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WHAT HAPPENED ON 27th May 2006?
26th May 2006
UK attacked over terror flights
Ministers are failing to meet their legal duties to investigate claims that the CIA is flying terror suspects through the UK say MPs & peers. Parliament's joint committee on human rights says the government should take "active steps" to find out more details about certain flights. The appeal comes in a damning report which also accused the UK of trying to undermine the absolute ban on torture. The government insists there is no evidence of secret prisoner flights.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Two arrested over pupil stabbing
Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested over the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy outside his school in Birmingham. The victim suffered stomach injuries when he was attacked outside Heartlands High School in Nechells on Friday. He is stable at City Hospital after undergoing surgery & his condition is not life-threatening. West Midlands Police said the two arrested boys from the Stechford & Hodge Hill areas were being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.
26th May 2006
Rebels defeated on schools veto
Ministers saw off a rebel amendment to the Education Bill which would have given parents a veto over secondary schools becoming independent trusts. Lib Dems & 67 Labour MPs wanted to give parents a vote on English schools leaving local authority control. But in the end an alliance of Labour loyalists & Conservatives prevailed voting by 412 to 121 to reject the amendment - a majority of 291. Education Secretary Alan Johnson said his plans would provide greater choice.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Cameron: KGB tried to recruit me
Conservative leader David Cameron says he believes KGB agents may have tried to recruit him during his gap year. In an interview for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he told how suspect agents "interrogated" him in Yalta in what may have been a recruitment drive. The MP also talked about his disabled son who suffers from a combination of epilepsy & cerebral palsy. He picked an eclectic mix of music for his desert island ranging from Benny Hill to The Killers & Mendelssohn.
26th May 2006
Lib Dems 'want violence register'
Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell has called for a "violent crimes" register and an end to the automatic release of prisoners halfway through sentences. In a speech he also said people in jail for serious crimes should continue to be denied the right to vote - a reversal of the party's past policy. And he argued that foreign criminals must serve sentences in their home country or be deported on release. He is trying to counter Labour & Tory claims his party is too soft on crime.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
UK offers aid for Java earthquake
Britain has offered immediate aid to Indonesia after a huge earthquake killed thousands on the island of Java. More than 3 000 people have been killed and thousands more injured by a strong earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java officials have said. The UK is standing by to help with search & rescue teams & officials to help co-ordinate relief efforts. Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said so far there have been no reports of British casualties in the region.
26th May 2006
Reid to tackle police force plans
John Reid is to address an audience of top police officers for the first time as home secretary. His speech is likely to focus on merger plans under which the number of police forces in England & Wales could be reduced from 43 to as few as 17. Police organisations say the plans are being rolled out too quickly & could lead to a massive reduction in the number of officers. Mr Reid will address the Association of Chief Police Officers in London.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. Marjorie Wallace chief executive of mental health charity Sane said she was extremely concerned by the report.
26th May 2006
'Wrong body' in cremation mishap
An "awful mistake" at a Somerset hospital led to a funeral taking place without a body after it had already been cremated. The body of an 81-year-old Plymouth woman had been released to undertakers in Taunton. But the error at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital where she died two weeks earlier meant that the body had been released to the wrong family. A spokesman for the hospital confirmed an investigation had been launched.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Indonesia quake toll passes 3 000
More than 3 000 people have been killed and thousands more injured by a strong earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java officials have said. The quake measuring 6.2 flattened buildings in a densely-populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta near the southern coast of Java. The Indonesian Red Cross estimates some 200 000 people fled their homes after the quake hit early in the morning. Hospitals are struggling to cope with the injured a BBC correspondent says.
26th May 2006
Man held after hairdresser killed
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a hairdresser found dying outside the salon where she worked after being repeatedly stabbed. The 44-year-old man was detained on Thursday night following the death of Sharon Bell 38 of Elswick Newcastle. Ms Bell was found outside the New York salon in the city centre on Tuesday. Detectives said it was unlikely the killing of the mother-of-three was random & their inquiry is centring on her background.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Two arrested over pupil stabbing
Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested over the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy outside his school in Birmingham. The victim suffered stomach injuries when he was attacked outside Heartlands High School in Nechells on Friday. He is stable at City Hospital after undergoing surgery & his condition is not life-threatening. West Midlands Police said the two arrested boys from the Stechford & Hodge Hill areas were being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.
26th May 2006
Child jumps to safety from blaze
An eight-year-old schoolgirl jumped onto a mattress to escape a tenement fire which police say was started deliberately in Glasgow's east end. Chloe McClure jumped from the first floor & described her experience as "very frightening". She added: "There was hundreds of smoke." The fire in Thomson Street at 2230 BST on Monday is being treated as wilful fireraising by police. Chloe's mother was rescued along with another two women & two children.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
Train passenger stabbed to death
Police have arrested a man after a passenger died on a train when he was stabbed in the chest. Passengers fled in panic after a dispute broke out on a Virgin train from Glasgow to Paignton. Staff managed to trap the knifeman in a carriage but he smashed his way out at Oxenholme Station Cumbria. Police in Kendal later arrested a 21- year-old man from Skelmersdale West Lancashire in connection with the incident.
26th May 2006
Bush & Blair admit Iraq errors
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair & US President George W Bush have made a stark public acknowledgement that they made mistakes in Iraq. Mr Bush said the biggest US error was the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib which it was now paying for. The two leaders have never admitted their mistakes in such frank terms the BBC's Jonathan Beale says. They also called for the international community to give its full support to the new Iraqi government.
27th May 2006
Reid attacked in new releases row
The home secretary is under fire amid claims that many foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals without deportation being considered. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients including murderers rapists & paedophiles. John Reid has already ordered officials to find out how many foreigners have been kept in UK secure hospitals. But the Conservatives said Mr Reid should have notified the police as soon as the error came to light.
27th May 2006
UK offers aid for Java earthquake
Britain has offered immediate aid to Indonesia after a huge earthquake killed thousands on the island of Java. More than 3 000 people have been killed and thousands more injured by a strong earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java officials have said. The UK is standing by to help with search & rescue teams & officials to help co-ordinate relief efforts. Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said so far there have been no reports of British casualties in the region.
