Daily News Summary
Sunday,11 May 2008
Main stories
`ID cards scheme "is open to fraud"'
The Interdependent Scheme Assurance Panel (Isap), established to advise the government on implementing ID cards, has warned the scheme will be vulnerable to `improper use' by administrators. The government also announced that taking fingerprints and photographs of ID card applicants will be contracted out to the private sector to save money. Obs2
`Cherie slams Labour on "factory farm" jails'
Cherie Booth criticises the government `factory farm attitude to imprisonment' for producing prisons which are `failing to protect the public', She also raises concerns about the treatment of prisoners, and fears Titan jails would make it more difficult for prisoners to receive individualised treatment and be visited by their families. Obs4
`Binge drink scare tactics "do not work"'
Research from the University of Bath suggests that government health campaigns about binge drinking are not having an impact because the recommended alcohol limits are `unrealistically' low. Based on research with 18 - 25 year olds, Dr Andrew Bengry-Howell suggests people ignore the campaigns as they do not fit their own experiences of drinking. Obs21
`Revealed: the crime wave committed by teen girls'
...according to the Sunday Telegraph, who have seen Home Office statistics due to be released on Thursday, which show offences committed by girls aged 10 -17 have increased by 25% over the last three years. Crimes committed by boys have slightly fallen over the same period. DTel2
`"Terror" fears after T5 security loses foreign arrivals'
British Airways admitted there have been a `small number' of incidents at Heathrow's Terminal 5 where overseas passengers had mistakenly been being treated as domestic arrivals and did not go through immigration or customs controls. DTel6
`British MEPs took gifts from firms they are meant to regulate'
...providing they declare the gifts they are not breaking any regulations. IoS6
`Minster and Met chief in terror row'
The Sunday Times reports that Sir Ian Blair is said to have lost the support of Home Security Jacqui Smith following a disagreement over the Met's backing of plans to jail terror suspects for 42-days without charge. STimes2
`New law to protect elderly in care'
An amendment has been tabled to the Health and Social Care Bill, to expand it to cover elderly people in private care homes. The law aims to protect the elderly from `degrading treatment' under Human Rights legislation. STimes2
Columns, editorials, letters
`Great British security -equal parts preying and bungling'
On the failure of `stricter' airport security measures and widespread CCTV to increase security. DTel29
`Fritzl, like Fred West, believed he was a good man'
David Canter, director of the Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool on the `self-deception' of some violent offenders. IoS51
`Fighting crime at its roots'
On how the conservatives can `turn back the tide of crime across the whole country'. DTel26
`How can it be right to shoot people, but not deport them?'
Says Alasdair Palmer following the release of Abu Qatada's, described as Osma bin Laden's `spiritual ambassador'. DTel27
`Success is no antidote to addiction'
What the media coverage about Mark Saunders, who was shot by police last week following a siege, shows us about the importance of class, crime and addiction. IoS52-53. The Sunday Times also has a feature about the incident and asks whether the case was an intended `suicide by cop'. STimes18
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