Todays News in Short

07/06/2008

 

Oil prices 'shock but not crisis'
The US energy secretary stops short of calling the latest oil price highs a crisis, as G8 ministers meet in Japan.

 

Brown terror plea to Labour MPs
The prime minister writes to Labour MPs asking them to back an extension in terror suspect detention times.

 

Tory MP paid nanny from expenses
Tory chairman Caroline Spelman admits she used her MP's allowance to pay her nanny for secretarial work.

 

Israeli minister threatens Iran
A top Israeli official says Israel will attack Iran if it continues with its alleged nuclear arms programme.

 

Protesters blockade oil refinery
Protesters blockade Stanlow oil refinery for the second time in five weeks in protest at rising fuel prices.

 

Now dustmen won't take your rubbish away if wheelie bin is too heavy to pull with two fingers

Binmen have put two fingers up to common sense by issuing an astonishing warning to council-tax payers.

 

Schools and gyms on high alert over deadly flesh-eating bugs

Schools and gyms will be warned for the first time over deadly flesh-eating bugs which initially have flu-like symptoms.

 

'Unavoidable' attack on Iran looms, says Israeli minister

06 Jun 2008

An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be "unavoidable" if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons programme. In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would disappear before Israel does".