Christopher Kelly is expected to recommend cutting tens of thousand of pounds off the compensation paid to MPs who retire or lose their seatsMPs today rounded on Sir Christopher Kelly, the civil servant appointed to root out sleaze and corruption from Parliament, as more details emerged of the restrictions they could face on their expenses.When Sir Christopher's report is published on 4 November, he...
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Sexual assault, theft motive in Ill. family deaths < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateIndictments released Wednesday claim two brothers armed with a tire iron broke into a family's home to rob them and assault a teenage girl before beating five people to death.Christopher Harris, 30, and his brother, Jason Harris, 22, are charged in the deaths of Christopher Harris' former in-laws.The 68 counts against...
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Conservative Party admitted today that a senior MP had approached Sir Christopher Kelly before he issued a damning statement last night criticising the Queen’s Speech.There was no mention of the Kelly report during the monarch's speech, which lays out the Government's legislative plans, prompting Sir Christopher, who was appointed to oversee expenses reform, to express his disappointment.David Cameron...
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letter stuck in the back of his father's writing desk started Christopher Pennoff on a treasure hunt that absorbed eight years of his life. And the treasurehe unearthed at the end of the slow, painstaking hunt was the life and work ofhis great-grandfather ATW Penn, one of the earliest photographers of theNilgiris.The letter, from a cousin to his father, was the beginningof Christopher's discovery of...
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brothers have been jailed over an axe attack on a taxi driver in the south west of Glasgow.Colin Esnol, 26, and Christopher Esnol, 22, admitted assaulting Ian Pringle and stealing his private hire car in the city's Pollok area in April.The High Court in Edinburgh heard how the younger brother punched the driver before Colin Esnol hit him with an axe.Christopher Esnol was jailed for 45 months. His brother...
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Vellayani Sreekumar has been elected president and Christopher Vincent general secretary of the Pravasi Malayalee Welfare Association....
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visitSteiff GmbH, known for its handcrafted teddy bears, has fired a U.S. marketing executive who accused the head of the German company's toy unit of sexual harassment and rape.Christopher Cooper, a U.S. spokesman for Steiff, said 32-year-old Jane Collins "was fired for cause" in September. He declined to provide more details.Ms. Collins's attorney, Christopher Brennan, called the dismissal "nothing...
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threatened to abandon their Commons offices and work from their constituencies as they tried to come to terms with the biggest overhaul to parliamentary expenses since 1971.London MPs said that they would lose £400 a month while the rest of the Commons counted the cost of selling their second homes because they can no longer claim mortgage interest.MPs from all sides argued that Sir Christopher Kelly’s...
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introduction to Sir Christopher Kelly's long-awaited report into MPs' expenses, published yesterday, notes there is "a profound crisis of public confidence in the integrity of MPs".After months of damning revelations about duck-house buying, dry cleaning-bill submitting, second-home "flipping" and the myriad other claims made by MPs, that seems like something of an understatement.ing to the publication...
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Dracula actor Christopher Lee has been knighted by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.Best known for his performances opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer Horror movies, Sir Christopher has featured in 250 productions.Also honoured were veteran rock guitarist Joe Brown, cyclist Nicole Cooke and Marina Dalglish, the wife of Liverpool footballer Kenny Dalglish.Sir Christopher joked:...
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