Michael Crick
A roasting for Starbucks..but a grilling for Hodge?
As the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) gets ready to grill multinational companies on tax avoidance, will its chairwoman declare her own interest?
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Michael Crick
Probe Michael Mates over alleged ‘fraud’, rival urges Hants police
A candidate in one of next month’s police commissioner elections claims rival and former Tory minister Michael Mates could be committing fraud.
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Three dead in Wales flat fire, two arrested
Police in northern Wales are treating the deaths of a woman and two young children in a fire as murder. A man and a 15-month-old child are in hospital and two others are under arrest.
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Tributes to hit and run victim
Police continue to question a 31-year-old man over a series of traffic collisions, which left one mother of three dead and 13 more injured.
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Police commissioners voting campaign launched
Conservative ministers used to hail the introduction of police commissioners as their key measure to improve policing – but in the face of hostility among the ranks – there are now growing concerns.
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Police name man arrested in April Jones search
Police confirm that a man arrested yesterday under suspicion of child abduction, as a part of the search for missing five-year-old April Jones, is 46-year-old Mark Bridger.
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Manchester prays for slain police officers
Manchester stands shoulder-to-shoulder today, heads bowed in prayer, to pay respects to two female officers killed in the line of duty
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Memorial for seven UK police killed on the job
Prayers are said for seven officers killed in the line of duty in 2012 at a service in Greater Manchester for National Police Memorial Day.
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Michael Crick
Michael Mates dodges Dolphin Square questions
I finally caught up with Michael Mates on camera today, on what was really the first full day of his campaign as Conservative candidate for police commissioner in Hampshire.
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Michael Crick
Mates set to make over £100,000 from Dolphin Square windfall
The questions about Michael Mates continue and it now appears that on top of the estimated £40,000 windfall he got from being a tenant of Dolphin Square, he’s now managed to use the money to make a substantial profit.
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IPCC investigate police crime scene officer
A Cleveland police crime scene investigator who probed suspicious deaths, arson and other crimes is being investigated himself, suspected of perverting the course of justice.
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London oil exec with prostitution links presumed murdered
Police say missing millionairess Carole Waugh is presumed dead, and a man arrested at Luton Airport yesterday is suspected of posing as her brother to sell her £650,000 mews flat.
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Michael Crick
Michael Mates flies the oldie flag
Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on what the selection of Michael Mates as Conservative candidate for Hampshire’s PCC could be a good sign for older politicians.
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Michael Crick
Weston quits south Wales PCC race, but wasn’t he barred already?
Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on Falklands war hero Simon Weston’s decision to pull out of the election to become the new police and crime commissioner in south Wales.
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Michael Crick
Tories in rumpus at who should fight John Prescott
“It does seem odd that the Tories only have one contender for being a candidate in what should be quite a promising and high-profile contest for the party.”
