Nick Clegg has removed one of the barriers to a second coalition deal with the Conservatives by refusing to veto an in-out referendum on European Union membership, and instead insisted that the Tories backtrack on their plans for £12bn of welfare cuts.
Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister, accused the Democratic Unionist party of going back on commitments to protect the most vulnerable in society from welfare cuts.
The need to introduce residence permits to restrict access to public services and welfare benefits for new migrants stems from the simple fact that despite the Home Office's £800m "e-borders" project nobody's passport is stamped with the date they entered Britain.
At the Sea Life aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand, Sony technicians working with the aquarium's animal trainers taught Rambo, a female octopus, to press the shutter on a special camera and take pictures of the visiting public (each photo sells for $NZ2 to support the aquarium's conservation programmes).
About 90m tonnes of animal waste is also produced in the UK each year, only a tiny portion of which is used for energy production.
Or Clerkenwell's Chifafa which avoids foam cartons and features ingredients such as high-welfare English veal.
If Greece was not a member of the euro, but rather a struggling country in sub-Saharan Africa, the IMF remedy would be devaluation, debt relief and a welfare safety net to protect the most vulnerable.
Billions of dollars of the government's proposed budget savings are under threat with Labor declaring opposition to more than half of their welfare reforms as the Greens revealed they would oppose the indexation of the fuel excise.
Media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether the BBC took due care of the welfare of the child because he was identifiable and his remarks could cause a backlash.
Mike Powell, a volunteer with the Isle of Wight Youth Trust which organises the lost property for Bestival, recalls a young man who arrived at the welfare tent one year: "He was covered in mud from head to foot and he'd lost his keys, phone, wallet, everything.
The MP for Bromsgrove, who went to school with one of Sutcliffe's victims, called Mr Clarke's decision "grossly insensitive to the many families in West Yorkshire who are still grieving over the brutal deaths of their loved ones at the hands of this animal".
