Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 24 Januari 2015 | 18.54
Police have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of a woman in Dorset.
Dorset Police say they hold "grave concerns" for 25-year-old Samantha Henderson, who was reported missing on Thursday.
The man from the village of Corfe Castle in Wareham is currently being questioned by police.
Investigations are continuing, including a forensic examination of Ms Henderson's home.
"Sadly, our concerns for Samantha are so grave that we have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of her murder," said Detective Inspector Neil Devoto.
"However, we do not know at this time her whereabouts.
"Officers have been carrying extensive enquiries in the area and... further searches have been made near to where Samantha was last seen.
"Our investigations are focused on establishing exactly what has happened to Samantha between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.
"I would ask anyone who has seen or heard from Samantha since Wednesday afternoon to contact us.
"We strongly believe that Samantha may have come to harm and I would like to hear from anyone who we haven't spoken to already and who may have information that could assist us."
Ms Henderson is described as white, five foot three inches tall, with a slim build and blonde hair.
She was last seen wearing a grey jumper, blue jeans and slippers.
The number of senior Army officers could be axed under plans to streamline the military's top brass.
Up to one third of the Army's 500 colonels and 200 brigadiers and generals are set to be axed, The Times newspaper reports.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed an Army Command Review will be carried out as part of the Army 2020 reforms.
The plans by the Army's head General Sir Nick Carter are set to be implemented from April.
"The Army Command Review is the next step in the development of Army 2020," an Army spokeswoman said.
"It builds on the delegated model that Defence has implemented as a result of Lord Levene's report on defence reforms.
"It will ensure that the Army's command structure and its staff are best placed to meet future challenges in an agile, imaginative and effective manner."
Reforms have already been confirmed for the number of regular soldiers to be slashed to 82,000 and the number of reservists to be boosted to 30,000.
Prime Minister David Cameron and The Prince of Wales, representing the Queen, are flying to Saudi Arabia today following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
They will join a host of international dignitaries in Riyadh to pay their respects to the Saudi royal family.
President Obama has cancelled the end of his visit to India - which included a visit to the Taj Mahal - in order to fly to Saudi Arabia, a long-standing ally of the United States.
Mr Obama will travel to Riyadh on Tuesday to meet with King Salman, the White House has confirmed.
King Abdullah, 90, died on Thursday evening after almost two decades leading the world's biggest oil exporter.
Video:Saudi King's Legacy
Both Mr Cameron and the Queen said they were "saddened" by his death.
Their decision to fly to Saudi comes amid sharp criticism over a decision to lower flags at Whitehall and across England a mark of respect for the late monarch.
Downing Street and Whitehall buildings, including Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, were instructed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on Friday to lower the Union Flag for 12 hours in tribute.
But some politicians and human rights campaigners have slammed the tributes to Abdullah who presided over a country where a woman was recently beheaded in public, a blogger was sentenced to receive 1,000 lashes for 'insulting Islam' and where women have been banned from driving.
Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, dismissed the flag tribute as "a steaming pile of nonsense", adding that it was "a stupid act on its own and a stupid precedent to set".
Former Conservative MP for Corby, Louise Mensch, took to twitter to vent her anger: "It is so unacceptable to offer deep condolences for a man who flogged women, didn't let them drive, saw guardian laws passed and starves them."
She even tweeted "F*** YOU" in reply to a tweet from the British Embassy in Riyadh which quoted the Prime Minister's sorrow at the king's death.
Video:King Abdullah Laid To Rest
The head of Amnesty International implored the world not to forget the country's human rights abuses amidst the tributes to the dead king.
Salil Shetty said: "The Saudi regime seems insensitive to human rights and human dignity and unfortunately they are also protected by many Western countries because they have oil and because they are seen as allies in the fight against terrorism."
But Westminster Abbey argued refusing to lower its flag would not have helped the "desperately oppressed Christian communities of the Middle East".
"For us not to fly at half-mast would be to make a noticeably aggressive comment on the death of the king of a country to which the UK is allied in the fight against Islamic terrorism," a spokesman said.
A spokesman for UKIP leader Nigel Farage said lowering the flags showed "respect for an ally in the war against terror" and that the issue of human rights should be taken up with the new king.
But one of his MPs, Douglas Carswell, disagreed, saying officials had seriously blundered and showed "immoral" values far from those of the British public.
Referencing the civil service mandarin from television series Yes Minister, he said: "Sir Humphrey's values need to be aligned more closely to people in this country rather than being quite so immoral.
Video:Welby On Saudi Religious Expression
"Saudi Arabia is a country that doesn't let women drive and publicly executes people."
Archbishop of Canterbury The Most Rev Justin Welby told Sky News: 'Freedom of religion is essential and freedom to express Christian faith in Saudi Arabia is something that should happen.
"A few weeks ago there was a group of migrant workers arrested for holding a private service in a flat. That's not right.
"But I know that King Abdullah himself - it's a complicated place Saudi Arabia, like all countries - King Abdullah himself is someone who has worked very very hard on these issues and has contributed much and I think it's right that the prime minister should send condolences and should recognise what he's done over the years."
King Abdullah had run the country as de facto leader since the mid-1990s after his predecessor King Fahd suffered a debilitating stroke.
He was admitted to hospital on 31 December suffering pneumonia and the royal court announced that he was breathing with the aid of a tube.
He has been succeeded by his 79-year-old half-brother, Salman.
A murder investigation has begun after a 19-year-old man was killed in a machete attack outside a pub in Gloucester.
He was attacked near the Pike and Musket pub at about 12.40am on Saturday morning, and police are appealing for witnesses.
A 22-year-old man was left with serious injuries after the attack, and investigators believe the weapon used was a machete.
The victim is now in a stable condition following surgery at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Two forensic tents have been erected at the scene. Pic: Hayley Mortimer
A third man, aged 18, sustained minor injuries in the fight, which unfolded on Windsor Drive in Tuffley.
"We would like to speak to anyone who witnessed what happened in the pub's car park or was in the area around the time of the incident and may have seen something which may help with inquiries," a police statement added.
Written By Unknown on Jumat, 23 Januari 2015 | 18.54
Scotland Yard says it will continue to investigate allegations former Home Secretary Leon Brittan raped a woman in 1967, despite his death.
The Metropolitan Police Service has confirmed that a review of the case "remains ongoing".
It follows allegations by a woman that she was raped at a flat in London.
The woman was over the age of 18 at the time of the alleged attack, police said.
In a statement, police said: "In late 2012, a woman alleged to the Metropolitan Police Service that she was raped by a man in 1967 at an address in London.
Video:Former Home Sec Leon Brittan Dies
"An investigation was commenced by officers from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.
"Advice was sought from the CPS, and both police and the CPS agreed at that time that there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
"A subsequent review of the case was carried out and further lines of inquiry were conducted.
"This included in June 2014, a man aged in his 70s, being interviewed under caution by appointment at a central London location in connection with the allegation. He was not arrested.
Video:Lord Howard Pays Tribute To Brittan
"After further consultation with the CPS, it was confirmed that those additional inquiries had not strengthened the original evidence; but police have subsequently been carrying out a further review of the case which remains ongoing."
News of the ongoing investigation comes a day after it was announced that Lord Brittan had died of cancer, aged 75.
David Cameron led the tributes, describing the former Conservative Cabinet minister and European competition commissioner as a "dedicated and fiercely intelligent public servant".
However, Lord Brittan's final months were dogged in controversy.
Video:Heseltine's Tribute To Brittan
Last year, he became mired in the historical child sex abuse scandal after claims he was handed a dossier containing details of the abuse allegations in the 1980s.
He was accused of failing to act on the evidence passed to him by the Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983.
While he admitted he had met Mr Dickens and had been handed a file, he said he had passed it on to officials and was not contacted about the issue again.
He was elected as MP for Cleveland and Whitby in 1974 and then for Richmond, Yorks, in 1983, the year he became the youngest Home Secretary since Winston Churchill.
Video:Lord Brittan Was 'A Brilliant Man'
He was a prominent member of Margaret Thatcher's government, taking on the National Union of Mineworkers during the miners' strike in 1984-85, but resigned over his involvement in the Westland affair in 1986.
Prince Andrew has been sent a letter asking him to be interviewed under oath about claims he had sex with an under-age woman.
The letter, addressed to the prince at Buckingham Palace, has been filed in a Florida court by lawyers acting on behalf of Virginia Roberts.
Ms Roberts - who is referred to in court as Jane Doe No 3 - says she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17 by his financier friend Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.
Prince Andrew has been criticised over his friendship with Mr Epstein
The Duke, who is fifth in line to the throne, strenuously denies the claims.
Here is the full text of the letter:
Video:Prince Asked For Sex Claim Response
January 14, 2015
His Royal Highness The Duke of York Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA UNITED KINGDOM
Your Royal Highness:
I represent attorneys Paul G..Cassell and Bradley J. Edwards. They in turn represent a young woman pictured below who is being referred to as Jane Doe No. 3. That representation is in pending legal proceedings in the United States Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
This letter is a formal request on behalf of Mr. Edwards and Professor Cassell to interview you, under oath, regarding interactions that you had with Jane Doe No. 3 beginning in approximately early 2001.
Jane Doe No.3 was then 17 years old. Among other things, I would like to discuss events that occurred at the time that the photograph below was taken.- and shortly thereafter.
I would also like to discuss Jane Doe #3's claims of your subsequent interactions with her in New York City, New York later that year. Details of those claims have been widely reported in the British press (with varying degrees of accuracy) as have your denials of the claims, so I assume that it is unnecessary for me to be any more specific about the proposed areas of our inquiry.
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Gallery: Profile Of Prince Andrew
Born on 19 February 1960 at Buckingham Palace, Prince Andrew is the second son and the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh
The Prince served in the Royal Navy for 22 years as a helicopter pilot - he took part in the Falklands campaign
Prince Andrew has reiterated denials of claims he had sex with an underage girl more than a decade ago.
Speaking about the allegations publicly for the first time, the Duke of York told an invited audience of around 200 guests at a World Economic Forum event in Davos: "My focus is on my work."
Speaking to leading figures from the worlds of politics and business, he said: "Firstly I think I must, (and) want, for the record to refer to the events that have taken place in the last few weeks and I just wish to reiterate and to reaffirm the statements which have already been made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace."
After his opening statement the Duke told the packed reception at the Belvedere hotel in the Swiss resort: "My focus is on my work and this evening's reception allows me to tell you about just a couple of the initiatives that I have founded and am passionate about."
Prince Andrew pictured with his accuser Virginia Roberts
The Prince did not answer questions from reporters as he left the drinks reception flanked by minders at around 8.30pm local time.
It emerged on Wednesday that he has been formally asked to respond to claims made in the US by Virginia Roberts in a letter filed by her lawyers.
Video:Prince Andrew Under Spotlight
Ms Roberts, who is referred to in court as Jane Doe No 3, claims when she was 17 she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew by his friend Jeffrey Epstein - a financier and convicted sex offender.
She claims to have had sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions: once at a London townhouse after they had gone to a night club, once in a New York mansion and once on a private island in the US Virgin Islands.
The letter, dated 14 January, said: "This letter is a formal request ... to interview you, under oath, regarding interactions that you had with Jane Doe No 3 beginning in approximately early 2001. Jane Doe No 3 was then 17 years old.
"The interview could be conducted at a time and place of your choosing, and with your co-operation, I believe the interview could be completed in two hours or less."
The Duke, who is not a party to the proceedings, strenuously denies the claims.
Buckingham Palace has issued a number of official denials, including an earlier statement insisting "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors" was "categorically untrue".
Coronation Street actress Barbara Knox has been banned from driving for a year after pleading guilty to drink-driving.
The 81-year-old actress, who plays Rita Tanner in the soap, was charged following an incident in Knutsford, Cheshire, on 10 March last year.
A sample of blood was taken which gave an alcohol reading of 85 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood - the legal limit is 80.
The actress, represented by solicitor Nick "Mr Loophole" Freeman, had previously denied the offence last April and was due to go on trial next month.
It was said on her behalf at Crewe Magistrates' Court that she "bitterly regrets" the incident.
Knox, of Mere, Cheshire, was said to have been a passenger in a Jaguar driven by her daughter, Maxine Ashcroft, 56.
The car was stopped by police after a member of the public reported that they thought the driver was under the influence of alcohol.
Ashcroft was found to be nearly three times the legal limit when she gave a breathalyser reading at Middlewich police station.
The veteran actress later arrived at the station and was herself arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.
At a previous hearing, Simon Pover, prosecuting, said: "Officers were concerned about how she had arrived at the police station.
"She was given firm advice about how she should return home.
"An offer was made to give her a lift home. It was an offer that was declined."
The prosecutor said she was then seen to get into a Jaguar vehicle at nearby Booths supermarket car park. Knox reversed the car a short distance before she was stopped by police, he added.
She then tested positive for having alcohol in her system.
Ashcroft, from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, later pleaded guilty to drink driving and was banned from driving for two years.
Knox was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,750 costs and a £120 victim surcharge.
A spokesman for the soap said it was a "a private and personal matter".
Written By Unknown on Kamis, 22 Januari 2015 | 18.54
A man wanted over the killing of an off-duty police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder in Germany.
Timmy Donovan, who was wanted on a European Arrest Warrant, was held at Dusseldorf Airport as he tried to board a flight to the UK, Merseyside Police said.
The 30-year-old was wanted for questioning over the death of PC Neil Doyle, who was killed in Liverpool city centre after a Christmas night out on 19 December.
The officer was married in July and was days away from going on his honeymoon when he was killed.
Off-duty officers Michael Steventon and Robert Marshall were also attacked and treated in hospital for facial injuries.
Two men have already appeared in court accused of PC Doyle's murder and are due to go on trial at Liverpool Crown Court later this year.
Christopher Spendlove, 30, of Brandearth Hey, Stockbridge Village, and Andrew Taylor, 28, of Cherry Tree Road, Huyton, also face charges that they caused grievous bodily harm with intent.
Mr Donovan, from Huyton in Merseyside, is also known as Timmy O'Sullivan.
The Government is planning to bring into force legislation for plain cigarette packaging before the General Election in May.
Health minister Jane Ellison said the regulations would be laid before Parliament in time to be agreed by both Houses before the election.
She said the current "comprehensive" approach was working well, but insisted it was important not to be complacent.
The ban on smoking in private cars will come into force on 1 October this year, the minister also announced.
During an adjournment debate in the Commons, Ms Ellison said tobacco caused around 80,000 deaths a year and that around 600 children in the UK take up smoking every day.
Video:Aug 2014: Plain Packaging In Oz
She said the Government was committed to reducing the numbers of young people who take up smoking, but had been taking its time to consider all relevant evidence, including the possibility of litigation from the tobacco industry.
Ms Ellison told MPs: "We cannot be complacent. We all know the damage smoking does to health.
"This Government is completely committed to protecting children from the harm that tobacco causes.
"That's why I'm announcing today that we will be bringing forward legislation for standardised packaging before the end of this Parliament."
The idea behind plain packaging is that it would largely remove branding from packets bar a small, simple product name.
Health warning images would dominate boxes instead.
Health groups welcomed Ms Ellison's announcement but business representatives accused the Government of meddling.
Mike Hobday, director of policy at the British Heart Foundation, said: "We are absolutely delighted. The Government has taken another key step towards securing new legislation that will help protect young people from the deadly consequences of smoking."
Video:Confusion Over E-Cigarette Safety
Dr Hilary Cass, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "This is a significant piece of legislation - and a real positive step from Government to protect the health of current and future generations of children.
"With two thirds of smokers starting before they are 18, and the effects of packaging on young people well-known, it is a simple yet important reform in the battle against smoking-related illness."
But Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, condemned the announcement.
He said: "This is a gross infringement of the right of companies to use their trademarks and design their own packaging.
"There is no need to wonder what will happen next, we need only look at Australia where the black market has grown and youth smoking has risen.
"To pursue this grandstanding policy in spite of the Australian experience is sheer negligence."
The values of London-listed tobacco firms were weaker when share trading began on Thursday.
Imperial Tobacco - behind the Lambert & Butler and Golden Virginia brands - was 1% down in early trading while the maker of Rothmans, British American Tobacco, was just 0.2% lower.
Real Madrid has topped the list of football's richest clubs by income for the tenth year running, but the Premier League is now dominating the chart.
England's top flight clubs have shown their dominance among the highest-earners, with all 20 teams making it into the rich list's top 40.
The Football Money League, published by business advisory firm Deloitte, shows clubs are looking to commercial and broadcast revenue to boost their finances.
The combined revenue for the top 20 clubs by revenue rose by 14% over the past year to £5.2bn.
Real Madrid saw revenue growth of £25.6m - a total of £459.5m over the past year - on the back of increases in broadcast and commercial revenue.
Dan Jones, partner in the Sport Business Group at Deloitte, said: "The club's continued success on the field is complemented by its financial strength.
"Their accomplishment emphasises their position as the most successful European club side of all time.
"However, their commercial supremacy is being challenged by Manchester United, among others."
Manchester United rose to second despite on-field troubles
Manchester United earned revenues of £433.2m over the past year, making the club the second highest-earning team in the world.
Austin Houlihan, a senior manager at Deloitte, said the strong result for Manchester United came despite poor on-pitch performance.
"Commercial revenue has grown 83% in the last three years. Thanks to the latest Premier League media deals, broadcast revenue also increased 34% to £135.8m."
Eight Premier League clubs have been ranked within the top 20, and every club made it into the top 40.
Mr Houlihan said: "The Premier League's new broadcast deals have translated into big revenue increases across the English top flight."
"In fact, every Premier League club reported record revenues in 2013/14.
The eight English clubs in the top 20 list achieved total broadcast revenues of nearly a million pounds:
Rihanna has won a legal battle with Topshop over a T-shirt which used her image.
The high street store had appealed against a High Court ruling that selling the "tank" sleeveless T-shirt bearing her image without her approval amounts to "passing off", a term used to enforce unregistered trademark rights.
But, in an important ruling on celebrity "image rights", the Court of Appeal upheld a ban on the store selling the item.
Rihanna's lawyers said the image was from an unauthorised photograph taken while the star was filming a video in Northern Ireland for one of her singles in 2011 and Topshop should remain banned from exploiting it.
Rihanna has a number of advertising contracts
Geoffrey Hobbs QC, appearing for Topshop, which is part of the Arcadia Group, argued at the hearing that the court was dealing with a "decorated T-shirt" in a tradition of the merchandising of star images over the decades, including those of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and Prince.
Mr Hobbs submitted Rihanna was in reality using the law wrongly to claim that "only a celebrity may ever market his or her own character".
Rihanna has various lucrative endorsement deals with retailers including Topshop's high-street rival River Island.
Mr Hobbs contended the public had no expectation that clothes bearing an image were authorised by people shown in that image.
He challenged High Court judge Mr Justice Birss's ruling that, although celebrities had no general right to control the reproduction of their image, Topshop's use of RiRi's image did amount to passing off.
The judge had observed the use was damaging to the star's "goodwill" and represented loss of control over her reputation in the "fashion sphere".
Written By Unknown on Rabu, 21 Januari 2015 | 18.54
By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent
A secret file on "unnatural" sexual behaviour was not handed over to a Government backed review that looked for official documents linked to child abuse.
The file prepared for then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s was found recently at the National Archives in Kew and is entitled: "PREM19/588 - SECURITY. Allegations against former public [word missing] of unnatural sexual proclivities; security aspects 1980 Oct 27 - 1981 Mar 20".
The Cabinet Office still holds the file. Thirty-five years after it was prepared it remains closed on grounds of national security.
The Chief Executive of the NSPCC, who led last year's review into government documents from between 1979 and 1999, has said nobody showed it to him.
Peter Wanless told Sky News: "Under the specific terms of reference set by the Home Office we made the most extensive inquiries possible within a very limited time frame. This specific file was not revealed by any department or individual we consulted.
"Our remit was to go back over a review by the Home Office and not undertake a new investigation."
Mr Wanless also joined a growing number of voices demanding that it should now be made available.
"If there is pertinent material in this file it should be submitted to the sexual abuse inquiry as well as the relevant police force so they can conduct a criminal investigation if necessary."
Security and intelligence expert Dr Chris Murphy stumbled across the file in November while searching documents at the National Archives in Kew and was immediately alerted by the title.
Sir Bernard Ingham says he spoke to a minister who denied allegations
"I was looking through the 'PREM' Prime Minister file series for the 1980s," the University of Salford lecturer told Sky News.
"I think I did a double-take and then started wondering what the potential implications of the title, which is a little vague, could be."
Video:What Might Abuse Files Reveal?
It is highly likely Margaret Thatcher saw the documents, and was briefed on the security implications, but the identities of those within them remain secret.
Dr Murphy added: "The fact that this file is concerning the Prime Minister and these allegations are being taken to the Prime Minister I think would strike anybody of being potentially of some interest."
Sky News highlighted the existence of the file to the Cabinet Office earlier this month.
A spokesperson for the department said: "In this case, the file was kept closed and retained as it contained information from the security services and advice from the Law Officers.
"These classifications are reviewed periodically."
The department would not reveal whether David Cameron or Home Secretary Theresa May were aware of the contents, but promised it would be made accessible to the child sex abuse inquiry.
Video:Sex Abuse Panel To Be Scrapped
"We are clear that any files that are pertinent to the historical child sex abuse inquiry will be made available to the panel," the spokesperson added.
Mrs Thatcher's former press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, told Sky News he could not recall the file.
He did, though, confirm that both he and Mrs Thatcher were aware of allegations against a Government minister in the early 1980s.
Sir Bernard would not name the individual, but said: "I asked him about it and he denied it, so no, I didn't do anything else. What was the alternative?"
In July last year, the Prime Minister promised the survivors of sexual abuse that "no stone would be left unturned" in the pursuit of the truth.
Officials at the Cabinet Office have previously attempted to block requests for information relating to Cyril Smith, the late Liberal politician who is now known to have abused youngsters.
Video:18 Dec: Victim - MPs Were Involved
Simon Danczuk MP, who exposed the extent of Smith's offending, told Sky News the "sexual proclivities" file had to be released.
"I think it is right and proper that the Government now open up this document, let us know what is in there," he said.
"I think there is a culture within Government departments of not releasing information and that has caused some of the problems we now have in getting to the bottom of who was involved in this paedophile network and who was involved in covering it up."
The abuse inquiry was announced in July but currently has no chairman, after first Lady Butler-Sloss and then Fiona Woolf were appointed and then stepped down following concerns over their links to the political establishment.
It is still yet to appoint someone to lead it amid growing calls for action from survivors and campaign groups.
Disagreements over confidential messages between then prime minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush have delayed the publication of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War.
The inquiry was set up to examine the initiation and conduct of the war, which began in 2003, and was officially launched nearly six years ago.
A panel of five Privy Counsellors, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, has summoned key figures to give evidence and examined thousands of documents about the arguments behind the decision to go to war.
:: Announced by then-PM Gordon Brown on 15 June 2009, the Iraq Inquiry was officially launched on 30 July.
:: It was set up following calls for an inquiry into the initiation and conduct of the Iraq War in 2003.
Tony Blair giving evidence to the inquiry in 2011
:: The panel is comprised of: chairman Sir John Chilcot, former Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office and a non-party member or chairman of a number of reviews and inquiries; Baroness Usha Prashar, Deputy Chair of the British Council and member of House of Lords; Sir Roderic Lyne, former British ambassador to the Russian Federation; Sir Martin Gilbert, former history don at Oxford University and author; Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of War Studies at King's College London since 1982.
:: In his opening statement, Sir John said the inquiry would "consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath.
Video:Jan 2011: Blair At Chilcot Inquiry
"We will therefore be considering the UK's involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned," he said.
:: In its terms of reference, the inquiry states it is "not a court of law" and that "nobody is on trial".
:: Of particular interest in the inquiry is the 2002 dossier which established "beyond doubt" that Saddam Hussein had and was continuing to produce Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This dossier continued the "45 minute" claim, which stated that Saddam could ready these weapons in 45 minutes and led to claims the dossier had been "sexed up".
:: The Iraq War began on 20 March, 2003, with a "shock and awe" surprise attack, followed by a US-led ground invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, but the conflict continued for several years as sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni militias erupted with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians as well as an insurgency against coalition troops. The UK deployed 46,000 troops during the initial invasion, who were withdrawn in 2011. Some 179 British soldiers were killed during the conflict.
Video:Baker: Chilcot Delay Unacceptable
:: The first round of hearings began on 24 November 2009, and ran until February 2010.
:: The second round began on 29 June to 30 July 2010.
:: The final round started on 18 January and ran until 2 February 2011.
:: More than 200 Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings have been examined.
Video:Iraq War Report Delayed Again
:: 25 notes from Tony Blair to President Bush have also been investigated, along with more than 130 records of conversations between Mr Blair or Mr Brown and the former US president.
:: The total cost of the inquiry currently stands at £9,016,500.
:: Evidence has been heard from a number of witnesses, including Mr Blair who was called twice. He insisted he had no regrets over the decision to go to war, and described the Iraqi leader as a "monster".
:: The delays have been triggered by disagreements over messages between Mr Blair and President Bush. They have also been caused by the "Maxwellisation process" - the procedure where individuals due to be criticised in an official report are sent details of the criticisms in advance so they can respond prior to the publication of the report.
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Gallery: Protests At Tony Blair's Chilcot Appearances In 2010 And 2011
Protesters gather outside Westminster's Queen Elizabeth II building for Tony Blair's appearances before the Chilcot Inquiry in 2010 and 2011
Mass DNA screening has begun in a Sussex village as police try to crack the unsolved murder of a grandmother.
Valerie Graves is believed to have been killed with a claw hammer as she house-sat for friends in Bosham on 30 December, 2013.
Men over 17 who live, work or visit the area have been urged to voluntarily give a DNA sample to rule themselves out of the inquiry.
Police believe this hammer was used to bludgeon Ms Graves
They are being asked to have a mouth swab done and provide a thumbprint.
Detective Superintendent Nick May, from Sussex Police, explained a thumb print and a swab would be taken from the inside of the person's cheek in a process that would take no longer than 20 minutes.
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He said: "It's then packaged up and couriered to our forensic provider where the samples taken here are compared against the profile of the person that we believe murdered Valerie.
"If that's a negative then the samples taken here are destroyed.
"There are really strict, legal safeguards in place to ensure that we treat those items with respect and that we do not use them for any other investigation."
He went on: "This is part of a thorough investigation. What we are looking to do here is to eliminate the people who live in and around Bosham so that we can actually make the pot of people we have been looking at smaller.
"We in Sussex have not done a mass screening like this for some considerable time.
"However, there are examples elsewhere in the country where it has been successful.
"We are very confident that we will find the murderer of Valerie Graves."
More than 9,500 people have been interviewed over the past year and police have a limited DNA match of a suspect.
Ms Graves was looking after the house near Chichester with her mother, sister and her sister's partner while the owners were abroad over Christmas.
She was discovered by one of her relatives in a ground floor bedroom.
A post-mortem examination revealed she had suffered significant head and facial injuries.
Ms Graves' death shocked the people of Bosham - a village which featured in an episode of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will not be published until after the General Election, it has emerged in a series of letters.
In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, chairman Sir John Chilcot said "very substantial progress" has been made in the inquiry, but there was "no realistic prospect" it could be published before May and that completion of the work would take "some further months".
Sir John said he had reached an agreement on the details of notes and conversations between former prime minister Tony Blair and US president George W Bush, which will be published in the report.
The report has been delayed by disagreement over the release of the confidential messages, but the agreement means the "gist" of the communications would be published after Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood blocked the publication of the full exchanges.
The release of messages between Mr Bush and Mr Blair has caused a delay
Sir John added that the "Maxwellisation process" - the procedure where individuals due to be criticised in an official report are sent details of the criticisms in advance so they can respond prior to its publication - was currently underway into the inquiry's draft report.
The inquiry was set up by the Labour government six years ago and heard from its final witnesses in February 2011.
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Mr Cameron wrote to Sir John saying that he would have liked to have seen the report released before the election, but accepted that publication was a matter for the inquiry.
He wrote: "I have to respect your decision and fully accept that it will not now be possible for you to submit your final report to the Government and Parliament until after the election.
"I hope very much that you will be able to do so shortly thereafter."
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Speaking at Downing Street on Wednesday, he rejected suggestions that the delay made it appear a cover-up was taking place.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the public will find the latest delay "incomprehensible".
In a letter to Sir John, Mr Clegg wrote: "Neither administrative processes nor a constant back and forth between the inquiry and witnesses criticised should frustrate an independent report so important to the country's future from being published as soon as possible .
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"If the findings are not published with a sense of immediacy, there is a real danger the public will assume the report is being 'sexed down' by individuals rebutting criticisms put to them by the inquiry, whether that is the case or not.
"The inquiry into Iraq will both resolve the issues of the past, and set the tone for future British foreign policy. We cannot wait any longer for these lessons to be learned."
The latest news of a delay comes as MPs prepare to stage a Commons debate next week on the matter.
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Former Attorney General and Conservative MP Dominic Grieve said the public deserved reasons for the "extraordinary delay".
He told Sky News: "It's absolutely imperative we should have an explanation as to what is going on. I think a chronology setting out what's happened... is essential."
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker told Sky the delay was "not acceptable to the British people" and that the public should have had the findings before the election.
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Gallery: Protests At Tony Blair's Chilcot Appearances In 2010 And 2011
Protesters gather outside Westminster's Queen Elizabeth II building for Tony Blair's appearances before the Chilcot Inquiry in 2010 and 2011
Written By Unknown on Selasa, 20 Januari 2015 | 18.54
Doctors have performed the first organ transplant on a newborn baby in Britain.
The donor was a girl who was delivered by an emergency caesarean at Hammersmith Hospital in west London.
Her brain had been starved of oxygen during pregnancy and she died six days later. She weighed 6lbs 8oz.
When it became clear she was not going to survive her parents gave consent for her kidneys and liver cells to be used for the benefit of two other patients.
News of the operation has been revealed in an article in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood.
The authors, neonatal specialists Gaurav Atreja and Sunit Godambe, said they hoped more transplants using the organs of newly-born children would follow.
The girl was born at Hammersmith Hospital
"This case has set a milestone in the care of newborns in the UK," they wrote.
"We hope that neonatal units across the UK will actively start thinking about this noble cause, which makes the grieving family's journey easier and has the potential to transform another life."
Other research published in the journal last year said small babies in need of organ donations have "the odds stacked against them" because of current UK guidelines.
Guidance by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges restricts UK medics from diagnosing brain stem death in children who die before they are two months old, researchers said.
Because of this, a UK baby in need of a life-saving heart donation has to wait until one can be flown in from elsewhere.
The limitation does not apply to the rest of Europe, the US and Australia where infant transplants - though rare - are more common.
The Royal College of Paediatrics is expected to publish new guidelines on diagnosing death in babies between 37 weeks and two months following the UK transplant.
Tributes are pouring in for Coronation Street actress Anne Kirkbride, who has died aged 60.
Fellow Coronation Street actors lined up to pay their respects to Kirkbride, who played Deirdre in the ITV soap for 42 years.
Kirkbride's on-screen daughter Kate Ford wrote: "Heartbroken at the loss of my friend and beautiful on screen mummy. The most crazy funny 100 per cent human. My life was enriched by her."
"My beautiful darling friend, Anne Kirkbride, passed away in a room filled with love. God Bless, my Darling Girl! Peace and rest," said Beverley Callard, who plays Liz McDonald.
In a statement William Roache, who played Anne's onscreen husband Ken Barlow, said: "I feel Anne's loss so personally having worked closely with her for over 40 years.
"She was such a loving and vibrant person. You always knew she was there because her laugh was never far away."
Les Dennis, who plays Michael Rodwell, tweeted: "So very sad to hear our lovely Anne Kirkbride has died. One of the true icons of @itvcorrie. We will all miss you. The nations favourite."
Alan Halsall, who has played Tyrone in the soap since 1998, said: "Rip Annie beautiful woman inside & out xxx #devastated #corriefamily".
Actress and singer Kym Marsh, who plays Michelle Connor, tweeted: "Cannot describe how devastated we all are. Sleep tight gorgeous lady we will miss you ridiculous amounts RIP Annie x".
Gaynor Faye, who starred alongside Kirkbride from 1995 to 1999, wrote: "Anne Kirkbride's smile & laugh always lit up the #Corrie green room...may it light up the sky as bright!"
Actor and singer Adam Rickitt, who was also in the show in the late 90s, wrote: "Just heard..so gutted. Annie..u were pure class..a smile always when needed and a hug always from the heart".
Other famous names from UK television have also expressed their condolences, including presenter Lorraine Kelly who wrote: "So very sad to hear of death of Anne Kirkbride - Thoughts with her husband and family and everyone who loved her. Corrie legend."
Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale in EastEnders, tweeted: "Such sad news about Anne Kirkbride. My thoughts are with her family and all the Corrie cast and crew."
Presenter and actor Paddy McGuinness posted a picture of a pair of glasses, similar to those worn by Deirdre in the soap.
"Anne Kirkbride RIP. A part of our lives whether you knew her or not. She created such an iconic character," he wrote.
Phillip Schofield tweeted: "Just checked my phone and have heard of the sad loss of the wonderful Anne Kirkbride. My deepest condolences to the #Corrie family x."
News of Kirkbride's death has also featured on many of Tuesday's newspaper front pages.
Coronation Street actress Anne Kirkbride, who played Deirdre Barlow in the soap, has died aged 60 after a short illness.
A statement on the soap's website said the cast and crew were "heartbroken".
The actress was part of the ITV soap for 42 years after joining in 1972 - and has been part of some major storylines.
William Roache, who played her on-screen husband Ken Barlow, said: "I feel Anne's loss so personally having worked closely with her for over 40 years.
"We had some rows over the years as Ken and Deirdre, and it was wonderful to play those scenes opposite her.
"Coronation Street has lost one of its iconic characters and Anne will be greatly missed."
William Roache said Kirkbride was 'loving and vibrant'
One of the most memorable plots - the love triangle between Deirdre, Ken and Mike Baldwin - led to her being voted TV Personality Of The Year in 1983.
When her character chose Ken Barlow over Mike Baldwin in 1983, cheers went up as the "result" flashed up on the Old Trafford scoreboard.
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It read: "Ken and Deirdre reunited. Ken 1 - Mike 0."
In 1993 it was revealed she had throat cancer and she took three months off the show while undergoing treatment.
Many major storylines led viewers and fans to act as if Deirdre was a real person.
So much so that in 1998 then-Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to intervene to get Deirdre released from prison after she was duped into mortgage fraud.
Mr Blair gave his full support to the "Free The Weatherfield One" campaign.
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Gallery: Coronation Street Actress Anne 'Deirdre' Kirkbride Dies
Anne Kirkbride has died aged 60 after a short illness
The actress was one of the best known on British television, having played Deirdre Barlow for more than 40 years
Dairy farmers are being driven out of business every week and need greater protection, MPs have warned.
Milk prices have been hit hard by a Russian trade ban and falling demand from China which saw prices plummet from 34p a litre last year to 20p a litre.
It means the total number of UK dairy farmers has now fallen below 10,000 for the first time.
MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have said more must be done to help them survive.
Farmers protest over prices in 2012
They want to see the groceries watchdog - the Groceries Code Adjudicator - given the power to punish the big supermarkets if they are found to put pressure on the farmers to drop their prices.
And they have urged ministers to push for clear country of origin labelling so consumers know they are buying British.
The MPs have also suggested farmers consider forming producer organisations to increase their power and influence in the market.
Committee chairwoman Anne McIntosh said: "The volatility of worldwide and domestic milk markets is making financial planning and investment impossible for small-scale producers unable to hedge against changes beyond their control.
"The vast majority of dairy farmers fall outside the protection offered by the Groceries Code Adjudicator.
"She can only investigate complaints involving direct suppliers to the big 10 supermarkets and retailers, and as most milk production is small-scale, that excludes most dairy farmers."
There has been a significant slump in milk prices
A Government spokesman said: "We understand the concerns of British farmers over the current pressures on milk prices caused by the volatility of the global market and we are doing all we can to help manage this.
"This includes giving dairy farmers the opportunity to unite in producer organisations so they have greater clout in the marketplace.
"We have also brokered a dairy industry code of practice on contractual relationships to improve transparency and give farmers a fairer deal, which now covers 85% of UK dairy production."
Written By Unknown on Senin, 19 Januari 2015 | 18.54
The parents of a five-year-old boy have been threatened with court action because he missed a schoolfriend's birthday party and left the hosts out of pocket.
Derek Nash, from Torpoint, Cornwall. discovered an invoice for £15.95 had been put into son Alex's schoolbag after he was a "no show" at the ski centre party.
Mr Nash said he originally thought the letter was a joke but now the friend's mother is threatening to take the matter to the small claims court.
The invoice has not been paid
The family accepted the invite to the Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre just before the Christmas holidays, forgetting they had a prior family commitment.
Mr Nash said he had already arranged for their daughter to go out with her grandparents.
He said: "She [the mother] saw me and asked if Alex was coming to the party. At this time I agreed and said that Alex was looking forward to it.
"By this time we did not have a contact number, email or an address to let [the mother] know.
"So on the day of the party we asked Alex what he wanted to do - he chose to be with his grandparents."
When the children went back to school in January, Mr Nash's partner tried once more to apologise to the boy's mother but did not see her.
He said: "On January 15 she looked in Alex's school bag and found a brown envelope. It was an invoice for £15.95 for a child's party no show fee.
"I asked Alex's class teacher if [the child's mother] had given anything to her. She said, 'Yes, a brown envelope'.
"I then visited Alex's school headteacher, who couldn't apologise enough that one of the teachers had passed this on. She said she would remind all staff that this was a breach of protocol."
Mr Nash said while he sympathised with the woman, he told her he would not be paying.
She has since threatened to take the case to a small claims court, while the birthday boy will no longer play with Alex at school.
Mr Nash added: "I drive all around the South West for my job and I have talked to quite a few people about this.
"They're all quite incredulous that this has happened. I thought it was a joke to begin with. I am lost for words."
The mother of the birthday boy has not commented on the row.
UK health chiefs have launched a £11.5m plan to try to wipe out tuberculosis in Britain, which has the second highest rate of the lung disease among Western European countries.
The plan will see Public Health England work with the NHS to improve access to screening, testing and treatment services as well as outreach programmes such as 'Find and Treat' mobile health units.
Paul Cosford, a PHE director, said: "TB should be consigned to the past, and yet it is occurring in England at higher rates than most of Western Europe."
Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, said: "Our goal is to eliminate TB as a public health problem."
Often thought of as a disease of the past, when it was dubbed "the white plague" for rendering its victims pale and feverish, TB has stubbornly persisted in Britain.
It occurs mainly in areas of poverty and deprivation. The bacterial disease is hard to treat and contagious, passing on via the coughs and sneezes of an infected person.
In 2013, 7,290 TB cases were reported in England, an incidence of 13.5 cases per 100,000 of the population.
TB cases are concentrated in urban "hot spots" including London, Leicester, Birmingham, Luton, Manchester and Coventry.
PHE officials say TB clinics in London manage more cases a year than those in all other western European capitals together.
Drug resistant TB is also an increasing problem, with cases of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB rising from 28 cases in England in 2000, to 68 in 2013.
The UK economy is set to grow more than expected this year with falling oil prices boosting consumer spending, according to an influential forecaster.
The EY ITEM Club predicts that GDP will grow by 2.9% in 2015, up 0.5% on its previous estimate in October.
The forecast is also more optimistic than the 2.4% predicted in Chancellor's George Osborne's Autumn Statement in December.
The plunge in oil costs - with Brent crude losing more than 50% of its value since June last year - has seen unleaded petrol costs hit a five-year low, giving a shot in the arm to household budgets.
The ITEM Club report also predicts inflation will average around zero in 2015 - turning negative in the early months of the year.
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The low inflation rate will also help hold off a decision by the Bank of England on increasing interest rates.
The report predicts that rates will not rise from their current record low of 0.5% until the spring of 2016, followed by a gradual rise of 0.25% every three months.
Peter Spencer, EY ITEM Club's chief economic adviser, said: "Not every economy will be a winner from oil prices collapsing, but the UK certainly is.
"We have described the previous weakness of commodity prices as a silver lining in the storm clouds gathering over the world economy.
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"But with oil prices now down over 50% since last June, this silver lining has turned to gold.
"While it is not a game changer in terms of growth prospects, falling oil prices come just as the recovery was losing momentum and will move the game up to a higher level for a year or two."
Alongside the benefit of low inflation, the ITEM Club is expecting wage growth of 3.5% in 2015, resulting in a rise in real disposable incomes of 3.7%.
As a result, real household consumption is set to increase by 2.9% this year and 2.6% in 2016.
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Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said: "Falling oil prices act like a giant tax cut to the economy and will further boost our already established recovery.
"Consumers felt the pain when oil prices were high. It's only fair that they, and the economy, should feel the full benefit when they are falling."
Meanwhile, the Confederation of British Industry said Britain's financial sector reported the biggest upsurge in business in nearly 20 years in the last three months of 2014.
Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI's director of economics, said: "The upswing in growth among financial services firms continues on a solid footing, with overall optimism, business volumes and profits up."
After the coldest night of the winter so far, forecasters have warned there will be no respite from plunging temperatures, which could last until later this week.
The mercury fell as low as minus 11C overnight and into Monday morning in areas of inland Scotland, with temperatures hovering around minus 7C across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
An amber warning - the second highest - for icy conditions across most of England, including the North, the Midlands and East Anglia, has been issued until midday on Thursday by the Met Office.
Sky News Weather Presenter Isobel Lang said: "Today looks set to be a cold dry and bright day for most, although some snow showers are likely, especially in northeast England."
The Met Office said on its website: "Large areas of England will experience colder than average conditions in the coming week, with widespread overnight frosts.
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Gallery: Snow And Ice Hit Parts Of UK
Snow and icy conditions are hitting many parts of the UK - and temperatures are set to plunge well below zero in many areas.
These pictures were taken in Cumbria, one of the areas hit by snowfall
Written By Unknown on Minggu, 18 Januari 2015 | 18.54
The former head of MI5 has warned that Britain's anti-terror laws are "not fit for purpose".
Lord Evans' comments about the powers of intelligence and security agencies were reported as the Prime Minister said Britain is facing a "very severe threat" from Islamist extremists, including so-called "lone-wolf" terrorists.
Lord Evans told the Sunday Telegraph: "The ability of the police and security agencies to do this important work of protecting our society and its vulnerable people is under threat from changing technology.
"They can only do this if they have the tools to do so - and the tools at their disposal are no longer fit for purpose."
David Cameron is currently pushing for tougher requirements for internet firms to alert authorities to suspicious online exchanges, ban encrypted communications and store data.
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Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown hit out at the push for increased powers, telling Sky's Murnaghan programme: "The whole nation is made a suspect under these proposals."
He added that while he believed Mr Cameron's demand for increased powers was "sincere", it was "connected to the general election", and said the PM was "cavalier" about the protection of civil liberties.
When asked if the message from the US to allies would be to keep up with the changes to anti-terror laws implemented by Washington, the US ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun, told the same programme: "Sure, and we work very closely with the UK and other partners around the world to try to achieve that balance."
Mr Cameron earlier spoke to US TV network CBS about measures to tackle extremism at home.
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He said: "In Britain's history, we've had some very intense times of terrorist threats.
"Certainly we face a very severe threat.
"That's what we're calling it: severe, because we believe an attack is highly likely.
"But frankly, we've been in this struggle against extremist, Islamist terrorism now for well over a decade and a half, so we know what it takes to win, but it's going to take a lot of perseverance."
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He said the terror threat "keeps morphing" over time, "but it's still based on the fundamental problem of a poisonous death cult narrative which is the perversion of one of the world's major religions".
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and his US counterpart John Kerry are set to host talks in London with ministers from around 20 countries, including Arab states, to discuss ways of tackling Islamic State.
Members of the coalition fighting IS extremists in Syria and Iraq will meet for the summit on Thursday.
On Friday Mr Cameron vowed to tackle what he called the "poisonous narrative of Islamist extremism that is turning too many young minds".
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He was speaking following two days of talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington where they said a new group would be set up to exchange information and expertise to tackle the terror threat.
There are fears about the spread of terrorism after the Paris attacks that left 17 people dead and the arrest of more than two dozen people in anti-terror raids in Belgium, Germany and France.
On Saturday, an 18-year-old woman who was arrested at Stansted airport in Essex on suspicion of terrorist offences was released on bail.
Anti-terror officers arrested the teenager when she arrived on a flight at around 4pm on Friday.
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Police investigating the unsolved murder of a grandmother as she house-sat for friends are set to start voluntary DNA screening.
Men who live, work or visit the Bosham area of West Sussex are being urged to eliminate themselves from suspicion following the killing of 55-year-old Valerie Graves.
The DNA screening will take place at the Millstream Hotel in the village from Wednesday.
It is the latest move by detectives who have launched a large-scale manhunt for the killer of grandmother and mother of two Ms Graves.
The claw hammer which may have been used to kill Valerie Graves.
She is believed to have been killed with a claw hammer in a ground floor bedroom in Smugglers Lane, Bosham, on 30 December, 2013.
She was bludgeoned as she house-sat with her sister Jan, mother Eileen and her sister's partner, Nigel Acres, while the property's owners went abroad for Christmas.
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More than 9,500 people have been interviewed by police, a £20,000 reward has been offered, a BBC Crimewatch appeal has been made and a limited DNA match of a suspect has been yielded.
But despite an exhaustive inquiry, no one has been charged.
The death of Ms Graves shocked the small community of Bosham, which featured in an episode of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
Last month, Ms Graves's two children Tim Wood, 32, and Jemima Harrison, 35, spoke - along with Mr Acres - ahead of the first anniversary of her murder.
The family said Christmas was put "on hold" as they faced their first festive season without her and as her murderer still remains at large.
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Video:Eurotunnel Services Resume
Passengers are being warned to expect delays on Eurostar services after a lorry fire left thousands stranded on both sides of the Channel.
Eurostar and the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle car service were stopped on Saturday after the fire on the French side of the railway's south tunnel.
The incident on Saturday morning led to long queues at St Pancras station in London as services were cancelled for most of the day.
Queues formed again at the station this morning, where Eurostar services resumed after 8am.
There were also delays in Paris.
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Gallery: Travel Chaos In London And Paris
This is the scene at St Pancras International station in London as Eurostar services are cancelled in both directions
The company said trains would not be running on Saturday
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Large queues of passengers have formed - but they are being told they will be unable to travel
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It is a similar scene at Gare du Nord station in Paris - this board shows all services have been cancelled
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Eurostar plans to run a full service today, but only "for passengers who have an existing reservation for this date".
Trains are expected to be delayed by between 30 minutes and an hour.
The company added that people whose trains were cancelled on Saturday are advised not to arrive at stations unless they had already been re-booked.
A Eurostar spokesman said: "All passengers who are booked to travel tomorrow, Sunday 18 January, should check in as normal half an hour before departure.
"Eurostar services tomorrow are already very busy and availability is limited."
Eurotunnel services resumed at 2.45am UK time.
Video:Passengers Hit By Eurostar Alert
Earlier, Eurotunnel spokesman John O'Keefe said a "smouldering load" was found in the trailer of the lorry.
The alarm was triggered after CO2 detectors were activated in one tunnel, Eurotunnel said. No one was injured.
In March, hundreds of Eurostar passengers were delayed after a lightning strike triggered a fire in a building close to the entrance to the tunnel in Kent.
Although there was no damage to the track, four trains in and out of England were affected.
Three eventually reached their destination but the fourth, which had been heading to Paris, was forced to turn back to London.
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Delays As Eurostar Resumes After Fire
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Video:Eurotunnel Services Resume
Passengers are being warned to expect delays on Eurostar services after a lorry fire left thousands stranded on both sides of the Channel.
Eurostar and the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle car service were stopped on Saturday after the fire on the French side of the railway's south tunnel.
The incident on Saturday morning led to long queues at St Pancras station in London as services were cancelled for most of the day.
Queues formed again at the station this morning, where Eurostar services resumed after 8am.
There were also delays in Paris.
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Gallery: Travel Chaos In London And Paris
This is the scene at St Pancras International station in London as Eurostar services are cancelled in both directions
The company said trains would not be running on Saturday
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Large queues of passengers have formed - but they are being told they will be unable to travel
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It is a similar scene at Gare du Nord station in Paris - this board shows all services have been cancelled
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Passengers are having to make alternative arrangements
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Eurostar plans to run a full service today, but only "for passengers who have an existing reservation for this date".
Trains are expected to be delayed by between 30 minutes and an hour.
The company added that people whose trains were cancelled on Saturday are advised not to arrive at stations unless they had already been re-booked.
A Eurostar spokesman said: "All passengers who are booked to travel tomorrow, Sunday 18 January, should check in as normal half an hour before departure.
"Eurostar services tomorrow are already very busy and availability is limited."
Eurotunnel services resumed at 2.45am UK time.
Video:Passengers Hit By Eurostar Alert
Earlier, Eurotunnel spokesman John O'Keefe said a "smouldering load" was found in the trailer of the lorry.
The alarm was triggered after CO2 detectors were activated in one tunnel, Eurotunnel said. No one was injured.
In March, hundreds of Eurostar passengers were delayed after a lightning strike triggered a fire in a building close to the entrance to the tunnel in Kent.
Although there was no damage to the track, four trains in and out of England were affected.
Three eventually reached their destination but the fourth, which had been heading to Paris, was forced to turn back to London.
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There is a growing row over whether Britain's security services have enough powers to monitor terrorists' communications.
The former head of MI5 has warned that Britain's eavesdropping laws are "no longer fit for purpose" because they have fallen behind advances in technology and encryption.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Lord Evans of Weardale said terrorist attacks are increasingly being planned on parts of the internet that are now difficult to police.
:: What powers do intelligence agencies have now?
By law, most if not all communications data such as telephone and email records must be stored for seven years by service providers.
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Police and the security services can obtain this data by serving retrospective search warrants on providers that have been signed by the Home Secretary.
:: Why does the Government want extra powers now?
Many online communications are now automatically encrypted, making it impossible for police to monitor them in real time or at all.
Police say this is poses an unacceptable risk to their ability to keep the public safe from terrorist plots.
Encrypted services such as WhatsApp and iMessage were not available 10 years ago, when current eavesdropping laws were drafted.
The Government says the law needs to be updated with new powers to compel service providers to provide police with encryption codes giving them "backdoor" access to these communications.
The Communications Bill or so-called "snoopers' charter" would also give police access to everyone's web browsing history and the content of all social-media communications.
:: Why is there opposition to the plans?
Civil liberties campaigners warn that the line between privacy and keeping the public safe is being eroded.
They believe the Government is using the terrorist attacks in Paris as an excuse to introduce laws which would make it easy to spy on corporations and the public as well as monitor terrorists.
Security experts warn that if the Government was given increased powers to monitor encrypted communications, terrorists would simply stop using them.
Activists in repressive regimes such as Iran and China use encryption to communicate safely. There is fear that if these services become easier to break it will put these people at risk.
Lord Ashdown told Sky News the Bill would turn Britain into a "nation of suspects" and that innocent people should be protected from Government spying.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the Snoopers' Charter plans were "unproven, clunky, resource intensive".
Speaking on BBC's Andrew Marr show Nick Clegg added: "It is not a very British thing to confer or imply guilt on the whole of the nation."
