Patrick Worrall

“The council swiftly admitted making an accounting error – to the tune of a staggering £6m.”

“As a Daily Mail poll showed that 77 per cent of Conservative Party members believe there should be a referendum on Britain’s continuing membership of the EU, Mr Clegg launched a defence of the economic benefits of staying in Europe.”

“Only in America and Canada do employers enjoy a lighter regulatory burden, according to 21 measures of how easy and expensive it is for companies to lay off their staff.”

“As well as banishing rectum-burgers into the culinary history books, the last government also earmarked £150 million of targeted funding between 2008 and 2011 to provide kitchens and dining rooms in schools with inadequate facilities.”

“There’s no dispute that rapidly-rising fuel bills are hitting households hard. But who is to blame for the squeeze?”

“FactCheck asked DECC whether it is appropriate to put figures taken from two different research papers – carried out using different methodologies and assumptions – and put them side-by-side as though they were directly comparable. We did not receive an answer.”

“In Cornwall, there are estimated to be up to 1,350 families with multiple problems. How many are being offered intensive help? Just 14.”

Revolting peers have landed their first blows on Andrew Lansley. Today they’re starting a marathon two-day debate on the health and social care bill, and the government is worried. The Department of Health has hit back with a “mythbusting” dossier. Will it succeed? Over to the team.

“That’s a worringly large proportion. There’s only one small problem. The numbers are completely wrong.”

“Those local authorities are home to only 30 per cent of the English population, and represent 26 per cent of the total land mass – leaving three quarters of the country out of the planning loop.”

“It’s a sensitive topic for a Government that scrapped Education Maintenance Allowance for teenagers who wanted to stay in education, and axed Labour’s flagship back-to-work project, the Future Jobs Fund.”

Homelessness figures are still low compared to the high they reached in 2003 – but they’re already climbing sharply.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries is leading a campaign to stop two charities from counselling women considering an abortion. Has she got her facts straight?

“There’s currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don’t feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they won’t have to do it.”

“The powder-keg potential of the situation is clear to voices from inside the prison system – rapidly rising numbers of new inmates, many of them vulnerable first-timers thrown in with serving prisoners, some members of street gangs whose violent rivalries will continue on the inside.”