Britain

FORMER London mayor Ken Livingstone called for the full nationalisation of Britain's tottering banks on Sunday.

MORE than 200 people flocked to Dundee at the weekend to commemorate the 17 volunteers from the city who died defending Spanish democracy against Franco's fascists.

CRUCIAL staff at the Criminal Records Bureau began a work to rule on Sunday night as 270,000 public-sector workers entered the last week of voting on strikes over government attempts to screw down their pay.

DOZENS of Britain's most celebrated writers will reveal original new work on Monday in a campaign against government plans to extend detention without charge from 28 to 42 days.

ANTI-ACADEMIES campaigners urged transport workers on Sunday to be vigilant against "black death" Lord Adonis's plans for the transport system.

EU bosses admitted on Sunday that recently rehabilitated new Labourite Peter Mandelson is in line for a taxpayer-funded pay-off and pension of up to £1 million after leaving the European Commission to rejoin the Cabinet.

MECHANIC Ray Kellock used scientific principles on Sunday to become World Conker Champion.

COUNCIL workers' unions demanded "direct assistance" from the government on Sunday to ensure that local authorities pay their workers' wages this month.

POLICE said that a pedestrian had been killed after two stolen cars collided and hit a block of flats on Sunday.

THE Co-op Bank and the Britannia Building Society revealed plans on Sunday for a "super-mutual" with more than six million customers and £70 billion of assets.