Muslim prisoners who were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan have received a letter of apology from the Government.
Officials said sorry to the 200 Muslim inmates of HMP Leeds believed to have been offered the meat, which is forbidden by Islam.
ack Straw said in a letter that a “regrettable administrative error” [...]

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I HAVE been inundated with emails congratulating me on demolishing Culture Minister Margaret Hodge on BBC 2’s Newsnight show.
This woman reckons she is in touch with her constituents because she invites them in for coffee and wait for it … chocolate biscuits! Whatever!
We were meant to be discussing whether the political classes had ignored the [...]

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The owner of a Chinese restaurant who was jailed a year ago for money laundering has been imprisoned again.
Kin Kwan Chan, 43, who runs the Happy Gathering in Cowbridge Road East, Canton, Cardiff, repaid only a third of a £1.2m compensation order.
In 2005 Chan and his wife Carina, 33, admitted concealing criminal property and were [...]

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man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Belfast mother-of-one.
Grace Moore, 38, was found dead by her daughter in her flat at Erris Grove in the Suffolk area in November 2006.
Kristoff Emmanuel Alauya, 23, a Nigerian national with an address given as Churchfield in County Carlow denies the murder.
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A TERRIFIED pensioner and her grandson had a lucky escape when a gang of yobs threw a brick and a wrench through their window.
Around 15 youths shouted rascist abuse and attacked 74-year-old Jean Mills’ home in Victoria Walk, Chadderton, after threatening to burn it down.
The ordeal happened when her 13-year-old grandson, who she does not [...]

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The Queen has officially opened Heathrow Airport’s controversial Terminal 5, describing it as “a 21st Century gateway to Britain”.
Hundreds of airport and construction workers attended the opening ceremony.
The £4.3bn terminal, set to begin operating on 27 March, will offer extra passenger capacity but no more flights.
Operator BAA said it would put Heathrow at “the leading [...]

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http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk

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All UK citizens in ID database by 2017
All British citizens will have their fingerprints and photographs registered on a national ID database within 10 years under plans outlined by the Government.
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Should there be limits to free speech on campus [to begin with]?
The Oxford Union, one of the world’s oldest debating societies, described by a former British prime minister as “the last bastion of free speech in the western world” [I though we were free! Aren't we lecturing the whole world on free speech?], broke on [...]

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