Tory leader David Cameron today insisted that watching the Government fail was not good enough for the Conservative Party that must convince the electorate to vote for “bold” change, The Times reports.
Cameron told delegates “to go out and win” the next election. “We will not let Britain down,” he said, insisting that the Tories were now the party of the environment, the NHS and employment. “This is not some week of celebration, but the week we …

A bag containing suspected human bones was found today on a motorway slip road, the Daily Mail reports.
A motorway workman was clearing vegetation on the slip road at junction 14 on the M5 North, north of Bristol, when he made the grisly discovery.
A police spokesman said officers and forensic teams had been sent to investigate at the exit for Thornbury, in South Gloucestershire. A single lane on the slip road has been closed while police carry …

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has announced plans to abolish national insurance for new companies during the first two years of a Conservative government, the Daily Telegraph reports.
At the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, he said that he believed the scheme would create 60,000 new jobs and send the message that “this country is open for business”.
Under the scheme, any new business will not pay national insurance on the first ten workers it hires. An …

Scientists have made a breakthrough in pinpointing a gene linked to more than half of all breast cancers, the Daily Mail reports. The gene is also thought to be linked to half of bowel and prostate cancers and a quarter of ovarian and bladder cancers.
Dr Paul Edwards, of the department of pathology at the University of Cambridge, discovered the gene with colleagues. “I believe NRG1 could be the most important tumour-suppressor gene discovery in the last 20 …

A suicide terrorist disguised as a soldier has killed five staff inside a United Nations World Food Programme building in Islamabad just as British ministers arrived in the Pakistani capital, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The blast happened in the lobby of the office of the World Food Programme, an arm of the UN, in an upmarket residential district of Islamabad. An Iraqi and four Pakistani workers were killed in the explosion and several more were injured.
It came …

Thousands of hotmail passwords have been hacked and posted online, the BBC reports.
Microsoft, which own the popular web-based email system, told BBC News that they were aware of the claims and that they were “investigating the situation”.
Details of over 10,000 accounts had been posted to a website. The accounts had probably been hacked or had been collected as part of a phishing scheme.
The list included details of Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail accounts with email addresses ending …

Police are set to use taxpayers’ cash to give drinkers free taxi rides home – in a bid to cut down on late-night street violence, the Daily Mail reports.
Officers believe the controversial scheme to combat thugs will lead to a significant cut in crime and anti-social behaviour.
Councillors in the market town of in Watton, Norfolk, backed the initiative to crack down on attacks and yobbish behaviour. The town council have themselves pledged £350 to help fund …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran and six world powers have reached a preliminary deal for Russia to help enrich uranium for an Iranian reactor, Ha’aretz reports.
Lavrov said that the tentative agreement was reached at last week’s talks in Switzerland. He added that experts would have to work out specifics of the deal that will involve the United States, France, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran needs the fuel to power a research …

The world’s largest sweets’ shop was opened in Dubai on Saturday, by a company belonging to a Singaporean family that operates mainly in the Arab Gulf, Ynet reports.
The new store opened under the brand “Candylicious” at the Dubai Mall – one of the world’s largest shopping centers. The company plans to open another store in Singapore next year.
The store, which offers a wide variety of chocolate-based products, predicts an annual sales revenue of some $10 …

UK pilots will join demonstrations in Europe over long flying hours which they claim are putting lives at risk, politics.co.uk reports.
However, the British pilots are unable to strike in the UK because industrial action by pilots is illegal. They will instead join colleagues at major European airports.
The pilots believe that current rules in force in some EU countries that allow them to work for up to 14 hours a day are “putting lives at risk”. The rules …

The first official history of MI5, published this morning, reveals the extent to which the security service suspected leftwingers during the Cold War and believed that three Labour MPs were Soviet bloc agents, the Guardian reports.
The MPs named in the history, written by the historian Christopher Andrew, are John Stonehouse, who became postmaster general in Harold Wilson’s government, Bernard Floud and Will Owen. The three were “outed” by a Czech defector, but there is no …

A grandmother who claimed she could barely walk has been caught on camera running more than a mile – while pushing a child in its pram, the Daily Mail reports.
Cardelia Bell, 48, was also spotted by undercover surveillance officers jogging with her dog in tow.
Despite claiming it took her four minutes to walk just 60ft, and that she struggled to get in and out of bed, Bell was filmed running.
The benefits cheat, from city of …

Norway has retained its status as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to UN data, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places, Reuters reports. The United Kingdom is 21st.
Data collected prior to the global economic crisis showed people in Norway, Australia and Iceland had the best living standards, while Niger, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone scored worst in terms of human development.
The United Nations Development …

Three Americans, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
The press release of the Nobel committee:
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are …

Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson thinks there should be a consultation on key parts of the Lisbon Treaty, even if it has already been ratified, the BBC reports.
He admitted it would be difficult to have a referendum on the Treaty itself if it was ratified by all EU states, but he said a Tory government could “put key parts … to the people” such as the need for a “European president”.
Johnson told the BBC it …

Now that the Irish have ratified the Lisbon Treaty, and with Poland expected to follow suit, all eyes are on one man – President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, the BBC reports.
The Czech parliament has approved the treaty, but Klaus, a harsh critic of the European Union, has so far refused to sign it. Czech ratification is currently on hold pending a new legal challenge to Lisbon. But the president has given the first hint …