Blog posts March 2006
BBC NewsThursday, 30 March 2006, 22:13 GMT 23:13 UK
MI5 taken off July bomber's trail
Bombs on three Tube trains and a bus killed 52 people
MI5 officers assigned to investigate the lead bomber in the 7 July attacks were diverted to another anti-terrorist operat...
BBC News Thursday, 30 March 2006, 05:08 GMT 06:08 UK
Security 'not at fault on 7 July'
Bombs on three Tube trains and a bus killed 52 people
A Parliamentary report into the 7 July attacks, in which 52 were killed, says intelligence and security services cannot...
BBC News Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 14:04 GMT 15:04 UK
Rape-victim video plan for trials
Some rape victims fail to come forward until weeks afterwards
Video interviews made with rape victims at the time of their initial complaint should be shown to juries in ...
BBC News Monday, 27 March 2006, 08:10 GMT 09:10 UK Blair admits resignation mistake
The Blairs reached Australia after a record-breaking 18 hour flight
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged it may have been a "mistake" to announce he would not be serv...
BBC News Sunday, 26 March 2006, 08:19 GMT 09:19 UK NHS 'not giving value for money'
The government has promised to tackle NHS financial problems
NHS patients are still not receiving value for money despite unprecedented investment, a former senior Department ...
BBC News Saturday, 25 March 2006, 10:31 GMT
Tories pressed to reveal lenders
Loans were spent on the election
Labour has urged the Conservatives to follow its lead by revealing the names of all those who gave them loans before the last general election. Environment Secretary...
BBC News Thursday, 23 March 2006, 12:45 GMT British Iraq hostage Kember freed
Several videotapes have been released showing the hostages
One British and two Canadian peace activists held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in an operation by multinational fo...
Monday, October 11, 1999 Published at 19:10 GMT 20:10 UK Sci/TechLooking through cats' eyes Fuzzy but recognisable By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse These are the first pictures from an extraordinary experiment which has probed what it is like to look through the...
I received an Email today from the President of Columbia University distributed by the Alumni Relations office describing a $200 million contribution which is going to be used for a Brain, Mind and Behaviour Initiative at its Jerome L. Greene Science Centre to be established by Columbia. That Em...
BBC Four: Documentaries
TIMESunday 26 February - Tuesday 21 March 2006 at 2100 and 0055 - Wednesday 22 March at 1900 - Thursday 23 March at 0310
In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extrao...
"Union man's sleaze attack derails PM's fightback: Tony Blair had planned to relaunch his premiership this week with a new agenda and reshuffle. Then Jack Dromey intervened. . ." by Patrick Wintour, political editor, The Guardian, Saturday March 18, 2006http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/...
BBC News Friday, 17 March 2006, 13:26 GMT"Labour was secretly loaned £14m: Labour was secretly loaned £13,950,000 by wealthy individuals ahead of last year's election, it has confirmed. Tony Blair has pledged changes to the system."http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4815552.stm"E...
Violence is fast becoming the standard even in the medical profession and with those who are supposed to be adderssing the problem of violence. Last weekend was disrupted on three consecutive days by ever escalating degrees of antisocial to criminal behaviour. Today BBC News24 had an excellent ...
These two events which came to the surface today reflect a Government led by tony Blair that considers itself above the law. It's a Government which is a law until itself making it up to suit itself as it goes along for its own corrupt self interest. When a ruling by the Parliamenta...
The Government courtesy of the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell presented the nation with its White Paper for continuing the BBC's Royal Charter for the next ten years today in the House of Commons. To somehow increase accountability the Board of Governors will be moved to a Trust. She described ...
While reviewing the newspapers this morning on BBC News24, the front page of The Daily Mail displayed the headline about the Blairs' Four Milliion Pound Mortgage. When I went to The Daily Mail online, I did not find this story but found the following article which reinforces what I said in my Em...
Yesterday was a big day as events unfolded relating to Tony Blair and this Labour Government from multiple angles. 1. Last night Channel 4 screened Michael Winterbottom's film about the three British returnees from Guantanamo who were from Tipton in Birmingham in the UK. It is a film everyone ...
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