News alerts from earlier today...
Welsh Assembly Government - 09:45 03 Sep 2010
Social Justice and Local Government Minister Carl Sargeant has invited front line staff from criminal justice, health, education and social services to attend a bespoke training course on handling cases of forced marriage.
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Ofgem - 09:24 03 Sep 2010
Ofgem has begun investigations to establish whether four suppliers (npower, Scottish Power,Scottish and Southern Energy and EDF Energy) are complying with new obligations to preventmisselling, brought in following Ofgem’s retail market probe.
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EU News - 09:21 03 Sep 2010
EU authorities are to get tough new powers to settle disputes among national financial supervisors and to ban risky financial products and activities, in a revamp of EU financial supervision plans agreed on Thursday.
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Scottish Government - 09:13 03 Sep 2010
Free swimming lessons for primary school pupils across Scotland are set to increase, it was announced yesterday.
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Department for Transport - 09:07 03 Sep 2010
The Red Ensign will fly over the headquarters of the Department for
Transport today to mark the UK's eleventh Merchant Navy Day.
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Wired-GOV Newswire (news from other organisations) - 09:02 03 Sep 2010
The Institute for Government has published its report on Arm's length bodies – not so affectionately known to the media as quangos.
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Wired-GOV Newswire (news from other organisations) - 08:56 03 Sep 2010
Bond, the UK coalition of NGOs working in international development, will host a special event on 15 September which will be the Deputy Prime Minister's first public address on the issues of development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since taking office in May.
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Third Sector - 08:50 03 Sep 2010
Cancer Research UK’s Drug Development Office has launched a clinical trial* to test an experimental drug in patients with advanced (Stage IV) pancreatic cancer – one of the most difficult cancers to treat.
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EU News - 08:45 03 Sep 2010
Knowingly using the sexual or other services of a trafficked person would be made a criminal offence, and penalties for traffickers would be stepped up, by amendments to a draft EU directive on human trafficking.
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