On the 50th anniversary, in 1995, the prize went to anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat and his Pugwash group. “This is a message to all the people of the world: Do what you can to get rid of nuclear weapons,” said Nobel committee chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes. “The people’s power is formidable.” The committee repeatedly has [...]

Stag vice chairman Carol Bell said: “We have said that there have to be bigger, swingeing fines for companies and it’s good to see that there have been in this case.” Mrs Bell, who was injured in the 1997 Southall train crash which claimed seven lives, added: “There was a record fine (of £1.5 million [...]

Thanks to the work of forensic scientists, all three men are convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.This sounds, if I may be crass for a moment, like an episode of Silent Witness. A set of footprints left in the snow at the scene of the crime point to a pair of trainers [...]

It was the lack of sleep, and the band’s success, which led him to pack it in after a year.Perhaps his employers suspected he was not in it for the long haul They never ordered up a uniform for him. It worked out well: up at 4am, clock on at 5am, finish by lunch time. [...]

The Department of Health estimates 5,000 of the 35,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK could be treated.Roche, the company that makes Herceptin, has not yet applied for a licence for its use in early-stage breast cancer because it is still amassing the huge amount of data required by the authorities. [...]

“It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that it’s part of a strategy to force colleges down a vocational route.”At Labour’s conference in Brighton, the AoC organised a fringe debate on whether vocational qualifications are a likely stepping-stone to higher education. “The trouble is that they can afford to say it because there’s absolutely no chance [...]

There’s no doubt that what Mozart achieved as a composer is remarkable: that he did so much of it on the road is extraordinary. Salzburg WHAT TO SEE The hugely popular Mozarts Geburtshaus (birthplace) is on one floor of this narrow terrace and houses a museum of the composer’s early life. WHAT TO HEAR The [...]

This book – in which Leo Hickman gets “ethically audited” by three experts and tries to follow their advice for the year – actually seems unique in that there are not a clutch of banal jokes on every page, and not everyone the author meets is a hilarious nutter. These excellent stories share an edginess [...]

They could be chalk and camembert. The Tongan and almost everybody else were ecstatic until they discovered that White had judged that the scoring pass from Shane Drahm was forward The anti-climax was almost tangible. This tense Celtic League win was barely over when the Scarlets’ chief executive Stuart Gallacher announced Jones will return from [...]

Meanwhile the system has been continuously refined so that now federal expenditure in individual districts and states is secured by “earmarking” major spending projects with special requests. There were 15,000 earmarks last year, up from 1,200 10 years ago. And this trend has, in turn, led to dramatic cases of political corruption that are now [...]