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Change your policies or change your job, Salmond tells PM

SNP leader warns Gordon Brown about his position as he hails 'sensational' victory in Glasgow East
Britain to spend £3bn on warheads

Ministry of Defence says upgrade will be part of Trident programme despite non-proliferation treaty
- Q&A: Nuclear weapons and the UK
- Dan Plesch: Defending our dependency

Canoe couple get legal aid in court fight

John and Anne Darwin will get financial help in their court bid to keep illicit gains, say officials
Economic growth hits three-year low

Figures fuel concerns that UK is teetering on brink of recession and needs aggressive interest rate cuts
- EDF raises gas and electricity bills
- One third only have savings to last 11 days
Painter fined for smoking in his own van

Welshman and passenger were 'going to buy teabags' when council officer gave them £30 penalties
Army dog handler killed in Afghanistan

Member of veterinary corps killed and six others injured in attack by insurgents in Helmand province
Judge drops nanny's manslaughter case

Nanny accused of killing baby boy by shaking him is cleared as judge rules there was 'insufficient evidence'
- Baby death accused mother collapses
Why Mosley won in the high court

Formula One boss gets £60,000 from News of the World, but judge says he must take share of blame
- Mosley launches lawsuit against German publisher
- Full coverage of the Mosley case

John Guillebaud: We should have fewer children (4min 43sec)

British Motor Show goes green (3min 30sec)

Hadrian: 'An almost God-like status'

Microsoft Photography Competition 2008

Video: Catastrophe for Labour as SNP triumphs in Glasgow East (1min 05sec)

Video: Canoe wife Anne Darwin at police station (1min 51sec)

Video: Chris and Don (2min 32sec)

Video: Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2min 06sec)

Fertiliser bomb plot: 'All those slags dancing around - I'll blow them all up' (29 sec)

Max Mosley gives his reaction to his High Court battle with the News of the World (51 sec)

News of the World editor Colin Myler gives his reaction to the Max Mosley case (4min 32sec)

Max Mosley trial: Roy Greenslade on the privacy case (4min 42sec)

Glasgow East byelection: an historic result for the SNP

Max Mosley v News of the World

John and Anne Darwin: An audacious fraud

Bolton holidaymakers in Blackpool

Interactive: UK retail sales - trace the data here

Interactive: how the monetary policy committee voted

Interactive - who's who in the monetary policy committee

Interactive map: UK knife crime, 2007/08 by police region

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Friday politics quiz

Quiz: Jul 25 2008: It made history but can you remember all the facts about the Glasgow East byelection?
Southampton's Dyer given community service order for burglary

Jul 25 2008:
The Southampton midfielder Nathan Dyer has been ordered to carry out 60 hours' community service after pleading guilty to burglary
Excoriating the coruscating Coren

Jul 25 2008:
David Marsh: Giles Coren's blistering rebuke to a hapless Times subeditor actually highlights what a vital role subs still play in the media
Fertiliser bomb plot: 'All those slags dancing around - I'll blow them all up'

Audio (29 sec): Jul 25 2008: Two of the fertiliser bomb plotters, Omar Khyam and Jawad Akbar, plan their attack on the Ministry of Sound nightclub
'All those slags dancing around - I'll blow them all up'

Jul 25 2008:
Extracts from a conversation between Omar Khyam and Jawad Akbar about their plot to blow up the Ministry of Sound nightclub
This crackdown on forced marriage is not all it seems

Jul 25 2008:
Rahila Gupta: Is the government raising the age for marriage visas out of concern for women, or to impose stricter immigration controls?
Government wants to cut illegal filesharing by 80% by 2011

Jul 25 2008:
The government has set a secret target to reduce illegal filesharing of music and films by up to 80% over the next three years. By Mark Sweney
No kidding, BMJ

Jul 25 2008:
Nicholas Lezard: Doctors are urging Britons to stop at two children. So what are those of us with more supposed to do with our extras?

Conference diary

Jul 25 2008:
Riazat Butt's Lambeth conference diary
Can Labour make itself electable now?

Jul 25 2008:
John Kampfner: Even if we ignore the lessons of history for a drubbing like Glasgow East, the party's own defeatism and lack of strategy seem insurmountable
Glasgow East byelection: an historic result for the SNP

Gallery (14 pictures): Jul 25 2008: The political drama in Glasgow that could have massive implications in Westminster
Police warn of key fob gun after nightclub shooting

Jul 25 2008:
Detectives believe one hundred of the tiny weapons could be in UK as man is jailed for club shooting
Men shouldn't get away with murder

Jul 25 2008:
Cath Elliott: And forthcoming law reforms mean they will no longer be able to cite 'nagging' as an excuse for killing their wives
Concerns for future of wedding list firm

Jul 25 2008:
Fears were mounting today over the future of wedding gift service Wrapit as the firm confirmed it was in talks to avoid administration
Is recession inevitable?

Poll: Jul 25 2008: Economic growth in Britain has slowed to its lowest rate in three years over the second quarter, fuelling concerns that the UK is teetering on the verge of recession. But is recession inevitable?