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ROBERT HARDMAN: The un-PC supermayor who has slashed public spending, axed pointless jobs and banned the word 'diversity'

Lights Out

BBC TV News tonight on lightbulbs: not a mention of the EU (no surprise) and a bit evasive in the description of what's happened, ie no use of the words 'banned' or 'illegal', only 'phasing out'.

Home Office Admits Larger Data Loss

Home Office coughs up to larger data loss • The Register

The Home Office has admitted to losing a quarter of a million more records than it originally thought.

The figure is revealed in its Resource Accounts for 2008-2009. PA Consulting lost a memory stick last September, which was originally reported to contain details on 127,000 people. In fact the stick, which remains lost, contained records on 377,000 people, Kable reveals.

Enough said.

EU Water Scottish Pellets Waste Bilge

Taxpayers Face Massive Legal Bill Over Illegal Burning Of Sewage (from Sunday Herald)

TAXPAYERS COULD be lumbered with a large legal bill because Scotland's environment watchdog is allowing 200,000 tonnes of sewage sludge to be illegally burned in a polluting power station.

A secret Scottish Executive memo, leaked to the Sunday Herald, reveals that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has made a deal that enables sludge to be incinerated at Longannet power station for four years, in breach of European law.

The memo, to the first minister Jack McConnell last year, warns that Scottish ministers risk being taken to court by the European Commission and landed with substantial costs as a result.

Interesting presentation. The article talks of 'burning sludge', which gives a rather different impression from burning solid pellets, which is what actually happens. Those pellets help to produce cleaner energy than coal or oil. The article also accepts without question that the law is sensible (a stupid thing to do when it's an EU law). Add to that the slant, ie tax-payers having to stump up to defend companies breaking 'the law' and you have an excellent example of pro-EU propaganda.

If you can bothered to wade through the legal sludge produced by the EU directive which throws up the problem of what can or cannot be burned in an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant to produce energy from its heat or not, then go here.

ID Cards To Be Linked To Police Records

ID cards to be linked to police records - NO2ID Press Releases » 2009 » August.

ID cards to be linked to police records for millions

Millions of people working in education in health or as volunteers
could come under pressure to be fingerprinted and obtain a national ID card, it was revealed today.

Bastards.