At half past five this evening Aberdeen Coastguard received a call from Grampian Police reporting that a female had fallen 80ft down cliffs at Cove Bay, 3 miles South of Aberdeen, and was in need of urgent medical...
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Today the Foreign Secretary David Miliband said;
Scottish SPCA members and guests will gather today (Wednesday 18 June) at the Society's Annual General Meeting where the expertise and support of Her Majesty's Coastguard will be honoured.
Gordon Brown has welcomed the Prime Minister of Croatia, Ivo Sanader, to Number 10 for bilateral talks.
The Ministry of Defence has today welcomed the publication of research into homelessness amongst the ex-Service community by York University.
Communities and Local Government has confirmed a £27.1million PFI credit boost for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service to build or refurbish ten fire stations in the county.
At the end of Southdown Avenue in Lewes, there are two bus stops, one on...
Mrs Linda Tanya Parker retired as Social Security and Child Support Commissioner on 16 June 2008.
Asked about the story on the Mirror's front page about units of alcohol, the PMS replied that we would shortly be reporting the results of the independent reviews on alcohol price and promotion, and would consider...
Asked how hopeful the Prime Minister was on getting over the impasse on the Lisbon Treaty, the PMS replied that clearly a lot had been said about this in recent days by the Foreign Secretary and by the Prime Minister...
Asked if the Prime Minister would be backing Roberta Blackman-Woods' bill to shut down lap dancing clubs, the PMS replied that this was clearly something that the Government had been looking at, but it was best ...
Asked if there was any more details on the troops killed in Afghanistan, the PMS replied that any statements on troop fatalities should come from the Ministry of Defence. original source.
Asked if the Prime Minister felt that people should take on average pay awards less that the rate of inflation, the PMS replied that it was the Government's view as expressed by Alistair Darling yesterday in his...
Asked if it was the case that the Queens speech was on December 3rd, and if so why, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that that was the date that was chosen - the Queen's speech was on December 6th in...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Queen's speech, pay awards, afghanistan, lap dancing clubs, Europe and alcohol
The contract to provide the vaccine against HPV (human papillomavirus), was today awarded by the Department of Health to pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for their vaccine 'Cervarix'.
Doorstep crime, anti-social behaviour and engaging young people are the key areas of focus for the second national Neighbourhood Watch Week. This week Vernon Coaker launched a brand new Neighbourhood Watch website...
Summary of responses on consultation on statutory notification requirements for potatoes introduced into Scotland from EU member states
Code of Conduct for Scottish Ministers
This is the summary findings from three consultation events held to consult children and young people with experience of domestic abuse (CYPEDA) on the Scottish Government National Domestic Abuse Delivery Group ...
To develop and implement a three year National Strategic Delivery Plan to address the needs of children and young people affected by domestic abuse
The Driving Standards Agency is writing to learner driver candidates who have booked practical tests on a Saturday since November 2005, to offer a refund for overpayment of fees caused by accidental overcharging...
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a proposal by Liverpool City Council to discontinue Roscoe Infant and Junior Schools and establish a new Community Primary School with effect from...
we the driving instructors of the north east want a freeze on fuel at the...
The Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has resulted in a no vote....
I write to voice the concerns of very many parents, teachers and local...
We urge the government to rethink its Equalities law protecting mothers who...
As illegal downloading spirals out of control, we the undersigned feel that...
Whilst we appreciate that England is a multi-cultural society we strongly...
Louisa Oakes Education Centre was given as a gift to the London Borough of...
Current 2005 and 2001 General Election results are provided by the Electoral...
In the Scarman Report of 1972 was published the IRA plan for FIVE terrorist...
The proposed closure of tax offices is a a crude drive which will leave HMRC...
His Honour Judge Brunning will retire as a Circuit Judge on 18 June 2008.
Another important tool to help EU citizens and businesses resolve cross-border legal disputes has been agreed.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in Yorkshire and Humberside are set to be thwarted by a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £750,000 of Government funding.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in Central England will continue to be hounded by a team of "Scambusters" after the Government announced £824,000 of new funding for the successful team.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in the East Midlands are set to be thwarted by a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £745,000 of Government funding.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in the North East will continue to be hounded by a team of "Scambusters" after the Government announced £676k of new funding for the successful team.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in the North West are set to be thwarted by a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £825,000 of Government funding.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in Scotland are set to be thwarted by a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £811,000 of Government funding.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in London, the South East and East of England will continue to be hounded by a team of "Scambusters" after the Government announced £1.95m of new funding for the successful...
Rogue traders and other con merchants in the South West face a crackdown with the launch of a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £753,000 of Government funding.
Rogue traders and other con merchants in Wales are set to be thwarted by a new team of "Scambusters" backed by £761,000 of Government funding.
Parenting services for some of the country's most vulnerable, including teenage mums and dads, disabled parents and families facing break up are to get a share of up to £8m, announced Children's Minister...
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Speech by Crispin Moor, Director of our Whitehall office, to the ACRE Rural Life Conference, 12 & 13 June.
A pocket reference guide, containing the latest data covering Scottish Agriculture in 2007.
Afghanistan, the Libson Treaty and Zimbabwe were on the agenda at today's PMQs.
A major review examining how to better engage communities in the fight against crime and raise public confidence in the Criminal Justice System was published today.
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall is to attend the National Veterans Day celebrations at Blackpool on June 27.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has today appointed the Right Honourable David Michael Davis to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern. The Chancellor has also granted Mr Davis's request to be ...
Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today (18 June) said that thanks to the combined efforts of councils, housing associations, insurers and Government the pace of progress getting people back home following last...
Local Government Minister John Healey today praised councils on improving the amount of council tax collected for the eighth successive year.
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly today invited passengers, businesses and environment groups to provide evidence to the Department for Transport to consider as part of its review into the economic regulation of airports...
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) today announced it is providing £500,000 to help train new teachers in better ways of supporting children with disabilities.
During the 2008 North Atlantic tropical storm season the Met Office is forecasting 15 named storms, with a 70% chance that the number will be in the range 10 to 20 between July and November. This represents above...
Having pension payments coming into ones account on various days on the...
Can anyone tell me why only South African and Zimbabwean driving licence...
Planning approval will be sought in autumn 2008 to build a 40,000 sq ft...
As a former soldier, i find it abohorent that this country does not provide...
Anyone found carrying a gun or knife must serve a full ten year term. We...
Please sign this petition to give all United Kingdom residents the same...
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has appointed Chris Mayer as Chief Executive of Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS).
The needs of bereaved people will be placed firmly at the centre of the reformed coroner system Justice Minister Bridget Prentice made clear today when she published a new draft Charter that details the level of...
Asked for the Prime Minister's reaction to France rejoining NATO, the PMS said that he did not have a specific reaction to that at the moment. original source.
The PMS said that there was a discussion at Cabinet this morning on the issue of MP and Ministerial pay. As the journalists were aware, the Baker Review was being published this morning. The key point to take from...
The PMS said that, in Cabinet this morning, the Chancellor explained that the UK economy was currently facing three major global shocks to credit markets, oil markets and food prices and that all countries were ...
The PMS told the assembled journalists that there had been an update this morning at Cabinet from Geoff Hoon on parliamentary business but that most of Cabinet had been spent discussing the economy, led by the Chancellor...
The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) started by telling journalists that the Prime Minister would be visiting, ahead of the security and liberty speech, a forensic science service laboratory in Lambeth where DNA...
Asked whether the Prime Minister would be supporting the report carried out by Louise Casey, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had chosen to associate himself with the report tomorrow, but the PMS would not start...
Asked why the Prime Minister had engaged with David Davis in the argument about terror laws through his speech this morning, the PMS said that the idea that these issues had suddenly become important issues in the...
Asked for information on the announcement, the PMS said it was in relation to the Congo Basin project. The UK was today pledging an additional £8million to boost the£50million grant already announced...
Asked whether the Prime Minister had spoken to Hazel Blears about the theft of her personal computer, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Prime Minister had been informed about...
Gordon Brown will answer questions from MPs today in his weekly PMQs session beginning at 12:00 BST.
Gordon Brown has expressed his "deepest condolences" to the families of four British soldiers killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Liberty Speech, Cabinet, economy/inflation, MP and Ministerial pay/Baker report and miscellaneous
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Computer theft, Congo Basin announcement, 42 days and misc
The Prime Minister has reappointed Dan Clayton Jones as Deputy Chair and Welsh Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. His second term of appointment will run from 12 July 2008 to 11 July 2011.
Treating patients with compassion, reducing the number of falls on wards and good hand-washing are some of the indicators that could be used in a groundbreaking move to measure the quality of nursing care in the...
The Government and the pharmaceutical industry today announced a significant deal on parts of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.
Increasing the visibility of community sentences so that offenders 'pay back' to the community, providing regular local crime data and online maps, and investing in a new team of community champions are part of ...
The Summer Supplementary Estimates booklet (HC 621), containing a Supplementary Estimate for HM Treasury, presented to the House of Commons yesterday seeks authority for additional cash expenditure by the department...
Consultation responses.
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council was held in Luxembourg on 5 and 6 June 2008. My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Jack Straw), my noble and learned friend...
As we are slowly approaching the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo...
My right honourable friend the Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) has made the following Statement in the House of Commons.
The 30th report of the review body on Senior Salaries is being published today. This...
In the current environment, we are beset with threats to our freedom and our...
On 10 July 2007, I announced that Sir Peter Williams had agreed to undertake a review of the teaching of mathematics in early years settings and primary schools in England (Official report, columns 1319 and 1320...
Under the Government’s Primary Capital Programme it is a proposal to close...
The Prime Minister announced on 14 May in the draft legislative programme that the Government intend to publish a draft Floods and Water Bill for consultation in 2009. The provisions of the Bill are currently...
This is in reference to the recent case of Abu Qatada, he is wanted on...
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council was held in Luxembourg on 5 and 6 June 2008. My right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; my right hon. Friend the Attorney-General; ...
busiesses get no compensation for loss of trade due to roadworks,...
Not all of us want our children to go to the nearest school and therefore we...
In January this year, a man killed his mother-in-law before taking his own life. At the time, he was on bail awaiting trial for the alleged murder of his wife. On 16 January 2008 my right hon. Friend the Prime...
On 16 January 2008, in publishing the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) report "Review of Parliamentary Pay, Pensions and Allowances 2007" (Cm 7270), I announced in a written ministerial statement (Col. 32WS...
The 30th report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries is being published today. This makes recommendations about the pay of the senior civil service (SCS), senior military personnel, the judiciary and very senior...
New proposals to narrow the gap between legal aid fees paid to barristers and solicitors for doing similar advocacy work in family cases were announced by Justice Minister Lord Hunt today.
The Renewables Advisory Board has reported that the UK could generate 14% of its total energy from renewables by 2020 if a set of identified radical policy changes are put into effect quickly. Recommendations include...
Schools Minister Andrew Adonis today congratulated 79 schools across the country on successfully achieving specialist status, with a further eight local authorities going one hundred per cent.
At 04.25 this morning Brixham Coastguard received a call from a fishing vessel, the Harvester, reporting that she was taking on water with three persons on board 2 nautical miles from the Mew Stone off Dartmouth...
Young and inexperienced drivers are being charged astronomical rates of...
all year round we pay tax on everything the goverment should give us all...
On Thurs 24 April 2008, a High Court judge confirmed what campaigners had...
I was absolutely appalled to be told by Sue the Post Mistress that her...
The majority of Christian churches in the UK have their doors locked to the...
I am writing this petition because i think that abuse in care settings...
The 'Care in the Community' programmes have created more problems for...
HM the Queen has appointed Ronald Max Ellington to be a District Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has assigned...
HM The Queen has appointed William Easthope Davis QC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has...
Denham launches consultation on how new entitlement will work, challenging employers who offer no staff training
A delivery plan for children and young people