Dominating the skyline near the ground is a natural-gas repository serving south London. It poses a significant safety threat since similar facilities suffer gas escapes three or four times a year. An HSE spokesman said: “The development would increase the population close to the gas holder and increase the sources of ignition and the number [...]
Flint became the first home office minister to admit that she tried smoking dope while a student in the 1980s, a fact she revealed when pushing reclassification of cannabis through the Commons.She moved on to become minister for public health in May 2005 and oversaw the introduction of the smoking ban which came into place [...]
Her move to the Treasury now gives her a firm seat within senior government ranks. Like her husband, Cooper has a strong economics background. The Scottish-born MP was previously an economics researcher for John Smith, the late Labour leader, before becoming a policy adviser to the Bill Clinton presidential campaign. Cooper has since held a [...]
Police payBrown defended the decision to stage the police pay award as thousands of officers marched through London to protest against the deal. Nearly 18,000 set off from Park Lane in response to home secretary Jacqui Smith’s decision to delay a 2.5% rise.But the prime minister said the decision was necessary as part of the [...]
Why, I ask in all bleary innocence (it’s three hours past my bedtime and I’d expected to be talking about her fifth novel’s themes of war, male camaraderie, the ethics of British bombing raids over Nazi Germany, the nature of British culture and the future of the literary novel, rather than her experience of sexual [...]
The childhood of Artyom Fedorovich Sergeyev, who has died aged 86, was established by decree. His father Fyodor Sergeyev was a Bolshevik whose grave can be found by the Kremlin walls, the highest honour for a fallen comrade. A party and trade union leader, he met Lenin in 1906 in Stockholm. After escaping from prison [...]
This is the nerve-centre of No2ID, a campaign born in a London pub in 2004, and these days managing to make a good deal of the running in one of our most highly charged debates. According to its national organiser, 39-year-old Phil Booth, in addition to a hard core of around 2,000 members-cum-regular donors, No2ID [...]
“What is important now is for Gordon Brown to take rapid action to restore effective leadership to a department that has clearly been distracted by the events of the last few weeks.”The Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman, Danny Alexander, said it was a return to “sleaze” in government.”The transition from Blair to Brown feels [...]
There’s no doubting whom the soldier-turned-beautician will be voting for on Saturday. Alongside the pictures of elaborate hair styles pasted over the walls are posters of Barack Obama sitting in a barber’s chair under the banner “The Future is Now”. His policy statements on the Iraq war and health reform are also on display.”Obama has [...]
Nestl� said that it was “moving its community support towards the company strategy of nutrition, health and wellness,” in the form of healthy eating plans for primary schools.Despite some controversy over the prize’s sponsorship by Nestl� due to the company’s tarnished reputation arising from its promotion of powdered baby milk in developing countries, the prize [...]
