“A pub landlord who allowed smokers to light up on his premises has been fined in court for flouting the smoking ban in public places.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Land Registry is to remove online versions of scanned mortgage deeds and leases amid concerns that fraudsters have been accessing the documents.”
BBC News, 5th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Channel 4 has been cleared of breaching broadcasting regulations over its decision to transmit an incident in which a Big Brother contestant used a racially offensive word to describe another housemate.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The National Trust has said it would fight the government to protect the countryside from housing development.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of a man shot dead by police have urged the government to change the law so his inquest can proceed.”
BBC News, 5th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Suspects accused of trivial ‘crimes’ such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Home Secretary has instructed an independent review to consider whether allowing wire-tap evidence in court would jeopardise secret eavesdropping methods.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Thousands of criminals could have their jail terms cut after one of Britain’s most senior judges said that courts were justified in giving lower sentences where prisoners faced overcrowded jails.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Members of the Armed Forces are facing a steep rise in personal injury insurance premiums because of the significant increase in combat casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman who recently won a divorce award of £48 million should have been entitled to as much as £65 million, according to a leading family QC.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain’s MPs are being urged by one of the world’s leading civil-rights lawyers to resist pressure to extend the 28-day time limit for holding terror suspects.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Barry George, the man convicted of shooting the television presenter Jill Dando in the head at close range eight years ago will begin his latest attempt to overturn his conviction today.”
The Times, 5th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Gordon Brown has demanded a review of the technology behind the proposed new ID cards, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police chief who ran the operation that led to Jean Charles de Menezes being shot dead will be criticised by an official report which is to be released on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sex attacks in childhood highlight legal loophole.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Home Office minister who has regularly campaigned on road safety was fined and had his licence endorsed yesterday after being convicted of driving while talking on his mobile telephone.”
The Times, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A soldier whose army career was cut short by serious injury in Iraq was put in fear of becoming homeless when he was given less than 30 days to leave the army house where he lives with his wife and three children.”
The Times, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A judge told an elite female tennis coach that she had acted in the interests of her ‘own selfish, sexual ends’ as he jailed her today for two years and nine months for conducting a year-long affair with a 13-year-old pupil.”
The Times, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“ITV is examining fresh allegations of phone-in irregularities on The X Factor, a fortnight after the broadcaster was forced to own up to deceiving viewers out of £8 million on other programmes.”
The Times, 3rd November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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