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2008

Sunday 07 September 2008 Universal flu vaccine tests start
A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual flu jab is being trialled on UK volunteers.

Saturday 06 September 2008 Isotope shortage may delay scans
Hundreds of important NHS hospital tests could be put on hold due to a worldwide shortage of a radioactive isotope.
Three of the five reactors which produce molybdenum-99 have been shut down, severely reducing the amount available.

Sunday 31 August 2008 Darling warns of economic crisis
Chancellor Alistair Darling says the UK is facing the worst economic crisis in 60 years and warns of a "profound" downturn.

Friday 22 August 2008 10:40 UK economic growth at standstill
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, official figures show, heightening fears of a recession.

Investors are favouring the dollar over the pound

The pound remained weak against the dollar in late US trading after sharper falls earlier in the session - the longest run of losses in 37 years.

Worries over the UK economy's strength saw sterling touch $1.8513 on Friday before rebounding slightly. In mid-July one pound would buy two dollars.

Sunday 03 August 2008 A jury in Britain has failed to reach a verdict in the case of three men charged in the subway bombings in London three years ago. The men are alleged to have helped four others who planted the bombs. The blasts killed 53 people and injured more than 700. Prosecutors must now decide whether to hold a new trial. The three suspects were accused of scouting London for possible targets with two of the four men who committed the attacks. Meanwhile, the families of the people who died in the bombings plan to build a permanent memorial to the victims in London's Hyde Park which will be unveiled next July on the fourth anniversary of the bombings.

one of its safest parliamentary seats yesterday, deepening doubts in its own ranks about Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ability to win the next election.
Defeat left Brown facing a bleak weekend as the party's main policy-making forum met to try to work out how to win back voters disillusioned by a string of political gaffes, rising inflation and a slowing economy.

Tuesday 17 June 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the EU will impose a new set of economic sanctions on Iran to discourage it from developing nuclear weapons. The measures will target Iran's oil and natural gas sector. Earlier at a news conference with U.S. President George W. Bush, Mr. Brown said Britain will freeze the assets in Britain of Iran's biggest bank, Bank Melli. Last weekend, the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, visited Teheran to present a package of economic incentives to dissuade the country's government from continuing the enrichment of uranium but without success. On another subject, the president and prime minister urged Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to allow international monitors to observe the fairness of the presidential runoff election set for June 27, Mr. Brown denouncing Mr. Mugabe's "increasingly desperate and criminal régime." The latter, for his part, threatened to arrest opposition leaders whom he holds responsible for electoral violence. Mr. Mugabe's presidential adversary, Morgan Tsvangirei, has already been detained several times by police.

Monday 16 June 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday urged Britain to keep its forces in Iraq, saying that a premature withdrawal would jeopardize coalition efforts in the country. Mr. Bush spoke in London, where he continued his farewell trip to Europe. He said that Britain should avoid setting a timetable for troop withdrawal. His comments followed a British Broadcasting Corporation report that Britain might set a date for withdrawing from Iraq within months. British government officials have dismissed the report as speculation. Britain has some 4,000 troops serving in southern Iraq. Scuffles broke out between police and demonstrators protesting against Mr. Bush's visit. Officers used batons when some protestors from a rally in Parliament Square pushed forward against police barriers blocking the entrance to Whitehall, near where Mr. Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a meeting.

Sunday 15 June 2008 Queen Elizabeth officially celebrated her 82nd birthday on Saturday along with thousands of well-wishers near Buckingham Palace. The Queen was born in April but traditionally celebrates her birthday in June when the weather is better. The Queen and the Royal Family watched a flyover of 55 air force planes from the balcony at Buckingham Palace.

Saturday 14 June 2008 New evidence shows that the gains outweigh the losses

BRITONS have long been fairly sanguine about traditional forms of globalisation such as trade and international investment. But the outsourcing of work formerly done in Britain to foreign countries has aroused fears, not least because it opens up the protected underbelly of services to international competition. Until now hard evidence of its overall impact on the British economy has been elusive. New research* should dispel most of the anxiety for those who prefer crunchy facts to scary myths.

Economists at Nottingham University's Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre delved into the accounts of over 66,000 firms in order to trace the effects of offshoring. Big companies with overseas affiliates are the most assiduous offshorers. Accordingly, the study paid particular attention to 2,850 British multinationals with foreign subsidiaries.

Sunday 04 May 2008 London's new mayor, Boris Johnson, was sworn in on Saturday after defeating the incumbent, Ken Livingstone, in an election that marked a major loss for the Labour Party. Mr. Johnson won 53 per cent of the vote, compared to Mr. Livingstone's 46 per cent. Mr. Johnson said that his victory over the Labour Party candidate offered a glimpse of Britain's likely political future. The result was the worst local election results for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's party in four decades.

Friday, 2 May 2008 Banksy sprays tunnel bbc video (01:17)
Graffiti artist Banksy has taken over a railway tunnel in London, where he has created one of his largest exhibitions to date.

Saturday 19 April 2008 The subprime mortgage crisis has hit Britain's second-largest bank. The Royal Bank of Scotland needs a huge influx of cash to balance losses suffered as a result of subprime mortgage loans. Unofficial reports say that the bank needs to raise between $10 billion and $24 billion. Many of the world's leading banks are struggling with the impact of the collapsed subprime home loan market in the United States. The U.S. banking giant Citigroup, meanwhile, has reported a first-quarter loss of just over $5 billion. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for the country's banks to reveal the extent of their losses in an effort to stabilize world markets.

Friday 11 April 2008 One of Britain's last bell foundries marked the 150th anniversary Thursday of its biggest creation, Big Ben, the massive bell that sounds the hour at the Houses of Parliament in London. It was made by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which also made Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and the Bell of Hope, given to New York by Londoners on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The 15-ton Big Ben was cast on April 10, 1858, at the foundry in east London, although it was another year before it first rang out. Big Ben has given its name to one of London's most famous landmarks--Parliament's 19th-century neo-Gothic clock tower designed by Charles Barry. The tower is popularly known as Big Ben, although the name actually refers only to the Great Bell inside.

Tuesday 08 April 2008

PAPARAZZI KILLED THE PRINCESS
CTV News fronts, while The National, the Globe, the Star, the Post, La Presse, and the Citizen go inside with a jury’s ruling, more than ten years after the fact, in the case of the fatal car crash death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her boyfriend, Harrod’s department store heir Dodi al-Fayed. The jury found that Diana and Dodi’s deaths did result from a conspiracy of sorts, though not of the murderous kind alleged by Dodi’s father, Mohamed al-Fayed. The conspiring factors, the jury decided, were the drunkenness of the pair’s driver; the dogged persistence, even at very high speeds, of the paparazzi that chased them through the streets of Paris; the unfortunate angle at which their car crashed into a concrete pillar; and the pair’s failure to buckle their seatbelts. The senior al-Fayed, who has long espoused theories implicating the royal family and MI5 in a murder plot against his son and the princess, issued a statement yesterday that he was disappointed with the ruling. The jury found that the chauffeur and paparazzi were guilty of recklessness tantamount to manslaughter, though it is unlikely that charges will be pressed since the crash happened outside the jurisdiction of the British inquiry. As for Al Fayed’s salacious scenarios, CTV News suggests that they are likely to join the pantheon of great conspiracy theories. According to the broadcast, “these ideas have a way of surviving reason and ridicule.”

Jordan Himelfarb is a Quebec City-based MediaScout writer for Maisonneuve Magazine.

Wednesday 02 April 2008 A House of Commons committee has tabled a report that claims that immigration has benefited the British economy very little, contrary to what Prime Minister Gordon Brown has claimed. The economic affairs committee recommends curbs on immigration, which has reached record levels in recent years. Many of the newcomers are from the 10 countries which entered the EU in 2004, including Poland. Critics complain that the immigrants are pushing up real estate prices and crime rates. Mr. Brown responded to the report by noting that immigrants were a factor in the rise of the UK's per capita Gross Domestic Product from 13,000 pounds in 1997 to 22,840 last year. The prime minister also noted that measures have been taken to limit the influx of unqualified labour.

Friday 28 March 2008 Will flying get less miserable?
HEATHROW airport's new Terminal Five made the news for all the usual reasons on its opening day: lengthy delays, appalling overcrowding and lost baggage. This time it was blamed on teething troubles rather than bad weather, terrorist threats or uppity unions that often turn the barely tolerable experience of flight into an ordeal. Yet when the new terminal, which opened to passengers on Thursday March 27th, hits its stride the vast £4.3 billion ($8.5 billion) edifice is more likely to be met with an approving nod than the grimaces of its early customers. And the lot of the transatlantic flyer in particular may also improve with the introduction on Sunday of a long-awaited and hard-negotiated “open skies” deal between the European Union and America.

Sarkozy woos the British Thursday 27 March 2008

By Paul Reynolds World affairs correspondent, BBC News website

Sarkozy was passionate and worked his charm

French President Nicolas Sarkozy showed his powers of seduction in his speech to members of the British parliament.

Perhaps the demure figure of his wife sitting behind him had felt the same force.

He was not afraid to come on very strong.

"You represent the touchstone of everything our democracies stand for" was his opening gambit.

Monday 24 March 2008 The British explorer, Hannah McKeand, on Sunday called off her attempt to become the first woman to reach the North Pole alone and unaided. She made the decision after a fall through ice that injured her. She fell into a two-metre-deep hole in the polar ice on Thursday night, 70 kilometres north of her starting point. Miss McKeand set out from Canada's Ward Hunt Island on March 8. By skiing, walking and swimming, she had hoped to take 60 days to cover 770 kilometres to the pole. She will be airlifted to a Canadian forces airstrip and then taken to Resolute and finally to Ottawa for medical checks. Five years ago Briton Pen Hadow became the first person to reach the North Pole unaided from Canada, completing the trip in 64 days.

Thursday 21 February 2008 LONDON: BRITAIN MOVES TO TIGHTENS IMMIGRATION LAW
Britain is proposing measures to control its flow of immigrants and encourage them to integrate into wider society. Under new proposals, prospective immigrants will be put on probation for at least one year until they can show that they speak English, pay their taxes and respect laws. Immigrants will also be discouraged from creating neighbourhoods where they can avoid speaking English. And children and other relatives of foreign migrants in Britain will pay higher fees when they apply to join them. Commenting on the proposals, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that British citizenship is a set of obligations as well as a guarantee of rights. Britain's proposals follow similar trends in Germany, France, Spain and Italy.

Monday 11 February 2008 Under strong public pressure, Britain's Olympic Association has dropped a ban that compelled its athletes to avoid speaking about political issues at the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. Athletes who refused to agree to the ban would have been excluded from Britain's team. Those who ignored the ban while competing in Beijing would have been sent home. The Association's head, Simon Clegg, said initially that it was not in Britain's interests for its athletes to publicize special interests abroad. Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, protested. On Sunday, Mr. Clegg dropped the ban, saying that the Association did not intend to restrict athletes' freedom of speech.

Monday 21 January 2008 Britain's prime minister predicts that Britain and China are entering a new era in cooperation on the environment. Gordon Brown spoke in Shanghai on Saturday at the end of a two-day visit to China. He arrived in China hoping to persuade the country to support a global deal on greenhouse gas reduction that will replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. During his visit, he inspected projects that aim to reduce China's greenhouse gas emissions. One project is Dongtan, an eco-community that is being built on an island off Shanghai that will provide a non-polluting environment for ten thousand people. The project is a joint Sino-British venture by the same firms that constructed the Olympic Stadium in Beijing. Mr. Brown toured the stadium during his time in Beijing.

2007

Thursday 27 December 2007 The Queen used her 50th televised Christmas message Tuesday to urge people to spare a thought for the vulnerable and disadvantaged living on the edge of society. She urged everyone to share in the responsibility for the well-being of those who feel excluded. Elizabeth, who at age 81, last week became Britain's oldest-ever reigning monarch, said family values are as important today as they ever were. The Queen keeping with tradition, attended a church service Tuesday with members of her close family at St. Mary Magdalene Church, near her country home in Sandringham, Norfolk. Flanked by granddaughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, daughters of her son Prince Andrew, the Queen was greeted by around 600 well-wishers before the service. The Queen, who is head of Britain's armed forces, also used her speech to pay tribute to British military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and their fallen comrades.

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Thursday 13 December 2007 IF BRITISH businessmen were worried before, they are positively quaking now, wondering who will be seized next by the ever-extending arm of American law. On December 10th Conrad Black, a Canadian turned British peer, was sentenced in Chicago to six and a half years in jail for embezzling $6.1m (£3m) from his Hollinger media empire. A fortnight earlier, three British bankers pleaded guilty in a federal court in Houston to wire fraud related to the Enron affair, after being extradited from Britain to face trial.

Thursday 06 December 2007 Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced measures to clamp down on forced marriages among members of the country's South Asian community. The secretary says she'll propose that the age for sponsoring a spouse to become a British citizens be raised from 18 to 21. As well, such proposed new citizens will have to have some prior knowledge of English. Language tests for foreigners seeking British citizenship were introduced in 2005. Abut 47,000 foreign spouses came to Britain last year, sometimes in arranged or forced marriages. Meanwhile, the Home Office has published details of a new points system which would effectively bar low-skilled workers from outside the EU.

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Thursday 01 November 2007 UK MOVES TO STEM IMMIGRATION
Liberal Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the government will take steps to control the flow of immigrants. The prime minister says the government will introduce a points system for immigrants akin to Australia's and prioritize newcomers with skills needed in Britain. Mr. Brown was reacting to the outcry resulting from the apology by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who said she was "sorry" that the figure of 800,000 new foreign workers on the jobs was in fact too low by 300,000. The figure of 1.1 million means that immigrants occupy more than 40 per cent of the jobs created since the Liberals came to power a decade ago. The opposition Conservative Party claims the real figure is 1.5 million.

Thursday 13 September 2007 The European Commission dropped its plans to require Britain and Ireland to phase out the use of imperial weights and measures, such as pints and pounds, by 2009. The commission said it wanted to respect British and Irish culture and traditions.

Monday 03 September 2007 British Troops Begin Withdrawal From Basra
The move will leave the southern Iraqi city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.

Monday 03 September 2007 Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown, strongly criticized Burma's military government on Sunday for its harsh treatment of dissidents. He called for the government to release dissident prisoners, including the Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr. Brown also urged governments in countries near Burma, also known as Myanmar, to use their influence on Burma's governing generals.

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British troops are reported to be withdrawing from their last base in Iraq's second-largest city, Basra. About 500 soldiers are leaving to join their comrades at a large British airbase outside the city. Basra is considered a dangerous, volatile city. British troops have occupied the city since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Britain is expected to hand over control of Basra to Iraqi forces next month.

Thursday 09 August 2007 Health authorities have announced a third outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southern England and the country's chief veterinary officer has ordered cattle on it destroyed. The first two outbreaks were found on farms in Surrey on Friday and a surveillance zone has been set up around the affected area. The veterinary officer had ordered a stop to all animal movements but on Wednesday allowed them again but only under strict biosecurity guidelines. In Brussels, the EU has decided to maintain a ban on all British fresh meat, milk and live animal exports for fear of contamination from foot and mouth. Britain's livestock industry exports more than $1 billion of meat yearly. A foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 devastated British farms and cost the country $17 billion.

Wednesday 01 August 2007 rci The British army has ended its role as enforcer of security in Northern Ireland after 38 years. As of Wednesday, the remaining 5,000 British soldiers in the territory will be training for missions in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere overseas. The army is able to leave its security role to the police as a result of the decision by the Irish Republic Army in 2005 to renounce violence. Britain first deployed the army in Northern Ireland in 1969 to stop mob attacks on homes in Belfast and street battles between civilians and police in Londonderry. Although the territory's Roman Catholic minority at first welcomed the soldiers as security against attacks by members of the Protestant majority, that attitude changed after the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972 in which 13 unarmed civilians were shot by troops. Thirty-seven-hundred people died in The Troubles, including 763 soldiers.

Wednesday 25 July 2007 Western England remained flooded on Tuesday, but although more rain is expected on Tuesday forecasters predict that the flooding won't worsen. The national weather service say the worst of the situation is over, at least for the rest of the week. About 350,000 people have been affected in the Gloucestershire region and have had to rely on million of litres of bottled drinking water. A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain will likely apply for emergency aid from the European Union.

Tuesday 17 July 2007 rci Britain says it will expel four Russian diplomats. The British foreign secretary, David Miliband, says the expulsions are in protest against Moscow's refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. Mr. Litvinenko died of radioactive polonium poisoning last November. An investigation by Scotland Yard detectives in both London and Moscow determined that ex-KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi was a suspect in the case. Mr. Lugovoi visited Mr. Litvinenko in London shortly before his death.

Wednesday 04 July 2007 British police report that six of the eight suspects arrested in connection with the failed terrorist bombings in London and Glasgow are physicians and the seventh is a medical student. Many of the suspects have roots in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and India. One of the doctors, 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef of India, was arrested in Brisbane, Australia, late Monday. The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Glasgow reports that one of the two men who tried to ram an explosives-laden jeep into its building on Saturday is Khalid Ahmed, a Lebanese doctor who was an employee. Mr. Ahmed was badly burned in the fire that erupted during the crash and is being treated at the hospital under police guard. An Iraqi arrested with him likewise worked at the hospital. Meanwhile, two men were arrested trying to buy gas canisters at Blackburn in northern England. The authorities say police have searched at least 19 locations for further signs of attacks.

Tuesday 03 July 2007 British police report an eighth arrest in connection with a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist plot to detonate car bombs in London and Glasgow. Police say that seven of the suspects were arrested in Britain and the eighth at an "undisclosed location." Two of the suspects are doctors, one an Iraqi and the other a Palestinian. On Friday, two cars loaded with fuel, gas canisters and nails were found in central London, and a jeep similarly laden was found on fire at Glasgow airport on Saturday. One of the two doctors in custody set himself on fire in the blaze, suffering severe burns. Police have conducted several controlled explosions near the hospital where the doctor worked. The country's new interior minister, Jacqui Smith, said Britain is facing a "serious and sustained threat of terrorism" and advised the public to be alert. The minister also praised the police for their rapid work in tracking down the suspects.

[Editor’s note: The unexpected profile of the modern terrorist: 26, from a caring family, married, with children, graduate … For an excellent and thoroughly disquieting dissection of the “second wave” of Al Qaeda militants, we recommend timesonline.co.uk /crime/]

Sunday 01 July 2007 British security forces on Sunday arrested a fifth suspect in connection with two failed terrorist attacks in the previous two days. The first plot involved two cars rigged with explosives that were discovered and then defused in a central London district on Friday. On Saturday, two men were arrested after they were seen driving a burning vehicle into a terminal at Glasgow International Airport's main terminal. No one was injured in that incident. In addition to the two suspects in Glasgow, a man and a woman were arrested the same day in northern England. The fifth suspect was arrested in Liverpool. A police source believed that the suspects were not British citizens. Britain raised its terror alert to 'critical'---the highest possible level. The new prime minister, Gordon Brown, met three times with his emergency cabinet. Mr. Brown said afterwards that Britons will not be intimidated by the attacks, which he says were plotted by terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. On Sunday evening, security at London's Heathrow Airport closed terminal three after a suspicious package was found, a further indication of the tension that gripped Britain's transport system this weekend.

Saturday Jun 30, 2007 BRITISH POLICE DEFUSE 2ND CAR BOMB THAT COULD HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS British bomb squads dismantled two car bombs in the heart of London Friday, as a Scotland Yard spokesman said they were "clearly linked" and packed with enough fuel and explosives to cause major carnage.

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The new leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, the former chancellor of the exchequer, took over from Tony Blair as Britain's prime minister. Ahead of his cabinet selection, Mr Brown, speaking in Downing Street, said: “Let the work of change begin.” See article

On the day of his resignation Tony Blair was appointed roving envoy for the “quartet” of countries and clubs—the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia—seeking to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The appointment got mixed reactions.

Friday 20 April 2007

Sterling effort

The pound broke the $2 barrier for the first time in 15 years as markets calculated that a surprise surge in inflation in Britain would lead to an interest-rate rise. The euro also rose against the dollar, nearing a record high, after data from America showed that core inflation had eased. See article

Jun. 18 - Already the most intensely-monitored country in the world, Britain is now home to a new generation of closed-circuit television cameras.

Sat 08/07/2006 rci The Church of England has taken a step toward opening its ranks further to women. On Saturday, the Church's hierarchy voted overwhelmlingly to ordain women in Britain as bishops. The Anglican church in Canada, the United States and New Zealand already allows women bishops. But the Church of England has special status because its head, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is also the spiritual head of the church worldwide. The Church has admitted women priests for a decade, and women now make up one priest in six. The Church of England must now officially amend its rules governing bishops, a process that could take years. Opponents of the process are looking for a compromise that would allow parishes to withdraw from dioceses run by a woman bishop.

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Saturday, 15 April 2006, Britain now 'eating the planet'
The UK is about to run out of its own natural resources and become dependent on supplies from abroad, a report says. A study by the New Economics Foundation (Nef) and the Open University says 16 April is the day when the nation goes into "ecological debt" this year.

It warns if annual global consumption levels matched the UK's, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand.

But bio-geography professor Philip Stott criticised the "doomsday report", arguing it would hit poorer nations.

Britain now 'eating the planet' Economic forecasts Monday Apr 17, 2006

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