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However, the scale of backing for it, as anti-war demonstrators protested outside Parliament, was far more than Government ministers had feared. Senior parliamentarians, including Tory grandees John Gummer, Kenneth Clarke and Douglas Hogg and Labour former Cabinet ministers Frank Dobson and Chris Smith, were among those who believed weapons inspectors should be given more time to disarm Saddam. After the amendment was defeated, the Governments motion was approved by 434 votes to 124, majority 3...

Working together and a “certain amount of blowing our trumpet” will be key to East Anglia’s recovery from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic...

PREMIUM A man wearing a protective face mask with the letters covid 1984, alluding to George Orwells novel, protesting against new normality and New World Order conspiracy theory during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Madrid. (Photo by Marcos IN THE Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, some folk finally saw the light. According to a senior nurse on a Covid ward, which has seen a steep rise in admissions in recent weeks, some patients have told her: “I wish I had listened. I didn’t...

Mayor Mike Starkie Copelands mayor has hit back at the national and international criticism levelled at the proposed new coking coal mine in west Cumbria. Mike Starkie, Conservative mayor for Copeland, the borough in which the proposed mine would reside, said he felt a lot of the criticism levelled at the mine in terms of its impact on climate change lay in "misunderstood" conclusions. He said the national and international criticism of the mine has provoked "real anger" across west Cumbr...

To have any climate credibility, Britain must cancel its new coal mine The UK is still failing to demonstrate the environmental leadership needed ahead of this year’s COP summit. Boris Johnson and David Attenborough at an event to launch COP26 Hot, dark, cramped tunnels where the threat of collapse was ever-present. Such were the conditions faced for centuries by the UK’s deep-pit miners. And nor – after recent events in British climate politics – is it an inappropriate descriptio...

Big names call on government to adopt RetroFirst reforms A host of big names in architecture and the built environment have called on the government to adopt the recommendations of the AJ RetroFirst campaign A letter to the Times newspaper, published on Saturday, said the government ‘cannot ignore our wasteful addiction to demolition and rebuilding’, particularly amid preparations for the UK to host the COP26 climate summit later this year. The letter was signed by 35 individuals including ...

Published: 1:03 PM January 13, 2021    Ex-Autonomy software entrepreneur Mike Lynch pictured at Ipswich Waterfront. He faces the threat of extradition to the US on fraud charges which he denies - Credit: Andy Abbott Ex ministers and former business leaders have lined up to defend a Suffolk tech entrepreneur from extradition to the United States. Mike Lynch faces fraud charges in the US after it was claimed he overstated the value of his Cambridge-based software firm Autonomy ahead of an £8bn...

Following the science rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules Also: Would have been great if theyd chatted to an epidemiologist about Eat Out to Help Out project Lindsay Clark Mon 21 Dec 2020 // 14:15 UTC Share Copy The UK governments insistence that it was simply "following the science" during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic was a big factor in the costly delay to the nations first lockdown and postponed the introduction of face masks ru...