WEEK IN A SENTENCE CONFERENCE CATCH-UP CONFERENCE DIARY

FEATURE ANALYSIS PHOTO/QUOTES OF THE WEEK

The week started with Gordon Brown setting out his stall for eventually leading the party, but ends with the party hierarchy firing out apologies over the ejection of 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang from the conference for heckling "nonsense" during foreign secretary Jack Straw's speech.

After Tony Blair's apology, Walter Wolfgang - the 82-year-old Labour activist thrown out of the party's annual conference by stewards for heckling Jack Straw - makes a joyful return.

Tony Blair tells the Labour Party conference he will use the last years of his premiership to irreversibly embed his public service reforms.

Gordon Brown uses his keynote conference speech to insist the party fights the next election on the centre ground.

Delegates vote against the government for the fourth time, backing a motion to provide extra funds for local authorities to build more council homes.

Foods high in fat, salt or sugar are to be banned from vending machines and meals in English schools within a year.

Artist David Hockney leads protests against the government's plans to ban smoking in most public places.

Unions win backing from the conference for their motion calling for secondary industrial action to be allowed.

John Prescott has opened Labour's annual conference with a warning about the threat from the Conservatives.

Who says lefties have no sense of humour? Campaign Group leader Alan Simpson is so angry with the way security staff at the conference centre are behaving - "manhandling" 82-year-old anti-war heckler William Wolfgang for example - he has come up with a new wheeze to attack New Labour. "I'm going to suggest to the Campaign Group that New Labour has a new slogan: 'Out with Clause Four and in with Group Four'," he declared. I can see the badges already.

Mr Blair's walk-on music was If The Kids Are United by 1970s punk band Sham 69. An odd choice perhaps, but probably better than one of the band's other hits, which include proto binge drinking anthem Hurry Up, Harry (we're going down the pub) and the sensitive plea for penal reform Borstal Breakout...

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt was telling a fringe meeting of the extraordinary lengths constituents will go to in order to make their voices heard. On one occasion the bomb squad were called to a suspect package which had been sent to her - only to find it was a protest over the state of dentist services. The angry constituent had sent the minister his false teeth. But Patricia, did they fit?

Ever-tightening security and a distinctly intolerant attitude towards "interruptions", as the prime minister called them, meant this was a headline waiting to happen.

Certainly no one was more surprised by Labour's choice of music than the song's composer Jimmy Pursey.

A recycled bag, a pen made out of car parts, a yoyo with a clutch, umpteen notebooks, a stress ball, bracelets and even a bottle opener - and that's just the start.

Heckler Walter Wolfgang, 82, is welcomed on his return to the Labour conference

You cannot stifle debate by hiring heavies. A party has to be open to the world and it's got to also discuss international issues instead of ignoring it

Walter Wolfgang, 82-year-old activist thrown out of hall for heckling Jack Straw

Perhaps, John, you haven't seen me in private. But that's because I don't attend your after-dinner speeches

Gordon Brown to the BBC's John Humphrys, after being asked if he has a sense of humour.

Darling that is a long way in the future. It is too far ahead for me to even think about.

Cherie Blair, asked about life after Downing Street.