Bercows 'did not put Parliamentary security at risk' when Speaker's wife Sally sold furniture from ...
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 08:48:40 -0700 | sports-news
The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow and his wife Sally have rebuffed claims that Parliamentary security was put at risk when they put furniture from their grace-and-favour Palace of Westminster flat up for sale on eBay. Mrs...
Gay marriage vote plan welcomed
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-30 11:00:05 -0700 | sports-news
Suggested Topics The Government has responded to warnings that time pressures could wreck its controversial gay marriage legislation by delaying a crucial vote in the House of Lords by a day. Some 86 peers have asked to speak in the...
Culture shock: 'Negroes back ten rows only'
Source: North Valley Suburbanite
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-30 08:35:05 -0700 | sports-news
The girls I lived with are at the forefront of those memories but there are other things rattling around in that mental cage of mine, one that, surprisingly, I hadn't thought about in years. One of the first few weekends...
Serving soldier set to 'stand in' for Tommy Robinson in Westminster to Woolwich sponsored after Help ...
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-30 06:13:34 -0700 | sports-news
EDL leader Tommy Robinson has allegedly recruited a serving army sergeant to take his place on a walk in memory of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, in an attempt to evade a ban on political parties donating to charity Help for...
Former CU coach Bill McCartney reflects on career, late wife
Source: Boston Herald
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:06:53 -0700 | sports-news
Former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney will be thinking of his late wife when he's inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December. He found out he was going into the Hall just weeks after Lyndi McCartney, his...
Facilities drive gets $1 mil boost
Source: Denver Post
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 23:29:24 -0700 | sports-news
A Colorado booster has given a $1 million donation toward the school's fundraising drive to upgrade facilities, a source close to the athletic department said Tuesday. Athletic director Mike Bohn, at a media round-table discussion at Bender's Bar and Grill,...
Controversy and a cock-up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 10:34:50 -0700 | sports-news
Suggested Topics Plans to install a giant blue cockerel in Trafalgar Square are being opposed by a conservation group headed by one of the country's most senior judges. The 14ft fibreglass bird designed by the German artist Katharina Fritsch is...
Brave new world of Universal Credit benefits finds an uncertain welcome on the streets of Ashton-...
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 14:25:16 -0700 | sports-news
Suggested Topics To the Work and Pensions Secretary in Westminster, Monday's tentative launch of Universal Credit was the start of a fundamental cultural shift of the welfare system. To many of those in the vanguard of Iain Duncan Smith's reforms...
Environment minister says UK families are losing £50 a month on wasted food
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 11:10:52 -0700 | sports-news
A government minister has said families could save money from their squeezed budgets if they stopped needlessly throwing away "enormous amounts of food" because they don't know how to keep fresh produce. Richard Benyon, a Conservative minister in the Department...
From handbags to Westminster: Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume I, by Charles ...
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 01:34:23 -0700 | sports-news
The phrase long-awaited is over-used in politics, but the official, authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, 16 years in the writing, commissioned on the condition that it would only be published after her death, is just that: Charles Moore, whose first...
Last Night's Viewing: The Politician's Husband, BBC2 Playhouse Presents: Snodgrass, Sky Arts 1
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 17:34:22 -0700 | sports-news
Suggested Topics The first woman you see in The Politician's Husband is vacuuming the floor of the Chamber of the House. The second is pushing a cleaner's trolley and the fourth is polishing the floor of a Westminster lobby. The...
Rebecca Ferguson finds her voice
Source: BBC
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2012-03-09 07:03:44 -0800 | political-news
When Rebecca Ferguson auditioned for the X Factor in early 2010, she was so shy she could barely lift her eyes from the floor. Her head bowed, she worked her way through Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, stealing...
Social bond pilot schemes to run in 2012
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2011-10-27 16:04:17 -0700 | political-news
Private investors will fund intensive programmes for troubled families under a trial launched by the Government. Ministers want philanthropists, charities and other organisations to plough cash into projects tackling anti-social behaviour, crime, addiction and poor education.
Olympic ambassador 'hurled bricks at police car' during riots - and was reported to police by her ...
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2011-10-12 02:33:13 -0700 | disasters-news
She was filmed by the BBC allegedly throwing bricks at a police car during violent disturbances in Enfield on Sunday night. She was seen on the nightly news by her mother Adrienne, 47, who immediately called the police. Westminster magistrates'...
Labour pledges free travel for sixth-formers
Source: The Independent
Westminster :: CO :: USA | updated 2011-08-31 01:20:48 -0700 | political-news
Young people who stay in full-time education or training after the age of 16 would get free bus and train passes under a future Labour government, the party will announce today. In the first concrete pledge from Labour's root-and-branch policy...
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