Campaigning against the census; Chris Patten at the BBC; water poverty; UK's jobless millions; Alcohol policy; Nudge politics won't work

Criminal record checks; Disabled parking privileges; RAF training cuts; Centralised GP appointment booking; Train delays; Hero with a handbag

Football commentators in sexism row; fewer on the beat; surgical sweatshop; off the booze and drugs; a long way down; the wonder of Sark

The Bard in anything but English; bad news for birds; many more fish dishes; Lennon letters to see the light; teacher tweet alert; adoption woes; return of Sherlock

Lost for foreign words in school; Thunderbirds relaunched; bonus bonanza in civil service; flu jabs gap; French cockerel to perch in Trafalgar Square

Ballots behind bars; keeping houses empty; NHS bed gridlock; rush to campus; Forest of Dean under threat; the incredible shrinking pint

Beatlemania revisited; flu is flooding in; rail commuters milked again; no quick fix on immigration; aids to giving; mind games

Snow, ice and wind, with more to come; seasonal change is good for wildlife; men are piling on the kilos; post offices for sale; the right for schoolchildren not to believe; 'revolving doors' at the civil service; Brian Hanrahan, a journalist's journalist

More hardline than Thatcher; Glastonbury's holy tree vandalised; tears over scruffy men

No moat-cleaning for MPs; slipping education standards; in school and homeless; moving the clocks; wintry woes; the glass of fashion

Hol courtesy of Wills and Kate; railing against the cost; oh dear Lord; beavers beware; talking turkey

Gauging Britain's wellbeing; holidays by the sea; art in the attic; Tweet threat; a tonne of bricks; Warner Brothers' base

High-speed Canadians snap up Channel link; tuition fees are set for a rise; happy snappers and handbags at No 10; rapid diagnosis via mobiles for sexual diseases

Coalition axe for state woodlands: rewards for good works: stags and foxes: an e-shopping nation

We want our water back; Sir Norman bids farewell to the Manx; binned cat case comes to a close

Ed gets measured; Novel win for humour; Thames turns tide; Dun Roman; Slipway into history; Art falls on stony rules

Surfing's in for juries; first fall, next winter; lost treasure lost; age can wither you; woman digs victory; nil by hospital menus; Savoy grills budget