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Police officers dramatically increased their usage of Tasers during the second quarter of the weapons’ 12-month trial, government figures show. The controversial Taser guns stun individuals with an electric shock but are only permitted to be used by trained firearms officers facing an armed person. Home secretary Jacqui Smith permitted the 12-month trial in ten… Read more »
It is “inconceivable” Gordon Brown knew nothing about the loans at the centre of the cash-for-peerages scandal, Lord Levy, Labour’s former fund-raiser, has said. Downing Street has reacted furiously to the claims, with an aide to the prime minister dismissing the comments as “complete, unsubstantiated garbage”. “Gordon Brown knew nothing whatsoever about these loans,” they… Read more »
