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Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity.
In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 show that chose last year's ...
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Ex-MI5 chief warns over detention
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
BBC News | MPs should work together to agree a detention limit for terror suspects and ensure the matter is not a political football, a former MI5 chief has said. Ministers want to be able to hold suspects without charge for 42 days, rather than the current 28-days.
The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and many Labour MPs oppose the change.
Dame Stella ...
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Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Martin Hickman | Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and 1.3m yoghurts.
A new study has exposed the staggering amount of food thrown away every day by the British public, calculating that the annual total of ...
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Data fear haunts ID card scheme
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Mark Ballard | THE UK government has been warned that it should deal with the risk of data loss from its Identity Card Scheme before it proceeds any further.The latest data warning follows repeated requests from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data guardian, that the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) conduct a proper assessment of the risks ...
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Gov set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Alan Travis | The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will today stress the dangers of more potent strains of cannabis as she is expected to defy medical opinion by announcing that the drug will be upgraded from class C to class B.
Smith is expected to justify her decision by highlighting the strength of "skunk" strains of herbal cannabis ...
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The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
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Government can’t be trusted with our personal information
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Margaret Smith | WE have seen only recently just how incompetent the Government is at keeping our personal information secure. Last year, HM Revenue and Customs lost computer discs containing the personal information of about 25 million people, including their bank account details and National Insurance numbers.
This is on top of the DVLA in Northern Ireland losing the personal details of ...
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ID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil liberties
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Robert and Alison Bell | The indiscriminate invasion of our privacy and the related issue of six weeks' detention without charge are so serious and far reaching that we should be hammering at the doors of our local MPs, particularly Labour MPs, to insist that these bills are overturned. Every one of us should be exercising what is still our democratic ...
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CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Owen Bowcott | Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain ...
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Brian Haw Arrested Again - SOCPA
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Rikki - Indymedia | At around 1.30 this afternoon, a community support officer started hassling Aqil Shaerer who is a pro-Palestinian protestor associated with Brian Haw and often around Parliament Square. It is unclear what grounds they had for this. Brian became involved and explained to them that Aqil was part of his authorised demonstration. Two more CSO officers became involved, ...
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DNA database solves 1 in 800 crimes
Monday, May 5th, 2008
A massive expansion in the Government's DNA database has brought fewer than a thousand criminals to justice, it was revealed last night. For every 800 DNA samples being added by the police - including those taken from innocent people - only one crime is being solved.The revelation undermines Labour's case for the expansion of the controversial database, which contains the details of ...
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We’ve been given a yellow card - Labour
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt | Gordon Brown is planning to help hard-pressed families in the wake of Labour's drubbing in the elections with a package including the expansion of shared equity schemes to boost the housing market, the shelving of plans for council rubbish taxes, and putting more pressure on supermarkets to contain ...
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Banksy throws London stencil party
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
By Raphael G. Satter | Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this weekend.Banksy marshaled more than three dozen international artists for what he's calling the "Cans Festival" — and is encouraging visitors to contribute their own graffiti starting Saturday.
"I'm hoping we ...
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Labour facing its worst losses in a generation
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
By Andrew Porter and James Kirkup | Gordon Brown is set for punishing losses in his first electoral test as Prime Minister after the Conservatives made key gains across the country. With more than 1 million votes counted, a BBC projection based on results in key wards forecast Labour will record 24 per cent of the national vote, its worst ...
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British troops to stay in Basra ‘for the long term’
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Richard Norton-Taylor - The Guardian | Britain will maintain a garrison of 4,000 troops at Basra airport for the forseeable future, whatever the pressures on the armed forces, defence officials said last night. They described the British garrison as being there "for the long term" after talks in London yesterday between General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq, ...
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