A surge of low-grade stars has thrown the celebrity world into a sub-prime crisis. Now where’s Mervyn King? Going by this weekend’s headlines, setting next year’s citizenship test should be a doddle.
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Celebrity world is in sub-prime crisis
Numberplate recognition cameras routinely survey the movements of millions of motorists The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered that a national police camera network that logs more than 10m movements of motorists every day be placed under statutory regulation. Her decision means that a “Big Brother” police database that currently holds a mammoth 7.6bn records of the movement of motorists using more than 4,000 cameras across the country will have to be operated with proper accountability and safeguards. Each entry on the database includes the numberplate, location, date, time and a photograph of the front of the car, which may include images of the driver and any passengers.
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May orders traffic cameras regulation
Raoul Thomas Moat suspected of seriously injuring officer following double shooting in same area 24 hours earlier A policeman was shot and seriously injured in Northumberland early today in an attack officers are linking to a double shooting in the same area 24 hours earlier.
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Policeman injured in third shooting
Shock demand comes as ministers step up emergency cost-cutting across public sector Cabinet ministers have been ordered by the Treasury to plan for unprecedented cuts of 40% in their departmental budgets as the coalition widens the scope of its four-year austerity drive. The eye-watering demand from the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, was sent this weekend to cabinet colleagues ahead of a week in which ministers will step up emergency cost-cutting across the public sector. The only departments not included in the Treasury trawl will be health and international development, which have been “ringfenced” for the current parliament
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Ministers ordered to brace themselves for 40% cuts
The Guardian’s new Jerusalem correspondent gives her first impressions of the bitterly divided yet beautiful city There is a point on a hill looking out over Jerusalem , right on the 1948 armistice line, known as the Promenade, where both Jewish and Arab families can be found picnicking in the warmth of the late afternoon sun. It’s a good spot. Straight ahead is the Old City, the honey stones of its walls absorbing and reflecting the sun’s rays.
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Jerusalem, my new home
MoD faces judicial inquiries as the Guardian raises questions over seven Iraqis who died while being held by UK troops The Ministry of Defence is facing a further series of court battles that may shed more damaging light on the conduct of British troops in Iraq, after it emerged that many more civilians died in army custody than previously thought. At least eight Iraqi civilians are now acknowledged to have died while being held by the British military after the 2003 invasion, including Baha Mousa, the hotel receptionist who was beaten to death while in army custody in Basra. Inquiries by lawyers representing a number of families of abused Iraqi civilians suggest the death toll may have been higher still.
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MoD faces court action over conduct of troops in Iraq
Home secretary warns attempt to set national minimum policing standard is unsustainable in face of big budget cuts Labour’s policing promise to ensure that neighbourhood officers spend at least 80% of their time on the beat is being dropped with immediate effect, the home secretary, Theresa May, announced today.
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May axes Labour police beat pledge
Cap on skilled migrants is loose enough to allow the entrance of at least half of those currently applying, detailed policy reveals Nearly half of the skilled migrants who come to Britain from outside Europe are to be exempted from the temporary cap on migration planned by the government, according to detailed proposals revealed today.
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Migration cap exemptions under fire
Child scavengers in Harare bear tragic witness to how little has changed in a society brutalised by Robert Mugabe’s cynical rule R otting food scraps picked out of the dirt and the bins of the backstreets of Harare are piled together in a slimy heap on the ground with torn cardboard as a serving plate. Elias, 15, squats and pushes both hands into the pile, scooping out a chunk of something pink. He gnaws on it, then shouts: “Dinner! Come and eat.” The other boys shush him
After a brief spell in prison for stealing 400 balloons, 19-year-old Alfie Brooks is determined not to go back. But with no job, no home and no qualifications, what are the chances of turning his life around? Alfie Brooks describes himself as a conceptual artist
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‘I don’t want to live on the dole’