01 December 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS: Guy Verhofstadt, the chief EU negotiator on Brexit, has suggested that, following the UK’s secession from the EU, individual Britons should be able to pay an annual fee in return for personal EU membership, an idea unlikely to appeal to “leave” MPs. According to reports in… Continue reading Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 24: 2015 10 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 October 2015 Week in Brief: UK LEON BRITTAN: The Metropolitan police have apologised to Lady Brittan, the widow of Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, for their failure to inform the Brittans that rape allegations against Lord Brittan had been abandoned before Lord Brittan’s death from cancer. An investigation by the BBC’s “Panorama” programme has cast… Continue reading Issue 24: 2015 10 15: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news
9 July 2015 Week in Brief : INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: Four men sentenced to death for leading a mob which murdered a woman accused of burning a Koran have had their sentences reduced. An appeal court in Kabul sentenced three of the men to twenty years in jail and the fourth to ten years.… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news