Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Rail misery as Euston shut by cable failure * Rail passengers endured a morning of rush-hour misery today after overhead
cable problems halted all but a few trains into one of the UK’s busiest
stations.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Rail chaos to continue across the UK * Rail passengers faced further chaos last night after overhead wires between
North Wembley and Kings Langley fell down, forcing the cancellation of
services in and out of London.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 'I'm on the plane' * Mobile phones were once considered to be potentially lethal. They had the
power to blow up petrol stations, bring down aircraft and get you a
particularly deadly look from a fellow commuter on a train.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 '£2,000 debt nearly cost me my home' * Patience Iweta's council tax arrears of less than £2,000 escalated to a debt
of more than £20,000 when she was forced to take out a huge loan to avoid
losing her home.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Behind the story: end of the last taboo * Before the appointment of Dame Stella Rimington as MI5 chief in 1992, the name
of the head spy was classified to the outside world.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 UK car sales tumble by 20 per cent amid calls for Government help * The British car industry will suffer a fresh blow today when new figures are
expected to show that sales fell by more than 20 per cent last month. The
sharp drop coincides with mounting concern over whether the Government will
deliver an aid package that had been expected before Christmas.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 One return, once a week * It took several calls and e-mails to the Department for Transport for The Times to establish the facts about the “ghost bus”of Ealing.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 £6m of sick miners' awards went to Arthur Scargill's union * Arthur Scargill's trade union was paid more than £6 million by a firm of
solicitors that deducted the money from compensation awarded to sick miners
for industrial disease, a tribunal was told.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Mobile phones are finally passed fit for use in hospitals * As one of the golden rules of hospital visits, the mobile phone ban was the
most likely to be obeyed: do it, or risk unsettling a pacemaker or shutting
down a high-dependency unit. But after years of dogged compliance by
patients and visitors, the Government has admitted finally that the ban is
based on mythical safety concerns and should be relaxed.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Bailiffs and bankruptcy become common currency of council tax * Falling behind with council tax payments by only a few hundred pounds is
increasingly tipping people towards bankruptcy as many town halls adopt a
tougher approach to debts.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Books illustrated by artist Marc Chagall expected to fetch £300,000 * When Irmgard Neuman discovered that there was a celebrity artist living next
door, she bought a book of his work, and, rather boldly, asked him to sign
it. Marc Chagall, the pioneer of Modernism, went one better.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Clean, on time and empty. 'Ghost bus' to spare ministers' blushes * Every Tuesday, at 9.45am precisely, a 50-seat executive coach draws up at a
bus stop outside Ealing Broadway station in West London. No one ever gets on
and, a moment later, it departs -empty -on a 70-minute trip to Wandsworth
Road in South London.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Marc Chagall doodles were sign of the times * Some artists just cannot resist a blank sheet of paper. Raphael was an inveterate sketcher and Leonardo da Vinci left more than a thousand pages of doodles, jottings and diagrams.
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 Degas’s little dancer stands to fetch a big price * London A rare sculpture of a ballet dancer by the French Impressionist
Edgar Degas could fetch £12 million when it is put up for auction at
Sotheby’s in London next month. Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans,
owned by Sir John Madejski, the chairman of Reading Football Club, was
originally made in wax, dated 1879-81, and was the only sculpture to be
exhibited in the artist’s lifetime. It was found after his death in 1917 and
cast in bronze. Melanie Clore, co-chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art
at Sotheby’s, said: “This is his most important sculpture.”It goes on sale
on February 3.
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