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31st Dec 09

Father of bomb plot accused warned CIA

by Sally Davies

The father of the alleged attempted Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect spoke to a CIA agent about his son’s extremist opinions, but the agent’s report on the meeting was sent to the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, it was not carried any further.
If the information had been passed on between other agencies, Umar Farouk [...]

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31st Dec 09

Family of executed Briton return home

by Paul Russell

Grieving relatives of a British man executed by lethal injection in China are to return to the UK as relations between the two nations hardens.
Akmal Shaik’s death penalty was upheld on Tuesday in spite of please for clemency from his family, human rights campaigners and the UK Government.
Supporters of Shaikh claim he suffered from a [...]

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31st Dec 09

Gordon Brown vows to get Britain moving

by Sally Davies

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will use his New Year’s message to vow to get Britain moving forward again and urge voters not to destroy the recover.
He will promise to go for growth and deliver a decade of shared prosperity, while reducing the deficit in a fair and sensible way.
Prior to the general election, which must [...]

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31st Dec 09

NHS agency staff spending skyrockets

by Natasha Redman

Spending on NHS agency staff has skyrocketed in the last couple of years, amid signs of permanent positions being frozen as the service prepares itself for a squeeze on funding.
The amount spent on temporary staff by hospitals and NHS trusts responsible for community services reached almost £1.3 billion in England last year, which was a [...]

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31st Dec 09

Celebrity Big Brother contestants will go to hell

by Paul Russell

A hellish Celebrity Big Brother house has been unveiled featuring animal skulls, a kitchen that looks like a hospital morgue and macabre sculptures.
Producers of the programme have chosen a gothic décor, based on Dande’s Inferno and the notion by Jean-Paul Satre that hell is for other people.
David Williams, spokesman for Channel 4 said hopefully they’ve [...]

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30th Dec 09

UK to experience further financial pain in 2010

by Sally Davies

The UK in the first 10 years of the new century has recorded the lowest economic growth of the post-war period and the worst returns for stock market investors since the 1930s.
Data provided by the Office of National Statistics showed that gross domestic product, on average, went up by 1.7 per cent annual in real [...]

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30th Dec 09

Viewers disappointed by Christmas TV programming

by Natasha Redman

The BBC has slumped in the ratings for its Christmas TV shows as complaints begin to mount about the lacklustre viewing.
The number of people watching top-rating programmes between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day dropped by 20 per cent, while message boards on the internet were inundated with people complaining about flops as a handful of [...]

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30th Dec 09

Broadband users to pay £25 extra a year for piracy bill

by Paul Russell

Broadband users in the UK are to receive a £500 million bill for taking on piracy, according to a report in a newspaper which claims that users will each pay £25 extra per year.
Government Ministers have confirmed that the Digital Economy Bill , which has already received strong protests, will force Internet Service Providers to [...]

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"I work for the Open Rights Group, who are campaigning against the Digital Economy Bill on the basis that it is unfair and disproportionate. We're asking UK citizens to get in touch with their MP and explain to them why the Bill must be stopped, and possibly to meet them at one of their surgeries to discuss the specific problematic points of the Bill in detail. We believe that visits and letters from voters will help change the minds of MPs currently for the proposals; our representatives will then see that people care about their rights and, as their duty is to vote in accordance with constituents' opinions, we hope that they will then oppose the Bill. If you, or your readers, want to know more details about the specific problems picked out by ORG and its supporters, don't know who your MP is, need help with wording a letter or arranging a meeting with them, drop me an email - katie@openrightsgroup.org - and I'll do my best to get you the information you need; all you have to do is the talking.

30th Dec 09

Glasgow airport to upgrade

by Katie Naylor

Glasgow airport has revealed a £25 million expansion plan to improve facilities and traffic accessing the site over the next two years.
The developments include improving a new airport road system, a new food court, a new highway lighting system and upgrades made to the airfield’s taxiway.
A total of £25 million will be invested over the [...]

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30th Dec 09

US President Barack Obama cuts golf game and rushes home with ambulance

by Paul Russell

US President Barack Obama has cut short a round of golf and rushed back to his holiday home in Hawaii followed by an ambulance with lights flashing and siren sounding.
Initial fears were that something may have happened to the First Lady Michelle Obama or daughters Malia and Sasha were dismissed in under an hour when [...]

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