“Ministers are to announce that they have decided to shelve plans to introduce legislation forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging. In a written statement to MPs, the Department of Health will say that it wants more time to study the impact of a similar law in Australia before deciding to press ahead with standardised cigarette packaging in England.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Chief constables who are forced out of their jobs by police and crime commissioners could launch claims under the European Convention on Human Rights, a watchdog has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A bogus couple whose sham marriage was scuppered after the bride could not remember the groom’s name have been jailed. Jayeola Abiola, 27, a Nigerian national, barely knew his would-be wife Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, from Portugal. They planned to walk down the aisle to the ballad The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – a choice Hull crown court heard was ‘rather apt.’ ”
The Guardian, 11th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“G4S is facing a criminal investigation after it billed the taxpayer millions of pounds to electronically tag criminals who had died, left the country or gone back to jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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