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A group of former Mau Mau fighters has been given the go ahead to sue the British government for alleged human rights abuses committed against them during the uprising in Kenya against British colonial rule.

The authorities in Malawi have cracked down after anti-government protesters took to the streets of the capital Lilongwe to vent their anger at rising food prices, high unemployment and worsening fuel shortages in the country.

As news media sought to explain and support a wider thesis involving far-right terrorist cells to explain the actions of Norway’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, his lawyer said this week that his client is probably insane.

Animal welfare groups have condemned the Government’s decision to launch a pilot badger-culling scheme in a bid to tackle tuberculosis in cattle – despite the lack of scientific evidence proving that a cull will have the desired effects.

The Department of Health has sought to distance itself from leaked comments, published in the Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, which seriously undermine Government arguments for changing public sector pensions.

A successful community campaign, led by the Public and Commercial Services union, has prevented an area of the British Isles equivalent to the size of Belgium being left without a tax office.