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Profile: Spy chief Alex Allan - BBC News
 BBC News | Profile: Spy chief Alex Allan BBC News - Alex Allan, who is seriously ill in hospital, is the colourful head of the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee. As chairman of the committee, his role is to collate intelligence from MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, and brief ministers. British super-spy in coma amid fears of poisoning by Russian assassin Spy chief seriously ill in hospital |
Betancourt back on political stage - BBC News
 BBC News | Betancourt back on political stage BBC News - By Jeremy McDermott The successful rescue of 15 hostages from the clutches of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) has had a massive political impact, nationally and internationally. Video: US hostages freed from Colombian rebels - 3 July 08 President Nicolas Sarkozy to greet Betancourt on arrival |
French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez may have been - Times Online
 Sydney Morning Herald | French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez may have been Times Online - The two French science students found brutally murdered in a flat in southeast London may have been tortured for their PIN numbers, The Times has learnt. Burglary clue to student murders French student murder police follow up 25 calls |
Boy dies after stab attack - TeleText
 ITV.com | Boy dies after stab attack TeleText - A 16-year-old boy stabbed in south London has become the 18th victim of a knife murder in London this year. Shakilus Townsend suffered multiple injuries in the attack in Thornton Heath and died in hospital. Stabbed Teen: I Don't Want To Die Teenager dies after knife attack |
Greedy MPs reject expenses crackdown - Mirror.co.uk
 ITV.com | Greedy MPs reject expenses crackdown Mirror.co.uk - By James Lyons Political Correspondent 4/07/2008 Greedy MPs "arrogantly" rejected a crackdown on their taxpayer-funded John Lewis list expenses yesterday. MPs vote for low pay rise but keep ‘John Lewis list’ expenses MPs braced for expenses backlash |
'Biofuels Driving Up Food Prices' - Sky News
 MSN Money UK | 'Biofuels Driving Up Food Prices' Sky News - The Guardian says it has seen the figure in a confidential study commissioned by the World Bank. It has not been published, the paper says, because it would embarass the US government. Biofuels ‘have pushed world food prices up 75%’ Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis, says leaked report |
Muslim jurists welcome UK chief justice's support for sharia role ... - International Herald Tribune
 MSN Money UK | Muslim jurists welcome UK chief justice's support for sharia role ... International Herald Tribune - AP LONDON: Leading Muslim jurists on Friday welcomed comments by Britain's chief justice supporting a role for Sharia law in resolving disputes. Sharia law could have UK role, says lord chief justice Punishments by fanatics bear no relation to complexity of laws |
Labour set to announce Glasgow candidate - guardian.co.uk
 BBC News | Labour set to announce Glasgow candidate guardian.co.uk - Labour will tonight name the candidate faced with the task of defending the party's 13507 majority in the Glasgow East byelection. Brian Taylor World Cup flag row councillor to stand by-election for SNP |
Regular China-Taiwan flights resume - InTheNews.co.uk
 BBC News | Regular China-Taiwan flights resume InTheNews.co.uk - Direct flights between China and Taiwan have begun operating for the first time since the Chinese revolution. An Airbus carrying 100 weekend tourists landed in Taiwan earlier this morning after taking off from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. China'First Regular Commercial Flights Take Mainland Tourists to ... Chinese tourists make historic cross-strait flight from the ... |
British Muslims feel like "Jews of Europe" - Reuters UK
 BBC News | British Muslims feel like "Jews of Europe" Reuters UK - By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - Muslims in Britain feel like aliens in their own society and say they are targeted like "the Jews of Europe", the country's first Muslim government minister said. British Muslims 'feel like the Jews of Europe' 'We Muslims are the new Jews' says MP who has been victim of a hit ... |
Focus: Navy carriers - TeleText
 Times Online | Focus: Navy carriers TeleText - Giant aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will be the biggest and most powerful surface warships ever made in the UK. New contract 'will secure Rosyth' Stand United |
Boris Johnson aide in sex quiz - Mirror.co.uk
 Sky News | Boris Johnson aide in sex quiz Mirror.co.uk - By Jason Beattie 4/07/2008 Boris Johnson's deputy mayor is to be quizzed over allegations of sexual and financial misconduct. Ray Lewis, 45 - in charge of tackling gun and knife crime in London - faces claims relating to his time as a Church of England ... An extraordinary murder London mayor Boris Johnson faces sleaze row over deputy's past as ... |
Welsh valleys created NHS - Brown - BBC News
 BBC News | Welsh valleys created NHS - Brown BBC News - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hailed the Welsh valleys as the birthplace of the National Health Service. Mr Brown said the NHS, which was founded 60 years ago by Ebbw Vale MP Aneurin Bevan, was inspired by the experience of 1930s valleys. Give credit to the right man Birthday wishes to the NHS at 60 |
What does the latest on Bradford & Bingley mean to you? - guardian.co.uk
 BBC News | What does the latest on Bradford & Bingley mean to you? guardian.co.uk - Q: As Bradford & Bingley's troubled rights issue lurches into another crisis, should savers do a Northern Rock and get their money out? UK bank B&B ups rights issue size after TPG quits Moody's B&B rating cut raises asset quality fears |
Consumer-testing the new Church recruitment campaign - Telegraph.co.uk
 BBC News | Consumer-testing the new Church recruitment campaign Telegraph.co.uk - I've consumer-tested the posters and magazine for the Church of England's new recruitment campaign for younger trainee priests, which will be launched at this weekend's General Synod in York, on my daughter, Eddi, who has just graduated. The Church of England is holding its Synod meeting in York How to solve the question of female bishops |
Analysis: the question remains, what are the Lib Dems for? - Times Online
 ITV.com | Analysis: the question remains, what are the Lib Dems for? Times Online - Resignation would appear to be flavour of the week in Scottish politics. Five days after Wendy Alexander fled from the top job in Scottish Labour, Nicol Stephen decided he had had enough of leading the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Scottish Lib Dems 'should vote on supporting independence referendum' Scottish Lib Dems begin search for new leader |
Osama bin Laden suspect we can't kick out is freed - Mirror.co.uk
 ITV.com | Osama bin Laden suspect we can't kick out is freed Mirror.co.uk - By Jon Clements, Crime Correspondent 4/07/2008 A terror suspect with "direct links" to Osama bin Laden was yesterday freed on bail from prison after spending seven years waiting to be deported. 24-hour bail curfew for terrorist suspect linked to Bin Laden Man 'linked to Bin Laden' bailed |
Free MoD cliff rescue for bullock - BBC News
 BBC News | Free MoD cliff rescue for bullock BBC News - The Ministry of Defence has waived its fee for rescuing a bullock which fell 100ft (30m) over a cliff in Cornwall. The RSPCA had agreed to pay thousands of pounds for a RNAS Culdrose helicopter to airlift the Charolais to safety at Gwennap Head. Bullock winched to safety Bullock saved from cliff ledge after three day row over £5000 ... |
Blast at Concert Injures Dozens in Belarus - New York Times
 CTV.ca | Blast at Concert Injures Dozens in Belarus New York Times - By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ MOSCOW -- A bomb exploded during an outdoor concert Minsk, the capital of Belarus, early Friday, injuring dozens of people. Dozens hurt in Belarus blast More than 50 hurt by bomb during Belarus concert |
Fighting crime 'costs £275-a-head' - The Press Association
Fighting crime 'costs £275-a-head' The Press Association - The cost of tackling recorded crime is £15 billion a year or £275 per person, according to a report just published. The Taxpayers' Alliance said the cost of crimes reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was highest in London at £388 ... Crime costs every person £275 a year Report reveals that crime costs UK 15 billion pounds a year |
