which he was nearly expelled, may be being shrugged off by the Notting Hill circle which he personifies, but there will be many "traditional" Tories who won't like it...

Rural MPs get uppity

THE countryside has found itself a new set of champions.And not before time too. Our backbench lawmakers have decided the Government can't be trusted when it comes to service delivery and so MPs and peers from across the political divide have got...

Suffolk at the sharp end - what's next, Sizewell?

HAS the Almighty got it in for Suffolk? Over the past eight years, the county has been hit by classic swine fever, foot-and-mouth, and now bird flu H5N1. Road fatalities and serious injuries following car accidents are above the average, there were...

A government which has run its course

AS our beloved government goes the way of all others which have been in office for too long - the Fall of the House of Usher style moral bankruptcy of the Thatcher-Major years, the George W Bush era, de Gaulle in France -there's no way Gordon Brown...