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‘Unfortunately, it’s all we could afford.’
‘Time to read them the riot app, Sergeant.’
‘So, when we heard Ed Miliband had broken his wrist, we thought we’d just have a few drinks and nibbles to celebrate.’
‘I’m leaving you, Jess.’
‘Were the potatoes mashed humanely?’
‘Starlings! It’s a warning about the new bird flu.’
‘You buy some, then 20 minutes later you feel you want to buy some more.’
What to do about PMQs Sir: Charles Moore (Notes, 6 April) is right to propose that Prime Minister’s Questions revert to the long-standing previous practice of two 15-minute sessions a week (on a Tuesday and Thursday) in place of the current 30-minute session. Tony Blair introduced the present arrangement at the beginning of his premiership
Home With the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the 2,300 invited to attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral in St Paul’s cathedral included the three surviving former prime ministers, members of her cabinets, the leader of the opposition, F.W. de Klerk, June Whitfield, Joan Collins, Dame Shirley Bassey and Sir Terry Wogan. Mikhail Gorbachev did not attend,
The runners who will gather for the London Marathon this weekend will converge on the greatest target in the world. Winston Churchill was the first to see the problem. ‘With our enormous metropolis here… [we are] a kind of tremendous fat cow, a valuable cow tied up to attract the beasts of prey,’ he told