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UNIT 24: CURRENT & MEDIA AFFAIRS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES
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Failed IT scheme costs Army £6.7m
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Operation Elveden: Man held in illegal payments probe
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Soldier Sentenced After Killing Baby Daughter
A soldier is jailed for killing his own daughter while suffering from post traumatic stress after an attack in Afghanistan.
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Theresa May at loggerheads with David Cameron over her plan to curb use of stop and search powers
- Young black men 7 times more likely to be stopped than a white person
- Home Secretary Theresa May fears damage to community relations
- 1.2 million searches each year but only 107,000 resulted in arrests
- Downing Street fears reining in powers will look soft on crime
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TPims anti-terror measures may be 'withering on the vine’ - MPs
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Phone Hacking Trial: Reporter Pleads Guilty
Dan Evans pleaded guilty last year to hacking at both the Sunday Mirror and the News Of The World (NOTW) and providing a false witness statement.
This is the first time those guilty pleas could be reported.
Evans, 38, told the jury he was approached by staff from the NOTW three times before he finally resigned from the Sunday Mirror in October 2004.
http://news.sky.com/story/1201882/phone-hacking-trial-reporter-pleads-guilty