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WHAT HAPPENED ON 4th May 2006?
3th May 2006
Blair gives upbeat poll message
Tony Blair says Labour's record not the latest newspaper headlines should decide the local elections in England. Election experts predict Labour could be badly damaged by the foreign prisoners controversy & news of John Prescott's affair with a secretary. But Mr Blair told a union conference in Blackpool: "It has been difficult but nine days' headlines should not obscure nine years of achievements." He told voters to focus on how schools the NHS & policing had improved.
4th May 2006
Sunshine brings local voters out
Early signs suggest turnout will be above average in the local elections in England as voters stream to polling stations in bright sunshine. Some 144 English authorities & all 32 of London's boroughs are holding votes as 4 360 council seats are contested. Thirty-six metropolitan authorities & 20 unitary authorities are electing a third of their council members while 88 districts are also holding polls. Watford Hackney Newham & Lewisham are holding mayoral elections.
4th May 2006
'Designer baby' bid gets go-ahead
A couple from Leicester have been given permission by the fertility watchdog to have a "saviour sibling" in a bid to help their sick 20-month-old daughter. Charlotte Mariethoz has the rare blood condition diamond blackfan anaemia & doctors say she needs a stem cell transplant from a genetic match. Her parents will now use IVF to try to have a "designer baby" to save her. In 2004 a British boy with the same disorder was saved by cells from a baby brother born after embryo selection.
3th May 2006
Blair gives upbeat poll message
Tony Blair says Labour's record not the latest newspaper headlines should decide the local elections in England. Election experts predict Labour could be badly damaged by the foreign prisoners controversy & news of John Prescott's affair with a secretary. But Mr Blair told a union conference in Blackpool: "It has been difficult but nine days' headlines should not obscure nine years of achievements." He told voters to focus on how schools the NHS & policing had improved.
4th May 2006
Sunshine brings local voters out
Early signs suggest turnout will be above average in the local elections in England as voters stream to polling stations in bright sunshine. Some 144 English authorities & all 32 of London's boroughs are holding votes as 4 360 council seats are contested. Thirty-six metropolitan authorities & 20 unitary authorities are electing a third of their council members while 88 districts are also holding polls. Watford Hackney Newham & Lewisham are holding mayoral elections.
4th May 2006
McClaren named as England manager
Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren has been appointed the next England manager ending months of speculation over Sven-Goran Eriksson's successor. McClaren had looked set to miss out to Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari who was offered the post by the Football Association in April. But when Scolari ruled himself out of contention the FA turned their attentions to the 45-year-old McClaren. Eriksson's current assistant has agreed a four-year deal starting on 1 August.
3th May 2006
New arrest in brother stabbings
A man has been arrested in Birmingham in connection with the murders of two brothers in south London. The 22-year-old is in custody in a south London police station. Mohammad Ali 24 and Hayder Ali 23 were stabbed to death by a group of men who had surrounded their van at midnight on 22 April in Tooting. Eight men have been charged with murder and remanded in custody until their next court appearance on 2 August at the Old Bailey.
4th May 2006
Sunshine brings local voters out
Early signs suggest turnout will be above average in the local elections in England as voters stream to polling stations in bright sunshine. Some 144 English authorities & all 32 of London's boroughs are holding votes as 4 360 council seats are contested. Thirty-six metropolitan authorities & 20 unitary authorities are electing a third of their council members while 88 districts are also holding polls. Watford Hackney Newham & Lewisham are holding mayoral elections.
4th May 2006
Mixed UK reaction to 9/11 verdict
The chairman of the mosque where 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui first worshipped in Britain has welcomed the life sentence given to the Frenchman. Abdul Haq Baker who chairs the Brixton Mosque in south London said he believed Moussaoui 37 had deliberately sought the death penalty. He was relieved the verdict would not allow Moussaoui to be seen as a martyr. But UK-based relatives of those killed in the attacks were divided on whether he should have been sentenced to death.
