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Police are hunting for a girl of 14 who has disappeared with a 35-year-old convicted fraudster. Lorna Vickerage ran away with ‘family friend’ John Bush three days after being taken from home and placed in foster care by social services. Detectives urgently want to trace the ‘vulnerable’ teenager and are concerned about Bush because he is known to be a ‘liar, fraud and cheat’. Scroll down for video Missing: Schoolgirl Lorna Vickerage (left), 14, and former car dealer John Bush (right), 35, both of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, are thought to have been in the Highfields area of the town over the past two days South Yorkshire Police say they do not know what his motives are for going off with the girl, but he is wanted for abduction of a child. Lorna’s mother and father have appealed for her to hand herself in and stressed she is not in trouble. Her father, Darren Griffiths, urged her to come home. ‘She’s quite independent,’ he said. ‘She’s usually quite sensible. But,

Considering that the education of yesteryear was so superior, one wonders what they taught in history class at Maria Miller's school. Not the origins of World War I, that is for certain. For if they had, our Culture Secretary wouldn't have been as mealy-mouthed when announcing the commemoration of its centennial this week. Miller's mission was to avoid judgment and strike the right tone. Will that be how the subject is taught in Education Secretary Michael Gove's brave new world, too? Back to basics with our teaching, unless those basics upset our European allies. Education: When it comes to history children learn only when, what, where and how. Not the most important question in any historical study: why? And he reckons GCSEs were dumbed down. Fritz Fischer is the name you should know, kids. Don't let them shelter you. Fischer was the first historian to examine the entire archives of the Imperial German government and, for this reason, his 1961 work Germany&

Back in January, the Government launched an expensive advertising campaign to discourage Romanians and Bulgarians from moving to Britain. The thrust of the deterrent was that the climate in this country is much wetter and colder than they might expect. I can remember writing at the time that it would take more than an adverse weather forecast to put them off. Shanty town: Up to 40 squatters are living in the demolished Hendon Football Club ground, which has lain empty in Brent Cross for several years So it has proven. Although it hasn't stopped raining this year, immigrants from the two Eastern European countries have been arriving in droves. The inclement weather doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest. In Central London they are quite happy to camp out in the streets and in Hyde Park. Another group has set up a Desmond Dekker-style shanty town on the former Hendon FC ground, a few miles to the north west. Now we learn that a group of Eastern Europeans has moved in

Inevitably the dramatic departure of RBS boss Stephen Hester on Wednesday evening was followed by a frenzy of speculation yesterday. Did George Osborne, desperate to raise the funds for a pre-election giveaway, force out Mr Hester because he did not agree with the Chancellor's hurried timetable for returning taxpayer-owned RBS to private hands? Had Mr Osborne been persuaded by Vince Cable to replace the undoubtedly arrogant Mr Hester with a more compliant figure, who would cede to Government demands to lend more to small firms? Whatever the reality, the markets took fright at the idea of political interference – with the bank's value slumping by £1.6billion at one stage. Analysts fear that – with the man who recently dragged RBS back into profit gone – it will now take even longer for the Chancellor to dispose of an institution which cost £45billion to bail out, but is currently worth only £19.3billion. True, it is not Mr Osborne's fault he was saddled with RBS (and Lloyd

Dale Cregan was so calm and collected the day that he murdered two police officers that he even shared a joke with a 999 call handler. The 30-year-old gave a false name to report a concrete slab being thrown through a window at his home in Hattersley, Greater Manchester. He then detailed exactly where the perpetrators had fled to with precise details, answering questions in a chillingly cool manner, adding at the end of the conversation 'I'll be waiting'. But all along it was part of his plan to kill police. The unfortunate officers who answered the call for help were Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32. Scroll down for audio Home: Forensic officers last September at the scene close to where police constables Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, where shot dead by Dale Cregan in Hattersley, Greater Manchester Evidence: A Glock handgun (right) found at the scene of the murders committed by Dale Cregan (left), 30 After the call - in which the operator e

> Britain's chances of winning future wars will be ‘seriously damaged’ by more crippling spending cuts, the country’s top soldier has warned. General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the Army, said further savings likely to be ordered by the Government could prove ‘quite dangerous, quite soon’. Under current plans, the size of the Army is being reduced from 102,000 three years ago to 82,000 – small enough for every soldier to fit inside Wembley Stadium. The latest raft of around 5,000 redundancies will be confirmed on Tuesday, shrinking the number of personnel to 90,000 – its lowest level since before the Napoleonic Wars began 200 years ago. But the Ministry of Defence is expected to be ordered by the Treasury to make further cuts of at least £1billion. Last night General Wall raised concerns about demanding more savings of the Armed Forces. He said: ‘Imposing more on us now before the last round of efficiencies have really materialised properly in a balanced way would be very d

A new check for cervical cancer is far more effective than the traditional smear test, say doctors.  Thousands of young women’s lives could be saved by the new procedure. Early trials have shown it detects affected cells before they are able to develop into cancer. A light micrograph showing cervical cancer cells. Early trials have shown a new test can detect affected cells before they develop into cancer Unlike the current smear test, women would be able to carry out the procedure in their own homes, saving themselves the embarrassment of having it done at a surgery or hospital. The new test costs £30 but researchers believe the price would be reduced considerably if it was rolled out across the NHS.   More... Size matters most in the changing room: Men care more what their mates think of their manhood than their partner Northern women are more likely to suffer from skin cancer because they use sunbeds 'to look like their favourite celebrities' They also calcul