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| | Now we really are heading towards Big Brother |  Tue May 20, 2008 4:43 pm by steve | News in the last few days indicates that the Government wishes to implement the recording of all calls, texts and emails in the UK. My first thoughts were that they would need a bloody big hard drive to store everything, second was what would happen when a disk is inevitably left on a seat on the 17:56 from Waterloo to Penguinville?
Poor humour aside this seems an incredibly bold audacious...
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| Life sentences | | Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:09 pm by steve | Todays report in the Yorkshire Evening Post tells us that lawyers representing David Bieber believe his 'whole of life' sentence infringes his human rights. Poor David had the misfortune to shoot at three police officers, wounding two and killing the other as he begged for his life. The fact he was trying to escape from them because he was guilty of another life sentence inducing crime probably co...
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| Inheritance Tax: Sisters Lose Case | | Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:33 pm by Karl_Fresco | Joyce and Sybil Burden, aged 90 and 82, have lost their case at the European Court of Human Rights, to be exempt from paying inheritance tax because they view themselves as a cohabiting couple and wanted the same tax arrangements as married and gay couples. They lost their case for unfair discrimination by 15 - 2 votes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7372555.stm
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