This Has To Be Year Local Miniature Golf Course Finally Goes Out Of Business
Source: The Onion
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 11:04:42 -0700 | sports-news
NYClaiming that the dilapidated, sun-bleached recreational facility had been on its last legs for years, local residents told reporters Monday that this has to be the summer that the Putt King miniature golf course on Route 22 finally closes its...
'Nudge unit' becomes business
Source: BBC
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 19:59:53 -0700 | technology-news
Nudge unit' to be spun out of Whitehall The 'nudge unit' uses behavioural science to influence government policies A government unit aimed at "nudging" people into making better life choices is to become a profit-making business...It finds ways of "nudging"...
Clegg was for cuts to the NHS and aid before he was against them
Source: New Statesman
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 13:04:50 -0700 | business-news
The New Statesman's rolling politics blog The Liberal Democrat leader has conveniently forgotten his opposition to ring-fencing in 2010. Nick Clegg gestures as he takes questions from journalists after making a speech on immigration on March 22, 2013 in London....
NHS 'ring fence' threatened by plan to help social care
Source: The Independent
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 12:33:30 -0700 | health-news
Ministers are to effectively abandon their pledge to ring-fence NHS spending by diverting more than £1bn to cover the spiralling cost of social care, The Independent can disclose. The Government has decided to act amid fears that hospitals are admitting...
After two years and millions of pounds, police computer plan is still in limbo
Source: The Independent
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 11:56:22 -0700 | sports-news
Theresa May's attempts to set up a company to oversee police computers are destined to result in an expensive white elephant, it was claimed. Nearly two years after the Home Secretary announced plans for the creation of a firm to...
Government facing criticism for Grey Thompson snub
Source: BBC
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 17:38:13 -0700 | sports-news
Privately, she has every right to be furious at the outcome of a recruitment process which has been badly mishandled by the government. For some weeks now, she has been in the frame for one of the two big sporting...
Computer nails £2billion tax dodge cheats
Source: The Sun UK
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 19:42:26 -0700 | political-news
Revenue officials grab back an extra £2billion from tax-dodgers. Inspectors can trawl a billion pieces of information to spot criminal gangs or super-rich evaders within minutes. The Sun is the first paper to see the pioneering system, called Connect, at...
Why I left the Civil Service: Thatcher, trust and democracy
Source: Open Democracy
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 06:46:35 -0700 | political-news
April 2013 A former economic civil servant tells her story of working under Thatcher. The change of culture in Whitehall and the loss of trust, she says, must now be undone...The damage inflicted by Thatcher on the fabric of British...
Home Office staff start strike action in pay and jobs dispute
Source: The Independent
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 04:29:17 -0700 | sports-news
Staff at the Home Office will go on strike today in the latest phase of three months of industrial action by civil servants in a dispute over pay, jobs and terms and conditions. The Public and Commercial Services union said...
Free school meals may be scrapped by councils under 'tidal wave' of cuts
Source: The Independent
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 12:30:52 -0700 | sports-news
Free school meals could soon be scrapped and people paid to look after elderly neighbours as councils take desperate measures to deliver a tidal wave of spending cuts, ministers will be warned on Tuesday. Closures of municipal theatres, leisure centres,...
Police: 2 Conn. men charged in upstate NY shooting
Source: Boston.com
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 04:41:02 -0700 | allnews
N.Y. (AP) State police say two Connecticut men have been charged in connection with a shooting last week at an eastern New York mobile home park. Troopers say two trailers were hit by multiple rounds early Friday morning at a...
Police: 2 Conn. men charged in upstate NY shooting
Source: Boston.com
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 04:41:02 -0700 | allnews
N.Y. (AP) State police say two Connecticut men have been charged in connection with a shooting last week at an eastern New York mobile home park. Troopers say two trailers were hit by multiple rounds early Friday morning at a...
The i¿½9million bonus bonanza dished out to green energy bureaucrats
Source: Mail Online UK
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-03-29 18:11:08 -0700 | green-news
29 March 2013 Bureaucrats in charge of the Government's controversial green policies have benefited from a multi-million-pound bonus bonanza since the last election. The total amount of performance-related handouts given to civil servants at the Department for Energy and Climate...
170 EDL supporters arrested by police.
Posted by: Asim Mukhtar
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2012-04-12 13:31:00 -0700 | disasters-news
Believed to be English Defence League supporters,170 people, have been arrested following a remembrance service in Whitehall.According to Scotland Yard,Group was held outside the Red Lion pub in Westminster.Last year trouble flared on Armistice Day, when the far-right group clashed...
Commons cite the Murdoch to account for eavesdropping
Posted by: Shaziakhan
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | updated 2012-11-02 11:14:35 -0700 | political-news
The confrontation between the Commons and Murdoch is alreadyopen war and reached grotesque trim yesterday. Rupert Murdochrefused entry the "polite invitation" that he had attended theParliament Committee on Culture of days ago to testify next Tuesday. His son James said...
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