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A team of prosecutors are set to reveal whether criminal charges will be laid against the MPs and their peers over their expense claims. The Director of Public Prosecutions is due to release a statement at 11am this morning which follows a police probe into the six MPs. Police passed on the files on the [...]
(Read More)4th Feb 10
No new gay legislation under Tory government
by Paul Russell
David Cameron has insisted that no new gay rights legislation will introduced under a Tory government, he revealed in an interview discussing gay rights. The Conservatives leader apologised for his party’s history of spearheading anti-gay legislation and went further than any previous Tory leader in mentioning his belief in equal rights for all regardless of [...]
(Read More)4th Feb 10
£23 billion annually spent on dementia sufferers
by Harry Oldfield
A new report has shown that dementia is costing the country £23 billion a year, more than cancer and heart disease combined. The number of sufferers of dementia is about 822,000, and also 17 per cent higher than previously thought and will pass the one million mark prior to 2025, according to the Alzheimer’s Research [...]
(Read More)4th Feb 10
Coma victim communicates with MRI
by Adam Richards
A coma victim, who was said to be brain dead by doctors, has answered simple questions by using thought, according to a team of neuroscientists. Researchers communicated with the 29-year-old Belgian, who had suffered severe head injuries about five years ago, by mapping his brain with an fMRI scanner as he answered questions. He was [...]
(Read More)4th Feb 10
Peter Andre struggles to hold it together during interview
by Paul Russell
Singer and ex-husband of model Katie Price, Peter Andre, has fought back tears during an interview in which he stormed that no one would take his kids away from him. A live interview was cut short after questions were asked to him about his children, after the sudden marriage of Ms Price and Alex Reid. [...]
(Read More)4th Feb 10
Expenses MP to be named in report
by Katie Naylor
British MPs were bracing themselves for a fresh furore over expenses as the long-awaited report naming parliamentarians ordered to pay back cash to the taxpayer is published. It has been reported that Sir Thomas Leg, the retired mandarin who carried out the review, will argue that a culture of difference in which MPs expected their [...]
(Read More)3rd Feb 10
Cadbury close to being de-listed from London Stock Exchange
by Natasha Redman
Protests, editorials, and almost 200 years of history as an independent company have accounted for little when shareholders of confectionary manufacturer Cadbury accepted a takeover bid from US-based Kraft Foods. The American firm had finally won its five month struggle to control the Birmingham company after confirming that 71.7 per cent of shareholders backed its [...]
(Read More)3rd Feb 10
Furore as Pope slams equality laws
by Adam Richards
Pope Benedict XVI has sparked a furore among secular and gay rights campaigners after he criticised the equality legislation in Britain for running contrary to ‘natural law’ and restricting the freedom of religious communities. The pontiff claimed the effects of some legislation designed to provide equality of opportunity had been to impose unjust limitations on [...]
(Read More)3rd Feb 10
Katie Price marries in Vegas
by Katie Naylor
Model Katie price, popularly known as Jordan, has wed her boyfriend Alex Reid in Las Vegas, according to a spokesman for the couple. The couple apparently tied the knot in a simple and private ceremony in the US resort. The newlyweds issued a statement which said that they were very much in love and look [...]
(Read More)3rd Feb 10
iPad may come with webcam
by Harry Oldfield
New reports have emerged speculating that the release of the new Apple iPad may come with a webcam, after closer scrutiny of the device which company chief Steve Jobs presented last month may actually be a webcam, similar to that on the MacBook Pro. A small screenshot from the official video of the event shows [...]
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