The former Secretary of Northern Ireland Patrick Mayhew has died.

WITH four boom and bust cycles over the past 40 years, a growing population, particularly in London, and the state withdrawing almost altogether from building social housing — the sector is in crisis in Britain.

This week features the rousing true story of ‘Pride’, stop-motion animated fantasy ‘The Box Trolls’ and Phillip Seymour Hoffman delivers one of his final performances in the thriller ‘A Most Wanted Man’.

Margaret Thatcher never paid much attention to football, but last week football was remembering her.

READING and listening to the commentary on the leadership of Brian Cowen, I am reminded of Tony Benn’s contribution to the 1990 motion of no confidence in the Thatcher government: