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Family Demands Names Of New Child Abuse Files

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 07 Maret 2015 | 14.59

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent

The Government's refusal to reveal the titles of four files related to child abuse has been branded "disgusting" by the family of a boy missing since 1979.

It is now over a month since the Cabinet Office confirmed it had found four more files relevant to the ongoing child abuse inquiries centred on VIPs in Westminster.

Officials have promised the files will be handed over to the police and various inquiries but they are still refusing to allow the titles of the files to be made public, let alone the contents.

At the start of February Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said: "Officials have identified four additional relevant files, one of which was marked for destruction."

Despite repeated requests from Sky News over the course of the last month officials at the Government department say their position remains unchanged.

It has angered many survivors and campaigners, not least the family of Martin Allen who was 15 years old when he vanished in London nearly 35 years ago.

The teenager was last seen on the London Underground with an unidentified man at Gloucester Road station on 5 November 1979.

His brother Kevin Allen told Sky News he was "pretty definite" there is a link between the establishment abuse networks in Westminster and his brother's disappearance.

He said he could not accept that the names of the files are still being withheld.

"It makes me very angry, because these people have got a hold over us.

"It is our information, these people are our employees taking our money which is more than 'Mr Average' earns probably in the course of a month. It is disgusting.

"It is our lives they are playing with. I hope they can sleep at night."

Mr Allen is in regular contact with Met police detectives leading abuse inquiries which include allegations boys were killed.

While the content of the files may be sensitive, refusing to reveal the names means the public has no way of tracking them or knowing how they are being dealt with.

It follows a Sky News investigation which unearthed another classified file in January that the Cabinet Office had kept closed on grounds of national security.

After MPs raised the issue in the House of Commons, government officials were forced to release it to the National Archives.

The documents revealed former British diplomat, the late Sir Peter Hayman, was the subject of the secret file. The papers documented his "unnatural" sexual behaviour and his activities within the Paedophile Information Exchange group.

Neither the Hayman file nor the four new files were found during an earlier Home Office-commissioned search for documents relevant to ongoing abuse inquiries.

The Cabinet Office declined to make Mr Maude available for interview.


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Missing Girls' Families Slam Police Over Letter

The families of three London schoolgirls feared to have fled to Syria to become jihadi brides have accused the Metropolitan Police of failing to pass on a crucial letter.

They say a letter from the force requesting to interview the girls in relation to a classmate who ran away to Syria last year should have been handed directly to the families.

However, the letters were hidden by the girls in their school textbooks and their families never saw them.

Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase, who attended Bethnal Green Academy in east London, sparked a police hunt after they flew to Istanbul from Gatwick Airport last month. They are now believed to be in Syria.

Abase Hussein, the father of Amira, insisted that if he had seen the police letter he would have talked his daughter out of leaving and taken away her passport.

Halima Khanom, sister of Kadiza Sultana, said: "We wouldn't have been here today doing this if we'd got that letter and known what was going on."

Scotland Yard confirmed that it sent letters out to the three girls after their friend disappeared in December and that they were also spoken to by officers as part of a "routine inquiry".

A Metropolitan Police statement said: "The Metropolitan Police Service has been engaged with staff at the girls' school since December 2014 as part of the routine inquiry by officers investigating the disappearance of their friend.

"There was nothing to suggest at the time that the girls themselves were at risk and indeed their disappearance has come as a great surprise, not least to their own families.

"The girls were spoken to in December 2014 as part of the routine inquiry by officers investigating the disappearance of their friend.

"We continue to liaise with the school and local education authority in connection with this ongoing investigation."


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Harrison Ford's Narrow Escape As Plane Crashes

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 06 Maret 2015 | 14.59

Harrison Ford's Narrow Escape As Plane Crashes

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Harrison Ford has been injured after the plane he was piloting suffered engine failure and crash landed onto a golf course in Los Angeles.

The 72-year-old was flying solo in a World War Two training aircraft when it crashed into Penmar golf course in the Venice area at 2.25pm local time.

The single-engine plane clipped a tree as it went down shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Airport, about a mile away, the LA Fire Department said.

The yellow plane with stars on its wings was upright and mostly intact after the crash. No one on the ground was hurt.

Ford suffered multiple gashes to his head and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, entertainment website TMZ reported.

Witnesses were reported by local media as saying the actor was helped out of the plane by several bystanders and that he could use his legs.

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Harrison Ford's Narrow Escape As Plane Crashes

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Harrison Ford has been injured after the plane he was piloting suffered engine failure and crash landed onto a golf course in Los Angeles.

The 72-year-old was flying solo in a World War Two training aircraft when it crashed into Penmar golf course in the Venice area at 2.25pm local time.

The single-engine plane clipped a tree as it went down shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Airport, about a mile away, the LA Fire Department said.

The yellow plane with stars on its wings was upright and mostly intact after the crash. No one on the ground was hurt.

Ford suffered multiple gashes to his head and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, entertainment website TMZ reported.

Witnesses were reported by local media as saying the actor was helped out of the plane by several bystanders and that he could use his legs.

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Ford: Action Star Is No Stranger To Danger

As Han Solo, Indiana Jones and other larger-than-life characters, Harrison Ford has spent his distinguished career as one of Hollywood's leading men thrilling audiences.

And like his on-screen daredevil antics, Ford has run into several real-life dramas while pursuing his love of aviation, fast driving and the unpredictability of filmmaking.

The actor's plane crash on a golf course in Los Angeles is just one of several close brushes that he has experienced.

The scar on his chin was earned in 1964 in "a mundane way", he has said.

He was speeding to a job at a department store in Orange County, California, when his car careered off the road and into a telephone pole as he tried to grab his seat belt.

In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles.

Ford and the instructor were unhurt.

He used his helicopter in 2000 to rescue hiker off 11,106ft Table Mountain in Teton County, Wyoming, and fly her to a hospital.

One year later, Ford and another searcher helped find a missing boy scout in a forest south of Yellowstone National Park.

"Boy, you sure must have earned a merit badge for this one," Ford told the cold and hungry teenager after whisking him to safety by chopper.

Ford was at the helm of a Beechcraft Bonanza in 2000 when a powerful gust of wind forced him to make an emergency landing at Lincoln Municipal Airport in Nebraska.

Ford and his passenger were uninjured when the plane clipped the runway and its wing tips were damaged, officials said.

Last year, he was filming Star Wars: Episode VII in a studio outside London when a door of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spacecraft fell and broke the actor's leg, requiring surgery on it. 

Production on the movie was halted for two weeks as he recovered.


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Downing Street's Letter To Broadcasters

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 05 Maret 2015 | 14.59

The letter from David Cameron's director of communications to Sue Inglish, the chair of the broadcasters' leaders' debates committee, reads as follows:

Dear Sue,

I am writing to you in your capacity as Chair of the broadcasters' "Leaders' Debates" committee.

As you know, I have had serious concerns about the way in which this has been handled from the start.

Despite the Prime Minister having been clear about his concern around holding debates in the short campaign, you did not consult us before issuing a press release last October outlining your plans for three debates during that period.

Had you consulted us, we could have also told you that we also did not think it was appropriate to exclude the Green Party from the process.

Despite all of this, we then entered into negotiations in good faith, during which I made the case for a more representative debates structure, including the Greens. It is fair to say that the desire to exclude the Greens was clear from all other parties present.

Three months later - and again without consultation - you surprised us again by proposing a new seven-party structure, this time not only inviting the Greens, but Plaid Cymru and the SNP as well. Again, this was a flawed proposal - that has resulted in the DUP initiating what appears to be legitimate legal action.

Since this proposal has been suggested, there has been chaos. In recent weeks, you have avoided letting the parties sit in a room to hammer out proposals, making progress impossible.

In order to cut through this chaotic situation I am willing to make the following proposal:

There should be one 90 minute debate between seven party leaders before the short campaign. As well as the Prime Minister, the leaders of the Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP should be invited. The leader of the DUP should be allowed to make his case for why he should be involved. If the broadcasters cannot agree amongst themselves who hosts the debate, lots should be drawn, though the debate should be freely available to whoever wants to broadcast it. In order for it to be organised in time, the debate should take place during the week beginning the 23rd March. I will make myself available to negotiate the details. Having been the editor of numerous broadcast news and current affairs programmes, I know this is ample time to organise a programme.

This is our final offer, and to be clear, given the fact this has been a deeply unsatisfactory process and we are within a month of the short campaign, the Prime Minister will not be participating in more than one debate.

Yours sincerely,

Craig Oliver

Prime Minister's Director of Communications


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PM Accused Of Bullying Broadcasters On Debates

David Cameron has been accused of trying to "bully" broadcasters into dropping plans for a head-to-head election debate with Ed Miliband.

The Prime Minister has said he will only take part in one TV election debate, ruling out a contest with the Labour leader.

Downing Street now says the Prime Minister is only prepared to participate in a 90-minute debate with at least seven party leaders before the end of March.

Douglas Alexander MP, Labour's chair of election strategy, said: "This is an outrageous attempt from the Prime Minister to bully the broadcasters into dropping their proposals for a head-to-head debate between David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

"That it comes only hours after Ed Miliband called David Cameron's bluff and said he would debate him any time, any place, shows the lengths David Cameron will go to run scared of a debate with Ed Miliband."

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tweeted: "The British public want the debates so let's get on with it. Stop holding them to ransom by trying to dictate the terms."

The proposal was made in a letter sent to Sue Inglish, the chair of the broadcasters' leaders' debates committee, by Mr Cameron's communications director Craig Oliver.

The letter said: "There should be one 90-minute debate between seven party leaders before the short campaign.

"As well as the Prime Minister, the leaders of the Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP should be invited.

"The leader of the DUP should be allowed to make his case for why he should be involved.

"If the broadcasters cannot agree amongst themselves who hosts the debate, lots should be drawn, though the debate should be freely available to whoever wants to broadcast it."

:: Sky News' Stand Up Be Counted campaign

A joint statement issued by the broadcasters confirmed that they had received a proposal from Downing Street.

"The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have received an email from the Prime Minister's office with a proposal," it said.

"The broadcasters are committed to providing our audiences with election debates. 22 million people watched the debates in 2010 and we believe the debates helped people to engage with the election.

"The broadcasters have set out their proposals and continue to talk to all the relevant parties on an equitable basis.

"We will respond to the Conservatives' proposal in due course."

Sky News and Channel 4 have proposed to host a head-to-head between the two candidates on 30 April.

The BBC and ITV have proposed each staging a debate involving Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband, Nick Clegg, the Greens' Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage of UKIP, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood.

A Sky News poll found 79% of people would be less likely to vote for a party leader who refused to take part in a debate.

Mr Miliband earlier told Sky News that Mr Cameron should "stop making excuses" and commit to a head-to-head TV debate.

And in angry exchanges during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Cameron was asked three times if he would debate with Ed Miliband before the election as he has said.

After the final question the Prime Minister replied: "I have been very clear, I have said get on with the debates before the election campaign begins, I think we should start now."


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Appeal To Find 'Dangerous' Foreign Suspects

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 04 Maret 2015 | 14.59

By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent

Police are appealing for help in finding 17 "dangerous" foreign suspects thought to be on the run in the UK.

One is wanted for battering a man to death with a baseball bat for arguing with his girlfriend.

Another is suspected of the human trafficking of teenage girls, a third man is a convicted rapist.

The appeal is a last-ditch bid to find the suspects after Scotland Yard's extradition squad failed to track them down.

Detective Sergeant Peter Rance said: "We believe these people are dangerous, so taking them out of our communities and putting them before the courts is of paramount importance.

"I urge the public to look closely at these pictures.

"Do you recognise these men? It may be that they live next door to you, or you see them regularly elsewhere in your community."

All the fugitives are wanted by authorities across Europe and most have links to London.

Anyone with information on the suspects is urged to call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Anyone who sees them is urged not to approach them, but call police on 999.


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