Committee expected to reject Nick Clegg’s plans for Lords reform
Clegg’s plan to have just 300 members in new Lords is opposed by peers and MPs on committee considering draft reforms |
Stephen Lawrence murder: Norris and Dobson get 14 and 15 years
 | Using rules that applied when crime was committed, judge sentences David Norris to 14 years, three months and Gary Dobson to 15 years, two months |
Stephen Lawrence murder: Gary Dobson and David Norris await sentencing
Minimum jail term is 12 years because pair were juveniles, and law was less tough on racist crimes in 1993 |
New Year honours include an award for tycoon jailed over stock market scandal
Business gongs include CBE for Gerald Ronson, one of the ‘Guinness four’, for charity work since serving jail term in 1990 |
New Year honours list: knighthoods for academics and Nobel laureates
KBEs awarded to Nobel-winning physicists, an Oxford church historian and the designer of Apple’s iPod, iPhone and iPad |
New Year honours recognise successes in poetry, prose – and reality TV
Those honoured in arts include ‘the finest living English poet’, novelists, actors and the man behind the Big Brother format |
New Year honours: Recognition for unsung heroes in the public sector
Awards for Britons who helped during emergency rescue efforts, youth outreach workers, school principals and police officers |
New Year honours for leading figures in sport, the Olympics and Paralympics
List includes world taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson, who was controversially not on sports personality of the year shortlist |