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| The Government had pledged not to sell England’s public forests, in a move hailed as an ‘incredible victory’ for campaigners who fought plans for a sell-off. Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman pledged that “our forests will stay in public hands’, more than a year after she was forced into a U-turn on a bid to privatise England’s forests following public outrage. The commitment comes after Independent Panel on Forestry, set up to guide policy on woodlands after the outcry over Government plans, said the estate should remain publicly owned as land held in trust for the nation. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel – 2nd July 2012 |
| David Cameron yesterday failed to satisfy Conservative demands for a referendum on the European Union after, that declaring that he was prepared to consider the idea – but not yet. The Prime Minister said he would go to the people once Britain’s future relationship with Brussels, in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis and further EU integration, becomes clear. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 2nd July 2012 |
| House prices have ‘stalled’ and they could fall by up to two per cent in the next six months amid the weak economy and the on-going eurozone crisis, a study warned today. The increase in new homes coming on the market has outstripped the number of potential buyers registering with estate agents for the past three months, and the gap is set to widen as the seasonal summer slowdown kicks in, property analyst Hometrack said. Prices remained flat across England and Wales in June month-on-month. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel – 2nd July 2012 |
| Thousands of staff at the Home Office, including airport immigration workers have voted to go on strike over jobs, pay, and other issues, raising the threat of industrial action hitting the Olympics. The Public and Commercial Services Union said 57 per cent of its members had backed a campaign of action in protest at cuts. Union leaders will meet today to decide their next move, which could include a walkout at border controls as well as other forms of industrial action such a ban on overtime. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – 19th July 2012 |
| David Cameron told Conservative MP’s last night he would only make one more attempt at winning their support for the House of Lords reform before he would ‘draw a line’ and move on. At a meeting of his parliamentary party following the previous nights rebellion, the Prime Minister also raised the prospect of watering down the plans for a ‘smaller elected element’ for the second chamber. His comments risked inflaming the tensions with his Liberal Democrat Coalition partners – who are deeply wedded to the reform – and may embolden Tory backbench rebels scenting victory within a few months. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 12th July 2012 |
| David Cameron and Nick Clegg will stage a show of Coalition Unity today as they unveil plans for the biggest investment programme in the railways since the Victorian era. The Prime Minister and his deputy will announce a £9 billion injection into the network as they seek to draw a line under the latest bout of sniping between their two parties. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 16th July 2012 |
| The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it now considers the conflict in Syria a civil war, meaning international humanitarian law applies throughout the country. The Geneva-based group’s assessment is an important reference that helps parties in a conflict determine how much and what type of force they can or cannot use. Spokesman for the group Hicham Hassan said yesterday that the humanitarian law now applies wherever hostilities are taking place in Syria, where fighting has spread beyond the hotspots of Idlib, Homs and Hama. | |
| World Issues | The Sentinel – 16th July 2012 |
| The global economic recovery is still at risk, and eurozone economies remain in a ‘precarious’ situation, according to the International Monetary Fund. A delayed or insufficient response from European leaders to the crisis would further derail the recovery it said. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 17th July 2012 |
| Last week, David Cameron announced that forcing a son or daughter into a marriage against their will is to become a criminal offence in England and Wales. ‘Forced marriage is abhorrent and little more than slavery’ he said. ‘To force anyone into marriage against their will is simply wrong and that is why we have taken decisive action to make it illegal’. | |
| The Law | The War Cry – 23rd June 2012 |
| Recently a group of MP’s and peers claimed that the equality laws were promoting unacceptable discrimination against Christians, by failing to protect the rights of believers to follow their faith. Harriet Harman introduced the Equality Act during Labours last year in power. The Act undermines the freedom of Christians to express their beliefs, whilst allowing others the freedom to do so. The MP’s blame a widespread lack of ‘religious literacy’ among politicians and judges, thus leading to unfair discrimination in a number of areas of our national life. Over recent years there have been numerous court decisions against Christians who have argued that in perusing their beliefs, their faith has brought then into conflict with the law or their employer. ‘Christians in Parliament’ Group Chairman, Gary Streeter, MP for Devon south West said: Christians are not asking for special treatment, but we are looking for a level playing field. | |
| Religious Persecution | DayOne Magazine – June-September 2012 |
| On 21st March, the Chancellor, Rt. Hon. George Osborne, announced during his Budget speech that the Government would relax the Sunday trading laws during the eight weeks which cover the Olympic Games. This would permit all shops to be open 24 hours each day. This announcement was slipped in unobtrusively with little reaction from the House. Despite the assurance that the Sunday Trading laws would be for the eight weeks only, the greatest fear for those who work within the retail industry, is that this temporary lifting of the current restrictions could pave the way for a permanent change in the law. | |
| The Law | DayOne Magazine – June-September 2012 |
| Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said the historic meeting between the Queen and Martin McGuinness should be about more than novelty and symbolism. Mr Adams, a politician in the Irish Republic after more than 20 years as West Belfast’s MP said its importance will be in how Anglo-Irish relations develop. He added: ‘What happened is a very good thing indeed.’ | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 28th June 2012 |
| Cyprus has become the fifth eurozone country to request financial aid as it struggles to shore up it’s banks which took heavy losses on Greek debt. Its government said it required assistance following ‘negative spill-over effects through it’s financial sector, due to its large exposure in the Greek economy’. Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou would not say how much Cyprus would ask for from the European bailout fund, adding that the amount would be subject to negotiations. | |
| World Issues | The Sentinel – 26th June 2012 |
| Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has reacted angrily to Michael Gove’s plan to scrap GCSE’s in England, saying they would create a ‘two-tier system’. Mr Clegg said the Education Secretary’s proposal was ‘self-evidently not policy that has been discussed and agreed within the coalition’. Mr Gove wants to bring back a system similar to the O-levels with CSE’s for less able pupils. He later told MP’s the current system was letting children down. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 22nd June 2012 |
| NatWest Customers face further upheaval after technical hitches left clients unable to access their money. The bank took the unusual step of opening hundreds of branches over the weekend and said it was working ‘round the clock’ to clear a backlog of chaos. It remains unclear exactly when the issues will be completely resolved. Hundreds of customers have vented their frustration over the problems, with some finding payments had gone awry and others observing disappearing wages, or home purchases disrupted. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 25th June 2012 |
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