Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Government scales back child worker vetting scheme * Plans to vet millions of people working with children and vulnerable adults are to be scaled back to “common sense” levels, the Government announced today
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report * 9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Freedom of Information Act gives protection to royal secrets * The Royal Family and the Royal Household were exempted from direct requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Royal Household was not included in the Act’s definition of a public authority, so members of the public are unable to access information held in the Royal Archives. Public bodies can be asked to release information that may include details about the Royal Family, but protection also covers communications between public bodies, such as government departments, and the Royal Family or Royal Household.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 US pension funds sue BP directors over the falling share price * Fifteen directors of BP, including Tony Hayward, the chief executive, and Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman, are being sued personally by two US pension funds for their role in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Economy may never recover from banking crisis, warns OBR * The economy, more damaged by the banking crisis than previously admitted, will grow more weakly and may never fully recover, the new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said yesterday.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Same economists who work out Budget figures are producing OBR data * Two men had the job of signing off Alistair Darling’s growth and borrowing forecasts, which have now been revised by the independent Office for Budgetary Responsibility: Sir Nick Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, and Dave Ramsden, Chief Economic Adviser.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Blundering goalkeepers ‘think their hands are wider’ * As the ball skimmed his glove and rolled into the back of the net, it was a moment of head-in-hands calamity for the England goalkeeper Robert Green. For scientists, the USA’s equaliser on Saturday evening may simply have confirmed the discovery that our mental representation of our hands is about two thirds wider than they really are.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Popular? What about tunesmiths Bizet, Handel, Rossini and Verdi? * Oh dear. Asking Radio 3 listeners for a Top Ten of Britain’s favourite arias is a bit like asking the Bullingdon Club to supply a list of the nation’s favourite tipples. It would include rare vintages, but not what they shift by the tankload at Bargain Booze.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Families call for the truth 38 years after Bloody Sunday * On the edge of the Bogside in Londonderry stands a granite monument to the 14 men “murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday”. The simple signs at its foot proclaim: “Hope for Truth.”
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Royal two for one: William and Harry go to Africa on first joint tour * In these times of austerity, it is the royal tour that gives value for money: two princes for the price of one. Prince William and Prince Harry’s tour of Africa — a six-day, three-country dash that began yesterday and will take in England’s next World Cup match in Cape Town — is the first time the prin-ces have embarked on a joint tour.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 Witnesses ‘lied to hide Prince’s involvement,’ court told * Witnesses in the Chelsea Barracks case “concocted an untrue story” to cover up the involvement of the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of an £81 million modernist housing project, the High Court was told yesterday.
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 BBC to break ranks on public sector pay * The BBC has ignored pleas for public sector pay restraint with a multimillion-pound offer to boost the salaries of more than 13,000 workers.
Monday, 14 Jun, 2010 Gazza in hospital after car crash * The former England World Cup star Pau Gascoigne was in hospital today after suffering serious injuries in a car crash.
Monday, 14 Jun, 2010 Bloody Sunday victims must be declared innocent, says McGuinness * Martin McGuinness has called for the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings to exonerate all 27 of those killed and injured from claims that they posed an armed threat to British soldiers.
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