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Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Uruguay

Saturday, 11 August 2007, 1:59 am | UK Government

Mr Patrick Mullee has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to Uruguay in succession to Dr Hugh Salvesen, who will be leaving the Diplomatic Service. Mr Mullee will take up his appointment during March 2008. Mr. Mullee is married with two children. More >>

UK Prime Minister Says Britain "Open For Business"

Saturday, 11 August 2007, 1:43 am | UK Government

Tourists should be clear that Britain is "open for business" and the countryside remains accessible, the PM has said. Mr Brown said that "swift, determined and decisive action" had been taken to contain the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease. More >>

UK Defence Chief Meets Afghan President In Kabul

Friday, 10 August 2007, 6:52 am | UK Government

Des Browne, UK's Secretary of State for Defence, met President Karzai in Kabul and re-affirmed the UK's long-term commitment to Afghanistan. The two discussed issues including development, reconstruction, and improving governance in Sth Afghanistan. More >>

UK Met Office Prediction For Global Temps To 2014

Friday, 10 August 2007, 6:37 am | UK Government

Climate scientists at the UK Met Office Centre will unveil the first decadal climate prediction model in a paper published 10 August 2007 in the journal Science. The paper includes the Met Office's prediction for annual global temperature to 2014. More >>

Sport Is The World's Common Ground - Tessa Jowell

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 6:52 am | UK Government

UK Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell today celebrated one year to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing by pledging to learn from the Chinese experience. She hailed the Games as a unique challenge for both countries. More >>

Royal Air Force Typhoon Aircraft Goes Multi-role

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 6:44 am | UK Government

Royal Air Force Coningsby (No XI Squadron) took delivery this week of its first two multi-role Typhoon aircraft. They will become operational by the latter half of 2008. Typhoon is already exceeding the Royal Air Force's expectations. More >>

Fingerprint Technology Tightens UK Border Security

Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 9:44 pm | UK Government

Over half a million sets of fingerprints - equivalent to a set checked every 30 seconds 24 hours a day - have been taken from visa applicants since the roll-out programme began last year, it was announced today as UKvisas published its annual report. More >>

UK Govt Undertaking Major Effort To Isolate FMD

Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 2:13 pm | UK Government

The Government is undertaking a "major effort" to "isolate and control" the UK foot and mouth outbreak, the PM has said. A total of 46 premises had been checked with two returning positive results. Efforts to contain the outbreak had been "intensive". More >>

UK Requests Brit Residents Release From Guantanamo

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 10:22 pm | UK Government

The British Foreign Secretary has written today to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to request the release from Guantanamo Bay and return to the UK of five men who, whilst not UK Nationals, were legally UK residents prior to detention. More >>

UK PM Gordon Brown Visits Foot And Mouth Zone

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 6:41 am | UK Government

Gordon Brown has visited the area of Surrey affected by the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The Prime Minister met with local representatives of the National Farmers' Union and staff at a regional disease control centre in Reigate. More >>

UK Govt Working Night & Day On FMD Outbreak - PM

Monday, 6 August 2007, 6:33 am | UK Government

The Government is working "night and day" to eradicate an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey, the British Prime Minister has said. Mr Brown added that the priorites were to deal with the disease quickly and to identify the source of the infection. More >>

U.K. PM To Chair COBRA Meeting On FMD

Saturday, 4 August 2007, 10:50 pm | UK Government

The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is returning to London to chair a special meeting of the COBRA team after a reported outbreak of foot and mouth disease. A nationwide ban has been placed on the movement of pigs and other livestock. More >>

UK Special Rep. On Middle East & Special Projects

Saturday, 4 August 2007, 9:16 pm | UK Government

With the agreement of the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary has today appointed Michael C. Williams to be the UK Special Representative on Middle East and Special Projects. More >>

"Time For Change" for Darfur says UK PM

Friday, 3 August 2007, 3:00 pm | UK Government

The UK and France, with US support, have agreed and tabled a UN Security Council resolution that could see peacekeeping troops deployed in Darfur by October. Peace talks will begin in Tanzania this Friday. More >>

UK And US Pledge To Continue Special Relationship

Friday, 3 August 2007, 2:56 pm | UK Government

The PM and President Bush have promised to continue to work closely together, agreeing that the relationship between the UK and US is the strongest bilateral affiliation for both countries. More >>

British Behaviour Abroad -- UK Govt Report

Friday, 3 August 2007, 7:45 am | UK Government

The report provides incident figures from Foreign Office records highlighting the key problems that British nationals experience abroad. The period April 05-March 06 saw 1,368 Britons arrested in the USA; 955 hospitalised in Greece; 376 British ... More >>

Gordon Brown Outlines His Security Strategy

Friday, 27 July 2007, 11:20 am | UK Government

The PM has proposed a series of measures to increase national security and help defeat terrorism. They include a range of options for changing the current 28-day limit on holding terror suspects without charge, the introduction of a border force and ... More >>