Secretary of State for Trade & Industry Alistair Darling said:

Mr Quinton Quayle has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand and Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic in succession to Mr David Fall, who will...

Accessibility is to improve at 161 stations in England and Wales, Rail Minister Tom Harris announced today. Over £6 million has been allocated in the third round of the Department for Transport's Access...

The Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett said:

HM The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Mr. Andrew John Gregory Moylan, Q.C., to be a Justice of the High Court.

The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a proposal to vary the admission arrangements for The Oaklands Primary School in Birmingham. The adjudicator, Dr Peter Matthews, has approved the...

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) today announced that the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) will be the pilot department for its new Procurement Capability Reviews.

The cost of staging the olympic games has spiralled from 2 to 10 billion...

Ideas for road congestion....one car one family, there is no need for a...

Taking West Dorset as an example, orthopaedic day surgery used to be carried...

Air Travel Tax is a tax on students: * Many students now study away from...

The number of young adults entering University is unsustainable with many...

Vibe Experience is a voluntary organisation based in the Vale of Glamorgan...

The energy prices have gone so high now that people cannot afford to keep...

The police force waste many hours attempting to apprehend minor offenders...

Police work hard in bringing offenders to justice. The investigations that...

Tony Blair does exactly what George Bush tells him to on all key...

An anomaly in the free world, the United Kingdom is without a codified...

The pension scheme enjoyed by MPs is now seriously out of kilter with the...

Base road pricing on location and speed limit relative to vehicle speed....

Increasingly manufacturers are producing cars with bulbs which can only be...

'VIC' replaces outdated road tax methods yet it contains NO personal details...

Whilst the BBC Panorama journalist Shelley Jofre's passionate reporting of...

I feel it is unjust to take into account the amount of a war pensioners'...

this petition is for the pull in buss stops to be put back...since they have...

We believe that the extraordinary rise in London council tax to pay for...

The Queen has been pleased to approve that The Reverend Professor Nigel Biggar MA PhD be appointed a Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Sarah Foot MA PhD be appointed a Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford.

Tony Blair says Britain is supporting democracy over terrorism in Iraq and should not apologise for its work there.

Tony Blair was joined at Number 10 by police officers and community groups to discuss how to tackle gun and gang-related crime.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Iraq, Gun Summit, Michael Meacher, Pedantry and Police Inquiry

The Government, NHS Employers and Unions today signalled their commitment to joint working by agreeing to sign up to a Partnership Agreement.

prepared by the DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS FAMILY, POVERTY AND WORK DIVISION

Lord Triesman, Foreign Office Minister for Africa, today met with His Excellency Mr Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of the Transitional Federal Republic of Somalia. The President is visiting the UK on 21-22 February...

Mr Iain Kelly has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan in succession to Mr David Moran who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Kelly will take up his...

Tough punishments for those who use other people to look after weapons, improved technology for linking weapons to incidents and increased funding for community groups are key measures emerging from a three-point...

JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE MOD AND CLARENCE HOUSE

Young people taking part in Government funded apprenticeships will enjoy significantly higher wages over their life time than they would have done without their training, research reveals today.

The office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a variation to the admission arrangements of The King's School, Ottery St Mary, Devon. The Local Authority requested an increase in the admission...

The office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a request by Slough Local Authority to vary the admission arrangements of Lea Infant School and Lea Junior School. The LA would like to reduce the...

High winds and torrential rain are forecast to affect parts of Mozambique as Tropical Cyclone Favio moves across the region.

A new radio campaign is urging workers who suspect their employer isn't paying tax and National Insurance for them to ring the Tax Evasion Hotline and report them to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

The motorway speed limit was introduced in the 1960's, and has not been...

This A&E facility is the only one serving this area to the North and South...

If we had in our family law courts the above law then family law courts...

The Pension Protection Fund is financed by private company schemes and...

The Government states that it is serious about promoting active...

Pregnancy & birth magazine and the Group B Strep Support charity want every...

I would like a law passed by Parliament banning microchipping in humans.

In this age, transferring money from one bank to another via BACS can take 3...

We want Table Football to be recognised as a National Sport and thus to be...

A 16 year old that is over the drink drive limit still has better reations...

To prevent the misuse of biometric data, and to give private citizens legal...

To medicalise the current illegal drugs scene would immediately make drug...

To eliviate the need for political parties to raise funds via private...

The NHS treats 1 million patients every 36 hours. For each patient the...

Devolution has caused a dangerous appetite for separation and disunity. The...

'...change traffic laws. It is time that the UK starts to drive on the right (like the rest of Europe)' -- Tim Overdiek

force all new build homes to have a wind turbine connected to the national...

Day by day as you pass by,every where you go you can see that Houses are...

We recently tried to obtain funding for an 89 year old relative in a care...

'...Raise the legal minimum age for driving cars to 21 and a maximum of 5 tests allowed.Also anyone over 60 should have to retake a driving test to prove they are still safe on the road.' -- Ian Deville

I think the national speed limit should be increased from 70 to 80/90 on...

Why do we pay more V.A.T. in the UK than that of our European neighbours,...

I feel that the Prime Minister should focus on employing more police and...

Speeding fines are simply another method for raising revenue for the...

Create a minimum employment duration so that employers won't employ people...

New Air Taxes and Proposed Road Pricing Revenue have to been seen to be...

As a solution to both congestion and green issues the government should tax...

The basic problem with the current prison system is that it is a University...

Harold Macmillan, told the House: "I should like to say, however, that it...

Healthcare services will be safer for patients thanks to new proposals published in response to the fifth report of the Shipman Inquiry.

A guide for people making decisions on behalf of those who lack the capacity to do so was laid in Parliament today by Constitutional Affairs Minister Cathy Ashton.

Private sewers and lateral drains which are currently the responsibility of the owners of the properties they serve are to be transferred into the ownership of the nine statutory water and sewerage companies (WaSCs...

Public Health minister Caroline Flint said:

Research conducted by Rocket Science UK to establish the support needs of voluntary organisations, compare this with available services, and make recommendations for areas for action

Research conducted by Rocket Science UK to establish the support needs of voluntary organisations, compare this with available services, and make recommendations for areas for action

Research conducted by Rocket Science UK to establish the support needs of voluntary organisations, compare this with available services, and make recommendations for areas of action

Responding to figures published today by the Office of National Statistics Minister for Children, Young People and Families, Beverley Hughes said:

Householders whose sewers lie outside the public network will welcome today's Government decision to transfer their ownership - and repair responsibility - to the nine water and sewerage companies in England.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that The Reverend Professor Nigel Biggar MA PhD be appointed a Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford from 1 ...

The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Sarah Foot MA PhD be appointed a Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford from 1 October 2007, in succession...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred to the Court of Appeal the conviction for murder of Robert Kennedy.

An online survey among more than 1,000 lone parents in the UK has shown that over three-quarters (77%) of respondents who have gone back to work say that working has made them feel more independent and 73% felt ...

The UK Armed Forces are currently at 97.1 per cent* Full Time Trained Strength, the Ministry of Defence's latest Armed Forces manning figures show. This is an increase from the last report in October 2006.

Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman today launched a consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), and how it will operate. The Obligation means that by 2010, 5% of all the fuel sold on UK forecourts...

The Metropolitan Police Authority will discuss 'Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate' in public at the monthly full Authority meeting this Thursday, 22 February, at 10am.

All migrant workers and foreign visitors should be excluded from access to...

Why should the human rights act protect these people, when the ones needing...

i think the car tax is to high on all cars, i would love to get it lowered...

At present "Job Agencies", both "on the Highstreet" and "on the Internet"...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Troop Numbers and Miscellaneous

Deaths continue to rise in 2005

Deaths increase in 2005

3.3% rise in fourth quarter 2006

A delivery framework for adult rehabilitation in Scotland.

This updated plan builds on progress made since the original Plan for Action on Alcohol Problems was published in 2002. It sets out a comprehensive programme of action for the next three years to change drinking...

Partnership Agreement between the Scottish Executive and the Alcohol Industry.

Report on costs and impacts of the implementation of the principle of Full Cost Recovery in the public sector contracts with the voluntary sector

Report on costs and impacts of the implementation of the principle of Full Cost Recovery in the public sector contracts with the voluntary sector

The Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) was commissioned by the Scottish Executive to evaluate the alcohol test purchasing pilot in Fife. The aim of the pilot is to assess test purchasing arrangements ...

Celebrating Success in Scottish Schools: Spring 2007 Newsletter

RUCINSKI v. POLAND - 33198/04 [2007] ECHR 163 (20 February 2007)

OZCELIK v. TURKEY - 56497/00 [2007] ECHR 162 (20 February 2007)

VAANANEN v. FINLAND - 10736/03 [2007] ECHR 164 (20 February 2007)

YENGIN v. TURKEY - 42091/02 [2007] ECHR 161 (20 February 2007)

eharmony.com Inc. v Donavan [2007] DRS 4202 (12 February 2007)

Michael Page International Plc v Domain Administration Ltd [2007] DRS 4344 (16 February 2007)

James v Pro-Turf Equipment Ltd [2007] DRS 4267 (20 February 2007)

MA (Palestinian Arabs, Occupied Territories, Risk) Palestinian Territories CG [2007] UKAIT 00017 (20 February 2007)

West Tankers Inc v. RAS Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta SpA & Ors [2007] UKHL 4 (21 February 2007)

By an application dated 15 November 2006, two of the Defending Parties, Party 14 (Glen International Limited, "Glen") and Party 18 ("Harjivan"), sought a declaration that this long-running litigation was compromised...

This action concerns a house called 'Maison d'Or' that was built for the Claimant, Mr Ian McGlinn, in St Aubin, in Jersey. The house took three years to build, between January 1999 and December 2001. Following...

The Second and Third Defendants ("AON") sought, at a without notice hearing on 16 January 2007, before Wyn Williams J, an interim order restraining the second-named Claimant ("Benfield") from deposing certain witnesses...

A is a baby boy born on 30 April 2005. He is in the care of the local authority under an interim care order and has been since he was only a few months old. His mother (M) is unable to care for him because of drug...

By a Sale and Purchase Agreement ("the SPA") dated 27 February 2001, the First Claimant (then called Allbright & Wilson Overseas Limited) and the Second Claimant (then called Rhodia Consumer Specialties limited) ...

This action has emerged out of separate proceedings commenced some years ago by the First Defendant and now pursued in the names of the First Defendant and Mr Gaon as its assignee. The trial of those proceedings...

This is an appeal by way of case dated against a decision of district judge (MC) Babington�Browne sitting in the Basingstoke Magistrates Court on 11 April 2006.

MRS JUSTICE DOBBS: This is an appeal by way of case stated in relation to the making of an anti-social behaviour order against this appellant on 20 February 2006.

MR JUSTICE BURTON: In 1999 Mr Cook, the claimant, set up a business and he fell swiftly and substantially behind with his PAYE and National Insurance contribution payments. On 18th June 2003 he had a visit from...

This is an appeal by way of case stated against the decision of District Judge Loosley sitting at Stratford-upon-Avon Magistrates' Court on 28 June 2004. The appellant, Stephen John Henry Smith, was convicted of...

MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN:

LORD JUSTICE KEENE: The appellant is a citizen of Sudan from the Darfur region of that country. Ethnically he is a black African. He arrived in this country in September�2003 and claimed asylum, but the issue...

MR JUSTICE STANLEY BURNTON: This is an appeal by way of case stated by Mr Kenneth Crossley against his conviction on a charge of common assault by Justices for the area of Redbridge sitting at Barkingside on 30th...

LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: This is an appeal by way of case stated from a decision of Justices sitting for the County of Hertfordshire who dismissed informations brought against the respondents, which charged them with...

On 7 March 2006, Lord Warner, the Health Minister, announced changes to the Immigration Rules applying to foreign (by which I mean, in the present context, non UK or other EEA) postgraduate doctors and dentists. ...

The claimant comes from Jamaica. She is 30 years old. She arrived in the UK on 25 August 1999, and was granted permission to enter the UK as a visitor for 6 months. On 24 February 2000 (the day before her ...

On the 15 March 2006 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration ("the Ombudsman"), Ms Ann Abraham, published a special report to Parliament entitled "Trusting in the Pensions Promise". The report found that...

A. The issue raised on this application is whether on the particular facts of this case a particular school was entitled as a matter of public law to refuse to allow a Muslim girl to wear at School the niqab veil...

Once again judges who have to sentence offenders are confronted with the fact that the prisons are full. When they impose sentences of imprisonment -- and very often the nature of the offence will mean that there...

UBS AG ("UBS") , a bank resident in Switzerland, succeeded to the banking business of the Swiss Bank Corporation ("SBC"), following a merger in 1998. SBC carried on a banking business through a branch in London...

This is a most unusual case. Since 1 January 2002 the claimant has been the successor to the Ashworth Hospital Authority. In 1999 Ashworth Hospital was, as it is now, a special hospital provided by the Secretary...

On 25 June 2001, Somaya Ehrari stepped out from behind a parked car. One second later she was struck by the nearside mirror of a builder's truck driven by Martin Curry, the first appellant, an employee of the second...

Scottish Police College Primary Inspection 2006

Today the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, published her report, Put together in haste: 'Cod Wars' trawlermen's compensation scheme, of her investigation into the Icelandic trawlermen's compensation scheme, ...

The Office of Government Commerce today outlines plans for the effective management of the Government's Estate as an integral element of Transforming Government Procurement.