Business news 

Lloyds TSB wins vote for HBOS merger

Around 96% of investors back a deal to save the ailing lender after Alistair Darling warns failure could prove costly

Bank of England discussed 2% rate cut

Minutes from Bank meeting reveals fears over falling sterling stopped rate-setters reducing borrowing costs to 2.5%

Woolworths dives as it confirms takeover talks

Shares in the struggling business plunge over 13% after it emerges it is in discussions to sell the retail arm for £1

Sport News 

FA Cup tie delayed 30 minutes after horror injury

The Darlington forward Liam Hatch was taken to hospital with a suspected broken neck

• Cup heroes unable to repeat feat

• Doswell’s consolation in defeat

Johnson drops hint at long-term plans

The England manager has made only one change to his starting XV to face South Africa, with James Haskell coming in at flanker

Broad admits England are one-paced

England pace bowler says batsmen must step up tempo and bowlers must add variation to halt India tomorrow

Comment 

Disney and his Mickey Mouse critics

We should celebrate the cartoon's creator - a genius and one of the best arguments for capitalism

• Daniel Finkelstein

Santa Brown's great giveaway

Capital projects and public service reform have stalled. A spending spree is no replacement

• Alice Miles

Hillary is not right for the job

Obama should resist the temptation of Clinton as Secretary of State. He could never sack her

• Bronwen Maddox

Life and Style 

Misery memoirs: the final chapter?

Bookshop shelves groan with feel-bad memoirs, which sell by the million. The genre is now heading for an unhappy ending

Cheryl's wardrobe has the X factor

Some women are talking about snogging Ms Cole, but Lisa Armstrong would prefer a roll in the hay with her clothes

Woman gets new windpipe from own stem cells

An operation that could revolutionise surgery saw Claudia Castillo become the first person to be given a tailor-made organ

Arts & Entertainment 

Down Under goes mad for 'Australia'

The landscape is beautiful and the plotlines dramatic but early reviews of Baz Luhrmann's epic are disappointing

John Simm: playing Devil's advocate

After Life on Mars, the actor is happy to be himself and to play the anti-hero in new period drama The Devil's Whore

How London Eye became a modern British icon

Tom Dyckhoff, Design & Architecture Critic, on London's iconic wheel, still turning eight years after the millennium