Police are banned from saying the friendly greeting “evenin’ all”, as well as “child”, “youngster” and “homosexual – as the PC mad dogs are in action again.
According to Warwickshire Police, “evening” is a “subjective” term that can vary depending on a person’s culture or nationality, the Daily Mail reports. “Don’t assume those words for the time of day, such as afternoon or evening, have the same meaning,” their handbook says.
Metropolitan Police officers are told to …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave the ultimate hostage to fortune this morning by stating categorically that the British economy would be growing again by the turn of the year, The Times reports.
With economists and Downing Street staggered by Friday’s figures showing that the country is still in in the grip of a recession, Brown tried to go back on the offensive by telling people they would not have long to wait for a recovery. He was …

Germany’s conservatives of Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and the pro-business centre-right liberals of Free Democrats (FDP) struck a deal yesterday to form a new coalition Government, based on major tax cut plans, Deutsche Welle reports.
The agreement came after three weeks of bargaining and almost a month after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the FDP won a parliamentary majority in federal elections.
The new coalition will look to extend the lifespans of nuclear power plants …

A water buffalo which had wandered onto the rail track caused a deadly collision between two passenger trains in Egypt today, 18 people were killed and 39 injured, SkyNews reports.
The crash happened south-west of the capital Cairo.
The accident began after the first train struck the animal and then stopped. But the service was then hit from the back by a second train which was travelling at full speed.
The first train was travelling from Giza province to …

A team of UN inspectors are in Iran to visit a recently revealed but still unfinished uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom to verify it is for peaceful purposes, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The revelation last month by Iran of the facility’s existence, known as Fordo, raised international suspicion over the extent and aim of the country’s nuclear program. But Iran claims that by reporting the existence of the site voluntarily to the UN’s …

Stone-throwing Arab youths wounded three policemen on the Temple Mount today as Jerusalem police, firing water cannons and stun grenades, raided the holy site in a bid to quell repeated bouts of rioting, Ha’aretz reports.
Police stormed the compound twice; the first time was in response to Arab youths who pelted officers with rocks and poured oil on them. Later in the morning, about 100 Arab youths renewed rioting at the Temple Mount, after which Border Police …

Britain has 1.6million hardened criminals committing dozens of offences every year, the Daily Mail reports.
The total, based on unpublished Home Office research, represents a leap of 410,000 in the number of so-called active offenders regularly inflicting misery.
When the Government last produced an estimate – in Lord Birt’s Reducing Crime Review – he said there were 1.19million such criminals, committing an average of 58 offences a year. These include muggings, burglaries and shoplifting.
The …

According to a YouGov poll, one fifth of the UK electorate would consider voting for the BNP in the wake of Nick Griffin’s Question Time appearance, The Times reports.
The poll indicates that 22% of people in this country would “seriously consider voting for the BNP in an upcoming election.
In the poll for a British national newspaper the proportion of people who would vote BNP in an election tomorrow had risen to 3%, from 2% a …

Terrorists murdered at least 62 people and injured 180 in two car bomb attacks in central Baghdad.
The blasts hit the ministry of justice and a provincial government office near the Green Zone, causing severe damage, the BBC reports.
They came in quick succession at 10:30 local time (07:30 GMT) as people headed to work during the morning rush hour. These were the largest attacks since 19th August, when truck bombs hit two ministry buildings and killed at …

A British pilot drowned after saving the lives of nine passengers by ditching his plane into the sea when one of his engines failed, The Times reports.
Robert Mansell, 32, was hailed as a hero after carrying out a forced landing of a light aircraft in the Caribbean between the islands of Curaçao and Bonaire. Last night it emerged that his final words to air traffic controllers were: “I’ve lost control of one of my engines …

A former Government adviser, Tony Blair’s speechwriter Andrew Neather said on Friday that the huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, the Daily Mail reports.
Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a plan to open up the UK to mass migration. As well as bringing …

A performance by Morrissey had to be cancelled last night after the singer collapsed on stage after just one song, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The former Smiths frontman was taken to hospital at around 9pm after performing at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon. Eyewitnesses said he performed his song This Charming Man before “falling to the floor” and was then carried off by technical crew. He was said to be unconcious.
The singer, whose real name is …