Tuesday, January 04, 2011

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Miliband: the fightback begins

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Ed Miliband is to launch a campaign on the "lost generation" of young unemployed whose numbers are expected to reach levels this year not seen for a quarter of a century.

Ministers' drive to keep Britain's motorists happy

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Conservative ministers introduced a series of pro-car measures yesterday and declared the end of Labour's alleged "war on motorists".

Honoured at last, the Indian heroine of Churchill's spy squad

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

On 13 September 1944, a glamorous British agent known as Madeleine was shot dead at Dachau concentration camp by her Nazi captors. Despite being tortured by the Gestapo during 10 months of imprisonment, she had revealed nothing of use to her interrogators. Her last act was to shout "Liberté!".

Police seek driver of 4x4 in Yeates murder case

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Detectives leading the hunt for Joanna Yeates's killer revealed that they want to speak to the driver of a light-coloured 4x4 vehicle which was seen on the street where her body was found the night she went missing. The senior investigating officer, Phil Jones of Avon and Somerset Police, said the vehicle was spotted on Longwood Lane at around the time Ms Yeates, 25, is believed to have disappeared.

Tributes paid to soldier killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

The first British Army soldier to be killed in Afghanistan this year was remembered as a friendly giant with a mischievous sense of humour by friends and family yesterday. Private Joseva Vatubua was part of an operation to assault enemy positions north of the village of Saidabad Kalay, Helmand, on Saturday evening when an improvised explosive device buried in the wall of a compound exploded. The 24-year-old, known to his friends as Big Joe, was among more than 2,000 Fijian soldiers serving in the British Army and the 11th to have lost his life in Iraq or Afghanistan. He was a keen rugby player and was selected to represent the Army at Rugby Sevens.

Tesco gets in to the gold trade

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Tesco hopes to mine new ground with the launch of a service allowing customers to swap their unwanted gold jewellery for cash.

Minister says councils must use initiative to empty bins

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

As householders across the country face the new year surrounded by the detritus of the last, the Government has urged councils to show more initiative in dealing with refuse collections.

North of England hit by earthquake

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale rumbled across northern England last night. The quake, with an epicentre near Ripon, was felt in North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria just after 9pm.

Charities lose thousands as crime gangs target clothing donations

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Clothes donated by members of the public to charity are being stolen by organised criminals and sold abroad, depriving leading charities of millions of pounds for good causes.

Pathologist calls for fewer autopsies

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

The number of coroner post-mortem examinations carried out each year in England and Wales could be reduced by more than 60 per cent, a leading pathologist said yesterday.

Westminster's movers and shakers in 2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

David Miliband

The Islamification of Britain: record numbers embrace Muslim faith

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam.

Murdered architect Joanna Yeates 'was not sexually assaulted'

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:24 AM PST

Police hunting the killer of Joanna Yeates have found no evidence she was sexually assaulted but tonight said they were unable to rule out a sexual motive to her murder.

Prison officers warn of fresh riots

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

Prisons in Britain will face fresh riots as a result of government austerity measures, the prison officers' leader has warned.

NHS 'wasting £1 billion a year on supplies'

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

The NHS is wasting more than £1 billion of taxpayers' money a year as managers spend vastly differing amounts on the same supplies, the head of a government-backed healthcare efficiency drive claimed today.

Two charged over housing estate murder

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

Two people will appear in court today charged over the murder of a teenager shot dead in the stairwell of a housing estate.

Shoppers fill stores ahead of VAT rise

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:36 AM PST

Stores were today filled with shoppers who were in a last-minute rush to beat tomorrow's VAT rise.

Ed Miliband warns of VAT risk to jobs

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:34 AM PST

The 2.5% hike in VAT which comes into effect at midnight tonight will cost families almost £400 a year and put up to 250,000 jobs at risk, Labour leader Ed Miliband warned today.

Women warned as hunt for Joanna Yeates' killer continues

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:50 AM PST

Police are warning women not to walk home alone after dark because landscape architect Joanna Yeates's killer remains at large.

Body found after boat capsizes on Thames

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:21 AM PST

Police divers searching for two missing men after a boat carrying six passengers capsized have found a body, police said.

posted by Greg Shaw at Tuesday, January 04, 2011