“The driver of a tanker found carrying eight suspected illegal immigrants was arrested today on suspicion of people trafficking.”
The Independent, 8th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Bishop has been ordered to undergo equal opportunities training and to pay a gay youth worker nearly £50,000 for refusing him a job because of his sexuality.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An accountant who claims he may be the illegitimate son of the late Princess Margaret has won the right to a full court hearing on whether he should be allowed to view her will and that of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.”
The Times, 8th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The owners of Southern Water are £20.3m worse off today after water industry regulator Ofwat confirmed that it has hit the company with its biggest ever fine.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“BBC Radio 4 presenter Nigel Wrench was today cleared of raping a man he met at a new year party.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s treatment of thousands of workers who lost their occupational pensions was branded irrational by three senior judges yesterday.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Treasury is today launching a consultation on the UK Market Abuse Regime. The consultation is specifically focused on where the UK regime imposes additional requirements to the EU’s 2003 Market Abuse Directive.”
HM Treasury, 7th February 2007
Source: www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
“Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s report on policing says ‘radical changes’ could free up the equivalent of 3,000 additional officers.”
Home Office, 7th February 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The full text of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture in London, 7th February 2008.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An 18-year-old mother, whose baby was taken into local authority care hours after he was born, has had her appeal to get him back turned down.”
BBC News, 7th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The coroner investigating the suicides of 13 young people in and around Brigend has said he does not believe the deaths are connected.”
BBC News, 8th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A passenger who was on board a plane that crash-landed at Heathrow last month is to sue British Airways (BA).”
BBC News, 8th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An MP has demanded an inquiry into mixed wards after a paranoid schizophrenic admitted killing a female patient in the next bed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An ombudsman yesterday criticised a faith school’s ‘fundamentally flawed’ admissions policy after it refused to give a place to a four-year-old policeman’s daughter.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father has been jailed for helping his pregnant wife flee abroad because she was terrified that social services would take her baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge has spoken of his ‘regret’ at having to jail a pensioner for five years for firing a pistol at a neighbour’s car after a long-running feud.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Bishop of London has written to the Home Secretary urging her to halt the deportation of a Nigerian teenager who has won universal praise for his unique and outstanding contribution to British society.”
The Independent, 8th February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The current record police force strength in England and Wales, which peaked at 141,000 officers, is ‘unsustainable’ over the next three years and numbers are likely to fall, the government’s most senior adviser on policing warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard’s deputy commissioner was told two months ago of allegations that his officers had bugged an MP while he talked to a constituent who was held in prison, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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