http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/greatbritain/ en-us Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:25:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421633/posts Soldiers called rapists by mob  Accused ... anti-war protesters arrive in court ROGER B CRUMP By NEIL SYSON Published: 04 Jan 2010     HERO soldiers on a homecoming parade were bombarded with vile "rapist" and "baby-killer" chants by a mob of Muslim fanatics, a court heard today. The men from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglican Regiment were also told to "burn in hell" as they marched through Luton in front of cheering families. But the hate-filled insults almost sparked a riot when anger swept through the locals welcoming back the 'The Poachers' from Afghanistan and Iraq. Cops... The Sun (U.K.) / Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421633/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416023/posts  EXCLUSIVE Taliban Think They'll Explode As I Roar Over  Ready ... John with jet From DAVID WILLETTS in Afghanistan   Published: Today   AN RAF hero told yesterday how his squadron strikes terror into the Taliban - with fearsome Tornados. Flight Lieutenant John Pingree and his fellow aces roar low across the ground at 600mph, creating a noise so thunderous "it feels like your ribcage is going to explode". The manoeuvre - seen as "an aggressive show of force" - is so threatening they say it makes fanatics scurry into the hills. John, a navigator and weapons system officer known... The Sun (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416023/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414061/posts Passengers stranded when modern-day trains fell victim to the freezing weather have been rescued by the crew of a steam engine. About 100 passengers climbed aboard the first mainline steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost half a century at London Victoria when electric trains were delayed.  The 1940s technology used to power Tornado, a £3million Peppercorn class A1 Pacific, was able to withstand the snow and ice that brought much of the South East to a standstill on Monday night. Historic solution: The Tornado A1 locomotive came to the aid of stranded passengers let down by... The Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414061/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:36:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403734/posts Remember all those polls during the Presidential Campaign, how Europe desperately wanted Barack Obama to win. The European leadership all fawned over Obama when he made his summer tour tour around the world. One of the President's campaign promises was that he was going to "repair" our relationship with Europe (as if they needed to be repaired). Ever since he was inaugurated, President Obama has done his best to diss our allies in Europe especially Great Britain. Almost one year into the Obama Presidency, our "relationship-repairer-in-chief" has done more to increase the divide between Britain and the US than to... UK Daily Mail/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403734/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:47:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396366/posts No matter how you slice it, this is just frightening. I stumbled upon this diagram (from Great Britain’s National Health Service) on the BBC news site. Check the site out, please. Am I missing something? I read and re-read the article and could find no reference to the numbers – only those on the picture. And they certainly don’t jive with the numbered list below Mr. Skinned. Point #1 clearly aligns with the #1 symptoms listed below the figure: whole body | high temperature, tiredness and lowered immunity. Point #2, ditto. #3 location is the stomach: this is where you... Grand Rants http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396366/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:52:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395665/posts The amount spent on employing managers has risen by a quarter, or £78 million, in the past two years, the study shows. NHS Trusts blamed Whitehall targets for the increase. It comes a day after NICE, the drugs rationing watchdog, refused funding for life-prolonging bowel cancer drug Avastin, saying it was not cost effective. Pulse, a magazine for GPs, found that projected spending on management salaries has increased by 25 per cent between 2007/08 and 2009/10 in primary care trusts, which look after community services. It was up from £312million to £390million. But the true figure is likely to be... www.telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395665/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:36:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395130/posts The UK Independence Party is set to head in a fresh direction, fighting radical Islam, with the election today of a replacement for Nigel Farage as its national leader. The two favourites to take over from Mr Farage are committed to adding the battle against Islamic fundamentalism to the party’s main goal of withdrawing Britain from the European Union. Mr Farage resisted strong grassroots pressure during his three-year leadership to broaden UKIP’s focus to include actively campaigning against Islamism and immigration. But both Lord Pearson of Rannoch and the London MEP Gerard Batten — the two front-runners in a field... The London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395130/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:13:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389669/posts As the new hunting season begins today, animal rights activists are threatening to disrupt meets as "observers", as well as joining hunts undercover. The saboteurs will film constantly using new telescopic lenses so hunts can be monitored from a distance. They will also use hidden cameras in clothing and time-delay devices dotted around the countryside. (edit) Hunting was banned in 2005 but since then the number of people taking part in the sport has continued to increase, with 50,000 mounted followers expected this year compared to 40,000 in 2004. This year there are expected to be a further 50,000... The Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389669/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:59:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385430/posts Government seeks secrecy on cleft palate abortions The Government has launched a High Court bid to maintain secrecy over the abortion of babies with cleft palate and club feet. Published: 7:00AM GMT 13 Nov 2009 In an extraordinary move, the Department of Health is taking the Government's own Information Tribunal to court to overturn a landmark Freedom of Information Act ruling. The case, which is set to cost the taxpayer thousands, aims to prevent the publication of controversial statistics including late terminations for disabled babies, which are legal under Ground E of the Abortion Act, right up to birth. Last... The Daily Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385430/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385193/posts Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun Thursday, November 12, 2009, 10:30 A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year. The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year's imprisonment for handing in the weapon. In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said:... This Is Surrey Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385193/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381059/posts A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him up. It was another blow for the couple, whose wedding this year was halted just 48 hours before the ceremony in a row over whether Miss Robertson was intelligent enough to marry.   Miss Robertson, who is 29 weeks pregnant, has since been told the couple will be... The Daily Mail (U.K.) / various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381059/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:02:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377748/posts Regular readers of these pages know my little "pet name" for the leadership of the global warming hoaxers is "The Holy Church of Global Warming Moonbats" There is a Judge in the UK who believes just as I do, except he is serious. In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations". UK Telegraph/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377748/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376067/posts British film icon Sir Michael Caine has abandoned his support of the Labour party and announced he will vote Conservative at the next general election. The actor, 76, a former Labour supporter, condemned the “terrible state” that has been allowed to develop in Britain and said he planned to change his allegiance at the next election. For his latest film, Harry Brown, about violence on Britain’s streets, Sir Michael spent time with a gang from a tough inner London estate, who were hired as extras. Telegraph,UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376067/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:37:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372510/posts A man who stabbed a burglar to death after catching him in the act was charged with murder yesterday. Omari Roberts, 23, was remanded in custody. Roberts had found two teenage burglars in his mother's house when he arrived to visit her. After chasing one of the youths, aged 14, from the property, he returned to find 17-year-old Tyler Juett still there. There was a struggle and Juett was fatally stabbed in the chest, Nottingham Magistrates Court was told. The Crown Prosecution Service said the decision to charge Roberts months after the incident in March had been taken after 'careful... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372510/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:25:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372275/posts Scotland Yard has abandoned plans for armed foot patrols and marksmen on motorbikes in gun crime hotspots in the face of mounting political criticism. Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was forced to withdraw the proposal before a meeting of his police authority on Thursday, where he would have faced fierce criticism. The plan to deploy armed officers on the beat as a response to rising gun crime in the capital was announced last week when Sir Paul was out of the country. A team from CO19, the unit that shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005,... The Times (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372275/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371364/posts So now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. For years, as the number of immigrants to Britain shot up apparently uncontrollably, the question was how exactly this had happened. Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate? The latter explanation seemed just too outrageous. After all, a deliberate policy of mass immigration would have amounted to nothing less than an attempt to change the very make-up of this country without telling the electorate. There could not have been a more grave abuse of the entire... The Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371364/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370387/posts (edit)Accounts filed at the Charity Commission show that the Government paid a total of £113,411 last year to a foundation run by senior members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a notorious Islamic extremist group that ministers promised to ban. (edit) Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, last night described the disclosure as “astonishing and outrageous” and accused the Government of “sleeping on the job”. Hizb regards integration as “dangerous” and says that British Muslims should “fight assimilation” into British society. It wants to create a global Islamic superstate, or “caliphate”, initially in Muslim-majority countries and then across the rest... The Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370387/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369770/posts Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former Government adviser said yesterday. Andrew Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour's relaxation of controls was a plan to 'open up the UK to mass migration'. As well as bringing in hundreds of thousands to plug labour market gaps, there was also a 'driving political purpose' behind immigration policy, he claimed. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369770/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:28:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367296/posts A white pupil was battered with a hammer at a school where politically correct teachers were afraid to deal with racial tensions, the High Court heard yesterday... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367296/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364149/posts The image of a drunk student urinating on a war memorial has provoked a furious backlash from relatives who had laid wreaths of poppies in tribute to their loved ones. John Ievers, the grandson of a World War I soldier who died in 1917, branded student Philip Laing, 19, a 'drunken idiot' for desecrating the memorial in Baker's Pool, Sheffield. The 49-year-old software sales consultant said: 'I am annoyed - he's a drunken idiot. 'He should be made to clean the streets of Sheffield or do some kind of community service.' Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364149/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361992/posts SNIPPET: "Dalia Mogahed, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, joined a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) for a television interview in Great Britain on Sunday. The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report (GMBDR) noted that Mogahed was interviewed along with Dr. Nasreen Nawaz, women's representative for HT, on the British Muslim show "Muslimah Dilemma," which airs on the Islam Channel. GMBDR described the program as "a show presented by members of Hizb ut-Tahrir" featuring Nawaz "in her capacity as spokesperson" for the group. In some ways, Mogahed's performance during the 45-minute program (which has been... INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News - Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361992/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:21:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360295/posts Motorists should be forced to pay to drive on the busiest roads to slash greenhouse gas emissions, the Government's climate change watchdog says today. The Climate Change Committee, led by former CBI chief Lord Turner, wants ministers to introduce compulsory road pricing to prevent global warming. Under the controversial scheme, cars would be fitted with electronic tags and tracked either by satellite or roadside beacon. Charges would rise at times of peak congestion to around £1.50 a mile. In a report to MPs, the advisers called for a carbon revolution - with thousands of wind turbines, nuclear power stations... The Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360295/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:25:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353833/posts Until now, however, one plan has remained unknown: an 18th-century plot to invade with an American army during that country’s War of Independence. Drawn up by a French general, the scheme was to bring over an American force of 10,000 that would find a Britain so distracted by the war on the other side of the Atlantic, that victory would seem certain. Just to make sure, however, the general suggested that the force include a corps of Native Americans, or “sauvages”, as he termed them, who would strike such fear in British troops that any resistance would collapse immediately. The... The London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353833/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:16:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352573/posts   Ex-cop’s shocker for yobs   Keep out ... electric wire running along inside of Ralph's fenceSOUTH WEST NEWS By JOHN COLES Published: Today     A RETIRED cop is defending his home against yobs - with an ELECTRIC fence. Now a beat bobby has warned Ralph Harvey, 63, he may be sued if louts are injured by the live wire. The former RAF police sergeant says his bungalow is "under siege" from thugs throwing bricks, paving slabs, breeze blocks - and even acid.   Victim ... Ralph was burgled SOUTH WEST NEWS  The final straw came after all... The Sun (U.K.) / Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352573/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:26:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342481/posts A BOY aged 12 turned up at school as a GIRL - after changing sex during the summer holidays. Teachers called an emergency assembly to order fellow pupils to treat him as female. The lad, whose parents have changed his name to a girl's by deed poll, arrived in a dress with long hair in ribboned pigtails. He is preparing for sex-swap surgery. Angry parents told yesterday how their kids were left tearful and confused after school staff announced the boy pupil was now a girl. They said the head teacher should have informed them in advance of the "sex... The Sun UK, via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342481/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:16:34 GMT