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Travel disruption across UK

By • on February 4, 2012, 7:44 pm

Severe weather is likely to cause travel disruptions across the UK and Europe....

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Foreign Secretary responds to UNSC vote on Syria

By • on February 4, 2012, 5:52 pm

Foreign Secretary: "Those opposing UN Security Council action will have to account to the Syrian people for their actions."...

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Foreign Secretary: Why the international community has to come together to help Somalia

By • on February 4, 2012, 4:06 pm

Foreign Secretary William Hague writes in the Huffington Post UK, following his visit to Somalia....

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office condemn break-in at Syrian Embassy in London

By • on February 4, 2012, 3:37 pm

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office condemns the actions of protestors who broke into the Syrian Embassy in London on 4 February....

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Foreign Secretary condemns brutal violence in Syria

By • on February 4, 2012, 1:00 pm

Foreign Secretary William Hague "horrified" at escalating violence....

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Help with fuel bills

By • on February 4, 2012, 12:38 pm

As Harlow and the villages face a cold snap, in February, many people will be worried about staying warm - especially pensioners. Research shows that one in ten households are actually entitled to some form of help with their fuel bills. This help is worth an average of £250 per household.Harlow residents...

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Aberdeen MSP welcomes move towards living wage

By • on February 4, 2012, 12:35 pm

Aberdeen MSP Kevin Stewart has hailed moves by the City Council to introduce a living wage for workers....

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London 2012 Games Maker orientation training begins

By • on February 4, 2012, 12:00 pm

The first orientation training event for London 2012 Games Maker volunteers and Games-time employees took place today at Wembley Arena in London....

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SNP label Salmond BBC ban "bonkers"

By • on February 4, 2012, 11:12 am

The BBC face questions over a last minute decision to ban Scotland’s First Minister from a programme ahead of the Six Nations rugby match....

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Via LearnLiberty – Social Cooperation: Why thieves hate free markets

By • on February 4, 2012, 11:06 am

Via LearnLiberty.org: And also: Society is concerted action, cooperation. Society is the outcome of conscious and purposeful behaviour. … Individual man is born into a socially organized environment. In this sense alone we may accept the saying that society is–logically or historically–antecedent...

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Shinfield planning consultation

By • on February 4, 2012, 10:53 am

        Yesterday I called in at the consultation on the construction of new homes in Shinfield.         I raised several issues with the representatives of the developers. These included         whether they would build homes in a style which harmonised with the existing village,...

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Government delivers on pledge to cut red tape

By • on February 4, 2012, 9:00 am

Chester MP Stephen Mosley has joined Business Minister Mark Prisk in welcoming the huge steps taken since the General Election to cut red tape and bureaucracy for businesses. One of the greatest barriers facing small and medium sized enterprises is the burden that regulation can put upon them. A manifesto...

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The west’s money go round

By • on February 4, 2012, 6:05 am

        The Euro crisis has been postponed. The Euro area has now adopted the very popular approach in the modern west of simply printing more cash to see them over a rough patch. The European Central Bank’s decision to lend more than half a trillion euros to Euro area banks, for 3 years...

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David Miliband’s right about a debate, but it cannot ignore the most fundamental problems

By • on February 3, 2012, 11:50 pm

There is much to welcome in David Miliband’s call for a ‘comradely and serious debate’ about the future for the Labour Party, as prompted by Roy Hattersley’s recent article in the Political Quarterly on social democracy.   He is certainly right about the spirit...

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Will we be treble-crossed?

By • on February 3, 2012, 11:05 pm

Tweeting today There is no conceivable British interests threatened by Iran. But vast profits beckon for the international war profiteers. Ever thus. 179 British lives lost in Iraq after Commons was bribed, baffled and bamboozled with lies on on non-existent WMDs. New Iran lie is being spread Afghan...

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