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You cannot tell a lie, politicians ordered For the first time MPs, ministers and civil servants will have to agree to a code of conduct which binds them to the truth as part of a package of measures proposed to combat the low level of public trust in Government. Sir Alistair Graham, head of the powerful sleaze watchdog, is driving through the first major changes to the Seven Principles of Public Life since their introduction in 1995.Every school pupil to get ID number Every child at a state school in Scotland is to be issued with a unique identity number to help authorities trace them if they go missing.How I woke up to a nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty In my nightmare, Tony Blair finally decides that he is fed-up with putting Bills before Parliament. He has so much to do and so little time. Don’t you realise how busy he is? He’s had enough of close shaves and of having to cut short trips abroad. He decides to put a Bill to End All Bills before the Commons, one that gives him and his ministers power to introduce and amend any legislation in future without going through all those boring stages in Parliament….Clarke launches amnesty on knives to reduce stabbings A five-week nationwide knives amnesty is being launched in the summer in an attempt to drive down numbers of stabbings.Police stop and search 100 people a day under new anti-terror laws Campaigners will mount a legal challenge in the House of Lords today, as they attempt to limit the laws giving police sweeping powers to stop people even if they have no grounds to suspect them of a crime.Mother loses ‘right to know’ abortion battle Girls under 16 can have abortions without their parents’ knowledge, a judge ruled yesterday.Police to file all offences for life RECORDS of all criminal convictions and cautions will remain on police files for 100 years after chief constables overturned the principle that offences can be “spent”, The Times has learnt.Prescott satellite to spy on your home Hi-tech cameras brought in to police home improvements and council tax dodgers. Santa too scary for children, says government The highlight of any Christmas party for generations of children has been the moment when the lights dim, voices hush and the sound of sleigh bells signals the imminent arrival of Santa Claus.Police warn author over gay comments During the programme, she said she did not believe that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt. She added that placing boys with two homosexuals for adoption was as obvious a risk as placing a girl with two heterosexual men who offered themselves as parents. "It is a risk," she said. "You would not give a small girl to two men."Sex lessons at five urged Classroom lessons about sex and relationships should be a routine part of the education of children as young as five so they can deal with today’s “increasingly sexualised society”, according to a government-commissioned report.Taxman to snoop in your home Nursery children must stay inside to protect neighbour’s rights A nursery has been forced to keep youngsters indoors after a council threatened it with legal action following a complaint about the noise its children made.Mixed response to toddler plans A proposed "national curriculum" for babies and toddlers in England has received a mixed response…."From the minute you are born and your parents go back to work, as the government has encouraged them to do, you are going to be ruled by the Department for Education."Blair Suffers Major Defeat on Terror Bill In a political blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British lawmakers on Wednesday rejected tough anti-terrorism legislation that would have allowed suspects to be detained for 90 days without charge.ID cards will lead to ‘massive fraud’ "Unlike other forms of information, such as credit card details, if core biometric details such as your fingerprints are compromised, it is not going to be possible to provide you with new ones," – Mr Fishenden, national technology officer for Microsoft….Embryos created by ‘virgin conception’ Scientists have created the first human embryos in Britain by a technique of "virgin conception" that does not involve either fertilisation with sperm or cloning. The six embryos lived for between three and five days and wereUnderwater cameras save pool girl from drowning Perverted internet porn to be banned Sexually violent images on the internet will banned outright by the Scottish Executive under new proposals being announced today.Police ask for tough new powers Police last night told Tony Blair that they need sweeping new powers to counter the terrorist threat, including the right to detain a suspect for up to three months without charge instead of the current 14 days.Speed device will act as cost ‘carrot’ to young drivers Young drivers are to be offered cheaper insurance if they agree to have a speed-monitoring device that records every occasion they break the limit installed in their cars. The device, which uses a satellite tracking system combined with a digital map of speed limits, measures the vehicle’s speed every eight seconds and checks it against the local limit.Panic in No 10 as ID card support collapses Forget cameras – spy device will cut drivers’ speed by satellite IT IS the ultimate back seat driver. Motorists face having their cars fitted with a “spy” device that stops speeding.Cigarette snoopers to enforce ban New powers effectively criminalising smoking in public were announced by the Government yesterday, with the minister in charge promising an "intelligence-led approach to enforcing the law".Human babies ‘grown in lab’ Human eggs which could grow into embryos have been created in a laboratory for the first time, scientists announced yesterday. They were created by scraping stem cells off the surface of ovaries andThe parking spy that tells wardens when you are due a ticket Hospital admits abortion at 34 weeks Scottish hospitals have carried out abortions on severely abnormal foetuses as late as 34 weeks, an investigation by Scotland on Sunday has revealed.Speed cameras can ‘talk’ to track you down A new "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in London. Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area – such as a housing estate – instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.School bans ‘wrong race’ hairstyle A teenager was sent home from school after the headteacher ruled she was the wrong race to have a braided hairstyle. Olivia Acton, 13, was told she could not join her classmates at Middleton Technology College because her tightly plaited hair was too "extreme" for the strict uniform policy.
Australia Tightens Weapons Control
"Police have confiscated more than 2,800 knives, mainly from young men, since July, and from today new laws prohibiting weapons such as missile launchers, extendable batons and stun guns come into effect."
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