Daily News Roundup - Tue 19 February 2007

By admin • February 19, 2008

Here is todays roundup of stories.

News

Mail - The ‘conspirators’: Those involved in Diana and Dodi’s ‘murders’ - according to Al Fayed
Mr Fayed yesterday detailed his belief that some of the most senior figures in the country had been involved in Diana and Dodi’s “murders”.

Times Online - It’s official: the Landfill Prize Top 10
From oh-so-clever toothbrushes to an infant care timer. What you said you could really live without

Times Online - ‘Barely trained’ paralegals will be forced to take CPS cases to trial
Plans are due to go ahead for thousands of trials a year to be prosecuted by non-lawyers, even though the paralegals themselves say that they are insufficiently trained, The Times has learnt.

Economist - The road to e-democracy
E-government is only the beginning

BBC - Prescott warns critics off China
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has rounded on China’s critics, saying relations cannot be allowed to sour over the Darfur issue.

NYT - With Oil Prices Rising, Wood Makes a Comeback
After years of steep decline, wood heat is back, with people flocking to dealers to buy new wood stoves, wood boilers and stoves that burn pellets made of wood byproducts.

Comment

Telegraph - How can MPs get rid of a turbulent Speaker?
We live in different times, but history serves as an indicator of just how difficult it is for the Commons to rid itself of a Speaker in whom it has lost confidence.

Guardian - NHS chief accused of eroding hospitals’ independence
David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, was accused of breaking the law by issuing instructions to foundation hospitals that infringe their independence.

Comment is Free - Fascism on film
Brazilians should be ashamed at the success of Tropa de Elite, a film which dehumanises the victims of police torture

Scotland

BBC - Wildcat population to be surveyed
Walkers in the Highlands are being asked to help discover the true numbers of one of Britain’s most secretive creatures - the Scottish wildcat.

Wales

OurKingdom - Will Morgan deliver on the promise which sunk the rainbow coalition?
Just when Gordon Brown concedes there’s “a very strong case” for a review of Scottish devolution, the man he appointed to represent Wales around the Cabinet table has been downplaying expectations of refreshing the Assembly’s powers.

Randeep Ramesh (Guardian) - The new Asian tiger poised to match China

Anil Ambani will overtake his older brother Mukesh to become the country’s richest man with a fortune of more than $60bn leter this month.

Patrick Wintour and Will Woodward (Guardian) - Climate blame for India as Brown praises Chinese role

Environment minister says Delhi not yet putting shoulder to wheel on emissions

Thair Shaikh (Guardian) - MoD loses personal details of 600,000 potential recruits

The personal details of 600,000 people who had expressed an interest in joining the armed forces have gone missing after a laptop belonging to a Royal Navy officer was stolen, the Ministry of Defence said last night.

Martin Wainwright (Guardian) - Severn valley braced for weekend of flooding

The latest forecasts last night suggested that most of the area would be spared, but the Environment Agency warned that intense bursts of rain could overwhelm some defences, and contingency planning was in hand.

GAIL COLLINS (Mail) - Pupils plagiarise so much that we receive essays with adverts accidentally copied from internet

More than half of teachers believe that plagiarism is a major problem among A-level pupils, a teaching union warned yesterday.

NYT (NYT) - White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone

The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.

Sky (Sky) - Fed Up Rail Commuters Go On Strike

Fed up rail commuters have announced their intention to hold a fare strike by showing inspectors specially printed protest tickets instead of real ones.

Andrew Porter (Telegraph) - Gordon Brown’s historic trade deal with China

On the first day of his trip to China, the Prime Minister said he wanted 100 Chinese firms locating in Britain by 2010.

David Charter (Times Online) - All the best EU jobs are stitched up by men, complains the top woman

The most prestigious public jobs in Europe, according to the EU’s most powerful woman official, are being stitched up behind the scenes by a mysterious male elite to the exclusion of women.

Adam Sherwin (Times Online) - Carla Bruni, teams up with Mike Batt, the man who gave us The Wombles

President Sarkozy will be sharing house room at the Élysée Palace with the songwriter and producer Mike Batt, who has agreed to become Ms Bruni’s muse. (The Times, downmarket? How dare you).

Obituary

Independent (Independent) - Bobby Fischer: Chess Player

Robert James Fischer, chess player: born Chicago 9 March 1943; World Chess Champion 1972-75; died Reykjavik 17 January 2008.

Scotland

BBC (BBC) - Party people confront new realities

When the next chapter in the devolution story is written, Room B at One Parliament Street London SW1 may deserve more than a passing mention.

Wales

BBC (BBC) - £40m foot-and-mouth bill

The foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2007 may have cost Welsh farmers more than £40m, a Welsh assembly committee has found.

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