One of two brothers who have been found guilty of murdering three drug dealers in a gangland-style execution has been jailed for 44 years.
Keith Cowell, 52, his son Matthew, 17, and Tony Dulieu, 33, from Essex, were killed at the Cowells’ Hertfordshire house on 28 August 2007.
Miran Thakrar, 24, of no fixed address, was sentenced [...]

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An ambitious proposal for a state-of-the-art complex to boost the life chances of hundreds of children in the St Paul’s area of Bristol is expected to get support in principle from the city council’s Cabinet next week (January 10th 2008).
The proposed £10.5 million scheme would aim to provide a new Cabot Primary School with [...]

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Yet another case of what seems to be a government-administrated slaughter of wild life in Zimbabwe, has occurred. On the 7th of November three black rhinos were shot to death by poachers on Imire Safari Ranch about an hour’s car ride from the capital Harare. One of the rhinos was pregnant and due to give [...]

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Ali Aqeel Salamat (34), of Clifton Avenue, was found guilty at Oldham Magistrates’ Court of failing to notify the council that he worked as a taxi-driver while claiming £295.76 in benefits from July 1, 2004, to January 17, 2005.
Salamat’s case was investigated after he completed a housing and council tax benefit claim form in which [...]

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A MIDLAND company is being investigated over allegations that it cheated the Home Office out of millions of pounds by claiming grants for thousands of asylum seekers who don’t exist.
The firm, which provides homes for refugees across Britain, is run by former asylum seekers who now live in Birmingham.
It is believed to have received £1 [...]

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Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has donated £2m to the Labour Party, matching the amount given by Lord Sainsbury in the election run-up.
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A DENTIST who scammed thousands of pounds from the NHS has been kicked out of the profession. Claude Kelfkens, 47, and his boss Mogjan Azari defrauded £40,700 from the NHS and split the haul between them.
Kelfkens, who worked at a Catford practice, used Azari’s details to claim from the NHS for precious metal fillings for [...]

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A COUNCILLOR has been arrested over allegations of electoral fraud involving a house where a murder took place.
Khurshid Ahmed, who represents Werneth, in Oldham, was arrested at the town’s police station yesterday. He had gone there with a solicitor.
Last month another Werneth councillor, Labour’s Fida Hussain, was arrested on suspicion of money laundering. He [...]

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The home of Werneth councillor Fida Hussain was raided by police yesterday as part of a five-month investigation into money laundering.
Councillor Hussain said: “The police have conducted their inquiries, which they quite rightly should, and I’ve given them my full support and co-operation.
“The only thing I can certainly say is I’m absolutely clean and my [...]

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Tony Blair will be named in a police file to prosecutors on the cash for peerages affair.
He remains one of four suspects at the heart of Government who are at the centre of the Scotland Yard investigation.
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London: Cherie Blair today faced fresh accusations she was cashing in on her husband’s name after registering a potentially lucrative website. The internet domain name www.cherieblair.org.uk has been reportedly registered by the American socialite Martha Greene on behalf of the prime minister’s wife.
The choice of her married name for the site - she practises as [...]

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The Eurofighter, or Typhoon, is a twin-engine combat aircraft which has been designed “by committee”. Its planning stems back to 1979, but it first went onto the drawing board in Germany in 1986. The company Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH was formed in that year, and designers from different European aerospace companies joined to design the plane.
Germany, [...]

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AN illegal immigrant who mysteriously bought a £400,000 house in Thurrock has been jailed and faces deportation.
Saheed Ladega, 37, had no job or obvious financial support but somehow managed to pay a £200,000 deposit for the property, Ridge House, on Warren Lane, Chafford Hundred.
Ladega, who claimed to work in property development, lived at the house, [...]

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[I wonder what Gerry Adams thinks of this?-ed]

The Assets Recovery Agency, set up to take money from criminals as part of a government drive against organised crime, is to be abolished.
The Home Office is expected to announce the move on Thursday.
The Assets Recovery Agency has been operating in Northern Ireland for almost four years.
Last year [...]

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An anti-European boss and donor to the United Kingdom Independence party was yesterday under fire for “hypocrisy” after employing Polish workers at his shopping centres in the west country while denouncing their right to be in Britain.
Bruce Robertson, owner of the Trago Mills shopping complex near Newton Abbot, Devon, has taken on 30 Poles to [...]

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An Iraqi-born leisure centre worker has been awarded more than £100,000 after winning a discrimination case against his employers in Flintshire.
The award includes £53,000 for loss of earnings over the next five years for Wafir Al-Jumard, 59, of Connah’s Quay.
Clwyd Leisure plans to appeal against the employment tribunal decision.
Mr Al-Jumard complained to his employers when [...]

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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been interviewed by police investigating cash for honours allegations.
Mr Blair was not interviewed under caution and he was not accompanied by a lawyer, his spokesman said.
The probe was sparked by revelations Labour was given secret loans ahead of last year’s election. Some donors were subsequently nominated for honours.
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HUNDREDS of asylum seekers who commit crimes in Britain are being let off by police and local authorities it has been claimed.
Outraged hostel worker Bob Robinson says he has quit his job in protest after claiming to have witnessed scores of immigrants going unpunished despite breaking the law.
The 42-year-old security official claims many of the [...]

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A leading member of one of Europe’s biggest people-trafficking gangs was allowed to stay in Britain despite being jailed for an identical offence.
Ali Riza Gun was beginning a further ten year jail sentence as details of his previous convictions were disclosed.
As he was taken to prison it emerged the 48-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker [...]

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HUNDREDS of would-be immigrants who took thousands of pounds worth of government ‘bribes’ to go back to their own countries have been caught trying to get back into the United Kingdom, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Ministers are spending millions on voluntary repatriation programmes in a desperate attempt to cut the number of people waiting [...]

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