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WHAT HAPPENED ON 1st January 2001?
15th December 2000
BRITONS LANGUISHING IN FOREIGN PRISONS
More than 2 500 Britons are starting the New Year languishing in foreign jails across the world it has emerged. Many have been convicted on falsified evidence or without any real evidence at all according to the organisation Fair Trials Abroad. Four are awaiting death sentences while others are desperately ill they claim. The Foreign Office said they were liaising with the organisation in looking at a number of the cases.
1st January 2001
INDONESIA GIVES HOME RULE TO PROVINCES
The Indonesian government is introducing self-rule for its 26 provinces in a move which it hopes will counteract separatist disturbances. The move ` introduced with the minimum of ceremony ` has worried overseas investors & lenders who fear local rulers will overtax foreign firms. President Wahid's government admits the change is being introduced with haste. But "we will be able to do repairs along the way " a top official has said
1st January 2001
YOUNG GIRL DIES IN WATERFALL ACCIDENT
A young British girl has died following an accident at a waterfall in South Africa the Foreign Office has said. The accident is understood to have happened yesterday at Lisbon Falls. The Foreign Office is still investigating. A spokesman was unable to release any details about the girl. Last Wednesday Cara Weaver 14 from Dorset was killed in an accident involving a cable car mechanism on Table Mountain near cape Town.
15th December 2000
PAPERS TELL OF HOLOCAUST PREPARATIONS
Scotland's preparations for nuclear holocaust have been made public after more than 30 years in secret documents released today. The papers reveal the extent to which officials in the Scottish Office & local government were preparing for the impact of such an event. The documents are among papers released by the National Archives of Scotland. One study said 1m Scots would be wiped out & there was confusion over how to dispose of the bodies.
1st January 2001
INDONESIA GIVES HOME RULE TO PROVINCES
The Indonesian government is introducing self-rule for its 26 provinces in a move which it hopes will counteract separatist disturbances. The move ` introduced with the minimum of ceremony ` has worried overseas investors & lenders who fear local rulers will overtax foreign firms. President Wahid's government admits the change is being introduced with haste. But "we will be able to do repairs along the way " a top official has said
1st January 2001
NO PLANS TO SHELVE RUC REFORM ` GOVT
The Government has denied it has plans to shelve sweeping reform of the police force in Northern Ireland. But it says it has made it clear to Northern Ireland parties the consequences of any further delays. It follows newspaper reports that the Government was considering an indefinite delay after failing to win the support of the nationalist SDLP. The party wants guarantees on certain aspects of implementing the reforms.
15th December 2000
US EXPERTS SEEK RELIABLE VOTING SYSTEM
Two top US technology schools plan to develop a voting system to avoid the confusion of this year's elections. The California & Massachusetts Institutes of Technology want to develop new voting machines before the 2004 presidential contest. They have had a $250 000 grant from the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation. A nation that put men on the moon should be able to count ballots accurately said MIT head Charles Vest.
1st January 2001
INDONESIA GIVES HOME RULE TO PROVINCES
The Indonesian government is introducing self-rule for its 26 provinces in a move which it hopes will counteract separatist disturbances. The move ` introduced with the minimum of ceremony ` has worried overseas investors & lenders who fear local rulers will overtax foreign firms. President Wahid's government admits the change is being introduced with haste. But "we will be able to do repairs along the way " a top official has said
1st January 2001
US CONGRESS CONFIRMS BUSH ELECTION WIN
The US Congress has confirmed the election of George W Bush as US President under the chairmanship of his defeated rival Vice-President Al Gore. The Senate & House of Representatives convened jointly to read & confirm the votes of the Electoral College. A succession of House members tried to raise points of order alleging election misconduct & fraud. But Mr Gore overruled them because no Senator supported the points of order.
15th December 2000
MAN IN COURT OVER MURDER OF TAXI DRIVER
A 26-year-old man from Rotherham is due to appear in court charged with the murder of taxi driver Sarfraz Khan. Mr Khan 30 from Rotherham South Yorkshire was stabbed six times ` once through the heart on December 23. He was attacked after picking up passengers outside a school in the town His body was found in his burnt-out car on a nearby nature reserve. A second man arrested on Friday was released without charge.
1st January 2001
INDONESIA GIVES HOME RULE TO PROVINCES
The Indonesian government is introducing self-rule for its 26 provinces in a move which it hopes will counteract separatist disturbances. The move ` introduced with the minimum of ceremony ` has worried overseas investors & lenders who fear local rulers will overtax foreign firms. President Wahid's government admits the change is being introduced with haste. But "we will be able to do repairs along the way " a top official has said
1st January 2001
CONSERVATIVES PLEDGE TAX CUTS OF £8bn
Shadow Chancellor Michael Portillo has said a Tory government would cut tax by #8bn without damaging public services. Cuts in social security spending & schemes such as the New Deal would mean taxes could be reduced by this amount within three years he told the BBC. He said Tories agreed with Labour that education & health spending must rise Chancellor Gordon Brown's raising of public spending by more than average growth is "extremely unwise" he added.
