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Offer IVF to women over 40, watchdog tells NHS
Laura DixonLast updated at 12:01AM, May 22 2012Women in their forties struggling to have a baby should be offered fertility treatment on the NHS, the health watchdog has proposed. The plan means that women up to the age of 42 who have been unable to conceive naturally would become eligible for at least one cycle of IVF treatment, at a cost of up to £3,000. Current guidelines suggest that women receive funded IVF treatment up to 39. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is also recommending for the first time that gay and lesbian couples would qualify for the treatment if they have tried unsuccessfully for a baby using artificial insemination at private clinics. The proposals, set out in draft guidance today, also recommends that women should be offered three cycles of IVF after just two years of trying for a baby, rather than three years. “Since the original recommendations on fertility were published in 2004, there have been many advances in both treatments and in the understanding of different techniques,” Dr Gill Leng, the deputy chief executive of NICE, said. “Infertility is a medical condition that can cause significant distress for those trying to have a baby. This distress can have a real impact on people’s lives, potentially leading to depression and the breakdown of relationships.” Despite evidence that older women often have difficult pregnancies, many in the medical world welcomed the move to increase the upper age limi
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Military take control of airspace over Olympics
The Ministry of Defence will take control of London airspace for the first time since the Second World War in seven weeks’ time to thwart the threat of a terrorist attack during the Olympic Games. Military personnel will take charge of airspace over much of the South East, covering an area stretching from Brighton on the south coast to positions 15 miles north of Stansted and Luton airports to the north, the Thames estuary in the east and to the west of Reading. Civilian air traffic controllers will continue to guide jets carrying the extra 500,000 visitors expected during the Games into London airports. However, MoD controllers will take overall control of the airspace, including gaps in the controlled airspace normally operated around civilian airports. The MoD will set up a new zone of security airspace restricted by the military. They will work out
Last updated at 12:01AM, May 22 2012Poll: Britain divided over deficit cutting
Britain is completely divided over the scale and pace of the coalition’s deficit reduction plan, suggesting that Labour is failing to capitalise on the Government’s recent difficulties and the eurozone woes, according to a Populus poll for The Times. A total of 49 per cent of voters back the coalition’s so-called “Plan A”; that Britain must stick with eliminating its structural deficit by 2017, even if it means bigger spending cuts over the next four years. A total of 51 per cent believe the Government should slow the pace of cuts, rather than try to deal with the problem completely by 2017. This finding has been broadly consistent for the past 18 months, suggesting that the implementation of the cuts and the emergence of the eurozone crisis has done little to change the public’s mind. This month’s Populus poll found Labour on 41 per cent, down one point
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- Olympic rebellion: official artist seeks getaway Neville Gabie tells of disillusionment
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Serb voters revive a nationalist cause that has served the region ill
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Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed escaped justice for murdering daughter Shafilea until their younger child told police she saw killing
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Experts are to begin investigations into the Bank of England’s provision of liquidity to the banking sector and into its economic forecasts
Barclay ‘deleted text messages’ in hotel dispute
Paddy McKillen has accused Aidan Barclay, son of Sir David, of selectively deleting text messages relevant to the Maybourne court case
Billions wiped off Facebook after share slide
Shares in the social network fell below the price they were floated at on Friday as hype in the company began to die down
Hedge fund deal charts evolution from pigs to Man
A hedge fund executive from the Nomura training programme has emerged as the main architect of a takeover deal for Man Group
Abramovich prepared to place Di Matteo on trial
Chelsea owner will offer the Italian a 12-month contract after winning the Champions League
England expose fragile West Indies
England expects now, and Andrew Strauss’s team duly delivered, the victory coming at 2.35pm, the winning margin five wickets
Hazard warning lights for City over Belgian
Roberto Mancini’s interest in signing the Lille midfielder wanes after reports that he is seeking a £200,000-a-week deal
No stability for Afghans, admits Obama
President, echoing comments made by adviser to David Cameron, warns that there will be some “bad moments” in the next two years
Megrahi buried in a breezeblock grave
Libyan spy convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was treated as yesterday’s man, by a country that is attempting to move on
Treason charge for Heywood police chief
Wang Lijun, the former police chief of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, could face a maximum penalty of death
Germany to reject Hollande’s remedy
Berlin sets the scene for a clash over proposals to pool eurozone debt at an EU summit tomorrow that will attempt to calm the turmoil over the possible Greek exit from the single currency
Our man infiltrates the new Ken Loach film
Ken Loach needed real-life reporters for his new film about a whisky scam. Was Damian Whitworth ready for his close-up?
The soul of Robin Gibb, by Will Hodgkinson
The Times’s rock critic remembers the Bee Gee not just as one of the great songwriters, but as the spiritual man who helped out his father
TV review: Gok Cooks Chinese
As Gok Wan went from fashion to food, he was a gifted chef - even if the trippy production had a bit of the MSG about it
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George Osborne was “aghast” at David Cameron’s swift offer to Nick Clegg of a full coalition, a revised biography of the Prime Minister reveals. Mr Osborne harboured doubts about Mr Cameron’s “big, open and comprehensive offer” to the Liberal Democrats the day after polling day in 2010 before the Conservatives had nailed down the terms of such a deal. Mr Cameron’s landmark speech offering Mr Clegg seats in government went through at least five drafts, in part because Mr Osborne objected to the word “coalition” being used so many times. The details are disclosed in an updated version of Cameron: Practically a Conservative by Francis Elliott of The Times and James Hanning of The Independent on Sunday. Despite the “very high levels of trust” between Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, it recounts a number of pivotal moments in the past few years when they have disagreed. The book also relates how Mr Osborne confessed to a friend that he was “hating every minute” of his role as Tory election co-ordinator in 2010. The campaign was “quarrelsome and dysfunctional”, in part because of competing demands made by Steve Hilton, Mr Cameron’s strategy guru, and Andy Coulson, his communications chief. It tells how Mr Cameron was “catatonic with depression”, according to a close ally, after he had flopped in the first televised leaders’ debate. And it reveals how shortly afterwards, with an outright Tory victory looking unlikely, senio
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The death of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has led to renewed demands to find out who ordered and orchestrated the worst attack on British shores since the Second World War. Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi succumbed yesterday to prostate cancer, 33 months after the Scottish government provoked international outrage by releasing him from a Glasgow prison on the ground of compassion. At the time it was said that he had three months to live. Officials in Holyrood are pressing Libya’s government to allow Scottish police into the country to continue investigating the bombing. They want evidence about others they believe are responsible for the atrocity, on December 21, 1988, in which all 259 people on board Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. Al-Megrahi, sentenced to 27 years in prison, prote
Last updated at 12:01AM, May 21 2012Growth and tax pressure Cameron
Conservative MPs will call this week for a new runway to be built in the South East by 2020 as David Cameron is hit with a rush of new ideas to drag Britain out of recession. A group of Tory MPs will call for a new industrial strategy based on 25 plans, dubbed The Growth Factory. The new runway is its priority and represents a direct challenge to the Prime Minister, who has ruled out the proposal as part of the coalition agreement. Backbenchers are also warning the Prime Minister to draw up contingency plans for a Greek exit from the euro, a three-year freeze on benefits and for Britain to ditch the European working time directive. Separately a group of business leaders will call today for a radical overhaul of the tax system to cut rates and public spending dramatically as a way of stimulating growth. These pleas for action come against a background of turmoil in the eurozone. The Prime
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- Olympic torches: selling on eBayFlame relay runners take golden chance to make cash
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- Metal thefts: cost insurers £1m every week Industry details crime’s financial impact
- Pakistan: demands spoil Nato summit Obama snubs Zardari over $5,000 per lorry to reopen Afghan border
- Greece: Cameron election warningBack the bailout or leave the euro, PM tells Athens
- Serbia: Milosevic’s ghost hangs over election Populist former ally wins run-off
- Women bishops: CofE rebellion2,200 women from the church’s own ranks object
- Complete Olympics: all the build-upYour guide to London 2012: brilliant Games videos, graphics, e-mail and blog
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Metal theft is costing Britain’s insurers more than £1m every week in claims as gangs strip copper wiring from telephone and rail networks
Facebook float ‘will mark end of Silicon Valley as we know it’
Hype around social media is allegedly strangling investment in other areas, including a cure for cancer and meeting global energy needs
You are forcing up inflation, Polish bank chief tells West
Poland’s central bank chief has accused the Western policymakers of forcing up global commodity prices and exacerbating inflation
Saving for retirement hits record low
New report says the percentage of people saving enough for a comfortable retirement has fallen from 51% to 46% over the past year
‘Outcast’ Torres slams Chelsea
Striker is furious at being overlooked while Roberto Di Matteo, the interim first-team coach, gave a Champions League debut to Ryan Bertrand
Chanderpaul ensures fight to finish will be hot ticket
Not only have West Indies exceed expectations in first Test against England, but they have given themselves a chance of victory
Times artist will use iPad as ultimate sketchbook
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Pakistan’s border demands set to spoil Nato summit
Bid to find agreement on US convoys crossing the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan stalls over ‘extortionate’ demands
Ghost of Milosevic hangs over election run-off
Serbs voted on whether to put the country’s EU candidacy in the hands of a former cemetery manager who was an ally of Slobodan Milosevic
Syrian regime denies ministers killed by poisoning
The Military Council of the Free Syrian Army had said that a cook had posioned President Assad’s brother-in-law and other ministers
History lies in ruins as Italy quake kills six
A five-year-old girl was pulled alive from the rubble of her home two hours after an earthquake that left at least six people dead in northeast Italy
Hope and horror beneath the palms
The celebrities are in Cannes, but at least someone’s happy to pour cold water on their pink champagne, writes Kate Muir
TV review: The Bridge finale
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Book of the week: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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The only person convicted over the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing in Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya
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19 May ' 05:44
Obama orders European leaders to boost growth
President Obama threw his weight behind calls for Europe to boost its growth last night as leading nations intensified the pressure on Germany to quell the euro crisis. Speaking before G8 meetings in Camp David this weekend, he made clear his determination not to allow Europe to drag America down, declaring after a meeting with President Hollande of France that the eurozone countries needed to couple a “strong growth agenda” with efforts to repair their damaged fiscal balance sheets. His words came as Greece said that Angela Merkel had suggested that the country hold a referendum on the continued use of the euro when it votes in national elections next month. The proposal, made during a phone call with the Greek President, reflects fears about the economic havoc that could be caused by a Greek exit. German officials denied that Mrs Merkel had made the suggestion. Although the fragile US recovery is showing signs of firming up, economists believe that Mr Obama’s re-election chances could be irrevocably damaged if the eurozone crisis deepens, causing massive disruption in global financial markets in the event of an exit or default by one or more countries. The President will be seeking support in his pro-growth stance from both David Cameron and Mr Hollande, who said yesterday that his views on growth “converged” with Mr Obama’s, adding that he wanted the eurozone to remain intact with Greece continuing to be a member.
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There were crowds all along the routeToby Melville/Reuters5 of 19
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Ainslie handed over to Tassy Swallow, 18, from St Ives, CornwallYui Mok/LOCOG/PA6 of 19
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Ainslie passes the torch to SwallowYui Mok/LOCOG/PA7 of 19
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Eric Smith, 76, from Woking in Surrey, does his bitYui Mok/LOCOG/PA8 of 19
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Henry Hocking, 12, from Penzance, takes up the torchLOCOG/PA9 of 19
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Mark Stevens carries the torch between Newlyn and MarazionYui Mok/LOCOG/PA10 of 19
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Torchbearer Victoria SmithYui Mok/LOCOG/PA11 of 19
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Stephen Brady takes his turn with the torchYui Mok/LOCOG/PA12 of 19
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Torchbearer Sarah Blight gets into the mood in PenzanceToby Melville/Reuters13 of 19
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Elizabeth Lusty carries the torch between Rosudgeon and HelstonLOCOG/PA14 of 19
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Blind Chinese activist leaves for United States
A blind Chinese activist who had been persecuted and held for 19 months under illegal house arrest left his country this morning for the US, ending a diplomatic standoff that had jolted ties between the two Asia-Pacific giants. Chen Guangcheng, 40, accompanied by his wife and two children, boarded a United Airlines flight bound for Newark shortly before takeoff and was seated in a curtained-off section of the business class section of the plane. Mr Chen was taken by surprise this morning when, without warning, he was told by Chinese officials that it was time to leave the Beijing hospital where he was being treated for injuries sustained during his dramatic escape last month under cover of darkness from the village home that had become his prison. The legal activist whose revelations of forced abortions and sterilisations and other abuses of China’s stric
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Blind Chinese activist leaves for United States
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18 May ' 19:07
Exclusive: Secrets of the ‘chillaxing’ PM
David Cameron’s secrets of how to switch off from the pressures of work are revealed today: karaoke, snooker, tennis against a machine dubbed “the Clegger” and three or four glasses of wine at Sunday lunch. An intimate portrait of life at Chequers is revealed in an updated biography of the Prime Minister serialised in The Times. “If there was an Olympic gold medal for ‘chillaxing’, he would win it,” according to an ally. The book also discloses how a frustrated Steve Hilton left Downing Street this week believing that Mr Cameron had become too focused on power rather than forcing through radical change. It charts a loss of faith between Mr Cameron and his policy guru despite their 20-year friendship. With Britain in recession and the Conservatives slipping in the polls, the Prime Minister’s leisure habits have increasingly been used against him by both
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David Cameron, who has come under fire for “always relaxing” when he is out of the spotlight, has a tennis machine at Chequers that he calls the CleggerChris Radburn/AFP/Getty Images
Obama warns Merkel: back growth plans
President Barack Obama is stepping up pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany at the G8 meeting in Camp David this weekend to back a package of euro-zone measures to stimulate jobs and growth and to loosen austerity measures in Europe or risk plunging the global economy – and America - back into recession. The summit comes at a key time for the President six months before Americans decide whether to return the him to the White House in an election that will be decided largely on whether his handling of economy - with its emphasis on stimulus spending, not austerity - is seen to be working. Mr Obama yesterday made clear his determination not to allow Europe to drag him down, saying after a meeting today morning with the new French President Francois Hollande, another proponent of growth policies, that he wanted to persuade the euro-zone countries
Facebook shares get a bumpy ride
Looking excited, if overwhelmed by the occasion, Mark Zuckerberg, the 28-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Facebook, pressed a button yesterday morning at his company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. With that, he sounded the bell to open the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York as his company began trading its shares publicly. The move made him a multibillionaire and one of the world’s richest men. Thanks to the engineers who had “hacked” the button, a status update instantly appeared on his personal Facebook page. It read: “Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ.” The euphoria of the site’s creator, however, was not matched by investors. When Facebook shares began trading, its stock opened at about $42 (£26) a share, up about 10 per cent from its offer price of $38 a share. At that higher figure, the company was worth close to $115
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18 May ' 09:22
EU admits to emergency plan for Greek euro exit
Sadie GrayLast updated at 2:26PM, May 18 2012European officials are drawing up emergency plans to safeguard the euro should Greece fall out of the single currency, the EU Trade Commissioner confirmed today. Karel De Gucht became the first European Union figure to admit that such documents existed as the downgrading of 16 Spanish banks overnight suggested that fears of contagion are spreading to other eurozone countries. “The Greek endgame has begun, and how it will finish I do not know,” Mr De Gucht told the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. “The question is whether everyone can maintain their sang froid over the coming weeks. A Greek exit does not mean the end of the euro, as some claim. “A year and a half ago there may have been the danger of a domino effect. But today there are, both within the European Central Bank and the European Commission, services that are working on emergency scenarios in case Greece doesn’t make it. “Greece needs to implement the agreements it made: that is the only rational option. That can only happen if the Greek people make rational decisions in the elections. But these are a desperate people.” However, the European Central Bank said it would not speculate on the prospect of Greece leaving the euro. A spokesman said: “We do not engage in any speculation about any emergency plans or possible scenarios and therefore do not comment on Commissioner de Gucht’s statement. As [ECB] President Draghi said last Wednesday, it is our absolu
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Beckham soothes Greeks before torch transfer
David Beckham took a shot at comforting the crisis-hit Greeks today as he prepared to bring the Olympic torch back to Britain. The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star told Athenians to “stay positive and stay strong” during the country’s economic crisis as he toured the capital following last night’s ceremonial handover of the Olympic torch. The torch will return to the UK tonight, where it will begin its relay in Cornwall tomorrow ahead of the Games. Beckham’s visit to Greece has coincided with renewed turmoil with fresh elections in June after deadlock in recent polls and the threat of being kicked out of the euro. “I think what’s important in difficult times is just to stay positive and stay strong,” Beckham said, asked about the crisis. The former England midfielder added that “many countries” had found themselves in economic difficult
Last updated at 3:56PM, May 18 2012Briton held for ‘foetus-smuggling’
Police in Thailand have arrested a British man for smuggling the gold-encrusted corpses of seven roasted babies, which he allegedly planned to sell online to wealthy customers for purposes of black magic. Chow Hok Kuen, a 28-year old British citizen of Taiwanese origin, was arrested in Bangkok’s Chinatown after police received a tip off. The dead children, aged between two and seven months, were found in a hotel in the Khao San Road backpacking district, packed into travel bags. The babies had been roasted and coated in gold leaf, and some of them also had tattoos, apparently mystical in nature. Police did not immediately know where they had come from or how they had died. One report suggested that, rather than fully formed children, they were aborted foetuses. According to the police, Mr Chow, who lives in Hong Kong, bought them in Thailand from a Taiwan
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HSBC may pull out of Britain if it fails tough new profit test
Stuart Gulliver says the bank will have to meet strict internal targets when the new rules come in — and if it does not, it will be sold
Rain damps down trade at Mitchells & Butlers
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Heynckes: Drogba is an ‘outstanding actor’
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Photos show Trayvon killer ‘injured before shooting’
Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin’s system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer
Statistics expose how Putin’s party fixed election
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British ‘terrorists’ among dead, says Syrian ambassador
Two British citizens ‘engaged in terrorist activity’ have been killed in Syria, according to a leaked letter from the country’s UN Ambassador
Hollande’s half-female government steps forward
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“We can build our way out of recession.”
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17 May ' 13:32
Germany must do more to save the euro, Cameron says
, Political Editor, Sam Fleming, Economics Editor, and Jenny BoothLast updated at 12:50PM, May 17 2012David Cameron lectured eurozone countries today to act urgently to safeguard the future of the single currency or risk a messy break-up that threatens livelihoods across the continent. The Prime Minister said that Germany in particular had to do more — and quickly — to stop the unravelling of the euro, which would have a severe impact on Britain. Mr Cameron conceded that eurozone countries would not take kindly to firmly-worded advice coming from outside its borders. However, he used a major speech on the economy to betray impatience with “the return of a crisis that never really went away”. He said that, two years after the coalition Government was formed in the UK in the midst of a eurozone debt crisis, “little has changed — that’s the backdrop against which we have to work. So it’s only right that we set out our views.” The Prime Minister said that Italy, Spain and Portugal needed to go further in cutting spending and making economic reforms. And, in an intervention that is sure to annoy Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Cameron said that German taxpayers needed to stump up money to defend the euro and Berlin had to water down the Bundesbank’s inflexible approach to central banking by being ready to print electronic money. The eurozone also had to overcome German intransigence and to pool fiscal sovereignty, allowing more tax and spending powers to be wielded centrally along with the eurozone’s interest rates, he
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‘Sir David Beckham’ takes charge of Olympic flame
As if it was not enough of an honour for David Beckham to collect the Olympic flame with Princess Anne as it was handed over to a delegation from London 2012, the former England captain and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder was twice introduced as “Sir David Beckham” by the announcer at the ancient Panathenaic Stadium. The mistake was greeted by a chuckle from Britons in the crowd that had turned up for the historic event in a rain-hit sundown ceremony at the stadium in Athens, the venue of the first modern Olympics in 1896. The conditions were very typically British, as Lord Coe, the chairman of the London Olympic Organising Committee (Locog), remarked. London, which is staging the Games for the third time, has become the first host city to receive the flame for a second time having previously collected it in 1948. The ceremony was only introduced for the
Last updated at 6:25PM, May 17 2012Justice victim: my prison nightmare
A young man who spent more than seven years behind bars for murder had his conviction quashed by judges today. Sam Hallam, 24, sat beside his mother Wendy Cohen in the public gallery at the Court of Appeal in London to hear the announcement by Lady Justice Hallett, Mr Justice Openshaw and Mr Justice Spencer that his conviction was “unsafe”. There was tumultuous applause and shouts of “justice” as the conviction was quashed. Mr Hallam was 18 when he was sentenced at the Old Bailey in 2005 to life imprisonment for taking part in the mob murder of Essayas Kassahun, a trainee chef, on a high rise estate in North London in October 2004. Yesterday afternoon he was dramatically released on bail by the three judges after prosecutors said that they were not opposing his appeal. Henry Blaxland, his QC, told the court that Mr Hallam, of Hoxton, East London, wa
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Torch Song
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Shares in the troubled Spanish lender have fallen sharply after some customers withdraw savings amid calls for calm
TalkTalk shares surge on strong outlook
The broadband company raised its profitability target by five basis points in the medium term to 25 per cent of operating profit
Liverpool get permission to talk to Martinez
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Mallinder signs new Northampton deal
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17 May ' 03:36
Cameron: I’ll keep Britain safe from euro chaos
Political EditorUpdated 57 minutes agoDavid Cameron today vowed to keep Britain safe during “perilous economic times” even as he raised the spectre of the eurozone breaking up. The Prime Minister issued a staunch defence of the Government’s austerity drive amid signs that voters are losing faith with its pace and scale. “Now, more than ever, this is the time to stand firm,” he said as he sought to re-make the case for the Government’s approach to cutting the deficit. A poll this week gave Labour a lead over the Conservatives in handling the economy for the first time since the election. Mr Cameron insisted that the coalition was “not rushing the task but judging it carefully — that is why we must resist dangerous voices calling on us to retreat”. He branded Labour’s call for a slowing of deficit reduction as “not an alternative policy, it’s a copout”. It would mean more austerity for even longer, he said. His comments, and the decision to upgrade today’s appearance in Manchester from a speech on families into a major pep talk on the economy, reflect growing concern in Downing Street at both Labour’s advances and the gathering storm in the eurozone. Mr Cameron made a point of giving voters a sense of progress, saying that the coalition was “well on the way” and had reduced the deficit it inherited from Labour by a quarter. Under Treasury forecasts, the structural deficit will be wiped out in 2017. The Prime Minister also tried to answer public fears
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Spain’s Queen Sofía snubs Queen over Gibraltar
Britain and Spain were embroiled in a fresh diplomatic row last night after Queen Sofía cancelled a visit to mark the Diamond Jubilee amid renewed tensions over Gibraltar. The Spanish Queen was to have attended a lunch with the Queen at Windsor Castle tomorrow. “The Government considers it is hardly adequate that in the current circumstances Queen Sofía should take part in Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee,” a spokesman for La Zarzuela, the Spanish Royal Household, said. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office declined to comment last night on what it called a “private visit”. Spain’s snub comes after Madrid protested to Britain last week over a planned visit to Gibraltar by the Count and Countess of Wessex next month to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. In talks with Giles Paxman, the British Ambassador to Spain, the Spanish Foreign Ministry protested over the three-day tour. Santiago Cabanas, the Spa
Last updated at 12:04AM, May 17 2012Vauxhall creates 700 new jobs
Vauxhall said today that it would make the new Astra model at Ellesmere Port on Merseyside in a move that will create 700 new jobs and protect a further 2,100. The £125 million investment by General Motors will guarantee the future of the plant for the next decade and create another 3,000 positions in companies that supply it with parts and services. The factory will move from two to three shifts working to build the new Astra from 2015, and “unprecedented” levels of flexibility will be introduced. At least 160,000 vehicles will be made annually. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, welcomed the move, calling it excellent news for Ellesmere Port and for UK manufacturing: “Once again we have seen the success of the UK automotive industry and the crucial role it plays in growing and rebalancing our economy.” Duncan Aldred, the Vauxhall chairman, said tha
Updated 32 minutes ago- Times website: shortlisted for best websiteNominated for a total of 15 awards in Online Media Awards
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Ferdinand sure Terry row behind omission
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Sri Lanka army chief Fonseka ‘to be freed from jail’
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Zoo’s escaped penguin spotted in Tokyo Bay
Two months after escaping from a marine zoo, the bird known only as Penguin No 337 has reappeared in the murky waters of Tokyo Bay
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16 May ' 17:25
Mortgage rates to rise as Euro crisis hits Britain
Homeowners will be hit by fresh increases in mortgage rates as the storm in the eurozone hammers Britain’s financial system. The Bank of England has warned of an extended squeeze on household incomes, saying that the worsening eurozone crisis had made it more expensive for banks to raise money and that UK borrowers could suffer from higher interest rates as a result. In extraordinarily blunt words, Sir Mervyn King, the Bank Governor, said that Britain had been forced to put in place contingency plans as the eurozone was showing signs of “tearing itself apart”. His stark outlook came as recriminations flew across Europe, with David Cameron discarding normal diplomacy to concede for the first time that the eurozone could well splinter. “It either has to make up or it is looking at a potential break-up,” the Prime Minister told MPs. “That’s the choice they have to make and it is a choice they can’t long put off.” In a speech today, Mr Cameron will vow to keep Britain safe during “perilous economic times” and issue a staunch defence of the Government’s austerity drive amid signs that voters are losing faith with its pace and scale. “Now, more than ever, this is the time to stand firm,” he will say as he remakes the case for the Government’s approach to cutting the deficit. In its quarterly Inflation Report, the Bank cut its 2012 growth forecast to about 0.7 per cent from 1.25 per cent, while warning that the squeeze on hous
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Man freed over miscarriage of justice
Kent council mulls over cash for nuclear dump
Vast quantities of nuclear waste could be dumped in the southeast of England despite the safety risks, according to plans seen by The Times. A district council in Kent is proposing to store hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive material in an underground facility near the Channel to create jobs and obtain government funding for the region. The waste could emit harmful levels of radiation for more than 100,000 years. Residents will receive letters from Shepway District Council today inviting them to give their opinions on a proposal to build “state-of-the-art nuclear waste disposal facilities in underground vaults and tunnels” buried up to a kilometre below Romney Marsh, a picturesque wetland area between Rye and Folkestone. The idea was dismissed as “utter madness” yesterday by the leader of Kent County Council, and nuclear safety experts warned
Last updated at 12:01AM, May 17 2012Scrap teachers’ pay scales, says Gove
Teachers’ pay should be completely deregulated, with salaries negotiated and set within each school, Michael Gove suggested yesterday. National salary scales and higher pay at schools in and around London should be scrapped, the Education Secretary argued, with head teachers and governors free to decide how to recruit, reward and retain staff. The proposals, outlined in a government submission to the Teachers’ Pay Review Body, could trigger widespread strikes by teachers if implemented. The unions argue that there is no evidence that links performance-related pay to improved results by pupils. Mr Gove is intent on radical pay reform, which he believes will raise the status of teaching and help weaker schools to hire better teachers. He published his case for replacing school pay arrangements in 71 pages of detailed evidence to the review body, which se
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Devalue and reform
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Justice and Deterrence
Subjecting war crimes to international courts is an important civilising advance
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Guns and Glory
The old HMS Victory went down with a story of very British plodding
‘Aggressive ministers’ blamed after mandarin quits
Ian Watmore, 53, who was in charge of cutting costs, quit six months after he was appointed as a permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office
Huntsman claims mother had sex willingly
John Norrish, 67, denied forcing himself on a woman half his age at a hunt ball, claiming the married mother willingly had sex with him
Fall in joblessness lightens the gloom in Whitehall
The number of people out of work fell by 45,000 to 2.63 million in the three months to March, the Office for National Statistics said
We are ready to trade in drachmas, says City broker
Icap boss Michale Spencer says his firm is ready to make foreign exchange trades in drachma amid speculation that Greece will exit euro
HSBC forced into climbdown over cuts to property solicitors
Angry borrowers have prompted a volte-face at HSBC and a promise to increase the number of solicitors it uses for property transactions
Diamond’s bonus opens rift at the top of Barclays
Alison Carnwath, chairman of the bank’s remuneration committee, said that the chief executive did not deserve his £2.7 million bonus
Dalglish walks alone after sack
The 61-year-old Scot insisted that he would not swap trophy success for anything after he paid the price for Liverpool’s failure in the league
Keyboard warriors gang up on Hodgson
Teeth were gnashed on the internet at the inclusion of five familiar midfield names in the England squad, but what were the alternatives?
Strauss eager to find form before big summer challenge
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Gulf arms Syrian rebels amid US policy shift
Hopes of political solution fade as White House accepts likelihood of military confrontation, possibly involving Turkey
California likes Facebook - and the $2bn share tax windfall
Silicon Valley’s largest stock market float is likely to have its biggest impact in Facebook’s own back yard
Hollande cuts ministerial salaries
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School for sleuths thrives on vetting for arranged marriages
Ex-Calcutta police officer gives lessons in techniques that include bugging phones, surveillance and handwriting analysis
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Rebekah Brooks: fair trials and publicity
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Why one size will not fit all patents
Heavy-handed plans to harmonise European patents have created haunting echoes of how the euro was first launched
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