News, Jul, 2008

31,500 prisoners released early
Hospitals at breaking point due to bed cuts
Talking shop culture dominates government agenda
Conservative Party Accounts 2007
Taxpayers funding years of government self-promotion
Labour in hock to the unions
Post office closures will devastate communities
Old Labour is back
Ministers failing to invest in marketing Wales
Uniting Britain’s divided cities
Farmers penalised by environmental scheme backlog
Assembly Government failing to reach out to ethnic minorities
Labour steals crime mapping policy
Wales trailing Europe in foreign language learning
Britain’s divided cities
David meets Barack Obama
Government complacency threatens services as energy prices soar
Labour has failed to turn the tide on drug crime
Thefts expose Assembly Government security concerns
Government exposed over carbon emission reductions
Project Umubano launched
Brown must call an election
Closer links with the Ulster Unionist Party
Labour-Plaid must take lead on high speed rail link
Union report highlights deep-seated education concerns
Assembly Government sickness levels exposed
Government undermines itself on plastic bag use
Labour’s respect agenda sees almost half of ASBOs breached
Government failing to attract foreign investment
A skills revolution
Money for nothing government culture exposed
Labour have failed to control binge drinking
Commission into testing and qualifications launched
Another day, another U-turn
Sex crime figures highlight Government failure
Figures expose Government failure on knife crime
Teacher supply cannot continue to outstrip demand
Fuel duty U-turn is not enough
Foundation Phase training cash discrepancies exposed
Maria talks to Mumsnet
Leaked welfare proposals show Conservatives lead way
Foundation Phase report should be wake-up call for minister
The Brown era of economics is over
Strike figures soar
Brown breaks Green Belt promise
"Damning Verdict from UK Ombudsman on Equitable Life"
Let's not dig up the soil Directive
Patient records plan needs review after data losses
MEP calls for "independent body" on animal health as TB is diagnosed in the Netherlands
The British people deserve better
Bowis slams Commission over Chinese ivory trade decision
Health board U-turn destroys Morgan and Hutt’s credibility
The Right to Know: MPs' expenses published
Communities can help shape their own futures
Our economic recovery plan
British heritage sites at risk from EU Ban
Quality not quantity key to Welsh legislation
Politicians campaign to save local post offices
We must mend Britain’s broken society
Inflation has doubled under Brown
Labour have got it wrong on knife crime
David Davis wins by-election
Sarkozy backs Conservative call for EU-wide missing child alert
We must rebuild trust in green taxes
Conservative MEP: Someone in Africa should give Mugabe a retirement home
Report highlights dangers of Wales-only approach to NHS
VED increase will hit 400,000 poor families
Treasury’s wining and dining bill trebles
Council taxpayers subsidising those who fail to pay
MEPs’ expenses
Where is the government plan?
More schools slip into the red as funding crisis deepens
"Keep politics out of sport, keep Sarkozy out of Beijing" says MEP
We must end ‘stop and search’ red tape
Labour’s failure on pupil violence exposed
Crabb backs Osborne’s plan to slash fuel duty
Elected mayors can restore real power to cities
Conservative MEP on emissions trading: Now we have a scheme that can fly
More rights to telecoms customers following Conservative pressure
Tackling knife crime
A Fair Fuel Stabiliser
One Wales Government ‘uninspiring and more of the same’
Ministers lack courage to push school bus safety plans to the limit
Minister questioned over broadband not-spots
Free European farmers up and they can feed the world
No more stealth taxes
Labour cannot pass buck on credit crunch blame
Government failing to act on prisons’ drugs culture
Brown has failed to protect the public
Home Office accused of Welsh language snub
Government challenged over health inequalities
We must act on West Lothian Question
Political dogma could cost lives
Coalition marriage’s something borrowed something blue
Implementing a Border Protection Service
NHS restructuring starting from the wrong point
Brazilian Beef back on the Menu?
Clarke report makes valuable contribution to devolution debate
It is a deceit to pretend there is a popular mandate for EU defence policy