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A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Iraq war protester plans to appeal to break ‘Brian Haw’ clause

THE first person to be convicted for holding an illegal demonstration in Whitehall is preparing to appeal her conviction and challenge the law in the High Court.
On Wednesday Maya Evans, 25, found herself on the front pages, hailed for standing up for the freedom of speech, after she was found guilty of taking part in an illegal demonstration when she stood opposite Downing Street, just yards from the Cenotaph, reading out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq.
Ms Evans and her colleague, Milan Rai, 40, were arrested within 10 minutes and at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court District Judge Caroline Tubbs ruled that she had committed an offence but let her off with a conditional discharge and £100 costs.
But Ms Tubbs said: “It is not open to the magistrates’ court to declare legislation passed by Parliament is incompatible with the Convention of Human Rights. That can only be done by the High Court.”
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Brothels to become luxury flats

A HOME to prostitutes and sex shops for at least 50 years could be replaced by a multi-million pound development of shops and luxury apartments.
Berwick Street Properties Ltd has applied to knock down the buildings on the corner of Berwick Street and Peter Street.
It is the first development for the notorious block, bounded by Peter Street, Berwick Street, Broadwick Street and Wardour Street, that houses dozens of brothels, illegal sex shops and has long been seen as an area that was ripe for development. But the plan does not abide by the Mayor of London’s guidelines that 50 per cent of all new properties should be affordable accommodation.

 



Paris is still No.1 in the wine world

PARIS, sera toujours Paris, sang the French singer and Hollywood star of the 1940s Maurice Chevalier.
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Give our school kids a sporting chance

DON’T know about you but I hated sport at school. It was all that prancing around in your knickers...
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