Michael Martin, the Speaker of the Commons, with the serjeant at arms, Jill Pay, yesterday. Photograph: Matt Dunham/PA Michael Martin , the Commons Speaker, faced mounting pressure today as the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police ...
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Figures obtained by the Conservatives show that the number of homes registered to care for sufferers of Alzheimer's or mental disorders has dropped to 3,945 from 4,334 four years ago. In addition, there are now 178,719 places in English nursing homes ...
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Daniel Robert Burrier, 85, of Hampstead, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Dove House in Westminster. Born April 3, 1923, in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Raymond Allen Burrier and Hester Long Burrier Barrett. He was a retired maintenance worker for ...
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When Kelsey Chinskey returned home from Westminster High School Wednesday, she told her parents about her school's mock presidential election. Tim Chinskey, her father, asked who she voted for. "Barack Obama," she said. Tim chuckled. First, his wife ...
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If Michael Martin 's many critics had watched him greeting guests who queued to join his midweek Queen's speech reception at Speaker's House they might have got an answer to the question baffling them since his election to the Commons chair eight ...
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended the decision to call in the police to investigate leaks from the Home Office. In a Commons statement, Mrs Smith again insisted she had no prior knowledge that Tory frontbencher Damian Green was about to be ...
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Associated Press, Nancy Partridge and her ex-husband, David Snyder, pose outside the home that they share in Westminster, Colo., on Tuesday. Running into your ex is almost always awkward and stressful. David Snyder and Nancy Partridge deal with it ...
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