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/ 21 November 2007

UK’s Brown faces fury over huge data blunder

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced angry questions from lawmakers on Wednesday after confidential records containing nearly half the population’s bank details went missing in the post. The disappearance of about 25-million people’s personal data vanished in the biggest-ever loss of personal information by any government.

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/ 31 August 2007

UK remembers Princess Diana

Princes William and Harry were to lead tributes on Friday to their late mother, Princess Diana, on the 10th anniversary of her death at a service attended by senior royals and Diana’s friends and family. William and Harry, who were just 15 and 12 when their mother died following a high-speed car crash in Paris, have spent months arranging the service.

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/ 18 December 2006

Suspect arrested in UK serial-killer hunt

British police on Monday arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of five prostitutes in the port town of Ipswich in a major breakthrough in a case that has gripped the nation. The unnamed 37-year-old man was arrested early on Monday morning at his home at Trimley, near the port town of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told reporters.