Connaught is one of the biggest companies involved in maintaining and upgrading social housing. Photograph: Getty Three boardroom executives at crisis-hit social housing maintenance group Connaught, who are departing in the wake of a profits warning that wiped £300m off the value of the company,... 

Crispin Blunt, the prisons minister, wants to take addicts and the mentally ill out of the system and place them in secure treatment centres. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Tens of thousands of offenders may be able to reduce their sentences by making personal apologies to their... 

Memory, No3, overcomes trouble to lift the Cherry Hinton Stakes and is no bigger than 8-1 to win next year’s 1,000 Guineas. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Did you see Memory win the Cherry Hinton at Newmarket on Wednesday? Wow, there was an inspiring performance. Held up by Richard Hughes,... 

Lady Warsi and Chris Huhne. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The coalition staged its first party political press conference this morning, joining forces to attack the Labour leadership candidates over the state of the public finances and arguing that they should pay back their severance pay. In...