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August 15th, News BBC Radio 4 6.30 a.m.
The
annual report into football disorder is expected to show an increase in the
number of arrests when it is released later this morning. The document produced
by the National Criminal Intelligence Service NCIS will say the trouble now
mostly happens away from football grounds and highlights how hooligans are using
the internet and mobile forms to become more organised. NATO
ambassadors will be meeting later today to discuss sending 3,500 troops to
Macedonia to disarm ethnic Albanian rebels. The meeting follows a deal between
Macedonian and Albanian leaders. British troops are expected to be in the
forefront of the operation. Israel
has mounted what appears to have been a show of strength by deploying tanks near
Palestinian controlled territory in the West Bank. Israeli state television said
last night that a military operation near Bethlehem was under way but the army
later denied this. The
former Conservative Party Michael Anchrem is warning the Tories that they risk
tearing themselves apart if they elect the pro-European Kenneth Clarke rather
than Ian Duncan Smith as their new leader. Writing in the Daily telegraph, Mr
Anchrem says keeping the Pound remains one of the Conservatives most cherished
beliefs. Reports
from Zimbabwe say that attacks on white owned farms by government militants have
been continuing in the northwest of the country. The authorities had given
assurances that large numbers of police officers had been deployed to the Chenoy
(?) region to restore calm. But farmers say about a hundred farms have been
looted as the onslaught continues unabated. Police
on both sides of the Irish border will launch a fresh appeal for information
today in their hunt for the terrorists who carried out the Omagh bombing. Today
is the third anniversary by the Real IRA which killed 29 people. Supermarkets
say sales figures appear to suggest that more shoppers are choosing lamb and
beef. The stores believe renewed confidence in British meet after BSE and the
outbreak of foot and mouth disease. |
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