• Crippled clipper to get cash injection
• However, local boroughs are still passing round the begging bowl - and does anybody have a spare £250 million stuck behind the sofa to help out West End theatres?
• Caterwauling Kate's karaoke marathons not entirely popular with new neighbours
• Department for Transport rapped on the knuckles over Metronet's "spectacular failure"
• Girl and pa lash themselves to Japanese embassy in anti-whaling protest.

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