News 20 11 2009: PC dies helping others as a bridge collapses. Pc Bill Barker, 44, fell into the River Derwent when the bridge he was standing on in Workington collapsed. His wife Hazel said: "How do you put into words how you feel about somebody you are so proud of? Bill was...
Lake District of UK was flooded terribly by record rainfall and 8-foot-long floods that forced several rescue attempts for more than 200 people. "See pictures of UK Lake District and Ireland floods below. Lake District in UK has suffered 8-foot-tall floods that devastated and...
For Immediate ReleaseThe movement ‘Citizens in Defence of Rights and Freedoms – Project Justice Gonçalo Amaral’ formally announces the creation of a defence fund by means of a solidarity account to support citizen Gonçalo Amaral, who has been deprived of his civil...
News 18 11 2009: Litigation against Schools a real threat?. Unveiled in the Queen's Speech was a New Education Bill to which a another New Ombudsman’s position be created as a set of pupil and parent guarantees be launched. But as the Association of School and College...
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Jason Bethell, a 31-year-old suspected murderer, was mistakenly released by British police from Chelmsford prison on Monday. Bethell was charged with the murder of 58-year-old John Smith. The father of the two was allegedly stabbed by Bethell and died in hospital two months...
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News 18 11 2009: Labour bid to help needy pensioners. With less than seven months before the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK must go to the polls, Gordon Brown is to use the Queen's Speech to present a series of populist bills designed to set out the battlelines for...
End-time passions find fertile soil in the United States according to Alexander Riley, a sociology professor at Bucknell University who has incorporated the study of the 'end-times', known as Eschatology, into his...
14 11 2009 Bercow spends £45,000 on flat refit.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act obtained by the Daily Telegraph showed that Mr Bercow’s wife gave detailed instructions on the revamp of the historic apartment beneath Big Ben in the...
12 November 2009 [CG Note: London-based Burma Democratic Concern (BDC), founded in 2008, has been noted for its strong campaigns and lobbying activities both inside and outside Burma to restore democracy, human...
It has now been 11 weeks since General Stanley McChrystal submitted his report and recommendations for a troop surge to the White House. President Obama has had at least five meetings with his National...
Its a tradition to write for soldiers and trauma and ghosts on this day . I cannot forget and certainly will remember them. I've been with people and soldiers of war trauma . I hold them as we do inside us . We...
08 11 2009 Brown red-faced after tax plan snub. Mr Brown floated the possibility of a new tax worldwide on financial transactions only to face an embarrassing rebuff in having it publicly rejected by the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />United States and other major...
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.
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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...