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It goes without saying that the 14th Labour budget since Tony Blair's landslide victory in May 1997 will be a deeply political occasion. All budgets are political; it's just that those that take place six weeks before an election tend to be more ...
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BBC News | Darling to make do with small mercies in pre-election budget The Guardian It goes without saying that the 14th Labour budget since Tony Blair's landslide victory in May 1997 will be a deeply political occasion. All budgets are political; it's just that those that take place six weeks before an election tend to be more ... PM Gordon Brown questioned on overseas soldiers' vote Gordon Brown won't rule out pre-election 'giveaway' in Budget Gordon Brown's Match of the Day pundit offer turned down by BBC |
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Authorities apologise to daughters raped by father The Guardian Two women who were repeatedly raped and abused by their father over a period of 35 years were given an apology today by local authorities in Lincolnshire and Sheffield for failing to protect them. The unreserved apology came in the aftermath of the ... Father allowed to rape daughters repeatedly following social services failings Sisters tortured by rapist dad get official apology Apology to daughters raped by Sheffield man |
The Guardian | Poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko sparked claims BBC News Businessman Boris Berezovsky has won damages over claims by RTR, Russian state television, that he was behind the murder of former Moscow agent Alexander Litvinenko. Mr Litvinenko died in London in November 2006, having fallen violently ill after ... Boris Berezovsky wins libel case over Litvinenko murder Russian magnate wins libel case over poisoning report Berezovsky wins £150000 for TV claim he was Litvinenko murderer |
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Pay freeze for mandarins 'won't influence wider salaries' Telegraph.co.uk A pay freeze imposed on senior civil servants, generals, judges and doctors will have no impact on pay deals across the wider economy, the Government's own pay advisers have said. By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Gordon Brown said that curbs on ... Pay freeze for senior public sector staff 'insulting' Civil service pay freeze is insult to hardworking staff, says union Salmond backs public sector pay freeze |
![]() BBC News | Father of kidnapped British boy flees Pakistan Telegraph.co.uk The father of Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old boy kidnapped in Pakistan, has left the country and returned to the UK against the wishes of the Pakistani authorities. By Chris Irvine and Farzana Fiaz in Lahore Diplomatic sources said Raja Naqqash Saeed, ... Father of kidnapped Sahil Saeed returns to UK from Pakistan Pakistan kidnap ordeal father back Kidnap boy's father returns from Pakistan without him |
Daily Mail | What and when MI5 knew about torture The Guardian Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5 throughout most of the years of the so-called war on terror, insisted yesterday that she had not known that Khalid Shiekh Mohammed was being waterboarded. In a response to the appeal court's judgment that ... MI5 'would still have used US information from waterboarding' London protested at torture, says MI5's ex-chief Ex-MI5 chief says US 'concealed suspect mistreatment' |
![]() Reuters | Northern Ireland Assembly BBC News The Hillsborough Agreement represents the opportunity for a new start for the people of Northern Ireland, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told the assembly on 9 March 2010. This is the conclusion of the debate. He and First Minister Peter ... David Cameron praised by US over support for Northern Irish devolution Policing Northern Ireland The end of the beginning UUP pact returns to haunt Cameron |
The Guardian | High-speed rail network plans to be unveiled The Guardian The government will tomorrow unveil plans for a 225mph British high-speed rail network, including a detailed London-to-Birmingham route that will create more than 10000 jobs if the multibillion pound project goes ahead. The transport secretary ... London-Birmingham fast railway route to be unveiled Lord Adonis blast train companies over Oyster cards Details of 250mph rail line to be published |
![]() BBC News | The leaders of Plaid and SNP question the BBC's impartiality BBC News Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party (SNP) claim the BBC's live Prime Minsterial TV debates could "endanger the conduct of a free election". The claim was made in a joint letter from the parties' leaders to BBC Director General Mark Thompson. ... Alex Salmond says BBC TV debate snub is human rights breach SNP and Plaid complain about TV debates SNP and Plaid opposition to debate format |
![]() BBC News | Clegg says UK must not blindly follow US lead abroad BBC News Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said the UK must not automatically follow the US on key foreign policy issues, and instead seek a lead role in Europe. Mr Clegg accused Labour and the Tories of a 50-year consensus in which they had done "what the White ... Lib Dems – launch pad or scaffold? Lib Dem benefits Labour 'loses a third of voters' |