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Date: 10th December 2000
Service: CEEFAX
Region: East
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC2
Current Page: 144
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P144 CEEFAX 2 144 Sun 10 Dec 21:15/21 1/5 MONDAY'S AGENDA AT WESTMINSTER The day in the Commons opens with questions to ministers from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.There will also be questions to the Public Accounts Commission and the Church Commissioners. The debate on the Queen's Spejch will continue, focusing on foreign affairs and defence. Peers will also debate the Queen's Speech, with the focus on education, the evironment and agriculture. Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Letters News Indx Extra Main menu
P144 CEEFAX 2 144 Sun 10 Dec 21:03/38 2/5 CHANCELLOR SIGNALS FAMILIES TAX CUTS Chancellor Gordon Brown has signalled tax cuts for families in the run-up to the next General Election. Mr Brown said he aimed to raise the new£8.50p children's tax credit to £10 a week, equivalent to a 2.5p income tax cut for the average family. He questioned Tory plans to cut tax at a meeting of Labour's National Policy Forum at the party's Millbank base. He said the proposed cuts would put thestability of the economy at risk. Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Letters News Indx Extra Main menu
P144 CEEFAX 2 144 Sun 10 Dec 21:12/45 3/5 I SMACKED MY CHILDREN, REVEALS BLUNKETT Education Secretary David Blunkett has revealed he smacked his children for misbehaving — and said it worked. Government plans to let childminder1 smack youngsters have been criticised by childcare campaigners. But Mr Blunkett said childminder1 were right to smack in "exceptional circumstances" if parents backed them. He smacked his three children — who areall now adults — "as a last resort" andadded: "It worked at the time." Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Letters News Indx Extra Main menu
P144 CEEFAX 2 144 Sun 10 Dec 21:16/55 4/5 WIDDECOMBE CRITICISES PILL SALES MOVE Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe has condemned plans to sell the morning-after pill over the counter as morally and medically wrong. "It does not at all sit in with my moral views as to what should happen," shj told BBC1's Breakfast with Frost. She said there were questions over whether the move would encourage more teenage and unprotected sex. Shadow Health Secretary Dr Liam Fox was"alarmed and appalled" by the decision.Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Letters News Indx Extra Main menu
P144 CEEFAX 2 144 Sun 10 Dec 21:13/12 5/5 UK SET TO COMMIT POLICE TO NEW EU FORCE British police are to be committed to a new EU force working with the Rapid Reaction Force, it has been announced. The Foreign Office says the agreement does not create a permanent force, but the Government has agreed to s4ppl8 officers as and when they are needed. As many as 5,000 officers from across the EU could serve with the force. The officers would help restore order in war-torn countries as part of the European Union's peacekeeping efforts. Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Letters News Indx Extra Main menu