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More room on top - lack of space brings in the doubledecker grave
The disturbance of human remains in burial grounds is to be allowed for the first time since the early Victorian era to deal with a shortage of graves, The Times has learnt.
Afghanistan war: '2,000 more British troops next year'
The Government is considering sending extra reinforcements in order to meet an anticipated request from Barack Obama, the US president-elect, after he takes office in January, according to the BBC.
'Evidence' of murders at children's home on Jersey dismissed
The £4.5 million inquiry into child abuse on Jersey was described as a shambles last night as the island’s most senior officer was suspended for his role in the investigation. Graham Power was suspended after his own investigators accused his forc...
By-election win gives UK PM a boost
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The UK's ruling Labour Party has won a by-election against forecasts, indicating that Gordon Brown, the prime minister, may have raised the party's standing via his handling of the global financial crisis.
Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000
Autumn's market mayhem has left the world's financial institutions nursing losses of $2.8tn, the Bank of England said today, as it called for fundamental reform of the global banking system to prevent a repeat of turmoil "arguably" unprecedented s...
Gordon Brown vows to borrow and spend
Gordon Brown will today defend plans to increase public borrowing and spending as the only 'responsible' thing to do to protect families and businesses from the economic downturn.
Brown's crisis handling fails to win over voters: poll
LONDON (AFP) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have won international praise for taking the lead in the financial crisis, but his performance has failed to improve his prospects at home, a poll released Sunday showed.
British Lords reject tougher anti-terror laws
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's upper house of parliament firmly rejected a government proposal to tighten anti-terrorism laws on Monday, saying it would not support suspects being held for up to six weeks without charge.
British court told bombers planned 'wholesale' murders
LONDON (AFP) — Two doctors accused of plotting failed car bombings in London and Glasgow wanted to commit "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder, prosecutors alleged Thursday on the first day of a major anti-terror trial. Bilal Abdulla, 28, and Moh...
New Scotland Yard chief quizzed on audit
The new head of Scotland Yard is facing questions about his role in the £3m contracts affair that contributed to the downfall of Sir Ian Blair. Sir Paul Stephenson, the deputy commissioner who will take over as caretaker when Blair steps down in D...
Brown shuffles cabinet to include past nemesis
LONDON: The beleaguered British prime minister, Gordon Brown, reshuffled part of his cabinet Friday, stunning many political analysts by rehabilitating his onetime nemesis, Peter Mandelson, who resigned twice in scandalous circumstances from the p...
Chief of Scotland Yard To End Turbulent Term
LONDON -- Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair, whose tumultuous tenure included the London transit bombings of 2005 and his officers' killing of a man wrongly suspected of being a bomber, resigned Thursday, saying he did not have the backing of London M...
US to build new embassy in suburban London
LONDON (AP) — The United States announced plans Thursday to leave its landmark embassy in central London's tony Mayfair district and build a safer facility in a far less fashionable suburb south of the River Thames.
UK's Cameron says he's ready to lead
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Conservative Party leader David Cameron pledged Wednesday to prove his ability to revive Britain's faltering economy — but warned he has no miracle cure.
Historic ship blaze blamed on vacuum cleaner
LONDON, England (CNN) -- An industrial vacuum cleaner left switched on inside the historic Cutty Sark ship was the most likely cause of the fire last year that gutted the 19th-century tea clipper, police said Tuesday.
MP hails Gordon Brown's conference speech as 'Obama moment'
LABOUR MP IAN GIBSON, who had said Brown needed "an Obama moment", said afterwards: "That was it." He added: "It was absolutely brilliant. He delivered it humbly but with a passion we don't often see in Labour politicians. "He was talking about th...
Britain's Brown prepares for crucial speech
Gordon Brown will strive to reassert his authority over Labour in his keynote speech at the party conference. The prime minister will spell out a vision of "a Britain of fair chances for all and fair rules applied to all".
London tube shooting inquest begins
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An inquest has begun into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police at a London underground rail station after being mistakenly identified as a suspect in the failed July 21, 2005 transport attacks.
'I want to do better', Britain's Brown tells his party
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted he could do better as he seeks to fend off rebels opposed to his leadership at the ruling Labour Party's annual conference. But he added on Sunday voters would not forgive hi...
British PM bids to silence rebels at party conference
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will seek to shore up his authority Sunday on the first full day of his Labour Party's annual conference despite a budding rebellion against him. Brown, who served as his predecessor ...