The Wardman Wire

To mention it once again, I continue - since the hyperlinks which they broke when they redesigned their website continue to be broken, and I have received no response to requests for them to sort it out. I have added this paragraph to the Daily Roundup template.

Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Iraqi Interpreters

Deborah Haynes (Times Online) - Iraqi interpreters and families prepare for new lives in Britain
Iraqis who risked their lives working for Britain have been cleared to resettle in the UK, with the first families expected to arrive next month, The Times can reveal. The first wave will include seven former interpreters who have met the strict criteria for resettlement and have chosen to come to Britain. Many others have accepted cash payments to stay in Iraq or decided to resettle in a neighbouring country such as Jordan or Syria.

Comment

Jeff Jarvis (Comment is Free)

- A smothering embrace - Bebo
AOL - which is paying $850m for the social networking site, the other Facebook - is where innovations go to die. Remember Netscape? Bought for $4.2bn and now dead.

News

BBC (BBC) - All MP claims may be published
The Commons has been ordered to publish details of the claims of 14 MPs under Freedom of Information laws. Sources say all claims may be published by December.

Economist (Economist) - US Election - The scrap is getting uglier
THE Democratic race for the presidential nomination has settled into a pattern. Barack Obama gains momentum, and is nearly crowned the winner. Then Hillary Clinton wins a high-profile contest and makes a comeback, before Mr Obama builds up steam yet again. Mrs Clinton’s latest resurrection came with big wins in Texas and Ohio. But now Mr Obama is back. Over the weekend he won a caucus in Wyoming and on Tuesday March 11th he emerged as victor at a primary in Mississippi. He won both by margins of over 20 points.

Deborah Summers (Guardian) - Brown dampens Mandelson hopes of second term at EU
Gordon Brown last night moved to quash the hopes of Peter Mandelson of staying on as EU trade commissioner, despite suggestions earlier this week that the feud between the pair was diminishing and Mandelson was prepared to serve a second term.

Elissa Gootman (NYT) - For Bronx School’s Dancers, the Moves Are Irish
With a student body that is 71 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black, Public School 59 does not seem an obvious home for a thriving Irish dance troupe. And when Caroline Duggan first arrived from Dublin at age 23 to try her hand as a New York City public school music teacher, it wasn’t. Many of her students had never heard of Ireland. Why, they wanted to know, did she talk funny?

Rosa Prince (Telegraph) - Revealed: what MPs can claim on expenses
The John Lewis list was released under the Freedom of Information Act after weeks of pressure. The list of allowances is used by finance officials to pass or reject MPs’ expenses claims for decorating their second homes and buying household items. Until recently it was kept secret even from MPs who were not given formal guidance on how much they could spend on individual items. It shows that MPs are allowed to spend £10,000 for a kitchen and £6,000 to install a new bathroom. Air conditioning units, beds, food mixers and rugs are all allowed, while carpets and wood flooring can be bought at £35 per square metre.”

James Bone (Times Online) - Prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupre behind Eliot Spitzer sex scandal cashes in
Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a struggling singer, uploaded a new track to Amie Street, an online music-seller, hours after she was exposed as the prostitute Kristen talking on tape about the disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

Suzy Jagger (Times Online)

- Father and daughter team duped 15,000 pensioners out of £35m
Around 15,000 British pensioners are thought to have been duped out of more than $70 million (£35 million) by a father and daughter team working an aggressive investment scam in Florida.

Scotland

BBC (BBC) - Salmond’s Trump action cavalier
First Minister Alex Salmond took a cavalier approach to his involvement with Donald Trump’s £1bn Scottish golf resort, a parliament committee said.

BBC (BBC) - High heels spark car parking row
A councillor said she has been denied free parking that would save her walking half a mile in her high heels for meetings with the public.

Wales

BBC (BBC) - Inquiry into stabbed vicar death
A heath watchdog is examining why a man with paranoid schizophrenia who stabbed a vicar to death was not identified as a threat.

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