Law and order policies are not working and must be radically reformed to restore faith in the criminal justice system, a leading business organisation has said.
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A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold for more than £17m, Christie's said.
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Economic experts are questioning the impact of Chancellor Alistair Darling's surprise announcement of £2.7 billion to compensate people who lost out from the abolition of the 10p income tax rate.
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Ministry of Defence staff recorded sightings of alien craft over Wallasey Town Hall and a saucer-shaped Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) hovering over Waterloo Bridge, it has been revealed.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown will seek to regain the political initiative with a legislative programme for the coming year designed to show the Government is "on the side of the British people".
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Police stop and search teams are to be deployed in the capital in an effort to reduce knife crime after the "horrific events" of the last 48 hours.
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Travel companies and British officials are continuing to try to contact UK tourists still unaccounted for after the devastating earthquake in China.
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The Armed Forces are unable to meet the Government's "readiness" target for mounting further military missions due to the continuing pressure of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has warned.
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