There has been a rise in the number of Britons going under the knife to improve their appearance, figures suggest.
Data from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) shows 38,274 surgical procedures were carried out in 2010 - up 5% on figures for 2009.
One of the biggest rises was for breast reduction in men - to get rid of so-called "man boobs" - with 741 operations in 2010, up 28% on the previous year.
Top of the list for total number of operations in men was nose jobs, accounting for 993 operations, up 13% on the previous year.
Eyelid surgery made up 652 procedures (up 6%), while ear correction accounted for 496 (down 27%). There were 473 liposuction operations (up 5%) and 263 for neck and/or face lifts (up 11%) in men. Brow lifts also rose in popularity, to 123 procedures (up 13% on 2009).
Overall, women had 90% of cosmetic procedures in 2010, with breast enhancements being the most popular (9,418 procedures, up 10% on 2009).
Eyelid surgery accounted for 5,127 procedures (up 7%), while face and/or neck lifts were the third most popular (4,493, up 12%). Nose jobs accounted for 3,214 procedures (up 9%), tummy tucks for 3,039 (down 7%) and liposuction for 2,896 (down 4%).
The figures represent operations carried out by BAAPS members, who make up about 40% of cosmetic surgeons in the UK.
Fazel Fatah, consultant plastic surgeon and president of the BAAPS, said: "Procedures showing the more considerable rise during this period seem to be, perhaps not surprisingly, concentrated on the most visible areas of the body - facelifts, breasts and nose jobs. Surgeries that decreased in popularity were for the areas which could potentially be 'hidden' or disguised by fashion and hairstyles, such as tummy tucks and pinning back prominent ears."
BAAPS is a not-for-profit organisation based at the Royal College of Surgeons.
There has been a rise in the number of Britons going under the knife to improve their appearance, figures suggest.
Data from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) shows 38,274 surgical procedures were carried out in 2010 - up 5% on figures for 2009.
One of the biggest rises was for breast reduction in men - to get rid of so-called "man boobs" - with 741 operations in 2010, up 28% on the previous year.
Top of the list for total number of operations in men was nose jobs, accounting for 993 operations, up 13% on the previous year.
Eyelid surgery made up 652 procedures (up 6%), while ear correction accounted for 496 (down 27%). There were 473 liposuction operations (up 5%) and 263 for neck and/or face lifts (up 11%) in men. Brow lifts also rose in popularity, to 123 procedures (up 13% on 2009).
Overall, women had 90% of cosmetic procedures in 2010, with breast enhancements being the most popular (9,418 procedures, up 10% on 2009).
Eyelid surgery accounted for 5,127 procedures (up 7%), while face and/or neck lifts were the third most popular (4,493, up 12%). Nose jobs accounted for 3,214 procedures (up 9%), tummy tucks for 3,039 (down 7%) and liposuction for 2,896 (down 4%).
The figures represent operations carried out by BAAPS members, who make up about 40% of cosmetic surgeons in the UK.
Fazel Fatah, consultant plastic surgeon and president of the BAAPS, said: "Procedures showing the more considerable rise during this period seem to be, perhaps not surprisingly, concentrated on the most visible areas of the body - facelifts, breasts and nose jobs. Surgeries that decreased in popularity were for the areas which could potentially be 'hidden' or disguised by fashion and hairstyles, such as tummy tucks and pinning back prominent ears."
BAAPS is a not-for-profit organisation based at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Colin Firth has won the best-actor trophy for the The King's Speech, and monarchy saga took another honour for overall cast at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The two prizes capped a week-long surge of Hollywood gongs for the film, which is building momentum for the Academy Awards on February 27, where the Facebook drama The Social Network had previously looked like the favourite.
Natalie Portman earned the best-actress award at the ceremony for Black Swan, while The Fighter co-stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo swept the supporting-acting honours, boosting their own prospects for Oscar night.
The King's Speech leads Oscar contenders with 12 nominations, among them best picture and actor for Firth, who has been the awards favourite virtually since the film premiered at festivals half a year ago.
"Until today, I would say probably, if ever I felt that I had a trophy which has told me that something's really happening for me, it was my SAG card," said Firth, who plays George VI, as he takes the throne in the 1930s while struggling to overcome a debilitating stammer.
"Growing up in England, it's not something you expect to see in your wallet, really," Firth continued. "And so it has this glow, and I used to flash it around, hoping it would get me female attention, entry into nightclubs and top-level government departments. It didn't."
Betty White, who is having her own career resurgence in her 80s, won for TV comedy actress for Hot in Cleveland.
Alec Baldwin won his fifth-straight guild award for best actor in a comedy series for 30 Rock. And Modern Family won for overall cast performance in a TV comedy.
Steve Buscemi of Boardwalk Empire and Julianna Margulies of The Good Wife won as best actors in a TV drama. Boardwalk Empire, a Prohibition-era gangster series, also won for overall TV drama cast performance.
The 17th annual SAG Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, included a life-achievement honour for Ernest Borgnine.
Bursaries for trainee teachers are to be scrapped in most subjects as part of the coalition's money-saving drive.
The annual £6,000 payments will be dropped for those planning to teach topics including English, history, geography and art.
Under the plans, recruits will still be able to get up to £9,000 a year to train in areas seen as vital to the economy, such as science, maths and modern languages. But new teachers will no longer receive £5,000 "golden hellos" after a year in the job.
The move comes as major changes in training places are due to take effect.
Numbers for secondary schools will fall by 2,000 from September - a decrease of 14% - while primary teaching places are set to rise.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "This isn't a cut. There are fewer children at secondary school so we need fewer teachers. The Department calculates the number of new teacher recruits the school system needs using a supply and demand model.
"The number of children at secondary school age across the country is falling with the number of primary age children increasing. We therefore make the right amount of funding available based on this need."
The same formula is understood to have been used under the Labour government.
Referring to the removal of bursaries, the spokesman added: "The Government will continue to attract the best graduates into teaching by offering bursaries in maths and sciences which are priority subjects and we are also investing in the Teach First scheme to attract the very best graduates."
But Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, warned that cuts this year would create staff shortages in two or three years' time. "We already have a large number of teachers aged over 55 who are going to retire in the next few years, just as we cut trainees and bursaries. This Government is setting itself up for some serious problems two or three years down the line," she told the Daily Telegraph.
Children in the care system are losing out because of a disturbing and prevalent attitude among Britons that gay parents are second best, a children's charity has warned.
Barnardo's chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said there was no room for prejudice as a survey showed one in three people think gay couples will make worse parents than those in heterosexual relationships.
Society's attitude must be changed to increase the chances of the 64,000 children in the care system finding the secure, loving and stable homes that they desperately need, she said.
"The idea that gay parents are second best must be challenged," Ms Carrie said.
"There is no room for prejudice, children are in desperate need.
"To suggest that a same-sex couple is not as able to raise a child as a heterosexual couple is at once absurd and unsubstantiated. To continue to discourage potential adopters simply because of their sexual orientation is severely diminishing the chances of securing loving, stable homes for the children who are waiting.
"This debate needs to be urgently raised and myths surrounding how sexuality, race, marital status and gender can affect your parenting dispelled."
The survey of more than 2,000 adults found one in three (32%) of the public do not think gay couples can parent as well as heterosexual couples.
One gay adoptive parent, Marcel, who has two sons aged 17 and 18 with her partner Meryl, said: "I feel the result is based in ignorance because nobody knows if they are going to be good parents and no child comes with a manual so everybody does the best they can.
"I don't think a same-sex couple is going to find that any different to a heterosexual couple."
A wearable "artificial pancreas" could dramatically reduce the risks pregnancy poses to women with insulin-dependent diabetes, research has shown.
In tests, the device was shown to help keep blood sugar levels under control and prevent the potentially fatal complications that can affect diabetic mothers-to-be.
Having a baby is not a decision taken lightly for many women with type 1 diabetes, an auto-immune disease which stops the pancreas producing insulin.
Babies of women with the condition have a five-fold increased risk of being stillborn and are three times more likely than average to die in their first months of life. They also have double the normal risk of a major deformity. In addition, low blood glucose is a leading cause of death among pregnant mothers.
Two out of every three mothers who suffered from diabetes before getting pregnant have the type 1 disease, which affects around 300,000 people in the UK.
Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the condition, is lifestyle-related and tends to affect older people past their reproductive age.
The artificial pancreas, a mobile phone-sized device worn on the hip, consists of a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and an insulin pump. The device automatically monitors blood glucose and pumps insulin into the circulation to maintain correct sugar levels.
Previous studies showed the system could help children with type 1 diabetes, but until now it had not been successfully tested on pregnant women.
Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK, said: "Although early days, this exciting area of research, funded by our donors, has huge potential to make pregnancy much safer for women with type 1 diabetes, and their babies.
"It's a fantastic example of how existing technologies, in this case, insulin pumps and CGMs, can be adapted and developed to benefit as many people with diabetes as possible. We now need to see an extension of this study, one which tests larger numbers of women, and then take it out of the hospital and into the home setting."
Neglect levels in Britain's care homes have been described as "scandalous" after it emerged that more than 650 elderly residents have died of dehydration in the past five years.
Figures also revealed that 157 vulnerable pensioners died of malnutrition in the same period, while nearly 2,000 passed away from superbugs Clostridium difficile and MRSA.
It is feared the totals may be higher because care home residents who die in hospital are not included in the statistics.
Commenting on the figures, Neil Duncan-Jordan of the National Pensioners Convention, said: "The fact that people are dying from these sorts of causes is absolutely shocking in the 21st century."
The Office for National Statistics compiled the figures after analysing death certificates of care home residents in England and Wales between 2005 and 2009. The totals cover both underlying causes of death and contributory factors.
Analysts found there were 667 victims of dehydration, 157 of malnutrition and 1,928 deaths linked to superbugs. Some 1,446 died suffering with pressure ulcers, otherwise know as bedsores, while 4,866 died with septicaemia, or blood poisoning. Another 4,881 had fatal falls.
According to the figures, the number of deaths linked to dehydration doubled, while those involving superbugs rose sevenfold during the previous Labour government's rule.
Speaking in The Daily Mail, Mr Duncan-Jordan added: "What it shows is that a significant number of older people in our care homes are getting substandard, third-rate attention. Yet the cost of staying in a care home is huge - the average is between £600 and £800 a week. And yet for that, no one helps you eat your meals, no one ensures you are properly turned in bed, and no one makes sure you have had enough to drink."
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow put the present "broken care system" down to the previous Labour government. "Labour let people down by failing to reform the way we pay for care," he said. "They kicked it into the long grass for nearly 13 years and failed to deliver a settlement.
"Before this Parliament is over we will have reformed both the law and funding of social care putting in place a firm foundation for a fairer care system."
The head of the NHS Confederation has called for a "constructive dialogue" about the effect of greater competition in healthcare.
Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the independent membership body, wrote to NHS organisations as MPs prepared to debate the Health and Social Care Bill for the first time in the House of Commons.
The reforms under the new bill would mean increased competition between the NHS and private companies, with GPs given greater powers to commission treatment.
But Mr Edwards said the debate over the use of markets in healthcare had been "unhelpfully polarised" and warned the issues had been "poorly understood". He added that opportunities to improve care could be missed without a proper debate.
In the message, Mr Edwards said: "The idea of harnessing the power of markets and competition to create change has underpinned much of recent healthcare reform in the UK and other countries. But in this country the debate is unhelpfully polarised, characterised more by assertion and dogma than by evidence.
"The issues seem poorly understood and opportunities to improve care could be lost unless we achieve a more constructive dialogue."
He also said healthcare was "not a single market" and needed a flexible approach. "Some fear that competition will lead to fragmented services," he added. "This is more likely to be the result of poor management and procurement than a direct result of markets. There are ways of organising care so competition is between integrated services that provide the whole package a patient needs. Competition does not have to create fragmentation, just as a monolithic structure does not guarantee integration."
Mr Edwards said the Government needed a "sophisticated" understanding of the impact any policy change would have on healthcare.
Prime Minister David Cameron later defended the health reforms, claiming the need to modernise the service was "essential". Writing in The Times, he said: "Without modernisation, the principle we all hold dear - that the NHS is free to all who need it, when they need it - will become unaffordable. Fail to modernise and the NHS is heading for crisis."
Meanwhile, protesters opposed to the NHS reforms are to demonstrate outside Parliament. Unite is expected to present MPs with "new and forensic analysis" of the legislation before the second reading, amid claims that the Coalition was "rushing through" the 280-clause Bill.
David Cameron and US President Barack Obama have called for an "orderly transition" to a democratic government in Egypt.
As the crisis engulfing President Hosni Mubarak escalated, the two leaders held talks and gave the strongest indication yet that they do not envisage him hanging on to power.
The military staged a show of strength on the sixth day of mass demonstrations demanding an end to Mr Mubarak's three-decade rule. But protesters gave no sign of dispersing despite more than 100 deaths so far, with huge crowds again roaming the streets of major cities.
Foreign Secretary William Hague stressed that Egypt was a "sovereign nation" and Britain was not trying to "pick who should be president". However, he insisted there should be smooth and peaceful reform, raising concerns that extremists could seek to exploit any power vacuum.
Mr Hague indicated that the UK would be concerned if 82-year-old Mr Mubarak was replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative religious group seen as one of the main opposition forces.
Gangs of armed men are reported to have stormed four jails across Egypt on Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates.
The army has sent hundreds more troops and armoured vehicles on to the streets of Cairo and other cities, and jets have been flying low over the main square in the capital. However, they appeared unwilling to take action against gangs of young men with guns and large sticks who were smashing cars and robbing people.
Mr Cameron personally spoke to the embattled president on Saturday to express his "grave concern" about violence against the anti-government dissidents. In a separate joint statement with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Prime Minister said: "The Egyptian people have legitimate grievances and a longing for a just and better future."
A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mr Cameron and Mr Obama had discussed their "shared and deep concern" at the crisis in a telephone call on Sunday night. Mr Cameron also discussed the situation with King Abdullah of Jordan, a key powerbroker in the region. "The Prime Minister and President Obama were united in their view that Egypt now needed a comprehensive process of political reform, with an orderly, Egyptian-led transition leading to a government that responded to the grievances of the Egyptian people and to their aspirations for a democratic future," the spokesman said.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition moderate and potential successor, joined the crowds in Cairo's main Liberation Square on Sunday night. He insisted the president had to go immediately.
Ed Miliband has said he will not get married for political expediency, joking he had a choice about taking paternity leave because he has yet to tie the knot with his partner Justine Thornton.
In an interview with Piers Morgan, the Labour leader insisted Ms Thornton, the mother of his two young sons, was not his wife, before quipping: "Thank God for that, probably."
Mr Miliband, who is the first leader of a major political party to live with his family out of wedlock, has been criticised for failing to marry Ms Thornton, a 40-year-old Cambridge-educated barrister.
Traditionalists have also attacked Mr Miliband for not putting his name on the birth certificate of his eldest son Daniel. He claimed he was so busy he forgot.
During an interview for GQ magazine, which is out on Thursday, Morgan teased the Labour leader by continually referring to Ms Thornton as his "wife".
Asked for his views on marriage during the interview, which took place on the day he returned from paternity leave last November, Mr Miliband explained his decision.
"It's a good institution and part of having stable families, but there are also people in unmarried relationships with stable families. I don't think politicians should order people to get married."
He insisted he would eventually tie the knot. "But the more people who challenge me on it from a political standpoint, the more resistant I will become," he added.
"We'll get married because we want to get married and love each other very much, no other reason."
Police have been asked to investigate suspicions that the phone of rail union leader Bob Crow has been hacked into by journalists.
Lawyers acting for the general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union have written to the Metropolitan Police asking them to look into suspicions that Mr Crow's phone may have been hacked into between the year 2000 and the present day.
Mr Crow said: "RMT has had suspicions that journalists may have had access to private information about my movements and my union's activities that date back to the year 2000 and we are now asking for the police, as part of their renewed investigation, to disclose to us any evidence or information that they may have uncovered in respect of the News of the World."
A string of politicians and showbiz figures have previously claimed that their phones were tapped, but this is the first time a union leader has raised suspicions.
It is understood that Mr Crow became worried that information about his movements had been accessed without his knowledge.
The union leader has been involved in a number of high-profile transport disputes in recent years, including strikes on London Underground.
Protesters opposed to the Government's radical NHS reforms are to demonstrate outside Parliament as ministers begin a second debate on the controversial Health and Social Care Bill.
Health workers from up and down the country will carry estate agent signs bearing the message "NHS, Not for Sale".
Andrew Lansley's proposals, which centre around handing GPs £80 billion of the NHS budget and increasing the role of private companies in health provision, have come under fierce criticism from the unions and clinicians in recent weeks.
Unite is expected to present MPs with "new and forensic analysis" of the legislation before the second reading, amid claims that the coalition is "rushing through" the 280-clause Bill.
A recent survey revealed that only one in four people support doctors using private companies to provide NHS services.
The survey of almost 2,000 adults for public sector union Unison showed that half were opposed to the move, including 56% of Liberal Democrat voters.
Only 46% of Conservative voters supported private firms providing NHS services, with 22% registering a "don't know" response.
The YouGov study also showed half of those surveyed were against GPs employing private management groups.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "This Bill is heading for trouble. The YouGov poll shows a clear split between Lib Dem and Tory supporters. There is very weak support from Tory voters and clear opposition from Lib Dems.
"The fact is there is very little support for this Bill from anywhere. Many GPs are opposed to it, as are patients, NHS staff, clinicians, charities, think tanks, MPs and unions. The Government's vanity project is undemocratic, unaffordable and unnecessary."
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed he will not change course on the economy, insisting that the Government's decision to make sharp cuts in spending to pay down the deficit was right and "we have to see it through".
Mr Cameron has come under intense pressure to draw up an economic "Plan B" amid fears that his austerity measures are driving Britain into "double-dip" recession, after the latest GDP figures showed the economy shrank by 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010.
He acknowledged that 2011 will be a "difficult and painful" year, but insisted he will stay the course, warning that scaling back cuts would undermine the confidence of the markets.
But he held out the prospect of assistance for motorists, giving his strongest hint yet that the March 23 Budget may include a "fair fuel stabiliser" to soften the impact of petrol price rises by cutting duties as the cost of oil goes up.
Mr Cameron told BBC1's Breakfast: "I won't hide from people that this is going to be a difficult year but I think we just have to keep on explaining... that if you don't deal with your debt and your deficit, you can end up like Greece or Ireland - in a real mess.
"We mustn't do that, so we have to go through this difficult year. The Opposition is suggesting an alternative. I just happen to think they are wrong.
"If we suddenly said 'We are going to tear up our Budget plans, we are going to turn the taps of Government spending back on again, we are not going to care about the deficit', I think the rest of the world would say 'How can I have confidence in Britain if they are not going to pay down their debts?'
"There are always people suggesting alternatives, but I think our course is the right one and we have to see it through."
On petrol prices, which have hit record highs of around £1.30 a litre as a result of increases in the global cost of oil and this month's hike in VAT to 20%, Mr Cameron said: "What we are trying to do is have a system where, when the oil price goes up, we share the difficulty of that with the motorist. I think that's fair. That's what we are going to try to do."
Chancellor George Osborne hinted last week that he was considering scrapping a 1p rise in fuel duty scheduled for April, but Mr Cameron did not refer to this option.
David Cameron has called for a "proper orderly transition" to democratic government in Egypt.
The Prime Minister said he had warned President Hosni Mubarak in a phone conversation that a repressive response to the protests seen in Egypt over the past week would "end badly" for his country and the world, and urged him to opt instead for reform.
But Mr Cameron stopped short of saying that Mr Mubarak should stand down, insisting it was not for the UK to choose who should lead other countries.
He and US President Barack Obama agreed, in a telephone conversation on Sunday night, that they wanted to see Egypt offer its people greater rights and freedoms, as well as the protection of the rule of law.
Protesters are still camped out on the streets of Cairo, after six days of mass demonstrations demanding an end to Mr Mubarak's three-decade rule, and there is little sign of an end to protests despite a show of strength by the military on Sunday and more than 100 deaths over the past week.
Mr Cameron called on the Egyptian authorities to "go down the path of reform and not repression".
He told BBC1's Breakfast: "I have spoken to President Mubarak and had a conversation with President Obama last night, and we were very much agreed that we want the response of the Egyptian government to be that there needs to be a proper orderly transition to a more democratic situation, where there are greater rights, greater freedoms, better rule of law and that sort of reform, to show to people in Egypt that their concerns and their aspirations are being listened to.
"It is very important that whether it is President Obama or me, we are not saying who should run this country or that country.
"But I think in the conversations we have with President Mubarak and others it is sensible to say 'You do have a choice here. This repression - if you opt for that, that will end badly for Egypt, badly for the world. It is the wrong choice'."
Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet his EU counterparts in Brussels later for talks on the situation in Egypt at which he said they would "collectively underline the need for change".
David Cameron has warned that the NHS will become "increasingly unaffordable" if radical plans by the Government to reform the health service are not implemented.
The Prime Minister defended an overhaul of the NHS, including handing GPs £80 billion of the NHS budget to commission services, insisting that the "biggest risk" to the health service would be to do nothing.
"If you look at the growth of the elderly population, look at the new drugs that are coming on stream, the new treatments, if we keep the system we have now and don't make changes to cut bureaucracy and waste, I think it will become increasingly unaffordable," he told BBC Breakfast.
"The risk is doing nothing."
Mr Cameron's remarks came as protesters opposed to the reforms planned to demonstrate outside Parliament as ministers begin a second debate on the controversial Health and Social Care Bill.
A well-known sportsman who obtained an order stopping the media publishing information about his private life has won an appeal against a ruling which would reveal his identity.
The man, referred to in court as JIH, asked a panel of three judges headed by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, to reverse a ruling by High Court judge Mr Justice Tugendhat.
Lord Neuberger, outlining the facts in a judgment which he said could be published, said the sportsman had been in a long-term relationship with another person, referred to as XX.
"Since his relationship with XX had started, but before August 2010, a story had been published, without JIH having received any prior notice, suggesting that he had a sexual liaison with another person, who I shall call YY."
"The story whose publication JIH is seeking to prevent concerns an alleged sexual encounter he had with a different person, to whom I shall refer as ZZ, last year."
When JIH discovered that News Group Newspapers intended to publish a story based on information provided by ZZ, he began the present proceedings without revealing his identity.
He also sought an order preventing publication of any information about an alleged sexual relationship with ZZ during his relationship with XX which was served on seven other media companies.
Lord Neuberger said in the appeal court ruling: "If the media could publish the name of the claimant and the substance of the information which he is seeking to exclude from the public domain, then the whole purpose of the injunction would be undermined, and the claimant's private life may be unlawfully exposed."
He added: "If we permitted JIH's identity to be revealed without permitting the nature of the information of which he is seeking to restrain to be published, then it would nonetheless be relatively easy for the media and members of the public to deduce the nature of that information; it would be a classic, if not very difficult, jigsaw exercise."
The family of Joanna Yeates can begin to plan her funeral after her body was released, it has emerged.
A post-mortem examination was carried out last week on behalf of murder accused Vincent Tabak by a pathologist, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Michael Fitton QC, representing Tabak, told the preliminary hearing that Dr Nat Carey conducted the examination last Wednesday.
"With his consent we have consented to the release of the body of the deceased," Mr Fitton told the court.
Tabak, who appeared in court via videolink from HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire, spoke only briefly during the 15 minute hearing.
A provisional trial date was fixed for October 4 and a plea and case management hearing will take place on May 4. Members of the public and journalists filled the gallery of Courtroom 9.
Tabak, 32, appeared on TV screens in court, sitting behind a table with his hands together to listen to the proceedings. Wearing glasses, a red jumper and dark trousers, the Dutch engineer spoke only to confirm his name and that he could hear the proceedings clearly.
Mr Justice Treacy, prosecutor Nigel Lickley QC, and Mr Fitton agreed the timetable for the trial.
At the conclusion of Monday's proceedings, the judge told Tabak: "Your next appearance in court will be on May 4 by which time the case papers will have been served and you will see in detail what the allegations are against you. There will be a hearing to make the final arrangements for a trial which we expect to take place in October."
No bail application was made and Tabak - Miss Yeates's next-door neighbour - was remanded into custody.
Union leaders are studying proposals for huge job cuts at a Conservative-controlled council which takes the total number of threatened redundancies across the country to nearer 150,000.
Surrey County Council will discuss spending cuts on Tuesday, with estimates that 650 posts are under threat because of Government funding cuts.
But the GMB union said earlier estimates put the figure at 1,000, which it warned would hit council services.
GMB officer Paul Maloney said on Monday: "GMB officials are assessing a new paper on the cuts going to Surrey County Council cabinet meeting tomorrow which seems to estimate that 650 posts will go over the next four years.
"GMB officials are comparing this with the earlier estimate of 1,000 posts to go over the coming period. In particular they are assessing whether this latest estimate included the large number of vacancies not filled during 2010.
"Looking at the detail in the paper it is clear that these job cuts will have an adverse impact on frontline services for the most vulnerable in the county."
The GMB said last week that councils across the country had announced or threatened more than 145,000, so Monday's news takes that figure closer to 150,000.
Chris Leary, of Unison, said: "When the public realise what this means in reality, when their parents and grandparents lose the services they rely on, such as mobile libraries, when vulnerable adults cannot get support because there are not enough qualified staff, when young people turn to crime and delinquency because their youth services have gone, the people of Surrey will not just stand idly by and let the politicians decimate services.
"We will defend our members' jobs and support them in whatever action they choose to take, including lawful industrial action."
A mother accused of killing two of her children in a house fire allegedly started the blaze because she wanted to create a "drama" after she found out her partner was cheating on her, a court has been told.
Fiona Adams, 23, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Niamh, five, and two-year-old Cayden, who died in the blaze in Buxton, Derbyshire, in April 2010.
She escaped from the house in Edale Way by jumping from an upstairs window with her eight-month-old son, Kiernan, just before midnight on April 23.
Opening the case for the prosecution at Nottingham Crown Court, Timothy Spencer QC told a jury that Adams, who appeared in the dock wearing a white T-shirt above which evidence of the fire could be seen in what appeared to be burn scars on her neck, sought attention from her partner James Maynard, the children's father, after their relationship broke down.
Mr Spencer told the jury of seven men and five women: "Fiona Adams in the spring of last year was in an unhappy situation. No decent human being could fail to have sympathy with her predicament.
"There were many ways with which she could have dealt with things, what she chose to do was to create a drama around herself and her children and that drama culminated in her setting fire (to her) own home.
"The result of which was the fire took a rapid and devastating hold. She and her youngest child were spared but with serious injuries but her two eldest children, aged two and five, died in the fire."
He said Adams found out 28-year-old Mr Maynard had cheated on her several times, the first being shortly after the birth of Niamh, which distressed her considerably and also led her to threaten suicide in 2006.
The court also heard that despite the couple's troubled relationship they went on to have another child with the birth Cayden in September 2007. However, they split up in May 2008 after Adams found out for definite about Mr Maynard's relationship with the other woman.
After finding out that relationship had continued through their separation Adams attempted suicide again, Mr Spencer said, this time with an overdose of 22 paracetamol tablets and tramadol tablets.
UK gardens are playing host to a wide range of unusual birds, from dippers and little egrets to merlins and even a white tailed eagle, the first results from an annual survey have shown.
Initial findings of the Big Garden Birdwatch seem to support predictions that the harsh winter would be driving more unusual visitors into gardens to find food.
The RSPB, which runs the Big Garden Birdwatch, has already received 100,000 results for the wildlife survey - with 10,000 forms submitted in just one hour.
But the wildlife charity is urging people who took part and have not submitted their results to remember to do so.
According to the RSPB, people have already reported seeing dippers, goosanders, little egrets, snipe, cirl buntings and merlins in their gardens.
One woman even saw a white-tailed eagle in her Scottish garden, a species which was reintroduced in Scotland after being persecuted to extinction in the UK by the early 19th century.
Now the RSPB wants everybody that spent an hour counting birds in their gardens at the weekend to report their results.
Richard Bashford, RSPB Big Garden manager, said: "We really mean it when we say that every garden counts, and it doesn't matter if you saw ten different birds species, one birds or none at all - it's important that we know. Volunteer surveys like the Big Garden Birdwatch first alerted us to the decline in much-loved birds like house sparrows, song thrushes and starlings.
"These results can help shape the work we do, and the species and habitats we focus on. If you did take an hour out of your weekend, make sure it counts and send us your results."
People have until February 18 to submit their results.
