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Metropolitan Police G20 Tactics "Shocked The Public" Police relied too heavily on untrained and inexperienced officers as they attempted to control protests during the G20 summit, an inquiry has warned. The Home Affairs Select Committee said tactics used by the Metropolitan Police during the April summit "shocked the public".
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Government "Dithering" Over Compensation for Equitable Life Victims The Government has "dithered" over the Equitable Life scandal while pensioners suffer, a Labour MP has claimed. Barry Gardiner (Lab Brent North) urged Ministers to speed up help for hundreds of thousands of people who lost savings in the firm's near collapse, in 2000.
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New Commons Committee for London Condemned as Waste of Money MPs have slammed for a new Commons committee dedicated to London as a "ludicrous talking shop". The capital is to get its own Select Committee where backbenchers will scrutinise what the Government does for the city.
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Poor Facilities Keep Disabled People Off Trains Disabled people are barred from using parts of the rail network because of poor facilities, Ministers have been warned. Trains which are unsuitable for wheelchairs, a lack of Braille timetables and antiquated platform designs are excluding people with disabilities, said MP Martin Linton (Lab Battersea).
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Metropolitan Police G20 Tactics "Shocked The Public"

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Police relied too heavily on untrained and inexperienced officers as they attempted to control protests during the G20 summit, an inquiry has warned. The Hom... Full Story

Government "Dithering" Over Compensation for Equitable Life Victims

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The Government has "dithered" over the Equitable Life scandal while pensioners suffer, a Labour MP has claimed. Barry Gardiner (Lab Brent North) urged Minist... Full Story

New Commons Committee for London Condemned as Waste of Money

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MPs have slammed for a new Commons committee dedicated to London as a "ludicrous talking shop". The capital is to get its own Select Committee where backbenc... Full Story

Poor Facilities Keep Disabled People Off Trains

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Disabled people are barred from using parts of the rail network because of poor facilities, Ministers have been warned. Trains which are unsuitable for wheel... Full Story

College Expansion Hopes Dashed in Funding Fiasco

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Plans to expand or improve nine London colleges have been dashed. Only two out of 11 colleges in the Greater London area have been given permission to press ... Full Story

London Warned to Prepare for Heatwave

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Londoners were warned to get ready for a heatwave, with temperatures set to reach 32°C. The Department of Health is advising residents to drink cool drinks, ... Full Story

Michael Jackson is Dead

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Pop star Michael Jackson has died after suffering a massive heart attack. The singer, who had been due to play a series of concerts at London's O2 arena, was... Full Story

Government Considers Forcing Firms to Accept Anonymous CVs

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Employers should be forced to invite job applicants to apply anonymously - to ensure they don't "subliminally" discriminate against women or ethnic minorities... Full Story

Commuters Urged to Get On Their BIkes With £5 Million Fund

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London's railway stations are to get new bicycle shelters, to get commuters out of their cars and on their bikes. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis warned the ... Full Story

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Don't we all sometimes wish we could go back in time and do things differently? Hazel Blears, the former local government secretary who walked out of the Cabinet a day before local elections, now regrets the timing of her resignation. In an interview with the Manchester...

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It's hard to imagine a more sorry lot than the plotters hoping to boot Gordon Brown out of Downing Street. Their cack-handed attempts at a coup make our Prime Minister appear competent and decisive by comparison. The resignation of three Cabinet Ministers in a week should be enough to tell any Prime...

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Has Nadine Dorries no shame?  Has she not been around long enough to realize that shooting the messenger does not make the problem go away? On Friday’s Today programme, Ms Dorries launched an attack on the Daily Telegraph, accusing the paper of conducting a witchhunt,  for telling the rest of us...

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