Whole Truth Coalition

At present, fluoride is added to children’s milk in 42 primary schools in the city. This will continue, and the local NHS is also planning to begin talks on the possibility of adding fluoride to water.

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Bendy-buses with the slogan “There’s probably no God” could soon be running on the streets of London.

The atheist posters are the idea of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and have been supported by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins.

The BHA planned only to raise £5,500, which was to be matched by Professor Dawkins, but it has now raised more than £36,000 of its own accord.

It aims to have two sets of 30 buses carrying the signs for four weeks.

The complete slogan reads: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

As the campaign has raised more than anticipated, it will also have posters on the inside of buses as well.

The BHA is also considering extending the campaign to cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh.

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Essential surveillance kit for the new green police: the Energy Saving Partnership has taken out a patent on Heatseekers, thermo-imaging vehicles which, at full potential, have the capacity to identify 1,000 properties an hour, or 5,000 properties a night, that are leaking carbon. “Once the property has been scanned, a dedicated team of energy advisers will visit householders to show them the thermal image scan of their homes,” says Inspector Knock-on-the-Door.

 That’ll go down well after midnight.

The Guardian

David Blunkett said yesterday that the Government’s recent decision to reclassify cannabis was based on public opinion - rather than hard evidence.

The former Home Secretary was responsible for the widely-criticised original decision to downgrade the drug from a class B to class C drug.

Following an outcry from police and health professionals, Jacqui Smith, the current Home Secretary, has been forced to end Labour’s four-year experiment by reversing the decision.

She ordered the switch back, which was announced in May and takes effect in January, in defiance of the Government’s independent advice body the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

She said there was a ‘compelling case because 80 per cent of the cannabis seized on the streets was the stronger ’skunk’ variety - and the potency of the drug has increased dramatically, rising threefold since 1995.

Mr Blunkett told MPs: ‘There has been a debate about new forms of cannabis - skunk - and I understand why people respond in a democracy to general feeling.’

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There is a long tradition of the military suppressing news that it considers detrimental to national security by slapping a D-notice on it.

But when the D-notice committee decided that the time was ripe to publish its own official history, nobody imagined that it would fall victim to its own system.

 The history of the D-notice committee has, in effect, had a D-notice slapped on it by the D-notice committee

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