Content by radical cleric, who influenced Roshonara Choudhry and is a prime suspect in the air cargo bomb plot, can be seen on video sharing siteVideos by the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have radicalised Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed Stephen Timms MP, are widely available on YouTube despite the US and UK [...]
Defence secretary insists Britain will retain its ’sovereign independence’The defence secretary Liam Fox insisted today that closer co-operation between British and French defence forces would not compromise UK sovereignty.The 50-year defence treaties are to be signed at a summit in London between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, and will result in British and French forces [...]
Islamist cleric who radicalised Roshonara ChoudhryThe man police and friends say radicalised Roshonara Choudhry was Anwar al-Awlaki.She watched sermons by the Islamist cleric which are available on the internet, and which helped her to come to the view that she should use violence.He is the “spiritual leader” of al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula, whose sermons [...]
Two plants in the south of England would run on palm oil, a crop critics say contributes to deforestation and drives up food pricesTwo new power stations that use a fuel critics say contributes to the destruction of rainforest in south-east Asia may be built in the UK through subsidies added to customer bills.The two [...]
• Outgoing chief Eric Daniels hoping for ‘good full-year result’• 40%-taxpayer owned bank says it is reducing reliance on Bank of England funding• Lloyds has lent £35bn to businesses, aiming for a £44bn targetLloyds Banking Group remains on track to report a profit for 2010 – the first time since the banking crisis – but [...]
For a while I thought Cheam railway station had disappeared into the suburban equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. I set off blithely anticipating heading straight there from Waterloo, but I’d forgotten it’s not as simple as that. I had to be rescued at Wimbledon by a helpful Network Rail lady with a very foreign accent [...]
Staines name change would make it more likely to attract people visiting for 2012 Olympics, says local businessmanWhile the government of Kazakhstan was famously unhappy with Sacha Baron Cohen’s portrayal of the Kazakhstani journalist Borat, it presumably never considered changing the country’s name to escape the association.But the Surrey town of Staines is looking at [...]
Twenty-six European leaders turned up for a dinner in Brussels this evening with one burning question to discuss: Whether or not to change the European Union treaties to accommodate Germany’s demands for a new permanent bailout fund?
But one Euro…