A more innocent time. Fewer schoolchildren are now drinking, smoking and taking drugs, according to NHS report Fewer schoolchildren are smoking, drinking or taking drugs, according to an NHS report which contradicts the widespread belief that such behaviour is increasingly popular with young people. The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who have taken drugs on [...]
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US and UK locked in standoff over Senate’s Lockerbie investigation
Former justice secretary Jack Straw has expressed unease about attending a Senate committee hearing. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Britain and the US were locked in a standoff over Lockerbie last night after a Scottish minister flatly turned down a request to appear before a Senate committee and Jack Straw expressed unease about attending. Days after David [...]
Nick Griffin told: we don’t want that kind of party at Buckingham Palace
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was accused of exploiting his invitation for the garden party at Buckingham Palace. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The British National party’s latest quest for political respectability collapsed in fiasco today when its leader, Nick Griffin, was barred from the Queen’s garden party at Buckingham Palace just two hours before it was [...]
