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• Baby Killer Agnes Wong given UK Government bribe

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  The UK government is willing to pay criminal immigrants £4,500 in bribes to return to their home countries, effectively rewarding their crimes. Agnes Wong, from Malaysia, was convicted of killing a 17-month-old baby, whom she was child-minding and jailed for five years in 2008. Wong was jailed after a court ...
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• Westminster Marine Bill passes

  
  The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network — Authority: 125
  The Westminster Marine and Coastal Access Bill has now received Royal Assent.Both this Bill and the Scottish Marine Bill are intended to introduce a framework for the sustainable management of the seas around the UK / Scotland, ensuring the need to protect our seas is integrated with economic growth of marine ...
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• Doonreay to be ‘nuclear heritage site’ as cost of Westminster rush for new nuclear is tallied

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) is overseeing the decommissioning of the former nuclear power station on Scotland’s northern shores on the Pentland Firth in Caithness.It has announced that, in 2010,  it will hold  a 3-month consultation on what should be left as its legacy. Try to keep a straight face.The ...
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• Next Generation Government HR

  
  HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM) — Authority: 422
       Jacquie Heany from the Cabinet Office quoted Gill Rider fom the Civil Service HR conference last week, suggesting that government departments face the leadership challenge of a generation . “How will you know who to keep, and who to let go, in order to ensure you have the right skills for the ...
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• Complaint about BBC coverage of Britain’s new nuclear power stations; and reply regarding the One Show

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 412
  Below is the text of an email of complaint I sent to the BBC yesterday: I am complaining about the fact that the BBC’s reporting on the government’s plans for ten new nuclear power stations, announced yesterday, failed to explain why almost all of them (nine) are to be built in England and none in Scotland. This ...
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• Lloyds slammed for arrogant decision to slash 5000 jobs

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Management at Lloyds Banking Group has been slammed for "the depth of corporate arrogance" displayed in plans to axe 5000 staff.
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• U.K. Government Launches Consultation on Rules Governing Product Placement on Television

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The U.K. Government is seeking further views on whether to allow product placement in programs made for British television. A consultation, also asking what safeguards should be in place should the product placement rules be revised, is published today by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw. Current rules mean UK ...
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• Future of higher education in the UK and Australia

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  Professor Paul Ramsden, Chief Executive of the UK Higher Education Academy, will discuss changes to the way universities plan courses and reward teaching staff at the Australian National University, 27 November 2009. Professor Ramsdens paper "The Future of Higher Education - Teaching and the Student Experience" is ...
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• peak oil gets anonymous endoresment from "senior IEA officials"

  
  punkscience — Authority: 114
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"If the real [oil reserve] figures were to come out there would be panic on the stock markets … in the end that would suit no one."As George has pointed out, its about time someone started asking searching questions of the UK ...
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• What a complete disaster of a "man"

  
  Noclue — Authority: 138
  I watched the Remembrance Day service on TV yesterday and was very disgusted to see our esteemed leader not bother to bow his head after laying his wreath. It is an automatic gesture for me to always do so – if I am walking or driving and pass a hearse I nod my head downwards. Whether I know the person or not I do ...
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• Winslet algorithm used to work out the value of British stars

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 521
  Economists attempting to place a value on the creative arts in this country have come up with a new way of working out a film star’s worth. Using Kate Winslet as a model economists have come up with what is affectionately being called the Winslet algorithm. By working out things like a stars average salary along ...
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• UK Government backs electric city car

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 483
  The UK-backed Technology Strategy Board will invest £4.5million as part of a new £9million research and development project that will allow a consortium to develop four prototypes of a new all-electric city car. Known as the T.27 project the electric city car will be sustainably manufactured, and is led by a ...
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• Where now for workers struggle after post strikes suspended?

  
  Through The Scary Door — Authority: 122
  In particular : A Royal Mail source quoted in the press today gets it wrong when they say, “The stumbling block to a solution was a small group of union activists in London who seemed to think they were fighting a class war. They were being driven on by the Socialist Workers Party.” But it is true that the ...
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• Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 488
  Guardian.co.uk, “ Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report ” The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as ...
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• Lessons From Public Sector Contracting

  
  Commitment Matters — Authority: 120
  At today’s IACCM member meeting in London, more than 100 delegates heard from IACCM Chairman Tim Cowen about current initiatives on public sector contracting. Since leaving his role as General Counsel at BT Global Services, Tim has been leading a multi-company effort to address some of the challenges in EU and UK ...
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• MPs -still more to do

  
  Nouslife — Authority: 462
  I just got an email Id like to ask you to consider acting on. It reads in part:Today many politicians are telling us to "move on" - the problem is fixed, the beast has been tamed.I welcome Christopher Kellys report - and urge MPs to take their medicine and accept his recommendations in full. But this crisis was the ...
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• Response to petition to Gordon Brown to resign

  
  Bill's Comment Page — Authority: 422
  Some months ago I signed a petition at "number10.gov.uk" for the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to resign. This evening I received an email with his response; just as with Prime Ministers Questions on a Wednnesday at midday, Brown almost never answers the questions he has been asked and he doesnt do any better with his ...
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• Branch sales as RBS & Lloyds agree APS deal

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 434
  The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group have agreed to the terms associated with the UK Government’s Asset Protection Scheme (APS), it was announced today (3 November 2009). In January this year the Government announced a comprehensive financial stability package which included the Asset ...
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• British government downsizes bailed-out U.K. banks

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  LONDON -- The British government moved Tuesday to break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks that were partially nationalized during the height of the financial crisis.
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• British government moves to downsize bailed-out U.K. banks

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  LONDON -- The British government is moving to break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, with a restructuring plan expected to be unveiled as soon as Tuesday. The move highlights a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks partially...
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