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Home secretary David Blunkett turned the current prison policy on its head yesterday after he announced plans to extend fines, “tougher” community service and electronic tagging in a bid to reduce the bulging prison population. The Government said the plans would cut the jail population by some 13,000 inmates by 2009, from 93,000 to 80,000…. Read more »

Pilots’ union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), has said it will abide with the presence of armed sky marshals on board aircraft on the condition that certain provisos are honoured. The debate on sky marshals comes as the US tightens up its borders in the wake of a heightened state of alert over possible… Read more »










