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Archive for April 9th, 2009
G20 police officer is suspended
Thursday, April 9th, 2009The officer captured on video apparently pushing a man during the G20 protests in London has been suspended, police… »
PM challenges Pakistan on terror
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Gordon Brown says Pakistan needs to do more to root out terrorism after police thwart a suspected al-Qaeda bomb… »
Stop abortion ads, archbishop says
Thursday, April 9th, 2009The new Archbishop of Westminster urges Catholics to oppose plans for abortion information to be… »
Reporters track the changes
Thursday, April 9th, 2009The BBC’s Washington correspondents track developments in the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s… »
CIA shuts down its secret prisons
Thursday, April 9th, 2009The CIA announces that it is no longer operating its network of secret prisons, accused by critics of being used as torture… »
Police chief quits over blunder
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Britain’s counter-terrorism chief officer quits after accidentally revealing details of a secret operation aimed at thwarting a possible al-Qaeda… »
Police ‘culpable’ over Baby P death
Thursday, April 9th, 2009The Metropolitan Police were as culpable as the social workers working on the Baby P case, BBC London… »
Leader sorry over slippery floors
Thursday, April 9th, 2009A council leader says he “carries the can” for a failed £300,000 legal battle over slippery leisure centre… »
English ‘losing out’ to literacy
Thursday, April 9th, 2009English lessons are dying out and being replaced by literacy, the leader of a teaching union… »