Curators and staff protesting over pay and cost-cutting will today close the Science Museum in London at half-term, and picket the Railway Museum in York and Photography Museum in Bradford. Lindsay Sharp, director of the three, said the dispute came down to a consistent undervaluing of science by the government.
Life for killing asylum seeker
Edward Samuel, 36, a caretaker from Dagenham in Essex, was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey for murdering an Albanian asylum seeker, Armand Gjikaj, 22. His head was "kicked like a football" as he begged for mercy after being stabbed four times over their cars colliding.
Protesters win pheasant result
Without admitting liability, Wiltshire police have paid £30,000 to 10 people claiming wrongful arrest while disrupting a pheasant shoot near Marlborough, Wiltshire, in 2001. The protesters forced shooters to stop by standing next to them.
Corporal quits TA over Iraq
Lance Corporal George Solomou, 38, handed in a letter of resignation to the Territorial Army centre in Camberwell, south London, saying the Iraq war was illegal, and that a "sizeable minority" within the TA agreed with him.
Police chief's driver in court
After the blue BMW taking David Coleman, chief constable of Derbyshire and an anti-speeding campaigner, back home up the M1 was clocked doing 97mph, magistrates in Hertfordshire yesterday fined his chauffeur £300 and four penalty points; he admitted the offence.
