1. Recently, he has been painting white itself (as opposed to painting with white) by brushing it across matt black canvases.

2. The abstract painting White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), by the American impressionist Mark Rothko, broke the world auction record for post–war art at Sotheby‘s in New York.

3. Our most heartfelt commiserations, on the one hand, to the head of human resources at Birmingham city council, who is not only getting massive media grief over the revelation that municipal workers in his employ are earning 53,000 for painting white lines on the road, but is also called Alan Partridge.

4. Figures show 8% of NHS dentists left in three months Headlines English now a second language in most London primary schools North Korea condemned as it boasts of first nuclear test Reid under pressure for paying foreign criminals to go home 1,600 dentists desert NHS in protest over new contracts Photograph alerted mother to twin‘s eye cancer Drug tests for care children from age 10 Cremation to be replaced by eco–friendly freeze–drying of corpses Council road workers earn up to 53k painting white lines First ‘e–assessed‘ GCSE exam launched Killjoy officials accused of ‘nanny state‘ madness as they take children‘s conkers ‘Victim culture‘ means seven out of ten feel oppressed ‘Spice wars‘ settled for 8 million but family remain divided Anger at early release for policewoman killer ‘Casanova‘ confidence trickster jailed for defrauding online lovers NEWS HOMEPAGE More than 1,600 dentists have quit the NHS rather than sign new contracts, according to first official figures.

5. Headlines English now a second language in most London primary schools North Korea condemned as it boasts of first nuclear test Reid under pressure for paying foreign criminals to go home 1,600 dentists desert NHS in protest over new contracts Photograph alerted mother to twin‘s eye cancer Drug tests for care children from age 10 Cremation to be replaced by eco–friendly freeze–drying of corpses Council road workers earn up to 53k painting white lines First ‘e–assessed‘ GCSE exam launched Killjoy officials accused of ‘nanny state‘ madness as they take children‘s conkers ‘Victim culture‘ means seven out of ten feel oppressed ‘Spice wars‘ settled for 8 million but family remain divided Anger at early release for policewoman killer ‘Casanova‘ confidence trickster jailed for defrauding online lovers NEWS HOMEPAGE One of the few things that America‘s top business executives have in common is that they were almost all regularly spanked when they misbehaved as children.