“Ofgem, the energy regulator, is launching an investigation into the electricity and gas market as the row over the record profits announced today by British Gas-owner Centrica reached fever pitch.”
The Times, 21st February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former pub landlord is facing life in jail after being found guilty today of killing five Ipswich prostitutes in a murder spree that left thousands of other women fearing for their lives.”
The Times, 21st February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Scottish Government is to scrap laws which allow children under 16 to be held in jail without having been convicted of an offence.”
BBC News, 21st February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thousands of foreigners who want to marry a British person and move to Britain will have to take an English language test, the Prime Minister announced yesterday.”
The Times, 21st February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The names of almost 4,000 directors of British companies appear on international watchlists of alleged fraudsters, money launderers, terror financiers and corrupt officials, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 21st February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A shopkeeper could be charged with murder after an armed robber who tried to steal the day’s takings was stabbed with his own knife during a struggle.”
The Times, 21st February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The foreign secretary has been accused of interfering in the appeal of the man jailed for the Lockerbie bombing, after he refused to release secret papers which could clear the Libyan.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gambling and betting companies are abiding by new liberalised rules that have allowed them to advertise on TV for the first time, according to the first compliance report published by the advertising regulator. The Advertising Standards Authority said the compliance report’s findings vindicated its system of self-regulation for gambling ads.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard said yesterday that one of London mayor Ken Livingstone’s closest aides, who has been accused of corruption, had no criminal case to answer.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Attorney General has ordered an inquiry into a ‘catastrophic’ blunder that allowed foreign criminals to commit crimes in Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Violent crime costs the British economy more than £13 billion a year, according to a report released today.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A married father of two who killed his teenage lover has been jailed for life with a judge ordering him to serve a minimum of 18 years in prison.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will not appeal against a ruling which freed five young Muslims from jail over extremist literature, it has announced.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Queen has won ‘squatter’s rights’ over large tracts of the Severn Estuary in a dispute with a controversial Cardiff businessman.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The health and safety of prisoners is being jeopardised by putting them in ill-equipped cells at police stations and courts, doctors’ leaders have said.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Scottish Government has decided against a ban on animal snares.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” A youth who dropped masonry from a bridge shattering a train’s windscreen and hitting the driver of a separate train has had his prison sentence cut.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than 100 foreign nationals deported to their home countries have been returned immediately to the the UK, in the past five years.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Foreigners coming to Britain are to face a new ‘immigrant tax’ under Government plans to try to make them help pay for the schools and hospitals they use, ministers are to announce.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Senior judges want parents who are taken to court for smacking their children to be treated leniently.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2025