KATE FOSTER
kfoster@scotlandonsunday.com
POSTAL workers who disapprove of “extreme” political parties have been told they can refuse to deliver election leaflets by Royal Mail chiefs.
The controversial ruling potentially threatens the delivery of thousands of European election leaflets produced by groups including the UK Independence party and Operation Christian Vote, which opposes abortion and euthanasia.
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A crooked Haringey Council housing boss who had previous convictions for benefit fraud but was allowed by Haringey council to run its housing section, abused her powers by allowing friends to skip waiting lists and get council homes and then pocketed money from bogus insurance claims is behind bars today.
Jeanette Mapp, 42, failed to record [...]

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Junk food adverts could soon be banned from childrens’ television.Health Secretary John Reid is considering the move to stop food producers targetting youngsters with unhealthy snacks, following concern over worrying levels of childhood obesity.The House of Commons health committee has criticised ministers, the NHS, food manufacturers and advertisers for not doing enough to tackle the [...]

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(aka Russkij kovcheg, 2002)
A film review by Jeff Johnson
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Sergei Dontsov …. Stranger (as Sergei Dreiden)
Mariya Kuznetsova …. Catherine The Great
Leonid Mozgovoy …. The Spy
David Giorgobiani …. Orbeli
Aleksandr Chaban …. Boris Piotrovsky
Maksim Sergeyev …. Peter the Great
Deep inside the meaning of ethereal, between the ether and the real, exists [...]

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Violence upon and intimidation of candidates contesting elections may be commonplace in Zimbabwe and other despotic regimes, but have no place in the British electoral process.
It is with anger and disappointment that we report an attack on a BNP council candidate contesting Leeds City Council in June’s elections. Mark Collett is standing in the Burmantofts [...]

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A NEW strategy to protect and enhance the unique wildlife and habitats of Scotland will place the country at the “cutting edge of international biodiversity conservation”.
Allan Wilson, the deputy environment minister, made the claim yesterday as he launched Scotland’s Biodiversity: It’s In Your Hands - a plan developed over three years by wildlife experts, [...]

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The death of a severely overweight three-year-old from heart failure is being used to symbolise the UK’s massive childhood obesity epidemic.A report by MPs said the girl had grown to 6st by the time of her death, more than double the recommended weight for a child her age.And in a stark account of the problem, [...]

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A school’s refusal to allow a 15-year-old Muslim girl to wear traditional religious dress broke both UK and European laws, the High Court has heard.Shabina Begum has not attended school since September 2002 when she was sent home for wearing a jilbab - a long, flowing gown.Her lawyers argued that the ban by Denbigh High [...]

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Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been arrested by police in London on an extradition warrant issued by the US government.According to reports he will be held on terror charges before being deported for trial in America.
In a statement Scotland Yard said “a British citizen, aged 47″ was detained in a pre-dawn raid.
“The [...]

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THE Church of Scotland’s troubled hotel and retreat in Israel was plunged into fresh controversy last night, after one of the Kirk’s senior ministers in Jerusalem accused officials running the project of not employing Christians in senior positions.
In a letter seen by The Scotsman, the Rev Clarence Musgrave, who moved to the region four [...]

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THE Scottish National Party has attacked the Executive for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds researching a new logo for Scotland.
North East MSP Richard Lochhead claims Scottish ministers have so far spent £300,000 researching a logo, and warns they are in danger of wasting cash.
Mr Lochhead said parliamentary answers had confirmed the level [...]

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Child killer Ian Huntley is reportedly the target of a deadly race by prison gangs to be the first to murder him.Bets have been placed at Wakefield Prison on which of the two outfits will claim the life of the Soham murderer.Guards have been placed on “extra high alert” at the facility after plans of [...]

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Zimbabwe’s President has made an all out attack on the British Prime Minister and accused him of stifling talks between the nations.In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Robert Mugabe scoffed at suggestions the troubled southern African nation was in the midst of mass starvation.
And he said his supporters who attack opposition members were no [...]

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FOR years, kiltmakers have sold tartan to tourists with uncertain Scottish connections after making questionable decisions about the clan to which they belong.
But now scientists are mapping the genetic profiles of the different Scottish clans to allow those trying to trace their ancestry to discover whether their heart is Highland or actually belongs to [...]

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THE title of Scotland’s best chef was last night awarded to Allan Donald, of the Ballachulish Country House, near Glencoe, Argyll.
Mr Donald beat a number of famous names from Orkney to Dumfries to pick up the title in front of almost 300 of his peers, in what organisers claimed was one of the tightest [...]

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THE Scottish Executive has been accused of a “whitewash” amid fears that a major review of child protection cases may never be published.
Lawyers say the internal review has been shrouded in secrecy and are demanding ministers publish its findings.
It comes as dozens of parents in Scotland claim to have been wrongly diagnosed with [...]

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The Lorien Cultural Association - the historical archives of alternative music- was founded in Milan on October 28, 1997, as a response to the sad truth that a significant part of the musical material produced by various alternative music groups was already not to be found, and with every probability, lost forever.
To save this precious [...]

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Ireland’s celebrated mural artists; Tom Kelly, Kevin Hasson and William Kelly. Artists from The Bogside in Derry, N.Ireland and painters of the Irish conflict. This site is of major interest to students of Irish culture, politics or art and anyone involved in education. Follow the links below to learn more.
www.bogsideartists.com

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If this article makes the 50% of the nation who are biologically male feel embarrassed by the revelation that the other 50% of the nation who are biologically female are making steadfast efforts to come to the defence of western civilisation then so be it! If unproductively propping up the bar, or watching the 24/7 [...]

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