MPs set to benefit from expenses allowance of £40,000
The row over MPs' expenses could be resolved with a new standard allowance of £40,000 a year for each Member to cover the cost of accommodation in London. Under the proposals from a committee of senior MPs chaired by Michael Martin, Members would be on average £5,000 better off. Critics say this would amount to rewarding them for their recent abuses of the system. (Sunday Times)
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Tennis chiefs clamp down on betting scam
A clampdown on match-fixing in tennis is to be announced on the opening day of Wimbledon, amid claims that eight matches in last year's tournament may have been fixed. A dossier compiled by leading bookmakers shows suspicious spikes in betting on 45 matches in recent years. It is thought some players may have colluded. Stars including women's number one seed Ana Ivanovic (pictured), who is not implicated in the allegations, take to the courts at Wimbledon tomorrow. (Independent on Sunday)
Mugabe’s ‘campaign team’ named
British Government sources have taken the highly unusual step of naming the Zimbabweans they accuse of running a bloody election campaign for Robert Mugabe which has seen scores killed and thousands beaten and tortured. The six men were said by an un-named source to be running a "regime within a regime", and to be viewing the campaign as a military exercise. (Sunday Telegraph)
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Female soldier had secret mission
The woman soldier killed in a bomb attack last week was an intelligence officer on a secret mission to meet an Afghan agent, it has emerged. Corporal Sarah Bryant, the only female UK soldier serving in Afghanistan to be killed so far, was ambushed after details of her meeting became known to the Taliban - either because the agent was a plant, or had been forced to speak. (Sunday Times)
Climate change ‘not humans’ fault’
The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans, according to a new poll by Ipsos MORI for the Observer. The findings shocked environmental campaigners who had thought that a report last year for the UN by more than 2,500 scientists which found a 90 per cent chance that mankind was to blame would have swayed opinion. (Observer)
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The family of one of the suspects in the murder in Italy of British student Meredith Kercher has been accused of trying to interfere with the investigation. Police claim Raffaele Sollecito's father planned to use influence to have detectives he considered hostile taken off the case. (Observer)
Fascism gains ground in modern Italy
At least three English bishops, including the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, are to refuse to attend the Lambeth Conference - an event held once a decade bringing together the world's Anglican bishops - in protest at the inclusion of the American church leaders who consecrated the first gay bishop. (Sunday Telegraph)
Peregrine Worsthorne: three cheers for Rowan Williams
More than 10,000 British soldiers - one in 10 - are now classified as unfit for operations, according to the worst MoD figures since the start of the Iraq war in 2003. Senior officers blame 'tour fatigue' - the pressure of supplying troops to combat zones for over five years. (Sunday Telegraph)
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An attitude that adds insult to injury
British Airways have denied a claim by supermodel Naomi Campbell that staff referred to her as a "golliwog", despite similar allegations from one of its most senior pilots. Campbell admitted assaulting a police officer after the incident in April. At the time, a pilot said that casual racism was rife at the airline. (Independent on Sunday)
People: Naomi turns martyr in name of fellow pasengers
The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering banning Viagra from international sport because the drug - intended to treat sexual dysfunction - has begun increasingly to be found in samples from competitors. It is thought the drug could help with events requiring explosive power, such as sprinting. (Sunday Times)
New research shows that a third of secondary schools offer condoms to their pupils, and that hundreds of thousands of children as young as 11 are being offered morning-after pills. The findings are fuelling the debate over whether sex education encourages promiscuity. (Observer)
The man who took pictures of an 'undiscovered tribe' in the Brazilian rainforest which were shown around the world last month has admitted he exaggerated the story to gain publicity to safeguard them from logging operations. In fact the tribe had its first contact with the outside world in 1910. (Observer)
In pictures: first contact
Scotland Yard is using anti-terror legislation to investigate the the so-called 'Wonga Coup'. Officers are looking into the 2004 conspiracy supposedly involving old Etonian mercenary Simon Mann (left) and, it was once alleged, Sir Mark Thatcher at the request of the Equatorial Guinea government. (Independent on Sunday)
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The UK is to ask the Argentine authorities to investigate the cases of Britons who disappeared during the 'dirty war' waged by the country's military junta against political dissidents 30 years ago. Many of those kidnapped were thrown to their deaths from aeroplanes over the Atlantic. (Sunday Telegraph)
March of the Pinguinos
Tesco has been accused of "underhand" and "misleading" tactics after it applied for planning permission for a huge supermarket in Devon. The application to build in Barnstaple was submitted in the name of a small local business, though it was always intended that Tesco would run the shop. (Sunday Telegraph)
British engineering giant Amec is a leading contender to run the £40bn United Arab Emirates nuclear programme. The FTSE-100 company is on a shortlist of nine to oversee the technical design, construction and operation of around 14 nuclear facilities planned in the Gulf state. (Independent on Sunday)
The general secretary of the Trades Unions Congress has warned of a period of industrial strife on a level unseen in this country for 30 years as inflation spirals. Brendan Barber said: "I think we are going to see more disputes, certainly in the public sector." (Observer)
Novelist Ian McEwan has leapt to the defence of his 'Islamophobic' friend Martin Amis (left) with a controversy-courting interview on Islamism in an Italian newspaper. McEwan said: "Martin is not a racist. And I myself despise Islamism because it wants to create a society that I detest." (Independent on Sunday)
People: Amis delivers fatwa warning to Obama
Crime writer Lee Child is celebrating as his 12th novel starring anti-hero Jack Reacher goes to number one in the New York Times hardback fiction list today. Child was fired from his job at Granada TV at the age of 40, but13 years later has become a millionaire through his writing. (Observer)
Lord Byron, celebrated as one of England's greatest Romantic poets, played a private joke on his female admirers which has been kept secret by the family of his publishers until now: asked for a lock of his hair, he would sometimes send a clipping from Boatswain, his newfoundland dog. (Sunday Times)
