All Saints Church towers over Ladbroke in Warwickshire, where the government plans a 12m high viaduct visible for miles. Photograph: Colin Underhill/Alamy For centuries Ladbroke, a picturesque Midlands village recorded in the Domesday Book, has been the sort of place where people aspire to... 

A Northern Ireland soldier found a booby trap device under his car just a day after a bomb went off outside Derry’s main police station (pictured). Photograph: Cathal Mcnaughton/Reuters A booby trap device was found underneath the car of a serving soldier in Northern Ireland today, police... 

Alex Salmond’s political opponents are ratcheting up their demands for all the medical evidence to be released. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA Alex Salmond is to reject renewed calls from a group of US senators to publish the full medical records of the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. The... 

Richard Desmond outside Five’s soon-to-be-former HQ in Covent Garden. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Richard Desmond moves fast. One week he boasts how “ridiculously rich” he is. The next he shells out £103m for a loss-making TV channel. And, still sprinting a few days later,...