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Paul with his favourite record, Warhol's 'Velvet Underground'

Find your Voice with the Charity Shop DJ

Paul met the Charity Shop DJ in Parliament to encourage people not to throw away their old vinyl records. Andy Jupp, aka the Charity Shop DJ has been working since 2001, going around car boots sales and second hand shops sourcing records to use for his party mixes. He has travelled the country playing gigs with his recycled remixes and has even been to India!

31 Jul 2007
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Joint Committee on Human Rights opposes terror detention plans

The parliamentary joint committee on human rights has found that there is not enough evidence to support extending the 28-day limit on holding terrorism suspects before charge. Any extension should be based on clear evidence, not the idea that a need "may arise at some time in the future", said the committee of MPs and peers. It also recommended the production of an annual report on police use of the power to detain without charge beyond 14 days, and a parliamentary-approved upper limit on pre-charge detention.

31 Jul 2007
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Buses: success at last

The new 541 bus service now travels along Ivy Chimneys and Centre Drive to St Margaret's Hospital. Residents need no longer change buses in the High Street or take a taxi. Also, the H1 bus now travels from Epping Station to St Margaret's Hospital and on to Princess Alexandra Hospital.

31 Jul 2007
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Brown should be a candid friend to the US says Campbell

Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ming Campbell when commenting on Gordon Brown's visit to the US said "There are three things which should be on Gordon Brown's agenda when he meets President Bush: renegotiation of the one-sided extradition treaty; the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre; and a negotiated withdrawal of British forces from Iraq. These should be the objective of a candid friend. The excessively subordinated relationship between the President and Mr Blair should be put to bed."

30 Jul 2007
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