Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Nick Clegg reacted with fury yesterday to accusations that ministers were "sociologically cleansing" the poor out of parts of London with planned cuts to housing benefit payments.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT
Baby Peter's "horrifying death could and should have been prevented" but he was let down by the incompetence of almost every member of staff with whom he came into contact, according to a previously secret report that was finally published yesterday.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT
A woman was being questioned on suspicion of murder last night after a man wearing women's clothes was allegedly pushed to his death under a rush-hour Tube train.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT
A UK-bound jumbo jet with 451 passengers aboard had to divert due to a disruptive passenger, it was revealed today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Dutch supermodel Lara Stone has won "significant" damages from French Playboy after the magazine published unauthorised naked photographs of her, lawyers said yesterday.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

The hunt for the marksman who slew Britain's largest wild animal – the 9ft-tall stag known to Exmoor residents as the Emperor – escalated yesterday with suspicion turning towards a handful of landowners, one of whom is suspected of co-operating with an out-of-town trophy hunter.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

George Osborne received a double helping of good news yesterday: better-than-expected figures on the strength of the recovery and an upgrade from the credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

"Thank you for reminding me about Christie's," one of the world's richest monarchs, the Emir of Qatar, said casually on the eve of his state visit to Britain, which began yesterday with a spectacular horse-drawn carriage procession to Windsor Castle.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT
London Underground staff ignored concerns for their own safety and rushed to help victims of the 7/7 bombings, the inquest into the deaths of the 52 people killed heard yesterday.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

On a Wednesday afternoon earlier this month, lots 94 and 95 went under the hammer at Bonhams auction house in New Bond Street, London. The items, a 1,600-year-old Attic jar and a Greek jug from 350BC, were listed for sale at between £2,000 and £4,000. Only one of them sold. Lot 95, the jug, intricately decorated to resemble a man's head, fetched £3,600.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Prisoners are being forced to slop out in their cells because of a "degrading system" of sanitation, say inspectors.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:07 AM PDT
A housemaster at St Paul's Cathedral choir school sexually abused boys in his care, the Old Bailey heard today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:02 AM PDT
Arts Council-funded organisations will have an across-the-board cut of almost 7% in their grants next year, it was announced today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:55 AM PDT
The Government was today accused of planning to "demolish" the Royal Mail ahead of the first debate in Parliament of its controversial privatisation plans.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:54 AM PDT
Major new multimillion-pound road schemes were announced today by Transport Secretary Philip Hammond.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:47 AM PDT
A soldier killed himself just weeks into a tour of Iraq after his marriage to a fellow serving officer broke down following a string of difficulties, an inquest heard today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:38 AM PDT

Tommy Sheridan visited the home of a woman who claims to have had an affair with him, a court was told today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:36 AM PDT
A convicted murderer was today found guilty of raping a woman in her 20s five weeks before he strangled a transsexual prostitute.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:56 AM PDT
A station manager was stopped from sending London Underground staff down to the Tube track after a bomb ripped apart a train on July 7, he said today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:41 AM PDT
Police chiefs today announced proposals for a National Police Air Service that they say will save £15 million a year.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:38 AM PDT
A husband accused of having his wife hacked to death was "obsessed" with her older sister, a court heard today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:37 AM PDT
A mother repeatedly stabbed her three-year-old daughter before dousing her body in acid in a bid to "dissolve her away", a court heard today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:29 AM PDT
More damning failings that led to Baby P's death will be revealed today with the publication of previously secret official reports.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:28 AM PDT
Hammer killer Michael Stone was refused a new appeal over his conviction for the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:26 AM PDT
Simply cutting jobs was not a sensible way of downsizing Government departments because of the difference in pay between senior staff and other workers, a Cabinet minister said today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:24 AM PDT
Conservative-controlled Norfolk County Council today announced plans to shed around one in three of its non-school staff over the next four years in the wake of cuts in local government funding.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:10 AM PDT
A man celebrating his 21st birthday died after jumping 30ft from a bridge, an inquest heard today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:08 AM PDT
Rail commuters already facing increased annual fare rises from January 2012 could find season tickets rocketing this winter as well, it was revealed today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:07 AM PDT
A middle-aged man allegedly pushed to his death under a Tube train was wearing women's clothes, sources said today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:04 AM PDT

Chancellor George Osborne's recovery plans received a welcome boost today with better than expected third quarter growth figures and a crucial upgrade for the UK economy.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:49 AM PDT
Sharon Shoesmith's part in the Baby P tragedy was thrust back into the spotlight today with the publication of two official reports into why the authorities failed to prevent his death.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:53 AM PDT
The Scottish Government today lost a UK Supreme Court appeal case over human rights which could undermine the convictions of criminals questioned without a lawyer.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:45 AM PDT
A Catholic child welfare society which may face a multi-million damages claim over abuse at a school failed today to offload some of the liability.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:43 AM PDT
Savers are missing out on up to £12 billion in interest by holding their money in accounts paying low returns, a consumer group said today.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:16 AM PDT
Cabbie John Worboys is believed to be the UK's most prolific sex offender after it emerged today he may have attacked at least 102 women.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:14 AM PDT
London will be without full-time fire cover on one of the busiest nights of the year after firefighters announced a strike on Bonfire Night.
Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:53 PM PDT
Police are being given more powerful guns and extra training to prepare for a possible Mumbai-style terror attack in the UK, it was reported today.

posted by Greg Shaw at Wednesday, October 27, 2010