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Polish workers losing their UK jobs in the economic downturn are choosing not to return home but to stay and take advantage of the generous benefits system.

Forget lipsticks, purses and glittery key rings. Laptops could soon be the latest must-have in every girl’s handbag. Elonex will start selling its ‘netbooks’ for £99.

Gordon Brown is facing growing demands to reverse the temporary cut in the rate of VAT.

Low-energy bulbs are incompatible with millions of lamps and sockets in homes, it has emerged.

A single father was left stunned after he was turned away from a swimming pool when staff told him he could not provide proper supervision for his two sons.

Two young mothers have died of pneumonia since Christmas after being told by medical staff that they had nothing worse than a bout of flu or a virus.

Mourners gathered, family members paid their last respects as the coffin was lowered. But the upset for one family got worse when they learned they had buried the wrong man.

The mystery behind the delay in Tony Blair accepting the Congressional Gold Medal he was awarded more than five years ago has finally been solved.

Marks & Spencer is to close 27 stores in a shock cost-cutting package that will bring the loss of 1,230 jobs.

A suicidal businesswoman crushed a toddler to death under the wheels of her uninsured 4x4 after downing a cocktail of drugs and alcohol.

The dodo, sabre-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth head the list of animals that scientists would like to bring back from extinction.

A project to store gas in undersea salt caverns will go ahead. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has approved a £600m scheme to pump gas into structures under the Irish Sea.

Families and pensioners are being forced into bankruptcy after falling just a few hundred pounds behind with their council tax payments.

A married luxury jet pilot sexually harassed an air hostess, an employment tribunal heard yesterday. Rachel Quinn, 29, claimed Captain Ed Murray, 63, sent an inappropriate text message.

Apple is opening up the digital music market by making songs purchased from its iTunes online store playable on any MP3 player. Until now, most tracks bought from its library could only play on iPods.

It looks like bad news for those romantic souls forever musing on the nature of love. A behavioural scientist reckons it is only a matter of time before biologists understand the mysteries of being smitten.

Health and safety regulations have turned getting the show on to the stage into such a performance that a theatre company fears being shut down before the curtain goes up.