Daily News Summary
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Main stories
`80% fear we are heading for recession'
A Guardian/ICM poll has found. Gdn1
`MPs accuse Ministry of Defence of trying to hide cost overruns'
A cross-party of backbench MPs will today accuse the MoD of shifting large sums of money from one part of its budget to another to disguise cost overruns. Gdn7
`Minister unveils plans to push lone parents back into work'
Continuing coverage of the radical welfare reforms that aim to get one million people off of incapacity benefit. Gdn12, all papers
`Is it all right if this police dog bites your thigh?'
`Police dog handlers will have to consider whether criminals have allergies or a fear of animals before conducting searches under rules drawn up by senior officers.' DTel3, DExp10
`The watchdogs bite back at Big Brother Britain'
Watchdogs yesterday condemned the storage of trivial criminal convictions and DNA profiles of innocent citizens. It could lead to certain police forces having to delete millions of entries from their database. DMail18, Times5
`Watchdog's verdict on Channel 4 climate film angers scientists'
Despite regulators finding that Channel 4 broke rules during the broadcast of the documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle", it concluded that viewers had not been mislead, much to the anger of environmentalists. Gdn9, Ind8-9, all papers
Comment, editorials, letters
`This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives'
David Edgar discusses one problem of the Terrorism Act; where academics and artists can be prosecuted if their work is considered to be linked to terrorism. Gdn27
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