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The "Real Gift" From Iran Was The Bomb They Supplied Iraq To Kill Our Soldiers 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Diplomacy worked, sure it did. Iran may have returned 15 servicemen but today 4 died at the hands of an Iranian made bomb in Iraq. Four soldiers, two of them women, died when a huge Iranian-made bomb hit their patrol in Iraq. The blast exposed Ahmadinejad as the callous terrorist and hypocrite he is. While the 15 sailors and marines were on their way home from Iran, Iraqis were collecting ...

Controls on advertising junk food to children came into force this week 1969-12-31 17:59:59 This article is from the BBC : "Teachers are warning that children are growing up too quickly because of pressure from advertising and commerce. They say advertising which targets children should be more tightly controlled because it encourages poor diets and general ill-health. The call comes from the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers in Harrogate, where delegates will also ... Advertising  Children

Maternity Support Workers to Replace Midwives to Cut Costs? 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Ministers have reneged on the election promise which guaranteed all mothers receive one-to-one care from a midwife during labour. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt admitted that midwives would probably not be present during the whole labour in any NHS hospital. Campaigners said that costs could be cut by using "maternity support workers" not midwives during the majority of the labour process. ...

Iranian Hostages Will Be Released as a "Gift" 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave. Ahmadinejad still maintains that the British sailors and marines "invaded" Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a "gift" to Britain. They are expected to fly home to the UK on Thursday. New television pictures showed the Iranian president smiling, chatting and shaking ...

Do You Want To Be Required to Own a Biometric ID Card? You will be if Labour wins next Election. 1969-12-31 17:59:59 According to Home Office papers from 2004 one third will NOT cooperate with ID card checks. The Home Office claims these figures were incredibly out of date. Labour says ID cards will have a wide range of benefits and plans. If they win the next election they will bring in new legislation to make it compulsory to own, but not necessarily carry, a card. The Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives ...

British Crew is Home but More Soldiers Killed Today in Iraq 1969-12-31 17:59:59 More die in the Middle East. Is it sad, yes. Is it surprising, unfortunately not. "Just as we rejoice at the return of our 15 service personnel, so today we are also grieving and mourning for the loss of our soldiers in Basra, who were killed as the result of a terrorist act," Blair said outside his office at 10 Downing StBlair claims that the return of the service personnel today was a triumph ...

Question Of The Week 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Do you feel there should be reprucussions for the schools who fingerprinted school children, without parental consent, then proceeded to tell these children there was no need to inform their parents? ...

President of Iran Proudly Announces"We Have Joined the Nuclear Club" and Threatens the West 1969-12-31 17:59:59 A year ago, Iran announced that it had produced enriched uranium for the first time. Unfortunately today they have come a long way from that first announcement. At the ceremony at the Natanz nuclear facility Monday Ahmadinejad said, "With great honour, I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale." This ... President

Met Police Hand "Cash for Honours" File Over To CPS 1969-12-31 17:59:59 The Met Police have handed the "Cash for Honours" file over to the CPS to determine whether or not there is enough evidence to proceed. A 216-page file was handed over by detectives from the Metropolitan Police to the CPS on Friday. Prosecutors will decide whether anyone should be charged over claims that honours were given in return for money Although the police file amounts to an exoneration ...

Labour Wins NO Vote on Pension Bill Amendment.. Yet Another Reason NOT to Vote Labour at the Next Election 1969-12-31 17:59:59 During PMs Question time today David Cameron asked about the 125,000 people whose occupational pension schemes had collapsed. He said he was asking in a "genuinely cross-party way" for the prime minister to look at amendments to the Pension Bill that would give victims more compensation. Mr Blair's response was that the chancellor had upped the scheme to £8bn, but said he did not know if they ...

Cash For Access Memo Leaked Days After CPS is Handed 216 Page Cash for Honours File 1969-12-31 17:59:59 A strategy to "sell" Downing Street access to wealthy party donors from the very beginning of the Blair years has been uncovered. A leaked internal memo places Tony Blair, his chief of staff Jonathan Powell and Labour's leading fundraiser Lord Levy at the centre of a "cash-for-access" policy to raise millions. This leak comes days after police handed over a 216-page file to the Crown ...

David Miliband Declares He Will Support Gordon Brown as the Next Prime Minister 1969-12-31 17:59:59 David Miliband, Brown's most serious rival, said publicly for the first time that he will support the Chancellor. At a Labour press conference in Glasgow for the Scottish Parliament election campaign, Mr Miliband denied that he was waiting for the results to decide whether to stand. "I'll be voting for Gordon Brown as Labour leader," he said. "He's done fantastic things for the prosperity of all ...

Question of the Week 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Do you think Lord Goldsmith should be allowed to have the final decision as to whether charges are brought in the Cash for Honours case? For the article related to this question click below http://bestnewsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/04/cash-for-access-memo-leaked-days-after.html ...

Blair's Plans Regarding Final Weeks in Office and Progress Made During His Leadership 1969-12-31 17:59:59 In an interview with BBC1's The Politics Show yesterday, Mr Blair refused to be drawn into discussions on speculation regarding the succession. The Prime Minister said he was confident his legacy would be secure as a reformer of public services. In comments that risked irritating Mr Brown he said that in his final weeks in office he would cementing New Labour's long-term reforms. "We will over ...

Will Des Browne Be Forced To Resign ? 1969-12-31 17:59:59 Tory leader David Cameron said yesterday that Des Browne must resign from the Cabinet unless he can convince MPs that he still commands the support of the Armed Forces after the Iran captives fiasco. Today, Defence Secretary Browne will make a statement to MPs regarding the seizure in the Gulf last month, their 13 days of captivity at the hands of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and the decision ...