Under-fire Prescott gives up mansion

BRITAIN’S Deputy Prime Minster John Prescott announced last night he is to give up his grace-and-favour mansion, Dorneywood.

He said he had made the decision because controversy over the residence was “getting in the way” of his role in government.

But Conservatives said the British public was not interested in where Mr Prescott lived but in failings of the health service and benefits system, dismissing the move as “trivial”.