Oliver has a way with words.....

'We don't want more people from Sheffield having cheap holidays': Why top Tory policy guru is against building new airports

Oliver Letwin's comments to Boris Johnson leaked.


David Cameron’s top policy guru has sparked anger after declaring that the government should do nothing to help ordinary people take holidays.

Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin told fellow Tories: ‘We don’t want more people from Sheffield flying away on cheap holidays.’

The comments were made in a private meeting with London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was pushing for the government to build new airports.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373025/We-dont-want-people-Sheffield-having-cheap-holidays-What-Old-Etonian-Tory-minister-told-Boris.html

Half a million people who currently claim sickness benefits are fit to start work immediately, a minister has suggested. Read more:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110403/tuk-500-000-on-sick-are-fit-to-work-6323e80.html

Anyone up for a game of footy` ?
This is an idea I had while watching the grandson playing football, loads of passion and enthusiasm!

A quick pencil doodle of the lovely Christina Ricci, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s. 

The University of Liverpool has become the first in the North West to recommend an increase in tuition fees to the highest level of £9,000 a year.

It follows Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, Exeter, Durham and Leeds in expressing its intention to set the maximum fee allowed by the government.
The university said the fee increase would enable it to ...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12775775

This week's Champion carries an article about pothole budgets for Sefton. And it's good news...:
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http://manorfocus.blogspot.com/2011/03/sefton-roads-to-benefit-from-pothole.html

Merseyside raid police arrested over 'eBay stolen valuables plot'

Three serving officers from an elite police unit have been arrested over claims they stole property confiscated during raids to sell on eBay, it has emerged.


The Merseyside police officers, from the force’s Matrix unit, have been suspended from duty on suspicion of "misconduct in public office and theft".
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8415880/Merseyside-raid-police-arrested-over-eBay-stolen-valuables-plot.html