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Still behind bars Abu Qatada denied bail over seized jihadist files
The radical Islamist, who has become a thorn in the Government's side, said recently that he would voluntarily return to Jordan if a new law banning the use of evidence procured through torture is passed.The 52-year-old remains at Belmarsh prison, having breached his bail conditions. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission heard yesterday that jihadist material was found on a USB stick ...
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Conservative party a spiral of irrelevance | Editorial
What, and for whom, does today's - and tomorrow's - Conservative party stand? In various periods in the past, it has been possible to answer that question with some clarity. Before 1832, the party stood for the landed interest. After 1867, it added the flag, the union and the shopkeeper too. In the first half of the 20th century, the Tories were for empire and against socialism. After ...
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Dementia fund unveiled for Surrey communities
News A 50,000 fund has been unveiled for Surrey communities to make life better for thousands of people with dementia. Surrey County Council unveiled the fund today with the launch of Dementia Awareness Week. The pot of cash will allow groups to put in bids for projects that help people with dementia remain active and independent in their local areas. The fund has been created ...
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Man Citys Rodwell called up to England squad
Roy hits out at club friendlies Rodwell, 22, endured an injury-hit debut season at the Etihad Stadium after joining City from Everton last summer.However he returned to the first-team fold towards the end of the campaign, featuring in four of City's last five games ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch Cross-eyed myopic or just old-fashioned soon these swivelling Tories will be making T-shirts
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Letters Mr Gove please listen to teachers
The secretary of state for education is pressing on doggedly with his proposals for the reform of education at all levels. This is in the face of opposition of the major headteachers' unions and representative associations throughout the maintained and independent sectors (ASCL, ISC, GSA and HMC). And all the admissions tutors of Cambridge University. At the weekend the NAHT expressed ...
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Multinational CEOs tell David Cameron to rein in tax avoidance rhetoric
Sir Roger Carr, CBI chairman, said at an earlier meeting that tax avoidance "cannot be about morality - there are no absolutes". Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty ...
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Program to repopulate Britain with cranes yields first egg
Wildlife experts say the first crane egg in southern Britain in more than 400 years has been laid by a nesting bird. Although hunting and the loss of habitat wiped out the crane population in Britain, the Great Crane Project has been rearing the birds in captivity and reintroducing them to southwestern England since 2010, they said. The egg, the first laid by cranes released by the project, is ...
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Letters The tube is a great public institution
150th anniversary of the tube , hardly a word has been said about another important date: the 80th anniversary of public ownership, inaugurated on 1 July 1933, when the underground became part of ...
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Letters More social housing needed not sell-offs and mortgage subsidy
Housing for Women's experience is that increasingly local authorities are placing women and their children who are victims of domestic violence in inappropriate private accommodation due to the lack of affordable housing. This is often outside the area where they have established support networks and children's schools and is particularly detrimental to their recovery and resettlement. ...
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
A gay couple who were beaten by a gang of youths in a suspected homphobic robbery last weekend - leaving one with head injuries - have urged politicians to moderate their language when debating same-sex ...
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Labour MP Tom Watson urges Theresa May to investigate suppressed Leveson evidence
The Home Secretary has been asked to investigate whether vital reports and documents in the possession of Scotland Yard were seen in full by Lord Justice Leveson before he reached key conclusions in his report on the ...
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Academy chains decide where children go to school
What can you do if you are told your child must move to a different school eight miles away? Not a lot, it seems, if the school is part of an academy ...
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Senior Tories warn of waning confidence in PM
David Cameron, who could face a confidence vote if the chairman of the Tory 1922 committee receives enough letters demanding one. Photograph: Oli ...
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Council admits mistakes over Ukip foster parents storm
children away from their Ukip-supporting foster parents has apologised over its handling of the case after a review concluded that mistakes were made but the decision was taken in the children's best ...
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Education in brief Is the DfE trying to rig the teacher-education market
The education department seems desperate to teach more teachers; Newham local authority refuses to release a report's findings; parents give up on battle against academy ...
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Politics needs mavericks not just the same old chumocracy and groupthink | Jenni Russell
Suddenly there are new faces on our television screens, and new, agitated, indignant voices on the airwaves. Some are old or plummy-toned, some have grey hair, some are young and working class, some are anxious suburban commuters. Many of them are women. It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.They are ...
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Man stabbed in chest in Lee has life-threatening injuries
Man stabbed in chest in Lee has life-threatening injuries A 35-YEAR-old man is in hospital with life threatening injuries after he was stabbed in the chest this morning in Lee. Police were called at 10.15am to reports of an assault near Lee station. The victim is believed to have called an ambulance from nearby hairdressers Hair Deco, in Manor Lane. He was taken to hospital ...
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Two charged after cocaine seizure at Gatwick
News Two people have been charged after cocaine with a potential street value of 1 million was seized at Gatwick Airport. The two from the West Midlands, British nationals Kris Millwood, 29, of Beacon View Road, West Bromwich, and Sherelle Burke, 22, of Bridge Street, Coseley, Bilston, were arrested by Border Force officers at the airport's South Terminal. The pair had just ...
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Burnt Oak fun day
, Reporter A Burnt Oak church will be hosting a community fun day this bank holiday Monday. Pentecostal church The Burnt Oak Christain Fellowship will be treating residents of the North Road Estate to a free barbeque, bouncy castle, a jumbe sale as well as face painting and children's activities. Youth worker Marcus Ottaviani who is helping organise the event said: "The ...
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Tickets running out for Crystal Palace beer festival at Selhurst Park
The Cronx brewers Mark Russell and Simon Dale with the Crystals. The Crystal Palace Beer Festival is back for a third time this year and it is expected to be bigger than ever this weekend. In the space of three years, the Palace Beer Festival has become one of the biggest celebrations of ale and cider in the south of England. There will be more than 150 different beers and ciders on ...
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VIDEO Balloon release marks 10th anniversary of Erith schoolgirl Gemma Rolfes unsolved death
AS SHE let the first balloon go in the evening sunshine, the mother of an Erith schoolgirl killed 10 years ago said simply: "Love you, Gemma". Janet Robey's daughter Gemma Rolfe was just 12 when she died in a car crash after the 4x4 she was travelling in was hit by a stolen van near the junction between Slade Green Road and Canada Road in Slade Green. The driver fled the ...
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Police chase in Twickenham following fight over a girl
Police in Water Lane, Twickenham A fight over a girl sparked a police chase through Twickenham this afternoon. Police were seen chasing a male on foot in the Water Lane/Church Street area at about 5pm today. A Twickenham police officer said: "It was a scuffle between a couple of males in their twenties over a girl." Police issued a section five public order offence ...
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Teenager acquitted of Burger King murder
Victim: Pelivan Zekaj A teenager who stabbed a man to death in a mass brawl at a Wood Green burger restaurant was cleared of all charges today after claiming self defence. Daniel Lewis, 19, of Gurney Close, Barking, Essex, was said to have murdered 23-year-old Pelivan Zekaj in Burger King in the Mall, Wood Green after a clash with a rival group of Albanians that started in the shopping ...
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Sleep walkers raise thousands of pounds for charity
Hundreds of walkers donned their pyjamas as they pounded the streets of Enfield under the cover of darkness to raise money for charity. The streets were filled with more than 600 volunteers taking part in the third Enfield Night Hike last Friday. Arranged by Enfield Council in conjunction with The Nightingale Cancer Support Centre and Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust, the annual ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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