03 11 2009 Extra £30bn for bailed out banks. The Treasury has announced the injection of some £25.5 billion into The Royal Bank of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Scotland and some £5.7 billion into The Lloyds Banking Group, this new money being necessary in complying...
00 00 2004 National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) began – at some £<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />234m.
00 07 2007 Project was two years behind schedule. costs increase to some £690m - no idea what £161m was used for before October 2007.
12 03...
It seems that even in the 21st century we still need a vat of boiling tar and a sack of feathers on hand to punish those considered to have violated the rules of their community. In times gone by the hapless transgressor would have been covered in sticky tar and then rolled...
News 31 10 2009 : Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacks drugs adviser. Alan Johnson has come under fire after forcing the Government's chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt (Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)) to resign over highlighting a need that...
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News 30 10 2009: Fury over election voting plan. In the need to cut Public expenditure the Treasury has enlisted help from the Ministry of Justice in identifying where potential savings can be made to slash some £65 million from the cost of running elections. Such...
The fans of dead celebrities will get an unprecedented chance to engage in the world's first Twitter Seance, or 'Tweance', this Friday, October 30 -- the night before Halloween. Anyone with an Internet connection...
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The phrase that made a 51- year-old Hampshire pet-sitter’s dream come true. Kevin Whelan, from Titchfield Park, Fareham, won a night of dinner and dancing in London with 18-year-old Stacey Hannant in an online charity auction raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support....
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News 26 10 2009: Careers advice for seven-year-olds. Primary school children are to get careers advice from the age of seven under a new scheme to encourage them to develop aspirations early on in life. Under Schools Secretary Ed Balls, primaries will offer career-related...
News 25 10 2009: Secret court seizes some £3.2bn from the elderly. A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State -...
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News 24 10 2009: Soldier blasts leaders over trust. A serving soldier has accused politicians of abusing the trust of the Army and serving soldiers. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial for refusing to return to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1...
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As the blame/revenue collection Technologies “kick-in”, perhaps more rigorously given a climate of recession, what protection have you got against authority given its profiling/storage mechanisms as to DNA, finger prints, CCTV footage, lie detectors, phone and e-mail...
News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits.
A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the <?xml:namespace...
News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits.
A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the UK spends some £31bn...
While it may be still debatable whether Adolf Hitler was vegetarian or not, a study by German Vegetarianism Association in a latest study claimed that an average German eats more than 1,000 animals in his/her life....
According to a survey done by an airfare deals website, Diwali happens to be one of the top five festivals of the world that shouldn’t be missed. The festival of lights is no longer limited to Indian shores – in fact, it’s as famous as Bollywood all over the world. From...
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