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Crime stats turn agenda to law and order

Labour decided to focus on law and order on the day that the Home Office released figures showing that violent crime rose by nine per cent in the last quarter of 2004. This included a ten per cent rise in crime involving firearms, although overall crime fell by five per cent over the same period…. Read more »

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Berwick-upon-Tweed: Big seat, big issues

One of the first things to strike a passenger on the number 515 bus north out of Newcastle is the wide open space that opens up around them. That is because the bus is taking them into the most sparsely populated constituency in the country: Berwick-upon-Tweed, 50 miles long and covering 231,000 hectares, has only… Read more »