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Mr Phillips, I'd Like to Ask a Question...

Edit Huffington Post 18 Apr 2016
According to a poll recently carried out by Channel Four and presented by Trevor Philips last night I find that apparently I may be accepting of my husband to have another wife, want homosexuality banned, should always obey my husband, wouldn't report someone going to Syria, and of course want Sharia law implemented instead of British Law....

British protesters call on Cameron to resign

Edit Press TV 18 Apr 2016
More than 150,000 people have taken to the streets of the British capital to voice their anger at the harsh austerity measures by the conservative government ... The Panama Papers are a leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca ... if British citizens vote to leave the EU....

Tiny British Virgin Islands has big role in leaked documents

Edit Independent Online 18 Apr 2016
Now the British Virgin Islands has come under scrutiny like never before thanks to the leak of confidential documents from a Panama-based law firm that specializes in offshore finance. More than half the 200,000 offshore companies set up by the Mossack Fonseca law firm, including ones owned by the father of British Prime Minister ......

Panama Papers: Tiny British Virgin Islands has big role in leaked documents

Edit The Malta Independent 18 Apr 2016
Now the British Virgin Islands has come under scrutiny like never before thanks to the leak of confidential documents from a Panama-based law firm that specializes in offshore finance. More than half the 200,000 offshore companies set up by the Mossack Fonseca law firm, including ones owned by the father of British Prime Minister ......

Britton headlines team at IAU 24 Hour European Champs (UK Athletics)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
The British team for the IAU 24 Hour European Championships which will take place in Albi, France on 22-23 October 2016 has been announced by British Athletics. In 2015, the British team achieved their best result in the history of the event, with every athlete winning a medal ... The British Athletics team for the IAU 24 Hour European ... Sharon Law....

MoJ plan for legal aid residence test thrown out by supreme court

Edit The Guardian 18 Apr 2016
The challenge to the residence test was brought by the Public Law Project (PLP), which argued no minister has the power to impose such discriminatory regulations ... “The British legal system is rooted in two fundamental principles – that all equally enjoy the protection of our laws and all are accountable to our courts ... Rationing justice using a residence test was, and always will be, repugnant to British law.”....

Ministers drop plans for war powers law

Edit The Guardian 18 Apr 2016
Ministers have abandoned plans to introduce a war powers act that would enshrine into law a commitment to seek parliamentary approval before deploying British troops in combat ... Fallon, who first announced the decision in a written Commons answer, told MPs later that ministers would “keep parliament informed and we will of course seek its approval before deploying British forces in combat roles into a conflict situation”....

Despite Panama Papers mentions, no similarities between UK and Lebanon

Edit The National 18 Apr 2016
A British publisher with close connections to the Middle East told me over lunch in London last week that every deal he has made with the Lebanese has left him breathless with grudging admiration at how they always seemed to leave him feeling, in the nicest possible way, that he's been well and truly done ... The late Cameron senior, who we must remember had not broken the law, would have been hailed as a smart guy - or zakki....

British Airways flight possibly collides with drone over London

Edit Syracuse 18 Apr 2016
The British Airways flight was landing when the pilot said he thought a drone had struck the front of the plane, according to CNN ... One British official said the incident highlights the " very real dangers of reckless, negligent and sometimes malicious use of drones." ... Laws there prohibit flying drones beyond the operator's direct, unaided line of sight, according to the BBC....

British Airways plane struck by toy drone

Edit New York Post 18 Apr 2016
A toy drone slammed into a packed British Airways jetliner on Sunday in what is believed to be the first such incident of its kind ... local time (5.50 p.m. EDT). Officials with British Airways later inspected the Airbus A320 and found no damage ... According to British law, drones are not allowed to be flown near planes, helicopters and airports — and they must be kept below 400 feet at all times ... ....

UK stands to gain little tax benefit in event of Brexit

Edit The Irish Times 18 Apr 2016
The debate on a British exit from the European Union is deep-rooted in sovereignty. It is about the control the UK has over its own laws and regulations, who it admits into the country and who it doesn’t, what it allows businesses to do and what it doesn’t ... Each member country has to transpose the letter of European VAT law directly into its own national law. UK VAT law is European law sprayed red, white and blue....

Government defeated over legal aid residence test plans

Edit Belfast Telegraph 18 Apr 2016
The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for legal charity Public Law Project (PLP), represented by law firm Bindmans ... "The lord chancellor's proposed residence test strikes at the heart of these principles by very deliberately withholding legal aid from those who overwhelmingly will not be British, yet are obliged to obey the law here and so should, equally, be protected by it."....

Unorthodox Candidates in May's Elections

Edit Huffington Post 18 Apr 2016
6) British Resistance, two candidates for Salford City Council and three candidates for Worcester City Council . No, not the British National Party, or Britain First, this is yet another far right organisation trying to get elected representation in the UK. The party, which even has it’s own think-tank – the 'British Renaissance Policy Institute’ – is exactly as you would expect....
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