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  • UK Deputy Prime Minister: More lifesaving UK aid for devastated areas in South Pakistan

    The UK’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today announced how lifesaving aid from the UK will be allocated while visiting Sukkur, south Pakistan, the region now worst affected by the monsoon rains.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF band CD dedicated to Battle of Britain personnel

    The release of the album is one of the many events taking place this year to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. As …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Countess honours volunteer Army medics for Afghanistan deployment

    Volunteer Scottish Army medics who have recently been deployed to Afghanistan treating wounded soldiers and civilians there were honoured by Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex yesterday for their important role in the…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Greg Barker's article in the Times Low Carbon Business supplement, 1 September 2010

    Thriving, innovating and high growth low carbon businesses will be the hallmark of a globally competitive, twenty-first century economy. That…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Human rights are key to our foreign policy

    We must harness Britain's generosity and compassion to help the rest of the world, Foreign Secretary William Hague writes in the Telegraph.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Battle of Britain veterans take to the skies again

    The special memorial flight, which took place on Saturday on a British Airways Airbus A320, was accompanied by a formation flight of two surviving…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Diocese of Ely

    The Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend Stephen David Conway, MA, Area Bishop of Ramsbury, for election as Bishop of Ely.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Two years to go until London 2012 Paralympic Games

    The Foreign Office has marked the occasion by launching a short film featuring one of the UK’s most successful Paralympians, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Fair deal for Travellers and the settled community

    Travellers who play by the rules will get the same rights as other mobile home residents under new plans.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Time for a fair deal for the Travelling and settled community

    Travellers who play by the rules will get the same rights as other mobile home residents and could benefit from more authorised sites under …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Foreign Office Minister David Lidington has spoken after reports of mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Brothers battle Taliban to uncover IED factory

    Lance Corporal Jimmy Leather, aged 28, and Lance Corporal Michael Leather, aged 22, both from 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • FAB holidays help bereaved Service families

    Now in its second year, Families' Activity Breaks (FAB) are helping Service families as they cope with bereavement following the death of a loved one. Report by Tristan Kelly.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Time ticking for rare regulator

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on very rare early 19th Century regulator made in celebrated Arnold workshop.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Speech by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, to the Inverness Chamber of Commerce

    Speech by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • North Wales tourist attractions are vitally important to the local economy, says Welsh Secretary

    Tourism and attractions such as the National Slate Museum, Oriel Mostyn gallery and Llangollen railway are vitally important to the North Wales…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government calls on local authorities to reduce barriers for foster carers

    Children’s minister urges LAs to curb excessive restrictions on issues like haircuts, sleepovers and family holidays for foster children.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bureaucracy for summer fetes overruled by Eric Pickles

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has succeeded in his quest to ban the reams of forms, high costs and red tape getting in the way of communities…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Eric Pickles praises Halton for joining the recycling reward trend

    Eric Pickles has praised Halton Borough Council, in Runcorn and Widnes, for being the first northern council to adopt recycling rewards.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The new, simple, easy-to-use form to organise street parties has arrived!

    Organising a street party or summer fete has never been easier thanks to a new, simple, easy-to-use form.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government