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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the Council meeting in September the Liberal Democrats and Tories who run Brent Council rejected a Labour motion to pursue the compulsory purchase of land adjoining the new Crest Academies (formerly John Kelly schools) to ensure outdoor sports facilities. They rejected the motion on the basis that further delay would jeopardise government funding. The Council's failure to pursue the purchase of...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
GCHQ to run ad campaign within Xbox Live online games to attract 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks Government intelligence organisation GCHQ is to run an ad campaign within Xbox Live online games, including Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed, to attract quick-thinking 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks. The campaign marks the first time that GCHQ, which reports to the foreign secretary, David Miliband,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Health visitors under Conservatives would be encouraged to tell mothers and fathers about websites offering advice on parenting David Cameron said yesterday that a Conservative government would promote Mumsnet and other "good parenting websites" as part of his drive to encourage "social action" as an alternative to state action. He said that health visitors would be encouraged...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Government's deficit is now increasing at a rate of almost £3 billion a week it has emerged in a blow to Gordon Brown.
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Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing (via lots of folks on Twitter ) is claiming that Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will give the Secretary of State (Mandelson - or whoever replaces him after the next election) the power to make "secondary legislation" (legislation that is passed without debate) to amend...
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Monkeymagic (Free subscription) | yesterday
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will give the Secretary of State (Mandelson — or his successor [...]
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
How Gordon Brown and the Labour Party should use their last months in power TWO syndromes often beset governments whose time is almost up. One is listlessness and drift, as discipline crumbles, morale plummets and ideas dry up. Conversely, some moribund administrations embrace desperate hyperactivity to stave off their doom. Gordon Brown and his Labour government, facing probable defeat in the general...
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XForms and Internet Applications (Free subscription) | yesterday
And finally, I find this announcement exciting because the guidelines document uses the term 'Linked Data' throughout. This reflects an extremely deep understanding of the implications of what COI are doing with RDFa; the COI do not simply explain to people how to publish vacancies and consultations to the web -- they are describing how to publish that data to the Linked Data cloud. Read more in Linked...
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Just Auto (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The British government has launched a GBP30m (USD50.1m) initiative that could see thousands of electric vehicle charging points on streets and car parks.
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ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Both the PM and Peter Hain have called for greater political understanding of our role in Afghanistan, then repeat the tired message which an opinion pol l has shown that the UK public has heard, but does not believe. Mr Brown, in the Queen's Speech debate, again used the expression "keeping our streets safe", while Mr Hain varied with: “The government is determined not to be defeated...
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Kotaku (Free subscription) | yesterday
This morning, British publication The Guardian reports that Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is going run ads in Xbox Live "including Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed, to attract...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Alexander Woollcombe from the ONE UK office reports on a significant development: Good news but there’s more to do ONE volunteer Jennifer and staffer Tamar at the door of 10 Downing Street with the petition. These are stormy times in Westminster – but the commitment to help those who most need it remains. And as the UK general [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From an e-Mail Announcement Broken links will soon be a thing of the past for UK Government websites, as The National Archives launches its Web Continuity project. The first of its kind anywhere in the world, the project has already enabled millions of people using government websites to find information which would previously have been lost through [...]
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carrolltrust | 24/09/2009
Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief
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traimi | 16/09/2009
With hopes to someday producing an affordable electric car, Ford will soon start trials of its Focus BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) next year. Ford is hard at work to bring a conventional zero-emissions car to the market as soon as it can.Currently shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show , the concept car has been specially developed to participate in the UK Government’s ‘Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicles’ demonstration
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bsalmons | 21/07/2009
Tom Watson nearly pulled it off at the British Open. If he won, would the masses have cared even though Tiger Woods wasn’t involved? It would have been one of the five greatest stories in the history of sports. And in terms of sheer unpredictable, mind-boggling accomplishments, it might have been No. 1. Who gave Watson a chance to even contend, much less putt for the title on the 72nd hole? Chaminade
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