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Young Advisors are an innovative and cutting edge way of empowering young people to become involved in neighbourhood renewal and regeneration, while at the same time changing unfounded perceptions of young people and building links and trust between them, local and central government and partner organisations. (Guardian, 30 Nov 2006)
Starbucks stands firm on Ethiopian price plea
Talks between Starbucks' chief executive, Jim Donald, and the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, broke up yesterday without the international chain agreeing to pay more for Ethiopian coffee. (Guardian News in Brief, 30 Nov 2006)
Inmates wreck migrant detention centre
Riot police were struggling for control of Britain's largest immigration detention centre last night after 18 hours of disturbances.
Prison numbers pass 80,000 mark
The prison population in England and Wales has exceeded 80,000 for the first time, the Home Office has confirmed. (BBC, 29 Nov 2006)
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(Times, 28 Nov 2006)
Blair's deep sorrow for slavery 'is not enough'
Tony Blair reignited the debate on slavery yesterday by making a partial apology for Britain's role in the "profoundly shameful" trade. The Prime Minister said he felt "deep sorrow" for the country's involvement in what was "one of the most inhuman enterprises in history".
But his declaration, which comes ahead of next year's bicentenary of the abolition of the trade, fell short of the formal apology demanded by many campaigners and drew criticism as well as praise. (Telegraph, 28 Nov 2006)
The 'freedom fighter' who lives for the struggle
Esther Stanford, who emerged on BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday as a spokesman for the casualties of Britain's slave trade, sees herself as a "freedom fighter" in the mould of Nelson Mandela. "The struggle is my life," she declared. (Telegraph, 28 Nov 2006)
Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade
Tony Blair is to make a historic statement condemning Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade as a 'crime against humanity' and expressing 'deep sorrow' that it ever happened. (Guardian, 26 Nov 2006)
Slavery: The long road to our historic 'sorrow'
Britain is poised to come to terms with its role in the brutal trade in human lives. Here leading historian Tristram Hunt considers why, 200 years after abolition, we are finally acknowledging our wrongs. (Guardian, 26 Nov 2006)
Afghan drug crop to flood Europe
European cities risk higher numbers of heroin overdoses as Afghanistan's record opium poppy crop floods cities with the drug, the UN has warned. (BBC, 23 Nov 2006)
'New breed' of NGOs blamed for soaring metal prices
> Peter Munk, the chairman of Barrick Gold, said that unaccountable NGO campaigners were partly responsible for soaring metal prices and the takeover frenzy in the mining sector. ! (Times, 23 Nov 2006)
Perils of empowering the people
Bertold Brecht, whose Life of Galileo was recently revived at the National Theatre, conquered the dictionary of quotations with his remark about an authoritarian government - as in East Germany - dismissing the people and electing another people in their place. For some, that's the last word on democracy. The people can do no wrong; only governments, their politicians and officials, can err. (Guardian, 22 Nov 2006)
Streets ahead
When teenager Jessie James was murdered two months ago in the notorious Moss Side area of Manchester it once again raised the spectre of council estates as little more than dismal breeding grounds for crime and deprivation. But if a report on social housing by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published today is correct, the reality is much less bleak than the stereotype suggests. (Guardian, 22 Nov 2006) See
Police revisit Sikh assault scene
Detectives hunting race attackers who cut off a young Sikh boy's hair have returned to the scene of the incident in Edinburgh exactly one week on. (BBC, 21 Nov 2006)
Wealth in Africa's conflict zones
BBC News is investigating the changing face of business in Africa, a continent once regarded as a high-risk location for investors but now increasingly a place to do business. (BBC, 20 Nov 2006)
Illegal immigration 'crackdown'
Four hundred and forty police officers are being seconded to help tackle illegal immigration in the UK. (BBC, 20 Nov 2006)
Throwing good money after bad governance
In a crisis, a Labour politician's first instinct is to reach for his wallet – or, rather, for your wallet. The struggle against the jihadists has not gone as well as had been hoped. (Telegraph, 20 Nov 2006)
Officer's views on sex with girls, 15, attacked
A Chief Constable responsible for giving the views of senior officers on child protection has provoked anger after suggesting that people who have sex with children aged from 13 to 15 should not be classed as paedophiles. (Telegraph, 20 Nov 2006)
Water meters to be compulsory
Millions of households could be forced to install water meters under proposals being considered today by ministers. (Telegraph, 20 Nov 2006)
Money 'is a motivator, but it makes us selfish'
Money drives us on to excel but , according to a systematic attempt to work out whether lucre really is fialso pushes people apartlthy or is inspirational. (Telegraph, 20 Nov 2006)
Call for radical debate on race relations in UK
A call for fresh debate on race and faith politics is launched today, 30 years after the Race Relations Act was passed. Some of the country's leading writers have backed a manifesto which calls for "a new approach to tackle discrimination and prejudice and forge a fresh approach to building a modern Britain". (Guardian, 20 Nov 2006)
First Nations, second homes
A plan to resettle the Cree people further south will have big implications for all Canada's aboriginal inhabitants. (Guardian, 13 Nov 2006)
Huge death toll in day of Iraq violence
Iraqi security forces found 75 dead bodies in Baghdad and Baquba yesterday on a day of violence exceptional even by the country's grim standards. (Guardian, 13 Nov 2006)
The day Conrad Black became a social
leper
In late November 2003, Conrad Black was under siege by Richard
Breeden, a former chairman of the US Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) who had been conducting an independent inquiry
into Hollinger International, his company. (Times, 13 Nov 2006)
Combatants
to clear up deadly leftovers
A new international treaty came into force yesterday that will
require countries to clear up unexploded munitions used in combat,
which continue to cause thousands of casualties each year.
&mnbsp; ...The International Committee for the Red Cross
hailed yesterday’s treaty, known as the Protocol on Explosive
Remnants of War, as the first of its kind to require countries to
clean up unexploded munitions, which they said threatened
“civilians, peacekeepers and humanitarian workers” long
after fighting was over. (Times, 13 Nov 2006)
Two
thirds of criminals sent back to jail within two years
More criminals are returning to a life of crime within months of serving sentences than when Labour came to power, according to official figures
published yesterday. (Times, 10 Nov 2006)
Sc
rap unnecessary laws, says Lib Dem leader
A new committee of MPs should be created to look specifically at scrapping
obsolete or unnecessary laws, Sir Menzies Campbell said yesterday. (Guardian,
10 Nov 2006)
Marku
s Wolf, spy chief dubbed The Man Without a Face, dies at 83
Markus Wolf, the east German spymaster who outfoxed western agents for three
decades, died yesterday on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
(Guardian, 10 Nov 2006)
Protest as housing office shuts
Demonstrators have protested over the closure of a housing office.
Lambeth council axed six local housing offices last month as
part of a cost-cutting plan.
But council tenants who used the Minet library housing office
in Knatchbull Road, Brixton, staged a protest against the closure on Tuesday.
(South London Press, 10 Nov 2006)
Racial gap in employment 'will take 45 years to close'
A young black jobseeker will be facing retirement by the time he has the same job prospects as a white counterpart, a minister will warn today. (Guardian, 9 Nov 2006)
DRumsfeld first casualty of regime change
Donald Rumsfeld, the man described as a lightning rod for George Bush, took a final hit on behalf of the US president yesterday by stepping down in the wake of huge electoral losses for the Republicans in a vote seen as a verdict on the handling of the war in Iraq. (Scotsman, 9 Nov 2006)
Challenge to political correctness of the poppy
As services of remembrance are held around the country, churches are being urged to acknowledge the 'political correctness' surrounding the red poppy, and make alternatives such as the white poppy, more widely available. (Ecclesia News Briefing, 9 Nov 2006)
Israel kills 18 in strike on Gaza
At least 18 Palestinians were killed as they slept this morning when Israeli tanks shelled houses in Gaza. (Telegraph, 8 Nov 2006)
The green divide
Britons exaggerate how green they are, with most mistakenly believing that they are following energy-saving practices, a Times poll shows. (Times, 8 Nov 2006)
We've forgotten to teach social skills, and our children are
stagnating
Almost every aspect of how Britain's schools are run discourages the personal
development that young people need. (Guardian, 8 Nov 2006)
Failed asylum seekers forced to sleep rough, says report
Thousands of rejected asylum seekers have been abandoned by the government and are sleeping rough in parks, public toilets and churches, leading to record levels of destitution across the country, according a report published today. (Guardian, 7 Nov 2006)
D
British ignorant over history of slave trade-poll
Only one in 10 Britons knows when the transatlantic slave trade was abolished and almost half the population has no idea who campaigned to end it, a poll showed on Tuesday. (Scotsman, 7 Nov 2006)
DMinister to learn from London's young people
A group of young people from London are today telling senior politicians their thoughts and ideas for commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. (7 Nov 2006)
Farepak families fund is launched
A new fund is being set up to help the thousands of families affected by the collapse of the Farepak hamper firm. (BBC, 7 Nov 2006)
So you think you're English?
Lord Tebbit, Carol Thatcher and other volunteers thought they were pure Anglo Saxon - until they were DNA-tested. Andrew Graham-Dixon watched their jaws drop on discovering racial origins from Africa, the Middle East, even Mongolia. (Telegraph, 5 Nov 2006)
Three in four young black men on the DNA database?
Race watchdogs are to investigate the national DNA database over revelations that up to three quarters of young black men will soon have their profiles stored. (Telegraph, 5 Nov 2006)
France to Declassify Documents for Probe
France's defense minister will declassify 105 secret intelligence memos for a probe into claims that French peacekeepers were complicit in the 1994 genocide of more than half a million Rwandans, a spokesman said Friday. (Guardian, 4 Nov 2006)
Scores of bodies found in Baghdad
Baghdad police say they have found 83 bodies, some showing signs of torture, in various locations around the city in the past 36 hours. (BBC, 3 Nov 2006)
Spinning almo 'is a disgrace'
Labour-run Lambeth is to spend up to £300,000 of council tax payers' cash to hire up to 100 agents to hard sell its proposal to transfer the management of its housing stocks to an outside company. (South London Press, 3 Nov 2006)
Peter
Fryer
The death of Peter Fryer aged 79, comes 50 years to the week since his honest
reporting of Hungary's 1956 revolution for the Daily Worker (now the Morning
Star) split the Communist party of Great Britain, and changed his own life.
(Guardian, 3 Nov 2006)
Soldier 'kept diary of his brutality to Iraqi civilians'
A "violent and dishonest" soldier serving in Iraq kept a diary of the abuse he meted out to civilians in Basra, a court martial heard yesterday. (Telegraph, 3 Nov 2006)
'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. (BBC, 2 Nov 2006)
Somali talks fail amid war fears
Peace talks between Somalia's transitional government and Islamists have been postponed, mediators in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, say. (BBC, 2 Nov 2006)
MPs attack government over benefits helplines
Benefit claimants were forced to grapple with 55 separate helpline numbers when trying to contact the Department for Work and Pensions, MPs revealed today. (Guardian, 2 Nov 2006)
DNA pioneer accuses the police of being overzealous
The man who developed DNA testing in the 1980s has attacked the spread of data collection by police as “mission creep”. (Times, 2 Nov 2006)
Britain is 'surveillance society'
Fears that the UK would "sleep-walk into a surveillance society" have become a reality, the government's information commissioner has said.
Richard Thomas, who said he raised concerns two years ago, spoke after research found people's actions were increasingly being monitored. (BBC, 2 Nov 2006)
China's trillion dollar surplus
In November China will achieve a new milestone in its economic development when its total foreign exchange reserves reach $1 trillion. (BBC, 2 Nov 2006)
Clues to long life in a glass of red wine
A substance found in red wine could hold back the effects of ageing, according to new research. (Telegraph, 2 Nov 2006)
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