Daily News Roundup 3rd January 2008
Here is todays roundup of stories from the web and the papers.
News
- How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infections
Just before Christmas, a tape recorder in her hand, Joan Home marched off to Barnsley Hospital in Yorkshire and forced managers to admit that not only had Edwin contracted a lethal infection called Clostridium difficile (C. diff) as a patient, but that doctors failed to declare the truth on his death certificate.
Emma Henry (Telegraph) - Plans for new coal-fired power station backed
Councillors in Kent have backed plans to build Britain’s first coal-fired power station in more than 20 years.
BBC (BBC) - Tougher data laws needed, say MPs
Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, a committee of MPs has said.
Sky News (Sky News) - Motorists Paying £7.36 More To Fill Up
The milestone spells more bad news for drivers in the UK, with the latest price hike beating the previous record of 102.92p set on Boxing Day.
Jon Boone in Kabul (Financial Times) - US general warns on Afghan defence plan
British plans to equip tribes to defend their villages against the Taliban will not work in the region of Afghanistan in which UK forces are responsible, the top US general commanding Nato forces in the country warned on Wednesday.
Comment
Ibrahim El Houdaiby (Comment is Free)
- The Brotherhood opens up
In an unprecedented initiative, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has circulated a draft of its manifesto for widespread consultation
Stefanie Marsh (Times Online) - No man’s land
Knock Yourself Up, a new book from the US, has provoked outcry by encouraging women to become single mothers, without men, through artificial insemination. Our correspondent meets its author
John Barnes (Times Online) - Big Issue
The trend towards larger secondary schools should be recognised and reversed
The Economist (The Economist) - Intelligent design
When does a town become a resort?
International
MARK LEIBOVICH (New York Times)
- Fatigue Factor Gives Equal Time to Candidates
DES MOINES — It’s the groggy, nerve-sizzling season on the trail, and forget the attack ads and last-minute scrapping. Any candidate will attest that the epic fight now is against sleep deprivation, the gaffe-inducing monster that looms over every campaign in its final hours.
Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick (Washington Post (Free Registration))- Criminal Probe on CIA Tapes Opened
The Justice Department said yesterday that it has opened a formal criminal investigation into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes, appointing a career prosecutor to examine whether intelligence officials broke the law by destroying videos of exceptionally harsh questioning of terrorism suspects.
Obituary
- Ian MacArthur: Effective Scottish Unionist MP
Ian MacArthur was one of the more effective leaders of Scottish Unionism, although in a period when the party was in slow decline. Elected to Parliament as the Member for Perth and East Perthshire in 1959, MacArthur was appointed an assistant whip in 1962 and promoted to be a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Scottish Whip in December 1963.
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