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Trouble in the Lords
Lords debate anti-terror plans

The House of Lords is beginning to debate the detail of the Government’s controversial plans to introduce control orders for terrorist suspects. The plans narrowly made it through the House of Commons after Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he would amend the bill in the Lords so that judges, rather than politicians, made the initial… Read more »

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Howard: Too many operations are being cancelled
Howard says pensioner’s NHS trouble not a one-off

The Health Secretary will today visit the hospital where pensioner Margaret Dixon has had her operation cancelled seven times. John Reid’s visit to Warrington General Hospital in Cheshire comes after the 69-year-old’s plight was highlighted by the Conservatives as an example of how the NHS was failing thousands of families under Labour. He intends to… Read more »