The families and friends of the five men kidnapped in Baghdad would like to send the following message to their loved ones:
Just before 2.30 p.m. this afternoon Liverpool Coastguard were informed that the 18 metre Liverpool Pilot boat 'Dunlin' with three people on board; two crew and 1 Pilot, was in some difficulties inbound in the Crosby...
Wandsworth Borough Council is attempting to evict the parent run eco-...
Asked repeatedly if the story in the Guardian was right about Lord Ashdown becoming super-envoy to Afghanistan and when a decision would be made, the PMS replied that ultimately this was a decision for the UN Secretary...
Asked if the Prime Minister welcomed the Financial Service Authority (FSA) announcement on the housing market, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was obviously very supportive of the independence of the FSA and...
Asked what the Prime Minister would discuss with the Romanian Prime Minister, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said it would be a fairly wide-ranging discussion, taking stock of the live items on the EU agenda...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Romanian Prime Minister, housing market and Lord Ashdown
Gordon Brown has welcomed Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu to Downing Street.
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Older people will soon be able to get more help with rent and Council Tax bills without having to send off any forms, the DWP announced today.
The countdown to the transformation of the immigration system began today when the Home Secretary announced new rules for highly skilled foreign workers applying to come to the UK.
Sir Christopher Kelly KCB is to become the next Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Government announced today. Sir Christopher will take up the appointment on 1 January 2008, taking over from...
Guidance to SEPA and the Environment Agency on river basin management planning in the Solway Tweed River Basin District.
Local Government Minister John Healey announced final decisions on re-structuring today taking forward five successful proposals put forward by councils for unitary status, alongside a timetable for first elections...
Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly, today called for more stations to join the Department's Secure Stations Scheme in 2008.
in order that the next generation can grow up in a healthily, and to ensure...
Key skills should only be mandatory for students that did not get an...
Wolves, Bears, Beavers, Lynx and Boar all use to roam free in britain but...
Ensure the quick return of a producing theatre in Derby that provides jobs,...
From 11 pm to 5 am it is apparently illegal for petrol stations to sell hot...
Eye examination result printed on all driving licence. As an student...
'...Re-instate the merseytram scheme' -- Rob Rossington
lower the legal age to drive down to 15
Prevent anyone from imposing religious beliefs on children within the care...
It is difficult for single parents to support children in collage. so this...
Request that the Prime Minister implements legislation making it unlawful...
The government encourages those past retirement age to continue working and...
The current detention of Gillian Gibbons and the ongoing genocide in Dafur...
To increase the existing awareness of gun crime in the U.K particularly...
Power generating companies were given free permits for their CO2 emissions....
the number of reported rapes for women has significantly increased over the...
Fundamentally a bank (or building society) should not be allowed to raise...
This 150% fine should be paid BY THE DIRECTOR(S) of the relevant company and...
I am happy to pay child maintainance for my child and am aggreived by non...
JSA should not be allowed for under 21's. I, myself am under 21 years of age...
Lack of sex education is causing this country to become infested in diseases...
Wandsworth Council plan to develop the Tooting Bec Triangle area of Tooting...
Melbourne Post Office has been earmarked for closure, this will have a...
Many companies use mother's maiden name as a security password. Using this...
A new campaign that aims to build five new Maggie's cancer care centres across England and Wales by 2012 was launched at a Downing Street reception last night.
Millions more people would benefit from a good workplace pension as a result of reforms in the Pensions Bill 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Peter Hain said today.
Statistical Tables 2006 RPID Annual Report
Technical guidance for auditors and preparers of charity accounts
Councils and communities which back new homes will get extra help with infrastructure, Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper announced today as she set out the allocation of £732m to local councils...
Sir Martin Doughty, Chair of Natural England, will be heading to the Western Weald to meet campaigners and see vulnerable local landscapes that could face exclusion from a South Downs National Park if Natural England...
Ed Balls today announced a new scheme to help children who have dyslexia, identified through the 'Every Child a Reader' programme.
A £420m fund for more places to go and things to do for young people was allocated across the country today by Children's Minister Beverley Hughes.
Gordon Brown answered questions on Defence, political funding and health in his weekly PMQs session.
Gordon Brown has said there is international goodwill for a "binding agreement" on climate change at the ongoing summit in Bali, Indonesia.
The Prime Minister has promised that public funds will be protected in any agreement reached over the Northern Rock building society.
With the Christmas shopping season well under way, Consumer Direct has put together 12 top shopping tips for Christmas to help shoppers avoid problems and get the best deal.
Gordon Brown answered questions on Cancer treatment, the armed forces, prison spaces and climate change in his weekly PMQs session.
I would like to see several things in place here to enable ordinary people...
I feel there should be tax credits for anyone who wants to work regardless...
How many times have you contacted Companies in the UK and spoken to an...
Such a scheme should be encouraged to improve flood defences and Insurance...
The Post Office announced its proposal to close five local branches:...
The british forces have one of the most trained forces in the world but it...
£80 per week for a minimum of 40 hours is unfair in any country, we were...
To help ease traffic congestion on all 'A' roads! it makes good sense to...
The London bound M40 motorway at Junction 1a at the M25 slip road currently...
Crudgie made nearly 300 appearences for Argyle during his 18-year playing...
I feel a petition is needed for this as not only are alot of people unaware...
The things that people fail their driving tests for today are shocking and...
subsidise employers giving work experience to end this cycle whereby people...
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has today announced a national role modelling programme aimed at boosting the number of positive Black role models for our young Black men to aspire to.
Asked what the Prime Minister's reaction regarding the Nimrod report was, the PMS said that Des Browne was giving a statement on behalf of the Government at that moment and it was best to wait for that to finish...
Asked if there was a discussion at Cabinet about party funding and legislation, the PMS repeated what he had said in the morning press briefing; there was a brief update from Jack Straw on party funding which was...
Asked if the Prime Minister had talked to President Bush regarding the latest report from the US about Iran's nuclear ambitions, the PMS said that we were in very close contact with the American administration and...
Asked for the reaction to the video issued by the kidnappers of five Britons aired by Al Arabiya television demanding Britain to leave Iraq and put that there was some talk of a COBR meeting, the PMS said that he...
Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned about Britain's current slide in the world league tables for both maths and English, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) confirmed that this question was referring to the...
Gordon Brown will answer questions from MPs today in his weekly PMQs session beginning at 12:00 GMT.
The Government has thrown its support behind a unique £500m medical research centre that Gordon Brown says has "huge potential" to change patients' lives.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Programme for international student assessment, Iraq hostages video, US report re Iran, party funding and Nimrod report
The disgraceful treatment of the schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons warrants an...
We all know that Gillian Gibbons was in Sudan in an effort to help the...
To ensure commitment to the UK, all prospective immigrants would be vetted...
Recently some of the Falklands veterens, including myself, went back to the...
Turkey has been unfairly facing the "So called Armenian genocide"...
Big schools are rarely able to be managed effectively, and so creating...
The railway line between Oxford and Worcester has three long sections of...
The Post Office is currently advertising under the slogan 'The Peoples Post...
Since the rating was introduced some 50 years ago there has been no evidence...
Ludicrous element of the Health Act banning smoking in all public places,...
The CC has provisionally cleared the completed acquisition by Game Group plc (GAME) of Games Station Limited (Gamestation), concluding that the merger may not be expected to result in a substantial lessening of ...
A £50 million Government investment to transform Tate Modern was announced today by Culture Secretary James Purnell. It will create a spectacular new building, increasing the gallery's size by 60 per ...
Dr DeAnne Julius to head review of 'public service industry'
- New stroke strategy includes £105m for extra training posts and raising awareness -
Lord Gill, the Lord Justice Clerk, has been appointed Chairman of the public inquiry into the plastics factory explosion in Glasgow on May 11 2004, announced Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Peter Hain ...
Drivers in Leicestershire can get first hand advice on driving in severe weather next week from highways experts.
Part I: UK Government Foreign Currency Assets and Liabilities - November 2007
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (James Plaskitt) has made the following Statement.
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council...
A new tax information exchange arrangement with Bermuda was signed on 4 December 2007. After signature, the text of the arrangement was deposited in the Libraries of both Houses and made available on HM Revenue...
I have decided to appoint the new Board Members listed below:
Alex Cunningham
Gill Hale
Christopher Higgins
Graham Thrower
Ian Dormer
The new appointments will all be for a...
I am today announcing additional funding of £732 million of flexible infrastructure support for local authorities who have committed to high rates of economic and housing growth in the designated new...
In addition to my oral statement to the House today, I am taking this opportunity to provide the House with further details of the findings of the Royal Air Force board of inquiry into the tragic crash of the...
The chairman of Monitor (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) announced last week that, in accordance with section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006, Monitor...
I have today launched a public consultation on a proposed new bus passenger representative body. The public consultation, which will run until 17 March, identifies options for delivering a passenger champion. ...
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will be held on 5 December in Brussels. I will be representing the UK except for the items on the working time directive and the agency workers...
I wish to inform Parliament that Communities and Local Government has obtained approval for an advance from the Contingencies Fund to allow the early recruitment and appointment of chief executives and chairs...
People sleeping on the streets or staying in bed and breakfast accommodation will benefit from the biggest ever cash injection for homeless services, Junior Housing Minister Iain Wright announced today.
'Fresnel lenses' now being rolled out across the country
COGUT v. MOLDOVA - 31043/04 [2007] ECHR 1045 (4 December 2007)
GEEN v. THE UNITED KINGDOM - 63468/00 [2007] ECHR 1048 (4 December 2007)
VOLKOV v. RUSSIA - 64056/00 [2007] ECHR 1047 (4 December 2007)
WARSINSKI v. POLAND - 38007/02 [2007] ECHR 1049 (4 December 2007)
T-Mobile (UK) Ltd v Office of Communications (Donor Conveyance Charge) [2007] CAT 32 (14 November 2007)
Emerson Electric Co & Ors v Morgan Crucible Company Plc [2007] CAT 30 (16 November 2007)
T-Mobile (UK) Ltd v Office of Communications (Termination Rate Dispute) [2007] CAT 31 (20 November 2007)
Hutchison 3G UK Ltd v Office of Communications (Mobile Call Termination) [2007] CAT 33 (23 November 2007)
Rapture Television Plc v Office of Communications [2007] CAT 34 (23 November 2007)
OA (Alleged forgery; section 108 procedure) Nigeria [2007] UKIAT 00096 (27 November 2007)
YH (Funding; regulation 8; excluding costs) Sudan [2007] UKAIT 00095 (04 December 2007)
Success & Ors, R v [2007] NICC 45 (30 November 2007)
Anderson, & Ors, R v [2007] NICC 46 (30 November 2007)
Mullan, Re Judicial Review [2007] NICA 47 (3 December 2007)
JR18 (MENTAL HEALTH), Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 104 (23 November 2007)
Utting v McBain [2007] EWHC 90085 (Costs) (17 August 2007)
The 3 Claimants in this case were at all material times employed by the Defendant College as full time support staff under contracts whose material provisions are identical.
The London Stock Exchange ("LSE") operates an alternative investment market ("AIM"). The July 2005 AIM Rules ("The Rules") provided that in order for a company to be listed on the AIM it must retain a nominated...
On 27th November 2007 I had before me an appeal from the decision of Mr David Laverick, the Pensions Ombudsman ("the Ombudsman"), given on 30th April 2007, in which he found for the Applicant, Mrs S. Gosling ("Mrs...
This case raises a question of some importance in relation to the rights of injured third parties to claim on the insurance of a bankrupt wrongdoer under the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930...
This is an application for disclosure of parts of documents which have been redacted on grounds of legal professional privilege and irrelevance.
This is an application by Mrs. Ondine Francis under section 288, Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the 1990 Act") for an order quashing the decision of an Inspector appointed by the First Defendant dated 15th...
These appeals against conviction by Foster, Newman and Kempster, raise important questions about the ambit and application of the decision of the House of Lords in R v Coutts [2007] 1 CAR 60. In advance ...
AP v The Vale of Glamorgan Council & Ors [2007] EWCA Civ 1265 (30 November 2007)
This appeal concerns the homelessness provisions in part VII of the Housing Act 1996, as amended. It raises, in particular, questions regarding the proper interpretation of s 175(3) "A person shall not be treated...
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