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How Independent is the Independent Police Complaints Commission?

A police surveillance officer who admitted altering his notes about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been cleared following an inquiry. The Special Branch officer deleted text from his...
15:35 Tue 26th May 20093 answers, last by Steve.5 18:30 Tue 26th May 2009
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Expenses: July 7 police officers arrested

Three police officers have been arrested over allegations of making inflated expenses claims while investigating the July 7 bombings, Scotland Yard has said. The Metropolitan Police officers were...
12:37 Wed 13th May 20095 answers, last by DSnewsKE 14:53 Wed 13th May 2009
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Sloppy Daily Mail journalism

FYI... Headline: Boy, 2, killed by rollercoaster in first British fairground fatality for 20 years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-118108 8/Boy-2-killed-rollercoaster-British-fairgroun...
11:39 Wed 13th May 200913 answers, last by Ankou 17:17 Wed 13th May 2009
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Which team should Carlos Tevez join?

Fergie normally sells his best player to Italian and Spanish teams rather than to his Premiership rivals, but when Tevez's loan deal finishes, he can go to a Premiership rival and there is nothing SAF...
11:46 Tue 12th May 20093 answers, last by Steve.5 13:32 Wed 13th May 2009
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Should the Commons Speaker be retired?

Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, faces a "no confidence" motion after clashing with MPs during a dramatic late night debate over expenses....
10:46 Tue 12th May 200916 answers, last by Gromit 16:47 Wed 13th May 2009
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Lord Tebbit says"Don't vote Tory".

Lord Tebbit is risking expulsion from the Conservatives after urging voters not to back the party in next month's European elections. The call from a senior party grandee is an extraordinary challenge...
09:43 Tue 12th May 20099 answers, last by Steve.5 01:50 Wed 13th May 2009
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Bad Request (Request Header Too Long)

Anyone else getting the "Bad Request (Request Header Too Long)" error message where some of the Adverts should be, or is it just me?
16:50 Thu 07th May 20097 answers, last by Gromit 00:40 Sat 09th May 2009
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Champions League red cards.

I smell a rat. Fletcher gets red card (wrongly) and UEFA say there is no way it can be rescinded, the referees decision is final. 24 hours later Abidal sent off for Barca (wrongly) and suddenly Uefa...
11:23 Thu 07th May 20095 answers, last by Steve.5 13:35 Thu 07th May 2009
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Nuclear technology, Arabs and Torture

A 45-minute tape shows a man that the Government of Abu Dhabi has acknowledged is Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan ? one of 22 royal brothers of the UAE President and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince ?...
17:11 Fri 01st May 20095 answers, last by keyplus90 22:09 Fri 01st May 2009
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Financial Times headlines

It might be fun if AB readers could suggest funny or apt headlines that might have appeared in the FT through the ages...
01:42 Thu 30th Apr 200913 answers, last by jno 17:36 Thu 30th Apr 2009
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How the Daily Mail works...

William Hague: 'It is likely that we are going to be able to win the next election ... I put it no more strongly than that.' Is translated into the headline Tories will win the next election says...
13:06 Wed 29th Apr 200928 answers, last by Steve.5 13:12 Thu 30th Apr 2009
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More alleged terrorists cleared

Four years, ?150Million, 2 trials and no one convicted of helping the 7/7 bombers. Three men have been cleared of helping to plan the 7/7 London suicide attacks. A retrial jury at Kingston Crown Court...
20:57 Tue 28th Apr 200917 answers, last by Ankou 10:40 Wed 29th Apr 2009
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Which FreeSat Box?

Anyone use a FreeSat box? Can you recommend one? Is there one I should avoid? Argos have these two: Grundig GUFSAT01SD ?58 Humax Foxsat ?130
16:49 Fri 24th Apr 20094 answers, last by Gromit 09:22 Fri 01st May 2009
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Drunkenness, fights and racist chanting

Another St George day is over. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/ 1111698_st_george_celebrations_turn_ugly Do the English not know how to behave themselves, and celebrate their christian...
13:29 Fri 24th Apr 200917 answers, last by B00 16:53 Fri 24th Apr 2009
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Another influx of foreigners on their way here

Should we allow them in? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/pol itics/defence/5212631/Thousands-more-retired-G urkhas-allowed-to-live-in-Britain.html
11:59 Fri 24th Apr 200936 answers, last by whifffey 19:18 Fri 24th Apr 2009
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G20 - Another protester assaulted by Police

A police sergeant seen in video footage hitting a woman during the G20 protest in London has been suspended, Scotland Yard has said. He is shown hitting the woman in the face with his hand and her leg...
13:33 Wed 15th Apr 200954 answers, last by Quinlad 11:14 Fri 17th Apr 2009
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Big Brother is watching you, or maybe not.

During an interview on Channel Four news last Thursday the head of the IPCC was asked, "why has no CCTV footage of the Mr Thomlinson incident been produced". His response was "there are no CCTV...
13:57 Tue 14th Apr 20095 answers, last by Kromovaracun 21:53 Tue 14th Apr 2009
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Football on Easter Sunday - Anti-Christian?

The Archbishop of Birmingham Vincent Nichols, who is due to succeed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor as Archbishop of Westminster, is among senior figures accusing the Premiership of caving in to...
09:44 Tue 07th Apr 200934 answers, last by Everhelpful 18:56 Fri 10th Apr 2009
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Strange, but true (apparently).

Sainsbury's renames fish to spare embarrassment The store has renamed Pollack as Colin because, it said, potential buyers were too embarrassed to ask for pollack, a cheap and plentiful cod substitute....
12:50 Mon 06th Apr 200924 answers, last by Lacmag2 22:03 Tue 07th Apr 2009
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Have they nothing better to do?

While our streets are festooned with polystyrene food trays and there is hardly a tree which is not bedecked with the ubiquitous plastic carrier bag, the Government backed Charity, Keep Britain Tidy,...
09:55 Mon 06th Apr 200911 answers, last by vulcan42 00:51 Tue 07th Apr 2009

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