“The Government has been ordered to release the minutes of Cabinet meetings where military action against Iraq was discussed.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Microsoft executive told MPs today that forcing software companies to install internet content filtering technology with high-security settings as standard to all computers would send the UK back to the ‘dark ages’.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of judges will be allowed to stay in their jobs until the age of 70 after the Lord Chancellor was today forced to back down over making them retire at 65.”
The Times, 26th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Waitress may still be entitled to protection under European anti-discrimination and equal treatment laws, judge said.”
The Times, 26th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A terrorist instructor who called himself ‘Osama bin London’ has been convicted, along with three of his followers, of organising al-Qaida style training camps across Britain.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“With his sentencing today, Levi Bellfield joins a small group of prisoners whose crimes were so heinous that they must spend the rest of their lives in jail.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Bus stop stalker Levi Bellfield will spend the rest of his life in jail, a judge said today.”
The Independent, 26th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Some of the UK’s biggest media and internet companies have agreed to warn users when they publish material that some might find offensive. A series of guidelines has been brokered which will see online material tagged for suitability.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A woman who hired a yacht using a certificate she downloaded from Facebook has been questioned by police and cautioned under the Fraud Act.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The House of Commons committee reviewing MPs’ pay and allowances will complete its report before the summer parliamentary recess, it announced today.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“National Grid, the gas and power infrastructure company, has been fined a record £41.6 million by Ofgem, the energy market watchdog, for restricting competition in the market for domestic gas meters.”
The Times, 26th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Foreign nationals living in Britain who boycott the introduction of the biometric identity card later this year could face losing their right to stay, under proposals published yesterday.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture, a former SAS soldier said yesterday. Ben Griffin said individuals detained by SAS troops in a joint UK-US special forces taskforce had ended up in interrogation centres in Iraq, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and in Afghanistan, as well as Guantánamo Bay.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jacqui Smith is to offer a concession to backbench Labour MPs in an attempt to avoid a damaging rebellion against the government’s plans to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, today weighs into the debate over attitudes to young people in Britain, arguing that many loiter in groups or take refuge in computer games because adults make them feel insecure and unwelcome in public spaces. Far from intending to ‘menace’ others, youngsters congregate and hang around together in order ‘to feel secure’, Williams writes in the Guardian today. They fear not only aggressive gangs but ‘unfriendly adults’, he says, arguing that adult discouragement of games in public places intensifies the problem.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Sikh policeman is set to receive a five-figure damages award for racial discrimination after a police force rejected a dozen applications from him to join.”
The Times, 26th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former nightclub bouncer found guilty of killing two young women and brutally attacking a third after stalking them in his car is the prime suspect in one of the most notorious unsolved murders of recent years, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“People will be able to telephone or email their local police officers directly, Gordon Brown has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Super-strength lager and cider could be cleared from the shelves under council plans to curb binge drinking across England and Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An orthodontist is awaiting a judgment in the High Court on whether he can challenge his NHS dental services contract.”
The Independent, 26th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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