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“One MP says she has just 30 sheets of headed notepaper left, but cannot get her claims accepted when she tries to buy more.”
“Ipsa is under scrutiny. It will be the subject of a debate on Wednesday.”
“They had said they would pay only 85% of phone bills. They will now reimburse the full cost of calls made for parliamentary business.”
“The organisation's interim operations director Nigel Gooding resigned, telling the Mail on Sunday he left the job for the sake of his 'health and sanity', although he said he had not been hounded out by MPs.”
“Next month the Committee on Standards in Public Life - whose recommendations for changes to MPs' expenses set the groundwork for the current system - will publish in its annual report a 'stock take' of the situation.”
“Administering the expenses and pay of 650 individuals and their staff is a limited task.”
“The employers' organisation made that one of its top priorities as it set out radical recommendations for political parties preparing for next year's Holyrood elections.”
“More than 400 MPs did not get their full pay in May, due to an error by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, the BBC has learned.”
“Ipsa said 418 MPs who were re-elected to Parliament were underpaid by £119.63 each. They were paid £5,358.54 rather than £5,478.17.”
“The shortfall will be made up in their June pay packet.”
“MPs - many of whom are angry with the handling of their expenses - will hold a debate about Ipsa on Wednesday.”
“The body began administering MPs' expenses for the first time after the general election in May, as part of efforts to restore public trust in the system following last year's expenses scandal.”
“Ipsa said 418 MPs who were re-elected to Parliament were underpaid by £119.63 each.”
“They were paid £5,358.54 rather than £5,478.17.”
“The body began administering MPs' expenses for the first time after the general election in May”
“Labour MP Kevan Jones suggested new MPs had been left 'in debt to several thousand pounds'”
“A junta has ruled Guinea since the death of long-time leader Lansana Conte in December 2008.”
“Interim junta leader General Sekouba Konate took over in December 2009 from Capt Camara, who is currently in voluntary exile in Burkina Faso.”
“In 2008 the Department for Regional Development transferred the documnet without clearance from the Executive.”
“The case focused on the department's ability to assume responsibility for the policy document in January 2008, after it was transferred from the Department for Regional Development, without getting clearance from the rest of the Executive.”
“The judicial review application was brought over PPS5, which deals with policy for town centres and retail developments across Northern Ireland.”
“The city council is proposing selling off more than 60 plots of land, including derelict sites and woodland.”
“The plans were approved by the council's cabinet in February 2008.”
“He said the city had an agreement to build 30,000 new houses in Bristol before 2026.”
“She took her place in the House as a crossbench 'People's Peer' in March.”
“The former mayor resigned as deputy mayor for youth in July 2008.”
“The team will aim to recruit 1,000 men as mentors for troubled youths.”
“But the European Parliament's environment committee rejected mandatory "traffic lights" in March, saying there should be scope for countries to retain national schemes, provided they did not violate EU rules.”
“Euro MPs will hold a first reading vote on the draft legislation on Wednesday, but it still has a long way to go, with more amendments expected.”
“Once it is agreed, food producers will have three years to update their labels, and small firms with fewer than 100 employees will have five years to do so.”
“First taking office in 1962, Senator Kennedy was re‑elected nine times.”
“The FBI has released some of its secret files on the late Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August 2009.”
“car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969”
“President John F Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963”
“Senator Robert F Kennedy was shot in a California hotel in June 1968”
“One letter in the FBI files warned that Ted Kennedy would be next, calling him 'number three to be assassinated on Oct. 25, 1968. The Kennedy residence must be well protected on that date.'”
“Threats continued into 1985, the date of the latest files released by the FBI.”
“Ted Kennedy was the fourth-longest serving senator in US history, holding a seat for 47 years.”
“He died at the famed Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after battling brain cancer. He was 77.”
“First taking office in 1962, Senator Kennedy was re-elected nine times”
“about 30% of the vote”
“about 40% of the population”
“60%”
“nearly 200 days”
“collapsed three times in as many years”
“six months from July”
“30% of Flemish voters”
“It's been a very long journey, about six times in Parliament.”
“The four men, all held since 1998, were later flown to the capital Bogota where they were met by relatives.”
“Col Donato had been found alive in the jungle, a short distance from the guerrilla camp where the three other hostages had been freed on Sunday.”
“President Alvaro Uribe said on Sunday that the operation to free the hostages which involved some 300 men had been planned for several months.”
“Gen Mendieta and Col Murillo were captured on 1 November 1998 when Farc rebels overran Mitu, a town in the far east of the country.”
“The rescue operation was the highest-profile mission since July 2008, when French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans were freed from rebel hands.”
“Most of the hostages have been held for more than a decade.”
“is favourite to win the 20 June second round of the presidential election...”
“when he will face Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus.”
“The new government is committed to introducing a limit on the number of non-EEA [European Economic Area] migrants who come here to work, contributing to a reduction in net migration back to the levels of the early 1990s - tens of thousands…”
“The Border Agency was created in 2008, comprised of officers from the Border and Immigration Agency, HM Revenue and Customs and UK visas.”
“the government said it had created a 7.2m (23.6ft) x 3.5m (11.4ft) hole in the sea bed”
“A temporary repair is scheduled to be completed within the next week which will make the pier and berth safe until the Steam Packet's fastcraft schedule is completed in late November.”
“The company's original plans for an area off the Sir Harry Lauder Road were rejected by Edinburgh City Council in 2008.”
“200 cameras”
“£3m”
“A Birmingham MP has called for 200 cameras, which he says are to monitor extremists, not to be activated.”
“Cameras have been installed in the inner city areas of Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath with some automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras put up in Kings Heath and Moseley.”
“A spokeswoman for the project said a small proportion of the cameras had been activated and that this would grow, week by week.”
“Concerns about the cameras were raised at a meeting held by Safer Birmingham Partnerships for members of the public last week.”
“We do not need new institutions to meet our goals. We need more effectiveness, Mr Van Rompuy said, stressing the need for 'preventive action to avoid countries accumulating excessive deficits'. 'We will be tougher in correcting deficits wi…”
“In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said 'we must play by the rules and the rules have to be changed'.”
“A new EU strategy for jobs and growth - called the 2020 strategy - will also be discussed at the EU summit in Brussels.”
“On Thursday the President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, will brief EU leaders on the work of an EU task force on economic governance, which he is chairing.”
“In Berlin last week he said that Mrs Merkel 'shares the principal directions to strengthen budgetary discipline through the [EU] Stability Pact and to reduce the divergences in competitiveness between the member states'.”
“Japan's new prime minister said the country was at "risk of collapse" under its huge debts.”
“More than 230 delegates from 85 nations backed the proposals at a five-day UN meeting in Busan, South Korea.”
“The international panel is expected to be formally endorsed in 2011.”
“The 'Busan Outcome' reached in Korea is the culmination of negotiations that began in Paris back in 2006.”
“The idea to establish the IPBES followed the publication of the UN's Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005, which concluded that human activities threatened the Earth's ability to sustain future generations.”
“Plans to set up the IPBES are set to be formally established by the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, which opens in September.”
“They will then be presented to environment ministers for endorsement at Unep's global ministerial meeting in February 2011.”
“The Moffat plan is one of eight demonstration projects for a new Scottish government funded initiative.”
“To be selected as only one of eight successful applicants nationally, emphasises how innovative and exciting our proposals are to own and develop the town hall on behalf of the community, whilst still preserving the council and library ser…”
“But it will close for a week from 16 July when two large cranes come on site to lift heavy equipment into position.”
“This work will make sure that we are 100% compliant in reducing mercury emissions from our cremators.”
“The first phase of the improvements is expected to take about 14 weeks.”
“This process began at the end of March, and was expected to take about two weeks.”
“South Africa's Thabo Mbeki, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Ghana's John Kufuor are among those who qualified for last year's prize after stepping down in the previous three years.”
“The Saville Inquiry into the events of what became known as Bloody Sunday was announced in 1998, and will deliver its findings in 2010.”
“Most unionists are dismayed at how the Saville Inquiry has developed, both in terms of the length of time it has taken and the massive cost of its deliberations,”
“since 30 January 1972.”
“linked the 13 deaths to a global call for peace.”
“two 2002 films”
“he was 23 when his 17-year-old brother was shot dead along with 12 others when the British parachute regiment opened fire on a civil rights march.”
“the events of 30 January 1972 are 'the driving force' behind tourism in the area”
“Mickey McKinney's brother Willie was one of 13 people killed on 30 January 1972, Bloody Sunday.”
“A fourteenth died later.”
“Three of the McKinney brothers - Willie, Mickey, and their younger brother Joe - took part in the march.”
“I remember somebody saying that five or six people were dead down at the barricade, and then my brother George came in and said he'd seen Joe and Joe was alright, but he didn't know where Willie was.”
“About eight years ago she told me the reason she didn't let us see her crying was because she was afraid she would have driven us into the IRA.”
“Alana Burke recovering in hospital, 1972.”
“Eighteen-year-old Alana went to the march with a friend to show off her new coat.”
