Government scales back child worker vetting scheme
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:54 GMT
Plans to vet millions of people working with children and vulnerable adults are to be scaled back to “common sense” levels, the Government announced today
Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:03:21 GMT
9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.
Bloody Sunday fees hit £100m, with 14 lawyers earning more than £1m
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
A total of £100 million, more than half the costs of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, established in 1998, has gone on legal fees.
Freedom of Information Act gives protection to royal secrets
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
The Royal Family and the Royal Household were exempted from direct requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Royal Household was not included in the Act’s definition of a public authority, so members of the public are unable to access information held in the Royal Archives. Public bodies can be asked to release information that may include details about the Royal Family, but protection also covers communications between public bodies, such as government departments, and the Royal Family or Royal Household.
BNP leader invited to meet Queen at Buckingham Palace garden party
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has been invited to attend a Buckingham Palace garden party hosted by the Queen, The Times has learnt.
England sees again how fragile optimism can be on and off the field
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
We have Harold Wilson to blame for the search for connections between the World Cup and the fortunes of the nation.
US pension funds sue BP directors over the falling share price
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Fifteen directors of BP, including Tony Hayward, the chief executive, and Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman, are being sued personally by two US pension funds for their role in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Economy may never recover from banking crisis, warns OBR
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
The economy, more damaged by the banking crisis than previously admitted, will grow more weakly and may never fully recover, the new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said yesterday.
Same economists who work out Budget figures are producing OBR data
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Two men had the job of signing off Alistair Darling’s growth and borrowing forecasts, which have now been revised by the independent Office for Budgetary Responsibility: Sir Nick Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, and Dave Ramsden, Chief Economic Adviser.
Blundering goalkeepers ‘think their hands are wider’
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
As the ball skimmed his glove and rolled into the back of the net, it was a moment of head-in-hands calamity for the England goalkeeper Robert Green. For scientists, the USA’s equaliser on Saturday evening may simply have confirmed the discovery that our mental representation of our hands is about two thirds wider than they really are.
Why everything in the garden is lovely again at Chiswick House
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Behind a thundering dual carriageway on the A4 out of London is an unlikely site to have inspired the rolling parkland of the English country garden.
Melancholy swansong of a queen gets upbeat vote from opera lovers
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
The suicidal subject matter is far from uplifting and it is unlikely to become a World Cup theme tune any time soon.
Popular? What about tunesmiths Bizet, Handel, Rossini and Verdi?
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Oh dear. Asking Radio 3 listeners for a Top Ten of Britain’s favourite arias is a bit like asking the Bullingdon Club to supply a list of the nation’s favourite tipples. It would include rare vintages, but not what they shift by the tankload at Bargain Booze.
Derrick Bird’s mother vows to write letters of comfort to bereaved
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT
The elderly mother of Derrick Bird is determined to send letters of condolence to the families of each of her son’s 12 victims, it has emerged.
Tax-cutting blow as CGT to raise £1.5bn less than planned
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:53 GMT
George Osborne faced a fresh blow over capital gains tax yesterday after it emerged it is due to raise £1.5 billion less than expected.
Britain must prepare for casualty spike in Afghanistan, Cameron warns
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:51 GMT
David Cameron warned yesterday that there would be more British deaths in Afghanistan this summer but said that the threat to Britain of an al-Qaeda attack from the region had dropped.
Families call for the truth 38 years after Bloody Sunday
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:40 GMT
On the edge of the Bogside in Londonderry stands a granite monument to the 14 men “murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday”. The simple signs at its foot proclaim: “Hope for Truth.”
Royal two for one: William and Harry go to Africa on first joint tour
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:40 GMT
In these times of austerity, it is the royal tour that gives value for money: two princes for the price of one. Prince William and Prince Harry’s tour of Africa — a six-day, three-country dash that began yesterday and will take in England’s next World Cup match in Cape Town — is the first time the prin-ces have embarked on a joint tour.
Witnesses ‘lied to hide Prince’s involvement,’ court told
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:40 GMT
Witnesses in the Chelsea Barracks case “concocted an untrue story” to cover up the involvement of the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of an £81 million modernist housing project, the High Court was told yesterday.
BBC to break ranks on public sector pay
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:02:30 GMT
The BBC has ignored pleas for public sector pay restraint with a multimillion-pound offer to boost the salaries of more than 13,000 workers.
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