

By Alex Stevenson The government may ask a private firm to manage its proposed superdatabase of communications data. The Guardian newspaper reported the proposal would be contained in a consultation paper due next month by home secretary Jacqui Smith. The growing use of communications database is placing an unrealistic strain on private telecommunications firms, the… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Local heroes make up the bulk of today’s new year’s honours list, but members of Britain’s most successful Olympics team in a century are stealing the headlines. Triple gold medallist leads the way with a knighthood. The cyclist is joined in the honours by double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington, who is made… Read more »