It holds more than 300 vehicles, marking the development of the British motor industry from the 1890s to the present day. The 200 cars on display date from the earliest 1896 Wolseley. It is an exhilarating collection of every-day cars, extraordinary vehicles, prototypes that never went into production, the pounds 2m Rover BRM Le Mans [...]

A verdict of misadventure was recorded on a motorcycle courier who died from the human form of mad cow disease. Donald Spear was the 19th person in Britain to die from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, contracted through contaminated human-growth hormone. A doctor, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene and the boy was flown by helicopter [...]

But the Prime Minister urged his return to Downing Street at his formal adoption meeting in Huntingdon. “I want to stay to make sure we are not driven, without realising it is happening, into a centrist European system so that we could not get ourselves out again,” he said.n Labour has a 20-point lead over [...]

Then when it feels it has built up enough of a foundation, it sends up a huge flowering stem, topped by flat heads of yellow flowers. But the leaves are its chief glory, though leaf sounds too meaty, too hunky a term for this filigree spun wirework. Next to it are the spear leaves of [...]