Articles tagged ‘passports’

London News 09.10

By Chris | September 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

* New 3 in 1 Oyster card to be launched.(BBCNews)
* All skilled immigrants to Britain from outside the EU to be made to prove they can speak English.(Reuters)
* References to the Queen to be removed from British passports and replaced with inscriptions about the EU Constitution to try and make people feel more pro European [...]

 

Daily Dose 06.20

By Chris | June 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

* London Mayor Ken Livingstone backs down for the moment after rejecting nine nominees to London’s fire authority because they were too white and too male. He probably thinks female Somali asylum seekers would make better candidates.(BBCNews)
* Tony Blair tells Parliament he regrets the early release of 25,000 prisoners because of prison overcrowding. Everybody else [...]