Daily News Summary
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Straw orders review of knife sentences
The Justice Secretary is seen to be doing something about the difference in sentencing between knife and gun murder minimum sentences at 15 and 30 years. Gdn15
£1bn bobby on the beat plan has `failed to cut crime'
Home Office research shows no significant effect from neighbourhood policing. The Home Office says this is because it had not been fully implemented when the research was done. The Tories say it is because of bureaucracy. DTel6 NO LINK
Labour's lost generation
There are over 200,000 16 to 18 year olds not in education, employment or training says the Daily Mail10. 150,000 more than in 1997 the paper claims.
`We would use torture evidence, say Miliband'
The DMail21 reports that the foreign secretary, David Miliband, has said that the government could not ignore evidence passed on by another government even if torture was suspected.
Attorney general decides against review of Baby P sentences
The Sun1 is not impressed and headlines its editorial `Soft sentences breaking Britain' Sun6
Freebie
British Airways wants its staff to work for free for a month. Ind35
Comment
`Are prison sentences too lenient, and does the system need changing?'
Ind30
`This recession is very far from over'
Says sage Vincent Cable. Ind27
`How today's global recession tracks the Great Depression'
Martin Wolf. FT11
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