More than 30,000 people in the area claim education maintenance allowance which helps poor students aged 16 to 18 afford to stay in school or college. But the scheme is being scrapped by the Government at the end of this academic year.Across London, almost 100,000 teenagers claim payments of between £10 and £30 a week. Figures from the Department for Education show the biggest demand is in east London — more than 5,000 in Newham get the allowance, along with more than 4,000 in Tower Hamlets, compared with 900 in Richmond.
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Holyrood to be given power to move date of election - Herald Scotland | News | Politics - 0 views
End of college cash incentives to hit East End pupils hardest | News - 0 views
Sea passengers to mainland could face security check - Belfast Today - 0 views
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While the Government has yet to table final proposals, one idea is that every person entering Great Britain would have to give one week's notice and complete a questionnaire which contained some 96 questions, before arrival.
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Conor Foley: Jacqui Smith should review her conscience | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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No one needs to explain to Jacqui Smith why it is wrong to give the police extended detention powers because she already knows the arguments. Many years ago when we were both activists in the Labour party's student wing, she was in the office of Sally Morgan, the party's student officer, when the police told her they were holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. She knows what happened to me and she must know that she will be inflicting this on other innocent people.
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John Muellbauer: A housing-led recession is looking very likely (vox) - 0 views
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Looking ahead Looking forward, the research suggests a UK recession will be hard to avoid. Relative to mid-2007, the decline in the housing wealth to income ratio will soon reach 15%, which would eventually lower the consumption/income ratio by about 2.5 percentage points. But real household incomes are themselves falling, under pressure from oil and food prices. A further 1% or more fall in consumption is likely from the direct and interaction effects of the contraction of credit availability. On top of all that comes the effect of the fall in the stock market. The estimated adjustment speed in the model is 0.35 per quarter, so it takes several quarters for the full effects to show up.
Internet censorship silly season (Index on Censorship) - 0 views
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If we really wanted every email to include a photograph of the person sending it then we could rewrite the standard and change the code, and if we really wanted to link email addresses to entries in the national ID database we could. The real danger is not that politicians ask for things that the current network architecture cannot support, but that the network could be changed to make those things possible.
Peter, we've spent 10 years working with Gordon and we don't like him. The more the pub... - 0 views
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Douglas arrived at HQ very agitated about it. ‘I can’t believe Ed Miliband,’ he complained. ‘You’d imagine that after ten years of waiting for this, and ten years complaining about Tony, we would have some idea of what we are going to do but we don’t seem to have any policies. For God’s sake, Harriet’s helping write the manifesto!’It was the first serious indication of a recurrent theme of Gordon’s premiership – everyone around him thought there was some big plan sitting in a bottom drawer somewhere, just ready to be pulled out when the moment came. In fact, there was nothing.
The great 'big state' debate | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"the broader pattern in the powers endowed to the state by Labour. These I listed as the national DNA database, which despite the unanimous ruling of the European court of human rights retained the genetic profiles of the innocent; the plans to access the data of all communications; Police Forward Intelligence Teams building a database of legitimate protesters; the automatic number plate recognition system covering all major road and tracking "tagged" vehicles; the eBorders scheme that will collect and store information from all journeys across UK borders; the children's databases that prohibit access by parents; the Criminal Records Bureau checks of teenagers helping out at school; and the ID card scheme that will record all the major transaction of a person's life."
Clegg warns of threat to union if Cameron wins keys to No 10 - Herald Scotland | ... - 1 views
We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told - Eamon McCann - Belfastt... - 0 views
Stephen Byers claims no rules were broken during lobbying sting | Politics | guardian.c... - 0 views
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"There is absolutely no room for anyone to trade on their ministerial office. People come into politics ‑ whether Labour, Tory or Lib Dem – because of what they want to do for the country. And I believe that's true for MPs across all parties, I don't think this is a partisan point."Anything which sullies that reputation or gets in the way of that public service is completely inimical. I think it's right that we have tightened up the rules already ... but the Labour manifesto is going to say more about the need for a statutory register of the lobbying industry, because there is absolutely no room for the sort of innuendo or promises that seem to have been floated in this case."
LibDems pledge to hand more powers to Scotland - Herald Scotland - 0 views
Lib Dems want to destroy Parliament and replace it with rule by judges | Mail Online - 0 views
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Before the Election, David Cameron promised a Sovereignty Bill. In his speech entitled Giving Power Back To The People he said: ‘As we have no written constitution . . . we have no explicit legal guarantee that the last word on our laws stays in Britain . . . so, as well as making sure that further power cannot be handed to the EU without a referendum, we will also introduce a new law, in the form of a United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill, to make it clear that ultimate authority stays in this country, in our Parliament
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Britain was right to do business with Libya - 0 views
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Of course, when such public groundswell starts to spread, countries such as Britain should be among the first to offer encouragement and practical support. We should always use our diplomatic channels to exert pressure in favour of reform and democracy.
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