Whole Truth Coalition

Town halls are photographing houses in the middle of the night to see whether they are wasting energy.

The thermal images, which show heat escaping though windows, doors and roofs, will be sent to homeowners to encourage them to insulate.

Tens of thousands of properties have been photographed over the past few months and there are plans to extend the scheme to every house in the country.

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‘Coastguards have been ordered to fill in a health and safety questionnaire before they can respond to calls for help. All 400 of Britain’s rescue units have been told that before they travel to an accident scene they must complete a ‘vehicle pre-journey risk assessment’. It is feared lives may be lost as vital minutes could be taken up with the assessments just as rescuers are preparing their response to emergency callouts.’

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Speaking at the Conservative Friends of Israel’s Annual Business Lunch at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday, he said that boycotts of Israel are damaging and stated his support for the country.

He described calls for a boycott of Israel in the UK as “damaging” and “worrying” and warned that criticising Israel can sometimes lead to anti-semitism.

Cameron said: “It’s disturbing that a boycott is happening here, there is no justification for treating Israel as a pariah state, it may be by a bunch of loons deciding on it but the motion is profoundly worrying and damaging.

“Attacks on Israel can sometimes spill into anti-semitism.”

He gave his backing to Israel’s Security Wall but warned that new settlements may damage peace negotiations, “The West has to understand that there is no equivalence between the democratically elected government in Israel, member of the United Nations, and groups like Hamas”

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So while Gaza gets flattened and Palestinian children are being butchered Cameron and his Tory cronies are lapping at the ass of Zionist Israel and having a nice cosy lunch at the Dorchester. How civilised!

Police have been told they cannot object to a planned gipsy camp in a picturesque village  -  because to do so would be ‘racist’.

Council chiefs have ruled that the local force’s professional opinion ‘breaches the Race Relations Act’.

The decision meant that councillors considering the planning application were not told how officers had been called to another local camp 109 times in just two years

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The Association of Police Authorities (APA) hired a private lobbying firm in its battle against Home Office plans to dramatically reform the make up of its members.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had proposed allowing the public to directly elect members to police authorities, but dropped the plans last month in an eleventh hour climbdown.

It has now emerged the APA used taxpayers’ money to fund the services of Connect Public Affairs to offer advice and help oppose the proposals.

Tory MP Douglas Carswell, who discovered the spending, said: “It is shocking that quangos are using our money to pay lobbyists to defend and protect their own.

“They are using our money to stop us having a say in how our local communities are policed.”

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 A squad of anti-litter officials has been given instructions to film suspects on the street  -  even before they have done anything wrong.

The team of 11′ environmental enforcement officers’ has been equipped with mobile phone cameras and told to use them to film people they think may be about to drop litter.

The use of cameras to record individuals who have committed no crime or offence has generated a row over the spying powers of local councils and the growing willingness of officials to stretch them to the limit.

Ministers have already called on town halls to stop abusing the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which has allowed councils to watch those suspected of trying to cheat on school catchment areas, those thought to be wrongly parking with blue disabled badges and families who officials think are putting their bins out on the wrong day.

Litter police are employed by councils under environmental laws passed three years ago that allow officials to hand out onthespot fines to those who drop litter or break wheelie bin regulations.

The litter squad equipped to film suspects has been employed by Hackney Council in North London.

The team’s members have been involved in a number of controversial incidents. Officials have been reported chasing suspects on foot through traffic to capture them on camera and to have invaded a cafe while looking for a woman suspected of dropping a cigarette end.

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Taxpayers would have to pay hundreds of pounds in premiums every year while working, and would receive payouts if they later have to move into a nursing home.

The radical plan is being considered by ministers as a way to tackle the system of long-term support for the elderly in England, which is widely considered to be unfair, underfunded and too complex.

Currently thousands of middle-class pensioners are forced to sell their homes to pay for nursing home accommodation - which can cost £700 a week - while a postcode lottery of eligibility gives people in some parts of the country far more free help than elsewhere.

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What is the definition of a Conspiracy Theory? Wikipedia definition here, Another definition of “Conspiracy Theory” from Webster’s Online Dictionary:
” A conspiracy theory is the belief that historical or current events are the result of manipulations by one or more secretive powers or conspiracies.”

Where on Earth might one hear of such a paranoid idea? How about from President John F. Kennedy?

Or how about President Eisenhower? Watch this segment of the entire Eisenhower farewell below:

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Following a day of training on how to gather evidence, they will reportedly have the right to demand the name and address of anyone they see dropping rubbish up to the size of a bin bag .

Offenders who refuse to pay the fine will face prosecution in a magistrates’ court.

Councils already employ professional “bin police” to enforce the 2005 Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act.

Much of the funding is reportedly provided by the “Keep Britain Tidy” charity Environmental Campaigns (Encams), which receives almost all of its £10 million budget from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

However, it is said that in instructions issued by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, councils have now been advised to recruit volunteers to save money.

The Conservatives said they feared the move could encourage vigilantism. They blamed the Government’s reduction in the number of waste collections.

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It’s not quite what happened to Mary and Joseph when they were looking for somewhere to stay the night.

For rough sleepers in Oxford have been warned to either prove they have a personal link to the city or leave.

Around 200 homeless people unable to meet the criteria set by the city’s Reconnection programme have been given a train ticket and sent back to where they came from.

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A teacher who won £250,000 compensation after a pupil tried to strangle him has criticised a ‘can’t touch’ culture in schools after other staff initially refused to intervene.

Colin Adams, 50, was attacked by a 12- year- old boy, who knocked him to the floor before punching and kicking him, and grabbing his neck. But despite other teachers yelling at the boy to stop, no one stepped in to help.

Mr Adams’s ordeal ended only after another teacher eventually came to his aid by forcing the boy’s thumbs back to release his hold. Later, the unnamed teacher admitted to Mr Adams that he was afraid the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would accuse him of assault.

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The Hokey Cokey is an old novelty song that has been sung in music halls, at children’s parties and at sherry-fuelled family gatherings for many years.

But according to the Catholic Church and some Scottish politicians, singing the popular tune that begins with the words “You put your right hand in, your right hand out,” may constitute an act of religious hatred.

A spokesman for the leader of the church in Scotland said the song had disturbing origins.

Critics claim that Puritans composed the song in the 18th century in an attempt to mock the actions and language of priests leading the Latin mass.

Now politicians have urged police to arrest anyone using the song to “taunt” Catholics under legislation designed to prevent incitement to religious hatred.

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Police officers have been forced to attend a health and safety seminar to learn how to climb a ladder.

The officers had been installing roadside electronic speed indicators for months, using a 3ft ladder, without injury or incident.

But when health and safety officials learnt of the scheme they ordered the special training.

Officers were then banned from moving the signs between locations until they had completed the course.

Around 45 officers and more than 80 civilian volunteers have now had the training, organised by the police, Lancashire County Council and Lancashire Fire and Rescue.

Last night MPs reacted with disbelief, saying the scheme was a waste of taxpayer money and police time.

A senior police officer said: ‘It is a preposterous waste of police time and taxpayers’ money and it is time the health and safety Gestapo had their wings clipped so that people can go about their jobs using their own common sense.’

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I’ve never actually seen a cabinet minister caught on camera with his (or in this case, her) eyes tightly closed before. When Andrew Marr began addressing the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday morning, she looked as if she was desperately trying to catch up on the sleep she had lost over the past three days.

Or perhaps she was just attempting to shut out the image of Kenneth Clarke, who had preceded her on the air. Mr Clarke had just proclaimed that, if he had been told as Home Secretary that an MP had been arrested and detained in the way that Damian Green had been, he would have insisted on issuing an immediate apology. His reaction to being informed that a senior opposition spokesman who was not suspected of any crime, had had his home and office raided by the police would have been horrified fury.

So, Miss Smith was asked, did she agree with this former occupier of her office that Mr Green was owed an apology? Answer: no. Sort of. It was, in fact, rather difficult to discern what the answer was amid a lot of blather, the main object of which was to hang the police out to dry - they apparently being solely responsible for this extraordinary incident. (I suspect that the next day or two may produce some interesting responses to this performance from the police - quite possibly in the form of leaks.)

Miss Smith soldiered on, making a great deal of the notion of “police independence” - even trying rather ingeniously to turn the argument round on those who see Mr Green’s arrest as an indication of an emerging police state. What would truly constitute a police state, she maintained, would be for ministers to intervene when the police were engaged in an investigation.

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The mother of a Wisconsin teenager was stunned when her high school senior brought home a questionnaire assigned by his English teacher that asked, among several provocative questions, “Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?”

The mother, Marilyn Hanson, reviewed the questionnaire and thought it completely inappropriate for any class, but especially for a required English class, where, Hanson told WND, “They should be taught to read and write and prepare for college .”

“I really believe this was outright indoctrination to the homosexual viewpoint,” Hanson said. “I could see this being discussed in a debate class, where both sides were presented. But the other side was not presented.”

Hanson told WND, “I think they’re trying to shove [homosexuality] down our throats.”

Discover for yourself how immorality is being cleverly sold to Americans in David Kupelian’s controversial best seller, “The Marketing of Evil.”

Hanson’s son, Alex, originally thought he was required to complete the questionnaire for the next day’s class. He was struggling, however, to answer the following questions:

• What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
• When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual?
• Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
• Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
• Do your parents know that you are straight? Do your friends and/or roommate(s) know? How did they react?
• Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
• Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyles?
• A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. So you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
• With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
• Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run the risk of disease and pregnancy?
• Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?
• Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that s/he would face?

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‘A grandfather was left humiliated after being handed a £60 litter fine when his cigarette was knocked out of his hand as he walked past a scuffle between police and shoplifters. Lazaris Michael, 76,  had taken a single puff before his smoke was sent flying as officers apprehended two girls who were trying to flee a branch of Boots. But the pensioner did not have time to bend down and pick it up before a council warden pounced on him and hit him the fixed penalty for littering in front of a large crowd. When he begged the council to show common sense and drop the case they responded by threatening him with an even bigger fine if he does not pay up.’

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They creep around in the dark spreading misery, rumour and secrets from inside Westminster.

Even so, paperboys and girls are hardly likely to pose a threat to national security.

One local council, however, thought it necessary to use swingeing anti-terror laws against them.

Cambridgeshire County Council used the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on eight paperboys thought to be working without permits.

It sent undercover council officers to lurk outside a Spar in the village of Melbourn and take notes on the movements of the boys.

The evidence was used in a criminal prosecution of the shop’s owners for employing five of the boys without the correct documentation.

Cambridgeshire’s approach is just the latest example of local authorities using the RIPA for minor misdemeanours.

Such activities have been likened to those of the Stasi, the East German secret police.

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There are a lot of ‘Tsars’ operating in and around British government these days.

I have just looked up that word in the dictionary. Tsar derives from ‘Caesar’ and it means TYRANT. But of course, it being a Russian word we don’t really understand, we naively let go of the fact that it has evil connotations.

Actually, it’s the corporate media that lets go of the fact. They choose names like ‘tsar’ for us; we the people are just on the receiving end.

I see this morning that the Government’s Climate Change Tsar, who goes by the name of Adair Turner (a smiling assassin; pictured below) is telling us that all households will have to contribute 500 pounds each in order to help fight Climate Change.

Climate Change - that’s a good one!

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Today, a surreal event will take place in London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day “to highlight the importance of human rights in our work as part of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. There will be various “stalls” and “panel discussions”, and foreign secretary David Miliband will present a human rights prize. Is this a spoof? No. The Foreign Office wants to raise our “human rights awareness”. Kafka and Heller have many counterfeits.

There will be no stall for the Chagos islanders, the 2,000 British citizens expelled from their Indian Ocean homeland, whom Miliband’s government has fought to prevent from returning to what is now a US military base and suspected CIA torture centre. The high court has repeatedly restored this fundamental human right to the islanders, the essence of Magna Carta, describing the Foreign Office actions as “outrageous”, “repugnant” and “illegal”. Yet Miliband’s lawyers refused to give up, and were rescued on October 22 by the political judgments of three law lords.

There will be no stall for the victims of a systemic British policy of exporting arms and military equipment to 10 of Africa’s most war-bloodied and impoverished countries. In his speech today, with the good people of Amnesty and Save the Children in attendance, shamefully, what will Miliband say to the sufferers of this UK-sponsored violence? Perhaps he will make mention, as he often does, of the need for “good governance” in faraway places, while his own regime suppresses a Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE’s £43m arms deal with the corrupt tyranny in Saudi Arabia - with which, noted Foreign Office minister Kim Howells in 2007, the British had “shared values”.

There will be no stall for those Iraqis whose social, cultural and real lives have been smashed by an unprovoked invasion based on proven lies. Will the foreign secretary apologise for the cluster bombs the British have scattered, still blowing legs off children, and the depleted uranium and other toxic substances that have seen cancer consume swaths of southern Iraq? Will he speak about the universal human right to knowledge, and announce a diversion of a fraction of the billions bailing out the City of London to the restoration of what was one of the finest school systems in the Middle East, obliterated as a consequence of the Anglo-American invasion, along with museums and publishing houses and bookstores, and teachers and historians and anthropologists and surgeons? Will he announce the dispatch of simple painkillers and syringes to hospitals that once had almost everything and now have nothing, in a country where British governments, especially his own, took the lead in blocking humanitarian aid, including Howells’ ban on vaccines to protect children from preventable diseases?

There will be no stall for the people of Gaza, of whom, says the International Red Cross, starvation threatens the majority, mostly children. In pursuing a policy of reducing one and a half million people to a Hobbesian existence, the Israelis have cut most lifelines. David Miliband was in Jerusalem recently, within a short helicopter flight of the captive people of Gaza. He did not go, and said nothing about their human rights, preferring weasel words about a “truce” between tormentor and victims.

There will be no stall for the trade unionists, students, journalists and human rights defenders assassinated in Colombia, a country where the government’s “security forces” are trained by the British and Americans and responsible for 90% of torture, says a new study by the British human rights group Justice for Colombia. The Foreign Office says it is “improving the human rights record of the military and combating drug trafficking”. The study finds not a shred of evidence to support this. Colombian officers implicated in murder are welcomed to Britain for “seminars”.

There will be no stall for history, for our memory. Stored in the great British libraries and record offices, unclassified official files tell the truth about British policy and human rights, from officially condoned atrocities in the concentration camps of colonial Kenya and the arming of the genocidal General Suharto in Indonesia, to the supply of biological weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. As we hear the moralising drone of ex-British military “security experts” telling us what to think about current events in Mumbai, we might recall Britain’s historic role as midwife to violent extremism in modern Islam, from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1950s through the overthrow of Iran’s liberal democratic government to MI6’s arming of the Afghan mujahideen, the Taliban in waiting. The aim was and remains the denial of nationalism to peoples struggling to be free, especially in the Middle East, where oil, says a secret Foreign Office document from 1947, is “a vital prize for any power interested in world influence and domination”. Human rights are almost entirely absent from this official memory, unlike fear of being found out. The secret expulsion of the Chagos islanders, says a 1964 Foreign Office memorandum, “should be timed to attract the least attention and should have some logical cover [so as not to] arouse suspicions as to their purpose”.

How is this wonderland perpetuated? The media play their historic role, censoring by omission. Roland Challis, who was the BBC’s south-east Asia correspondent when Suharto was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of alleged communists in the 1960s, told me, “It was all triumph for western propaganda. My British sources purported not to know what was going on, but they knew … British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so they could take part in this terrible holocaust.”

Today, PR propaganda dressed up as scholarship promotes the same rapacious British power while seeking to fix the boundaries of public discussion. A report released last week by the Institute for Public Policy Research describes itself as “the UK’s leading progressive think tank”. Having been emptied of its dictionary meaning, the once noble term “progressive” joins “democracy” and “centre-left” as deception. Lord George Robertson, the New Labour warmonger, Trident devotee and ex-Nato boss, has his moniker at the front, along with Paddy Ashdown, ex-viceroy of the Balkans. Couched in crisis management cliches, the IPPR report is a “call to action” because “weak, corrupt and failing states have become bigger security risks than strong, competitive ones”. With western state terror unmentionable, the “call” is for Nato in Africa and military intervention “if deemed necessary”.

Unsubstantiated references to “terrorist plots on British soil” include barely a nod to the “perception among Muslims” that the current Anglo-American “intervention” in the Middle East and northern Asia is the blindingly obvious cause. In February 2003, almost 80% of Londoners believed that a British attack on Iraq “would make a terrorist attack on London more likely”. This was precisely the warning given to Blair by the Joint Intelligence Committee. The warning is no less urgent while “we” continue to assault other people’s countries and allow false champions to appropriate all our human rights.

John Pilger

Bonfire Night on the village green at Elwick went off in the traditional blaze of glory. But Guy Fawkes wasn’t the only sacrifice

Two days later, organiser Brett Duxfield was arrested, held at a police station for ten hours and charged with arson, for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment.

He was taken from his home at 8am and had his DNA and fingerprints taken after police received a complaint that a 130-year-old bylaw banning fires on the green had been broken.

Mr Duxfield appeared before Hartlepool magistrates and was granted bail after the case was adjourned.

Last night the 39-year- old lorry driver said: ‘This is a nightmare. I never thought this would happen.

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A police officer whose blunders were criticised after Britain’s most notorious “honour” killing has escaped punishment after the collapse of disciplinary proceedings against her.

When a bleeding and distressed Banaz Mahmod told PC Angela Cornes that her father had just tried to murder her, the officer dismissed her as a melodramatic drunk. Instead of investigating the young woman’s allegations, she wanted to charge her with criminal damage for breaking a window during her escape.

Three weeks later, Miss Mahmod, 20, was raped, tortured and strangled at her South London home. Her body was put in a suitcase and buried in the garden of a house in Birmingham.

PC Cornes had been due to face a disciplinary hearing last month after a lengthy investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). The Times has discovered that all charges against her have been dropped. Instead of dismissal, she is in line to be promoted to sergeant and given a backdated pay rise. Miss Mahmod’s murder – punishment for falling in love with the wrong man – was orchestrated by her father and an uncle, Iraqi Kurds, now serving life after an Old Bailey trial in June last year.

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‘Police officers with convictions for gun crimes, benefit fraud and violent attacks are still serving, it emerged last night. The offences include discharging a firearm, possession of a cannabis plant, being drunk and disorderly, assault and theft. Many of the crimes took place while the officers were in post, supposedly protecting the public. Last night experts said the public would be alarmed by the revelations, which point to a fall in standards.’

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‘The word ‘British’ can be as offensive as ‘negro’ and ‘half-caste’, according to a race relations body. The publicly-funded organisation’s views have been adopted by Caerphilly council in South Wales for a leaflet advising staff on how to deal with the public.

 In a section on what words or phrases not to use to avoid causing offence, the leaflet solemnly informs the council’s 9,000 workers: ‘The idea of “British” implies a false sense of unity – many Scots, Welsh and Irish resist being called British and the land denoted by the term contains a wide variety of cultures, languages and religions.’

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Jacqui Smith says public demand means people will be able to pre-register for an ID card within the next few months.

The cards will be available for all from 2012 but she said: “I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don’t want to wait that long.”

The home secretary made the claim as she unveiled revised ID scheme plans.

Opposition parties say they would scrap the ID card scheme. The Tories call it a “complete waste of money”. The Lib Dems call it a “laminated poll tax”.

They accused Ms Smith of backtracking on plans to issue ID cards in 2009 for all airside workers, by announcing they would pilot them at just two airports.

The first biometric cards are being issued to students from outside the EU and marriage visa holders this month, and it had been planned to make them compulsory for all 200,000 airside workers from 2009.

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Can’t wait for ID cards?

Don’t make me laugh. This is just mind control for the masses put out by the propoganda arm of the government, the BBBC (Big Brother Broadcasting Corporation).

They are trying to implant into your subconcious that the masses are gagging to get their hands on an ID card and if you don’t follow like the good little sheeple you are then you will be left behind and not one of the  ‘ In Crowd’

Don’t fall for it!!

An Internet grass-roots campaign will this week deliver a copy of GeorgeOrwell’s prophetic novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ to every Member of Parliament.

The books will be inscribed with the words, ‘This book was a warning, not a blueprint’, and will arrive at Parliament on or before November 5th — adate of well known historical significance for that building.

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Drivers who challenge speeding fines should be made to pay their legal bills even if they win their case, ministers said yesterday.

The proposal would see successful defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their costs.

A change in the law would affect many of the 1.7million drivers a year who take their cases to court. 

It costs around £1,500 to fight charges of speeding, illegal parking and other motoring offences.

Motoring groups and lawyers said the proposal was a breach of fundamental legal principles.

Edmund King, president of the AA, said: ‘This is against the common law and against the common man. If you prove your innocence you shouldn’t have to pay for it.’

Ian Kelcey, head of the Law Society’s criminal law committee, called the scheme a disgrace.

He added: ‘This means that an awful lot of people will not be able to get a fair trial. They will not be able to get a proper defence.’

The proposal comes in a consultation paper published by Jack Straw’s Ministry of Justice. It says those before magistrates on minor charges should defend themselves.

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Owners of fat cats and obese dogs could be fined or jailed under controversial Government rules.
New beefed-up codes of practice for pet owners published today state that overfeeding pets is a ’serious welfare concern’ that can lead to unnecessary suffering.
People who refuse to put seriously fat pets on a diet could be prosecuted under the Animal Welfare Act - and face a fine of up to £20,000 or even 12 months’ jail.

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Jobless Eastern Europeans who return home are being paid dole money by the British taxpayer, it emerged last night.
Thousands who leave because they have lost their jobs in the economic downturn could benefit from the £60-a-week handouts.

They stem from a little-known EU directive which says that provided an unemployed worker is seeking a job in their homeland, they can continue to be paid benefits by the country where they were laid off.

Job centre managers in Poland are even holding workshops and seminars on how claimants can keep using the UK for unemployment handouts.

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We’ve had the bin police - now meet the tea bag tyrants.

In the latest initiative designed to make us more environmentally friendly, Government advisers are calling on businesses to appoint tea monitors to make sure staff don’t overfill the kettle at work.

The quango Envirowise is also telling workers to use teapots when making rounds of hot drinks and is calling for a return of old-fashioned tea urns. 

Envirowise - which gets £10million a year from taxpayers to advise businesses on being green - says the crackdown will cut greenhouse gas emissions and help beleaguered businesses save money.

Critics pointed out that in the current testing economic times, small firms had bigger problems to worry about than tea bags.

Susie Squire of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘This is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded quango doling out useless advice. People are sick of these quangocrats wasting our time and money.’

Envirowise - which is funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - estimates that more than 30billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year.

In a statement, the quango tells businesses: ‘Appoint a tea task force or tea monitor to make sure all your office hot drink-making facilities are as efficient as they could be.

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