The Association of Chief Police Officers yesterday said British criminals may have been cleared to work with vulnerable people in the UK after committing crimes abroad. The Home Secretary John Reid has confirmed today that details of 540 serious criminals were left in files, and only 260 have now been entered on the Police National Computer (PNC). Police say some may have been cleared to work with the vulnerable in the UK.
Responding to Jonathon Porritt's attack on Tony Blair for a "complete failure to lead" on climate change, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Chris Huhne MP said:
Liberal Democrats at North Yorkshire County Council have welcomed the news that Liberal Democrat councils are leading the way in protecting our environment.
Like all Liberal Democrats, I am appalled at the increasingly authoritarian drift of the Labour Party. Michael Howard and the Tories don't have a good track record on this issue either.
Unless the Government allows major amendments to be made to the Mental Health Bill it faces serious defeats, warned Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Carlile, who chaired the scrutiny committee which reviewed the 2004 draft bill.
A policeman whose hospital doctors failed to tell him he had multiple sclerosis (MS) has received over £10,000 compensation. Sussex Pc Gary Dimmock, 42, was referred by his GP in 1992 with possible MS symptoms, but was not told he had the disease until 2003.
