The Government is to consult on a range of new measures to deter unsafe drivers who caused around 3,000 deaths on the roads last year and ten times that number of serious injuries.
Top of the list of proposed measures will be the possibility of an automatic ban Read more
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has slammed the Ministry of Justice for making the system of compensation for vistims of violent crime so bureaucratic that fewer than 5% of victims have applied for the compensation they are entitled to.
Sir Edward Leigh, Read more
Simon Darby, the deputy leader and spokesman of the British National Party, is on the salaried staff at London’s City Hall, it has been revealed. Mr Darby is paid £16,000 a year as a personal assistant to BNP Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook, who was elected earlier this year.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to introduce new legislation to make men who pay for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps face a prison sentence.
Jacqui Smith said: “My proposal is that men should think twice about paying for sex. The reason they should do that is Read more
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said that the Government must do more to encourage banks to lend to small and medium-sized businesses to help them through the current economic crisis.
Mr Clegg has also gone out of his way to attack Conservative plans to halt Read more
The entire membership of the far-right racist British National Party (BNP) has been available to view on the internet since Sunday, it has been reported.
The list not only included addresses, but also employment details. On the list are teachers, prison officers and a serving police officer. The Read more
A Labour Peer is to be prosecuted after he allegedly sent a text message from his mobile telephone shortly before a fatal motorway crash.
Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar X-type on the M1 on Christmas Day last year when it hit an Audi A4 which Read more
Shadow Children’s Secretary Michael Gove will announce Conservative plans today to restore confidence in the exam system. He aims to push exam standards watchdog Ofqual to ensure British exams are on a par with the best in the world.
Mr Gove points to pressure applied by Ofqual on Read more
Children’s Secretary Ed Balls (pictured) is to make a speech today announcing plans by the Government for improved Children’s Trust Boards, which it hopes will strengthen child protection efforts in every area of the country. The move is a reaction to the death of Baby P in Haringey, where Read more
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to fly to Syria to hold talks with President Bashar al-Assad. It will be the highest profile visit to the country since Tony Blair in 2001.
Mr Miliband is hopeful that Syria could play a pivotal role in securing peace in the Read more
