Clampdown on blue badge parking cheats

Clampdown on blue badge parking cheats

New measures to tackle disabled parking fraud will be announced today after growing evidence that the system is too vulnerable to abuse.

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Companies abandon ID card project

Two prominent companies have pulled out of the procurement process for the controversial multi-billion pound identity card programme amid growing concerns that the government is planning to delay the roll-out of the project.

Read more on this article from The Financial Times newspaper today


Labour facing humiliation on terror bill

The government is facing defeat over its legislation to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge, which is to be published today without many of the safeguards demanded by opponents.

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Overweight people could be offered cash to lose pounds

People who are overweight could be paid to get slim, the government suggested yesterday as part of its national strategy to tackle the obesity epidemic.

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Websites to be studied after Bridgend suicides

A coroner is to investigate links between social networking websites and a suicide craze sweeping through a small town.

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Migrants add to pressure as council tax soars

The typical council tax bill will rise above inflation to £1,145 this year, an authoritative study discloses. The Local Government Association said proposed council tax rises drawn up by 102 councils showed the average increase would be about four per cent.

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Judge warns on Britain’s forced marriage toll

Official statistics on forced marriage reflect only the “tip of the iceberg” of a much larger problem in Britain, a district judge has warned.

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Private bail hostels cost £6,000 per inmate

Inmates held in a series of new privately run bail hostels have cost the taxpayer more than £6,000 each in their first five months of operation, figures show.

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25, 000 police march through London to protest about pay

Tens of thousands of police march purposefully through the streets of London yesterday to protest about their pay.

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Murder case 6 let out on bail

Six teenagers charged over a savage stabbing murder have been freed in another shock bail controversy.

Two senior Old Bailey judges let them out – despite Crown Prosecution Service opposition.

Read more on this article from The Sun newspaper today


Care home matron and staff ‘posed as CIA agents to scare paranoid residents’

A care home matron and her staff posed as CIA agents to scare a paranoid resident in a campaign of vicious practical jokes, a hearing was told today.