Barclays’ investment bank chief has been awarded shares worth £17.5m in long-term bonuses – and has sold them all. Shares worth a total of £39m were given to nine executives.

Biggs the time traveller He voluntarily returned to the UK in 2011 and spent several years in prison. During this time his health rapidly declined and on August 6, 2009, he was released from prison on compassionate grounds. Was captured in Canada four years later and severed another ten years in jail.

The proposed new press regulations hardly seem a threat to freedom, just means they have to obey the same (legal) rules as the rest of us. For a change.

‘It’s heartbreaking… the children are traumatised by war’: Charles and Camilla ‘shocked’ as they meet refugees from Syria’s civil war in Jordan

Strikes are a really good, effective and logical way of ensuring that a company in financial difficulties survives and remains in existence.

Trial of dead Russia lawyer Sergei Magnitsky delayed Why, didn’t he turn up for the hearing? Opens the way for all sorts of interesting trials.

Thousands of motorists caught speeding could have their convictions overturned because the wrong font was used on the speed limit signs.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the UK, signalled that he did make homosexual advances towards young men.

Cameron buries hatchet with Plebgate MP Andrew Mitchell – and offers him £250,000 EU job

Richard III’s ancestors demand York burial