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Three more government drugs advisers quit
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Alan Johnson failed in an attempt to defuse the damaging row between the Government and Britain's top scientists after three more of his drugs advisers resigned last night.
'Big Brother' database cancelled
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Nigel Morris and Robert Verkaik: Plan to store details of every phone call and email 'kicked into long grass' after furore
Brown pays tribute to troops killed in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The PM was speaking as controversy raged over his 'disrespectful' condolence letter to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Dead soldier's mother confronts PM over lack of equipment
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Gordon Brown was confronted over the lack of equipment for British troops by the mother of a dead soldier when he called to offer his condolences.
Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Secret inquests which will bar bereaved families and the public from attending hearings into controversial deaths were forced through Parliament last night.
'Mortified' PM apologises over condolence note
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Brown telephones soldier's mother after spelling son's name wrong in letter
Bob Ainsworth: The conflict in Afghanistan is one of necessity, not choice
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Tomorrow, as we commemorate military sacrifice, my thoughts will be with our forces on the frontline in Afghanistan.
Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Jack Straw's decision to no longer force applicants for the judiciary to declare if they are Freemasons was today branded a "disgrace" by a Labour MP.
Andrew Grice: Sombre Brown
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
A very sombre Gordon Brown on display at his Downing Street press conference this morning, the first of these once-monthly events since July. Inevitably, it was dominated by Afghanistan. He wore a black tie and it felt a bit odd when he spoke slowly and deliberately about the NHS too. He brought the presser to an end so that it did not clash with the bodies of six other servicemen killed in the conflict arriving home.
Oliver Wright: Oops... how The Telegraph got it wrong
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Interesting to see that The Telegraph has taken down what was the main story in their newspaper this morning from the home page of their website .
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4 Wife says noisy sex conviction breaches rights
5 Anger at 'cloak of secrecy' for Freemason judges
6 Hacker attacks police website
7 Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial
8 I understand the pain of losing a child, says Brown
9 Knife killers to serve at least 25 years
10 Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons
11 Graffiti artist's sentence brings no joy to persecutor
12 Dead soldier's mother confronts PM over lack of equipment
13 Soldier 'too afraid to tell truth' on Baha Mousa
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3 Knife killers to serve at least 25 years
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