Alan Johnson

Police fail to investigate one third of crimes

Police failed to investigate more than 1.5 million reported crimes last year, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Bernard Hogan-Howe, the former head of Merseyside Police and now an inspector for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of...

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Labour cracks down on teenage violence

Teenage perpetrators of domestic violence are to be targeted by the government in a hard-hitting awareness campaign that reflects concern about physical abuse meted out by the young. The move, part of the government's Violence...

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Why it's very likely the next parliament will be doubly hung

With today's poll suggesting a shrinking Tory lead, David Cameron could find himself governing with a tiny majority or none at all A spectre is stalking the corridors of Westminster, the spectre of a hung parliament. The...

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Anger at Peter Mandelson's £13m plan for ‘minimalist palace’ after he calls for pay restraint

With its moody lighting, low-slung sofas and plasma TVs, there is only one Cabinet Minister who would feel truly at home here – this is the £13million new Whitehall ‘palace’ being built for Peter Mandelson.

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Police 'to visit every crime scene'

Police should visit every victim of crime, says Home Secretary Alan Johnson, ahead of the first national TV and radio advertising campaign to explain what people should expect from their force. Andy Tighe reports. The BBC is...

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Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules (AP)

By BEN NEARY, Associated Press Writer Ben Neary, Associated Press Writer – 12 mins ago CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting...

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MoD bonuses: a 'travesty of justice'?

By Contributing editor Emily Hohler Nov 20, 2009 Dangerous business - but staple guns can nip a bit too Being a civil servant at the Ministry of Defence is a "very difficult and sometimes dangerous job", said Home Secretary...

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Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park. The Park Service issued a temporary rule...

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The 'biblical' deluge that broke all the records

Extreme rainfall that swamped northern England with devastating floods, sweeping away bridges, making hundreds homeless and killing a policeman, was the heaviest ever recorded in Britain in a 24-hour period.

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'Gangbos' aimed at teenage crime

New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime bill New antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced...

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