“The effectiveness of equipment and procedures designed to catch “drug mules” has been called into question following the case of a woman who died when bags of smuggled cocaine burst inside her body hours after hi-tech screening failed to pick up that she was carrying drugs.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Proposals to extend the limit for pre-charge detention to 42 days are ‘constitutionally illiterate’ as well as dangerous, critics warned yesterday, because proper parliamentary scrutiny would confuse the roles of MPs and judges.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The final will of a widow who left £10 million to the owners of a Chinese restaurant was upheld by the High Court yesterday, despite claims by her family that she did not know what she was doing.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A teenager who was jailed for the rape of a schoolgirl two weeks ago was given a second life sentence yesterday for killing a father of two in a flash of temper.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Civil liberties groups were outraged yesterday at suggestions that three British residents soon to be released from Guantanamo Bay will be subjected to control orders.”
The Observer, 9th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The reputation of the police force that claims to be the country’s elite antifraud unit was in tatters last night after the collapse of its cheating case against one of horse racing’s greatest talents.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Whitehall’s notions of what constitutes national security are out of date, incoherent and need a radical shake-up, a report by the thinktank Demos will say today.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tesco is preparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal that has cost consumers £270 million.”
The Times, 8th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A sex attacker who hid a carrot in his trousers and pretended it was his erect penis has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A lorry driver has been found guilty of causing the deaths of a family of four when he fell asleep at the wheel.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Families of nine UK personnel killed in a plane shot down in Iraq will get no legal aid at an inquest but those of an Australian airman will, it has emerged.”
BBC News, 9th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain is in danger of becoming a nation of ‘paedophobics’, fearful of children and young people, according to a thinktank which warns that antisocial behaviour orders may actually encourage youth crime.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to relaunch a criminal investigation of alleged corruption at Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems.”
The Times, 9th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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