WHAT HAPPENED ON 7th May 2006?

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Welcome to the

whathappened.website

designed to analyse events in Great Britain and the world from 1995 to 2008.

As you may imagine there are a lot of data here gathered from daily occurrences in politics, government, the law, in economics, finance and taxation, in crime, health and employment. The whathappened.website is an analytical tool which can be used to study all these aspects of public life in a number of ways.

If you enter the date, say 12th May 1998, into the Google search engine above you will be able to select the pages which have notes of the news on that day. You can then use the Note Navigation Bar to scroll through all the data for that day.

You can move to the next day or to the previous day by using the Date Navigation Bar.

On any particular day, you can see what else happened on that day by using the "What Else Happened on this Day" navigation bar. This will take you through all the available data for the selected day.

Alternatively, you can get a list of some of the main items featured in a particular month by clicking on the MONTH tab above and you will find a clickable list of the month's events from which to choose.

Om the main panel you will see the current note in the centre and the keywords associated with it in the tabs at the top of the panel. Clicking on any of these tabs with show the preceding and next notes which share the same keyword. By using the Keyword Navigation Bar, you can follow a keyword through the entire database. At any time you can change the keyword to another by clicking on the appropriate tab above the centre panel.

Below the text in the centre panel, a bar chart shows the frequency of the selected keyword across the whole period.

KEY NOTES ON EVENTS IN May 2006

Clarke urged to address Commons

Clarke to face MPs over prisoners

Blair prisoner deportation pledge

Sunshine brings local voters out

Clarke is fired in Cabinet purge

Annan presses Sudan on UN force

UK Army fire 'did not hit' Iraqis

Blair resists calls to step down

Buncefield tank 'was overflowing'

Killer 'should not have been out'

Resourcing blamed over July bombs

Brown and Blair in pensions deal

Husband in tribute to murdered Pc

Blair takes stand on animal tests

NI politicians return to Stormont

NHS told to fund treatment abroad

Vauxhall confirms 900 job losses

Men jailed for Spanish murders

New Year murders appeal bids fail

Minister to target poor families

Criminal records mix-up uncovered

Victims may decide inmates' fate

Debate begins on school reforms

Amnesty aims to fight knife crime

State pension age to rise to 68

Blair urges United Nations reform

Reid attacked in new releases row

Higher nuclear usage recommended

Four Britons die in Iraq attacks

Iraq victims 'were war veterans'

More get tax credit overpayments