Now here they are in plain sight, a Government of liars and louts, sticking their fingers up to the people they claim to serve. What is worse, they know they will get away with it.
That was the most dispiriting thing about last week - the fact that nobody is going to be punished for [...]

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As burglars, muggers and louts get bigger, rougher and nastier, the authorities have decided that what we need in the police are more tiny women and more unfit men.
The police entry test has just been watered down so that more women will pass.
Until now, the female failure rate has been ten times that [...]

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Iwant to make your flesh creep, to frighten and perplex you. I can see no other way to alert this country and its people to the approaching end of a thousand years of history.
We are about to be extinguished as an independent nation. We are about to lose the power to control our own [...]

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Many UK householders are keen to recycle their waste - but are being hampered by a lack of local schemes.
A bill cleared the Commons on Friday calling for councils in England and Wales to provide every home with doorstep recycling.
However, it does not demand this is done until 2010 and it says only [...]

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A Scottish mountain range is set to be gifted to the nation after the clan chief who owns it failed to find a buyer.
John MacLeod of MacLeod put the Cuillins on Skye on the market for £10m more than three years ago.
However, he is planning to hand them over to a public trust [...]

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A Jurassic fossil discovered in Loch Ness by a Scots pensioner could be the original Loch Ness monster, according to Nessie enthusiasts.
The fossilised remains of a 150-million-year-old plesiosaur was discovered by pensioner Gerald McSorley, from Stirling, submerged in shallow water on the bank of the loch.
The long-necked, carnivorous sea reptile which ruled the [...]

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Scotland’s farmers have “nothing to gain” from growing genetically modified crops, environmentalists have claimed.
Friends of the Earth Scotland is now calling on the Scottish Executive to encourage farmers to grow food free from GM.
It issued the plea following the publication of a report by the UK Government which predicted that the commercial growing [...]

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More than 3,000 firearms were surrendered during a month-long weapons amnesty in Scotland, it has been revealed.
Figures released by the Scottish Executive show that the government itself handed in 140,000 rounds of ammunition during the April campaign.
The amnesty was the second since the Dunblane killings in 1996 when Thomas Hamilton broke into Dunblane [...]

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A British National Party member from Shropshire has lost his High Court bid to overturn a conviction for displaying a controversial poster on Islam.
Mark Norwood, from St Martin’s Road in Gobowen, was convicted last December of the religiously aggravated offence of putting up a poster picturing one of the Twin Towers in flames and [...]

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What’s it like to be a Muslim in Northern Ireland? When a Muslim family moved to the province they hoped to side-step the troubles between Catholics and Protestants. Instead, they became a new target for local bigots, as this exclusive interview reveals.
Two years ago, a quiet, religiously devout family set up home in a predominantly [...]

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Germany is starting a series of campaigns to improve the country’s image abroad, seeking to replace the dogged stereotypes of Nazis and sunbed stealing tourists with a more relaxed, hip and even erotic portrayal of its people and language.
Adding insult to the injury caused by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who last week compared a [...]

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First live offspring from surgically implanted uterus.
Mice with transplanted wombs have given birth to healthy pups - the first time that live offspring have been produced from a surgically implanted uterus.
Researchers hope the technique will benefit women who currently cannot bear children because their wombs are damaged or missing.
“A woman could receive a donor [...]

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Waitresses who copy their customers’ behaviour get substantially bigger tips than those who don’t, Dutch psychologists have discovered1.
“Mimicry creates bonds between people - it induces a sense of ‘we-ness’,” says Rick van Baaren of the University of Nijmegen. “You know that what you’re doing is ok, and you become more generous.”
Van Baaren’s team studied staff [...]

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Dutch brewing giant Heineken has said it plans to launch a non-alcoholic malt drink in Muslim markets around the world.
The fruit-flavoured beverage, Fayrouz, is already popular in Egypt and has been certified halal by Al Azhar, a leading Sunni Islam religious institution.
Now Heineken has said it could use its global marketing muscle to launch [...]

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A CD-Rom guide to Glasgow, specifically for asylum seekers, has been made by those already living in the city.
‘Glasgow: New Horizons’ has been produced by a group of young asylum seekers hoping to help others coming to Scotland for the first time.
It features practical information for new refugees such as a city map, bus [...]

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A campaign is being launched to protect the distinctive character of English rural towns amid fears they are turning into bland clones of each other.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England says unique market town high streets are being increasingly dominated by takeaway outlets and chain stores.
And local materials are rarely used for house building, [...]

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Police say they are surprised that racially-motivated violence involving up to 40 people flared on a north Wales estate.
Six arrests have been made so far and more are expected after the disturbances in Wrexham.
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