UK’s two big parties court Lib Dems as Brown quits
Liberal Democrats still courted by major British parties as Gordon Brown announces he will step aside to try to keep his Labour Party in power.
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Sillitoe, one of UK’s ‘angry young men’, dead at 82
Alan Sillitoe, one of the "Angry Young Men" of British fiction whose gritty realism portrayed working-class life after World War II, died on Sunday.
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UK PM Brown says Iraq War was justified
UK PM Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq on Friday that going to war had been the right decision.
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Blair says September 11 changed view on Iraq
The September 11 attacks changed the "calculus of risk" and meant it was not possible to contain Saddam Hussein through sanctions, Tony Blair said.
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Britons jailed for 9/11-scale airline bomb plot
Three Britons were jailed for life on Monday for plotting a ”terrorist outrage” on the scale of 9/11 by blowing up transatlantic airliners.
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Brown apologises to WWII British code-breaker
UK PM Gordon Brown apologised on Friday for the treatment of World War II code-breaker Alan Turing.
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BBC fined over Fawlty Towers actor prank calls
Britain’s media watchdog fined the BBC £150 000 on Friday over the ”grossly offensive” prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs .
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Police warn of G20 protests in ‘summer of rage’
Police said on Monday they feared a ”summer of rage” with mass protests over the economic crisis that could mar Gordon Brown’s G20 summit in April.
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Police shut down fraud website
Police said on Friday they had shut down a sophisticated website that allowed criminals around the world to trade in stolen credit card details.
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Brown’s poll setback sees Tories ‘back in business’
Senior Labour figures said on Friday the party needed to re-engage with voters after it suffered a drubbing in local elections while delighted Tories said they were on course to win the next general election. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party was on course to lose around 200 council seats — around a quarter of the party’s councillors.
