British symbol started in a one-horse town

The white horse is the favourite mount for emperors and generals, for religious leaders and politicos

In court today

Blake Fielder-Civil to be sentenced | Claim of private equity tycoon Guy Hands | Defence to begin in trial of Barry George

Off to Mongolia but you can call on my mobile

Hundreds of motorists in fancy dress set off from London in the Mongol Rally, one car had an imitation phone box on its roof

Analysis: Ready for another new wave?

There is a danger, however, that record labels will merge and offer every service from live promotion to record distribution

Rubbish idea that could make driving cheaper

A British company may have the answer to petrol prices as it claims to have have found a way to make fuel from rubbish

New in Brief

Madeleine decision | Pensioner poverty | MoD laptop stolen | Three Lotto winners | Call for immigrants to be legal for £5,000

No contact with Iraq kidnappers, say officials

Officals say that they had no way of verifying claims that one of five Britons held by militants in Iraq had killed himself

The nervous shindig finally begins

The 14th Lambeth Conference had everything befitting a party that has been ten years in the planning

Alzheimer’s patients may experience benefits

Drug injected into the spine has produced improvements in verbal fluency in a trial of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Killers have whale of a time as numbers grow

Killer whales have been schooling off Shetland in record numbers, with up to 100 spotted by scientists feeding at one time

Bishops says divided Church should turn to cricket

Lambeth conference opens with sermon from Sri Lankan bishop acknowledging 'reality' of Church's divisions