Smaller parties thrive as voters desert the ‘big three’
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
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After recent lacklustre performances on the rugby field, fans of the home nations should not expect too much from their teams this weekend, writes Ben Monro-Davies.
Krishnan here – two big news stories jostling for the top spot tonight. I’m not sure if we’ll lead on elections here or fighting between Gaza and Israel.
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
Labour achieves a 12.7 per cent swing to retake Corby from the Tories following Louise Mensch’s resignation. But turnout in England and Wales is very low in the election for police commissioners.
England crush Fiji, but Wales succumb to Argentina, in the first of the autumn series of international rugby union matches.
All of this suggests that it is the mobile phone operators, not Ofcom or the government, who are responsible for much of the delay. In any event, Labour’s record on speeding up the process was hardly exemplary.
Superfast 4G products and services are being made available to millions of mobile phone users in 11 cities across the UK, amid criticism about the cost of pricing plans for the new service.
Will you vote? What will the turnout be? Michael Crick examines why the upcoming police and crime commissioners elections are the most extraordinary for many years.
A Cardiff vicar calls on the community not to seek revenge for the hit and run rampage, as police are granted more time to question a 31-year-old man over the fatal traffic collisions.
Police continue to question a 31-year-old man over a series of traffic collisions, which left one mother of three dead and 13 more injured.
Bright pupils across England fail to live up to their early promise because thousands are being entered too early for GCSE exams, reducing their chances of getting top grades, warns Ofsted.
Manchester has been named as the UK hotspot for illegal music downloads in the UK, with the country as a whole illegally downloading around £250m of music a year.
Thousands line the streets of Glasgow to welcome home Olympic and Paralympic heroes, including six-time gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy.
Two men accused of killing 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi carried out a botched “contract killing” at the wrong address in Cardiff, the prosecution alleges.
The Channel 4 News guide to the London 2012 Paralympic Games – how, where and who to watch, ahead of Wednesday’s opening ceremony.