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'Duck island' seat candidate due
Gosport :: United Kingdom | about 20 hours ago
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The person to fight Sir Peter Viggers' seat in Gosport, Hampshire, is being chosen in a post ballot of all voters. It is only the second time in the UK that a so-called "postal primary" is being used to select a prospective MP. Sir Peter, 71, who will...
Tags: duck island, Gosport, Peter Langdon, sir peter, Peter Viggers, United Kingdom, Knights Bachelor, David Cameron, Politics, Totnes, Conservative Party of Canada, Hampshire
Spitting feathers: Duck island seller's anger over sales slump
Athens :: Greece | 8 days ago
Credibility Tory MP Sir Peter Viggers is retiring at the next election, following the revelation that he tried to pay for the garden folly with Commons allowances. Ivor Ingall, who designed the duck island, said the product's reputation had been "tarred" by the episode.
Tags: duck island, duck house, Sir Peter, Peter Viggers, stockholm duck, Commons, Mr Ingall, Greece, Athens, Knights Bachelor, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Politics, Freedom of information legislation, United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, Duck the Great Western Engine
Iraq inquiry: British officials heard 'drum beats' of war from US before 9/11
British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry has heard. But the UK...
Tags: War Conflict, W, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Peter Ricketts, The Office, sir peter, UN, drum beats, John Chilcot, William Patey, George Harrison, Britain, Rationale for the Iraq War, regime change, Governmental positions on the Iraq War prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, allnews, sir william, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, United Kingdom, iraq inquiry, invasion of Iraq, London, Iraq, Politics, Condoleezza Rice
'Duck Island' Expenses Sink Conservative MP
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility 59pm UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009 A third Conservative MP is to step down at the next General Election because of claims for expenses including a "duck island" pond accessory. Sir Peter was the latest MP to quit over expenses Sir Peter Viggers was told...
Tags: Senior Scottish Labour, Peter Viggers, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Michael Martin (philosopher), Glasgow North East, sir peter
Fears grow for safety of missing philanthropist
Oxford :: ME :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The British philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl was yesterday declared missing by police after disappearing from his home. Sir Peter, 61, is best known for founding the Sutton Trust, which helps promote education for underprivileged children. He was last...
Tags: Peter Lampl, south west London, Sir Peter, Sutton Trust, founding safe, Wimbledon, Scotland Yard, missing millionaire, philanthropist sir, missing philanthropist
Omagh intelligence claims rejected
Omagh :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility Claims that vital information was held back about the Real IRA attack which killed 29 people in Omagh have been rejected. Information on the bombers which was passed to police could not have prevented the 1998 atrocity, a report by Intelligence Services...
Tags: irish republican army, Omagh Intelligence, omagh bomb, Intelligence Services Commissioner Sir, Northern Ireland, sir peter, Peter Gibson, British Government Communications Headquarters, BBC
Lloyds 'loan' under scrutiny by FSA
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility THE Financial Services Authority is to investigate claims that Lloyds TSB has provided HBoS with a £10 billion loan without either bank declaring it. Lloyds insists that it has complied with all disclosure requirements of the takeover, which values HBoS...
Tags: Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, Peter Burt, chief executive, George Mathewson, sir george, HBOS, sir peter, royal banking
Black Magic centrepiece of Blake tribute
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility America's Cup yacht Black Magic will be the centrepiece of a multi-million dollar tribute to Sir Peter Blake which was given the go-ahead today after almost two years of fundraising. At a function attended by Prime Minister Helen Clark and Auckland Mayor...
Tags: Peter Blake, Black Magic, America, sir peter
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