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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE A RAPIST on the run from cops 10,000 miles away has been caught hiding in Britain - posing as an asylum-seeker. Comments (0) | Read on >>> |
Rapist posed as an asylum seeker
Brown plans his own memoirs
New questions over Lockerbie bomber
Off the streets by 2012
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GORDON Brown is rushing to publish his own account of life in Number 10. The News of the World can reveal the former Prime Minister has been pounding away at his computer - and could be ready to publish within months. Mr Brown’s book is set to compete head-to-head with his rival and predecessor Tony Blair, who publishes “The Journey” in September. |
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A POWERFUL new watchdog will be given powers to stop hospitals and NHS Trusts wasting money this week. The new economic regulator will stop NHS Trusts spending over the odds on contracts with private health companies. Figures unearthed by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley reveal that the NHS wasted a staggering £305m buying healthcare from private companies that could have been obtained cheaper on the NHS. |
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THE AMERICAN government secretly told Scottish Ministers they wanted the Lockerbie bomber to be freed. New documents uncovered last night showed Barack Obama’s administration said they wanted to see Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi set free instead of being transferred to a Libyan prison. The letter was sent to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US Embassy in London It states: “If Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer.” |
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DAVID Miliband has soared ahead in the race to become the next Labour Party leader. The News of the World can reveal the former Foreign Secretary has secured the support of the majority of the Labour Party’s council leaders and local party bosses. Over 100 council leaders and Labour group leaders will today publish a letter backing Mr Miliband. A third of the votes in the Labour Party election will come from grassroots members. |
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HUNDREDS of speed cameras across the country could be switched off because of a cut in government funding. The government is poised to cut spending on road safety by 40%. The first of 6,000 speed cameras will be switched off in Oxfordshire as soon as next weekend. And thousands more are expected to follow in the Autumn after their funding is slashed. Transport Minister Mike Penning said the government was committed to “end the war on the motorist.” Last year councillors in Swindon axed their cameras, labelling them an “unfair tax” on motorists. They say there has been no increase in accidents. But road safety campaigners last night said the decision could increase deaths. |
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IN HELMAND THE Taliban have captured two US soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, and are believed to have killed another in the process. The troops left their base in the nation’s capital Kabul on Friday afternoon and have not been seen since. They appear to have been ambushed in an area which has recently seen a rise in Taliban activity. |
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DESPERATE ministers ordered to make savage cuts are trying to make other departments pay for big-money projects. Top Cabinet members have told the Chancellor expensive programmes should not come out of their budgets. They are trying to force the Department of Health and Department for International Development (DfID) to foot the bill because they are not having their spending cut. |
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