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Darling rewrites Budget to give basic rate taxpayers £120 each

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling threw a lifeline to Gordon Brown yesterday with a £2.7bn giveaway aimed at ending the 10p tax row. Read

Jack Straw: English parliament would split Union

SETTING up an English parliament would be a disaster as Wales and Scotland would demand independence, Justice Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday. Read

Wales making a success of law-making powers, says Elis-Thomas

ASSEMBLY Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas, pictured, insisted yesterday that the devolution settlement was working well in Wales, a year after controversial new arrangements were introduced. Read

WAG invests record £7.5m in Airbus

DEPUTY First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has today announced the Welsh Assembly Government's largest ever investment in research and development with a £7.5m contribution to a £103m Airbus-led programme to make the next generation of aircraft wings. Read

New era of politics will ‘see Wales mirror the Europeans’

WELSH politics has entered a new era of Continental-style pluralism following this month’s council elections, according to the head of Wales’ leading think tank. Read

Lib Dems and Plaid set for a coalition in Cardiff

THE Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are entering into “full negotiations” towards a coalition to run Wales’ largest council. Read

Rights hope for agency workers

New rights for agency workers could finally be introduced after a long campaign by unions and Labour MPs. Read

Common ground sought for NHS constitution

TALKS between Whitehall and the devolved administrations on “common denominators” that can be included in a single UK-wide constitution for the NHS are in the pipeline. Read

Brown sets out vision for ‘fairer, more prosperous Britain’

GORDON BROWN stepped up his political fightback yesterday with a plan to help first-time buyers onto the property ladder and a claim his struggling administration was still best placed to build a “fairer, more prosperous” Britain. Read

Police democracy plan

Elections could be held for places on police authorities under plans proposed by the Prime Minister yesterday. Read

Main Bills at a glance

The main Bills proposed that relate to Wales. Read

Tory says business rate relief in Wales is ‘measly’

A former Tory Assembly candidate has accused Plaid Cymru of breaking its election promise to help small businesses. Read

Call for weekend power referendum

LABOUR AM Lesley Griffiths has called for a referendum on lawmaking powers for the National Assembly to be held on a weekend to maximise voter participation. Read

Construction row in Wales

THE Office of Fair Trading will not extend an investigation that uncovered potential widespread evidence of price fixing in the construction industry into Wales. Read

Memoirs add to Prime Minister’s woes

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband came out batting for the Prime Minister yesterday after another weekend of dreadful headlines for Gordon Brown. Read

Former AM heading for by-election defeat

FORMER AM Tamsin Dunwoody looks to be heading for defeat in her attempt to win her mother’s old seat of Crewe & Nantwich in a vital parliamentary by-election. Read

Clwyd backs delivering aid directly into Burma against the junta’s wishes

AID should be delivered to Burma by whatever means possible, a senior Labour MP said last night. Read

Ghost of Major haunts Brown

GORDON Brown’s poll ratings are plummeting to levels not seen for decades. The PM is under pressure, but, wonders Political Editor Tomos Livingstone, is his administration doomed just yet? Read

AM cannot see ‘what all the fuss is about’

A LABOUR AM yesterday became the first to speak out against plans to publish members’ expense claims, saying the current system was enough. Read

Guto charged with keeping Johnson out of trouble

A FORMER BBC journalist was yesterday unveiled as the man to manage the public face of famously gaffe-prone new London mayor Boris Johnson. Read