The armed forces were harshly criticised today for failing to fulfil their duty of care to new recruits. The report by a committee of MPs follows widespread complaints of bullying and harassment in the services after four recruits died in shooting incidents at the Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. Mark Oliver has full coverage.
Matthew Tempest reports on the news that Britain's first black cabinet minister, Paul Boateng, is to step down as an MP at the election to become high commissioner to South Africa.
Mark Tran looks at the row over the appointment of Disney president Robert Iger to succeed Michael Eisner as chief executive.
And to prove that freedom of information legislation needn't be used only to dig up the dirt on arcane defence contracts, here on Newsblog we examine the dossier on Humphrey the Downing Street cat, into which the Daily Telegraph got its claws today.
