Portland Coastguard have been co-ordinating in the wee small hours of this morning a search for two young people who took off from a beach in a dinghy just after 3.00 am this morning with no visible means of propulsion... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office today changed its Travel Advice for Sudan. Due to reports of JEM rebels in Kordofan, there are reports that the rebels have launched an attack on Omdurman. Owing to the closure... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

On a clear and warm day at Sharrow Point in Devon Brixham Coastguard were alerted at just before 3.00 pm to a man from Honicknowle in Plymouth, in his early 20s`tombstoning' off the Point into three feet of water... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

COASTGUARDS from the four corners of Ireland have converged in County Dublin this weekend for a training exercise with a difference! Howth is the base for the 2008 Joint Search and Rescue games which involves members... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The clashes in Lebanon over the last 48 hours are a grave concern. I have today spoken to Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora and expressed Britain's firm support for the Lebanese people and government and our desire... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Commenting on the situation in Burma, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said: Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Ahead of a seminar on 12 May on Social Policy and the EU, attended by business and trade unionists, Jim Murphy said: Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The blocking of aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma is "utterly unacceptable", the Prime Minister said earlier today. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners, tenants, landlords and heating professionals following five incidents in the last five years where redundant solid fuel ... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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Our response to the publication of 'Leading Local Change' by the 'Our NHS, our Future' team, which sets the context for the upcoming SHA local... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

'Our NHS, our future' have published 'Leading Local Change', setting the context for the upcoming SHA local visions and the principles which will guide their implementation.

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Our Quids In Symposium brought together representatives from government and the financial sector to hear about financial inclusion projects which... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if was the Prime Minister's decision to appointment Chris Smith to Chair of the Environment Agency, and did this not look like cronyism, the PMS replied that there were well established processes for making... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked for more reaction on the situation in Burma, the PMS replied that on Burma, clearly this was a very significant crisis and urgent access was essential. We were pressing the Burmese authorities as a matter ... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked for the Prime Minister's view on the rise in mortgage costs and house repossessions, the PMS replied that the Government's view was set out by Caroline Flint in terms of what we were doing in order to help... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if it was correct that the Prime Minister had not replied to David Cameron's recent letter on Scotland, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that this was correct.Asked why the Prime Minister had not... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Scotland, economy, Burma and Environment Agency Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Information Bulletin Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Warm, sunny, weather forecast over England and Scotland over the next few days is likely to lead to the first summer smog episode of 2008. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

After public consultation, Defra has given approval to Leeds University to conduct a research trial this year of GM potatoes. The research is on potatoes that have been genetically modified to resist infection by... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The roll out of hundreds of new European Social Fund (ESF) projects across England was welcomed today by James Plaskitt, DWP Minister for the ESF. The new projects will help thousands of people to get qualified ... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office today changed its Travel Advice for Lebanon. Due to ongoing violent clashes between rival groups in Beirut, the closure of Beirut International Airport and the blockage of some... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

A new £10 million package of measures to support home owners who may be facing difficulties with their mortgage, is announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling and Housing Minister... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

A new £10 million package of measures to support home owners who may be facing difficulties with their mortgage, is announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling and Housing Minister... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

A new drive to 'buddy up' young people with positive role models to help prevent youth homelessness is to be announced today by Housing Minister Iain Wright. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Over 5 million hectares of land in England, an area roughly twice the size of Wales, are now covered by schemes which aim to conserve our valuable landscape and its wildlife, according to a report published by Defra... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Gordon Brown has begun his tour of the South West by visiting the Eden Project in Cornwall. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

At half past seven this morning Clyde Coastguard received a call from fishing vessel 'Oceania' reporting that they had run aground just outside of Troon Harbour with five persons on board. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today stepped up the Government's commitment to the global protection of young people, having signed the Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Zanzibar, the Government's strategic eMarketplace and Purchase to Pay (P2P) system, has picked up a top prize at the prestigious 2008 MCA Management Awards dinner held in London on April 28. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

OGCbuying.solutions, an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce in HM Treasury, has today announced the renewal of the framework agreement for Commercial Catering Warewash and Kitchen Waste Management... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The number of adult re-offenders fell 7.4% from 2000 to 2005, according to adult re-offending statistics released today. This indicates that the Government is likely to have achieved its target of a 5% reduction... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked for briefing on the Embryology bill, the PMS said he did not have any specific information on that at the moment. The PMS said it would be best to check with the Leader of the House. original source. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Wendy Alexander's comments this morning, the PMS said that the Prime Minister's position was set out very clearly in the House of Commons yesterday. We went round this course... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) began by giving the assembled press a flavour of the Prime Minister's speech that he would be making later that day. The speech would be made to an audience of American investors... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Embryology Bill Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Prime Minister has reappointed Sir John Ritblat as a Trustee of the Wallace Collection until 7 August 2011. Sir John is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

To assist the Scottish Broadcasting Commission in their investigations of the role for broadcasting in Scotland's cultural life and broadcast journalism in Scotland, TNS System Three was commissioned to conduct ... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

To assist the Scottish Broadcasting Commission in their investigations fo the role for broadcasting in Scotland's cultural life and broadcast journalism in Scotland. TNS System Three was commissioned to conduct... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

assessment of the effectiveness and value for money of the PDP and options for improvement within the current level of funding. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

evaluation of the Professional Development Programme (PDP) for the Educational Psychologists in Scotland Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Consultation Paper for the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 - Amendment Bill 2008 Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

I am today laying amendments to the home information pack regulations to extend the temporary first day marketing provision, and to extend the temporary provision requiring HIPs to include the "lease" only and... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) is a long-term programme to deliver a medium weight armoured vehicle fleet with higher levels of deployability and survivability than the current fleet of in-service vehicles... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

I am today laying before Parliament the Department for International Development's departmental report 2008.

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The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform has presented a petition in the High Court to wind up Fast Track Media Limited in the public interest. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Even though foxes are slightly protected from fox hunting, they are still... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Increase State Pensions to £250 a week for all UK single pensioners, with a... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (1), Email this.

Germany, Poland, Italy, Australia, all encourage the use of fuels such as... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

It is the usual rule of thumb in business and reality to downsize and save... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Society only learned about the dangers of CFC emissons from discarded... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

These figures show the numbers of mortgage and landlord possession actions in the county courts of England and Wales for the first quarter of 2008. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Five pledges will ensure that change is transparent and driven by the best evidence Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

HM the Queen has appointed Geoffrey Charles Reed to be a District Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has assigned... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office today changed its travel advice to Comoros. We no longer advise against all travel to Anjouan and all but essential travel to the rest of Comoros as the situation has calmed ... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Yesterday Graham Garbutt, our Chief Executive, and Roger Turner, Head of our Strong and Prosperous Rural Economies programme, gave evidence to the Enviornment, Food & Rural Affairs... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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Our Quids In Symposium brought together representatives from government and the financial sector to hear about financial inclusion projects which... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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Our Quids In Symposium brought together representatives from government and the financial sector to hear about financial inclusion projects which... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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Our Quids In Symposium brought together representatives from government and the financial sector to hear about financial inclusion projects which... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Gordon Brown and Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen are in Belfast today to encourage American businesses to invest in Northern Ireland. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Defra has today announced that the Bluetongue Protection Zones will be extended and merged on Monday 12 May, following the delivery of additional doses of Bluetongue vaccine. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

I wish to see our Armed Forces treated a lot better by this Government and... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

'...allow diabetics, who inject daily, the option of insulin pumps to be provided by the NHS' -- Saqia Naseem Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The National Decontamination Strategy aims to improve standards in... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Why is it that the youth can not have their say? There are teenagers out... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Government plans to provide fewer test centres for motorcyclists are going... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Since VAT must be charged on such items, can the rate be lowered to the... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked for any more information on Burma, the PMS replied that Foreign Office consular officials had been alerted to 17 Britons whose friends and relatives believed to be in Burma and who had not made contact since... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if the Prime Minister had responded to David Cameron's letter on Scotland, the PMS replied that the response was released last night.Asked if the Prime Minister had spoken to Wendy Alexander ahead of First... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if the Prime Minister would be meeting with Michael Bloomberg at the conference, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that there was nothing specific in the Prime Minister's diary, but he did not know... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Northern Ireland Investment Conference, Scotland and Burma Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Local people who do "great work" in their communities should be recognised by receiving an honour by The Queen, the Prime Minister said on television earlier today. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Over 5 million hectares of land in England, an area roughly twice the size of Wales, are now covered by schemes which aim to conserve our valuable landscape and its wildlife, according to a report published by Defra... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Findings from the Government study into personal carbon trading were published by Defra today. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Lord Smith of Finsbury has been appointed as the new Chair of the Environment Agency. He replaces Sir John Harman, who stands down at the end of June after eight years. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Highways Agency has chosen Connect Plus as its provisional preferred bidder for the M25 Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) contract from the shortlist of three construction and finance groups that submitted... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) today announced the provisional selection of PIRANHA 5 offered by General Dynamics (UK) Ltd as the preferred design for the FRES (Future Rapid Effect System) Utility Vehicle. PIRANHA... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Government today announced a package of measures to help ensure consumers are seeing the vital information in Home Information Packs and are receiving a higher standard of service in the home buying and selling... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

* Technology Strategy Board to support zero carbon building technology. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

- Technology Strategy Board sets out its strategic plan to make the UK a global leader in innovation. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

- University of the Arts London, Imperial College London, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and TIGA join forces to manage new knowledge transfer network for the creative industries Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

ADDING VALUE AND INNOVATING - TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD OUTLINES ITS PROPOSALS TO ENSURE BRITISH MANUFACTURING REMAINS COMPETITIVE Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

- 16 innovative development projects, worth over £52 million, to receive £23 million government investment through the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform. - Low Carbon Vehicles Integrated... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Technology Strategy Board sets out plans to address the challenge of energy generation and supply by stimulating investment in innovation. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that, under the Public Works Loan Act 1946, Lawrence Nippers MBE, Tony Caplin and Sarah Wood OBE be re-appointed as Commissioners for the Public Works Loan Board, each for a... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Gordon Brown has marked the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel, calling it one of the "greatest achievements" of the 20th Century. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

National rollout of Productive Wards will slash unnecessary paperwork Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Public attitudes in England towards people with mental health problems remain broadly sympathetic, according to a new survey by the Department of Health. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

A new Action Squad to help police and local agencies make full use of all the tools and powers available to tackle anti-social behaviour in every community, backed by £255,000 of new funding, was announced... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

A group supporting disabled firefighters will receive a £10,000 grant from the government to establish itself country-wide, Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda announced today. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Children as young as five years old are the focus of a new online safety programme being launched today, Thursday 8th May 2008, by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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Our Quids In Symposium brought together representatives from government and the financial sector to hear about financial inclusion projects which... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Put that the Prime Minister had said that it was unacceptable that fuel prices were going up so sharply, and asked if he could do anything about it, the PMS replied that we could continue to work with our international... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Asked if the Prime Minister backed a referendum on Scottish independence, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Prime Minister answered that question at PMQs today. As he said there was the Calman... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Scotland and fuel prices Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that, under the Public Works Loan Act 1946, Lawrence Nippers MBE, Tony Caplin and Sarah Wood OBE be re-appointed as Commissioners for the Public Works Loan Board, each for a... Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

The Prime Minister has appointed Professor David J Drewry and Dr Derek Langslow CBE as Trustees of the Natural History Museum for a term of four years from 6 May 2008. Read more. (cached), Summary and Responses (0), Email this.

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