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Firearms offences fall but fatalities rise to 59
Gun murders rise despite fall in serious crime

More people are being killed as a result of gun crime, despite an overall fall in both homicides and firearms offences, the latest Home Office figures show. Between March 2006 and April 2007 the police recorded 59 fatalities from firearms offences, up from 49 deaths the year before. More than half of all firearms offences… Read more »

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MPs to vote on Derek Conway's fate
Conway suspended as third researcher scrutinised

Disgraced Conservative MP has been suspended from the House of Commons for ten days. MPs have approved the Commons standards and privileges committee’s report into Mr Conway, who was found to have overpaid his son Freddie for work as a parliamentary researcher. The committee recommended the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup should be suspended… Read more »