[According to a recent leaked memo marked] Secret: U.K. Eyes Only ... Given that the government has previously and firmly indicated that setting a date for possible withdrawal or drawing down could endanger our troops on the ground in Iraq, and given that this allegedly leaked memo speculates on possible dates for such action, the government should urgently clarify the situation to ensure that it is understood that our troops will remain in Iraq until our tasks there are completed. |
All government departments will be smoke-free, ... All enclosed public places and workplaces ... will be smoke free. All restaurants will be smoke free. All pubs and bars preparing and serving food will be smoke free. |
an international battle of enormous proportions. |
And I have said since around June that I envisage that that process, which will start unequally in different parts of the country, could start within a year. |
And that is why in the course of the day, while we were negotiating, in view of that fact that they weren't handed over, we got increasingly worried and the commander on the spot, with hindsight, was absolutely right to do what he did, because we discovered they weren't in the police station, they were somewhere else, but are now safe, |
And the suggestion that any government would use that sort of subject and phenomenon for spin and public relations I thought was beneath contempt. |
Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable, ... This will mean a transition, a process, not a peremptory decision or a one-off event. |
As coaches we took that Maryville game and used it as fuel for the rest of the year, |
As coaches we took that Maryville game and used it as fuel for the rest of the year. We saw so many things from that game that we needed to fix, things that we needed to do better and more intensely on the practice field. |
be highly regrettable if he were to exclude himself from institutions which are already improving the lives of people in Northern Ireland. |
being treated for minor injuries only and are expected to return to duty shortly. |
Brandon and I have always discussed recruiting like it's going out and picking a Corvette. Now it's about picking the color you like. |
brutal and cowardly act. |
But it is right also that people should be responsible about not being abusive through drink on buses and other places. That is the balance of rights and responsibilities. |
But that should in no way diminish the fact that... in the vast majority of exercises that are now being taken in counter-insurgency, the Iraqi security forces are working shoulder to shoulder with the British and the multinational forces that are there. |