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News story: Royal Navy evacuates refugees as part of Nato exercise
More than 60 naval personnel from the Plymouth-based amphibious assault ship and around 30 Royal Marines of 539 Assault Squadron set up a facility on Craignarget beach near Stranraer to process...
View ArticlePress release: £410 million for council services that put people first
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today (2 April 2014) announced £410 million in funding to help councils transform the way they run local services to put the user first.Following on from the...
View ArticleNews story: Whitehall starts using simpler security classifications
Updated: Added link to detailed guidance.More than 700,000 civil servants and military personnel are using the new markings, and the wider public sector will adopt them at a later date. The new system...
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News story: Armed Forces Day events unveiled
This year’s Armed Forces Day national event, on 28 June, will see Stirling leading the UK’s celebrations in honour of our servicemen and women past and present.Kicking off festivities will be an...
View ArticlePress release: New independent panel to advise on services that put people first
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the Local Government Secretary have today (2 April 2014) announced the creation of an independent panel to look at how public services are delivered.The new...
View ArticlePress release: Foreign Secretary meets Egyptian Foreign Minister
The Foreign Secretary William Hague met the Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy in Brussels on 2 April. They discussed the political situation in Egypt, including the Presidential elections scheduled...
View ArticlePress release: Foreign Secretary welcomes UK ratification of the Arms Trade...
Updated: Added translationForeign Secretary William Hague said:I am delighted to have overseen the successful conclusion of negotiations and last week to have signed the agreement on behalf of the...
View ArticleSpeech: Statement from British High Commissioner
“The UK condemns the recent violence on the Kenyan Coast, particularly the recent attack on church-goers in Likoni on 23 March. We are also concerned by the shooting of Sheikh Abubakar Shariff...
View ArticleNews story: Driving the Innovation Code into action
Nissan is renowned for its links to the North East car industry, and its Sunderland plant won the contract to manufacture 50,000 all electric cars per year, known as the Leading, Environmentally...
View ArticlePress release: Boost for business with new digital hub and super-fast...
Wales Office Minister Stephen Crabb MP will today visit Cardiff’s new digital hub to highlight the major funding the UK government is providing to small businesses so they can access super fast...
View ArticlePress release: New drive to end deliberate face-down restraint
Restraint can cause both physical and psychological harm to patients and staff. As a result the government has published new guidance to reduce the use of this outdated practice in all health and adult...
View ArticlePress release: £1 billion boost for Cambridgeshire
The Greater Cambridge City Deal is expected to unlock £1 billion of investments in transport and housing, making once in a generation changes to boost economic growth across the region. Cambridge is...
View ArticlePress release: New chief executive appointed to Planning Inspectorate
Simon will bring a record of strong leadership and operational delivery to a role that is key to ensuring the swift implementation of reforms to the planning system. He joined the department in 2010 as...
View ArticleNews story: New designs proposed for voting forms in Northern Ireland
The Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Andrew Robathan MP today published a consultation proposing new designs for the voting forms used in elections in Northern Ireland.The proposals aim...
View ArticleStatement to Parliament: Chantler report on standardised packaging of tobacco...
With permission Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement about the publication of Sir Cyril Chantler’s report on the standardised packaging of tobacco productsSmoking kills nearly 80,000 people each year...
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News story: Royal Marines complete first part of anniversary challenge
The Royal Marines skied 1,664km from Porsangermoen, in northern Norway, down to the southern port city of Stavanger.They completed the distance in just under 2 months with conditions ranging from...
View ArticlePress release: Plans to eradicate bovine TB in England unveiled
This includes continuing to strengthen cattle movement controls, a grant-funded scheme for badger vaccination projects in the ‘edge area’ at the frontier of the disease, and improvements to the...
View ArticlePress release: New loans to help Muslim students go to university
A new model for Sharia law-compliant student loans has been unveiled today (3 April 2014) by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts. The proposed system will enable people whose religious...
View ArticleStatement to Parliament: Keeping children safe: updated statutory guidance...
Today I am publishing updated statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges - ‘Keeping children safe in education’. Effective immediately, it has been sent to all schools and colleges and...
View ArticlePress release: Fluoride monitoring report finds lower levels of tooth decay...
Updated: Change to odds ratio, as described in notes to editors.Children in local authorities with water fluoridation schemes (where the level of fluoride is adjusted to 1 part per million) have less...
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