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Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:33 AM

Alan Johnson

Type: Person

Name: Alan Johnson

Title: Secretary of State for the Home Department

Organization: The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Date of Birth: 1950-05-17

Place of Birth: London

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Alan Johnson

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents

Speech by the Home Secretary, the Rt Honourable Alan Johnson, MP

It's a pleasure to be here at the 10th Muslim News Awards - an occasion in the year where we acknowledge the incredible achievements of people in Muslim communities across the UK.As well as marking these achievements, we are celebrating the enormous contribution ... [Published 4 hours ago by Muslim News]

Entities: Alan Johnson, Islam, Resilience, United Kingdom, 11th century

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 3 Documents

Nicholas Smith

Calls grow for ban on "legal high" clubbers' drug

Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, were found dead in their homes on Tuesday after a night out in Scunthorpe during which they had taken the drug.Post-mortem examinations are being carried out on the two friends, whose bodies were found hours ... [Published 13 hours ago by Reuters UK]

Entities: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Alan Johnson, Mark Oliver, Nicholas Smith

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 Documents

Alan Campbell

Paedo panic button call

Facebook is under mounting pressure to adopt a new system allowing children to report paedophile activity.Home Secretary Alan Johnson is due to meet bosses later this week to discuss online panic buttons.Facebook has so far refused to instal the buttons, ... [Published 13 hours ago by Mirror.co.uk]

Entities: Alan Campbell, Facebook Inc, Alan Johnson

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents

Gordon Brown

BA strike: Has Gordon Brown given Unite control of Britain?

GORDON Brown was accused of being in hock to union backers after a devastating Tory dossier revealed how Labour was being bankrolled by Unite.Illuminating figures show the union, which is behind the , is funding the partys election bid in 148 seats across ... [Published 13 hours ago by Daily Express]

Entities: Gordon Brown, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), United Kingdom, Ed Balls

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents

Shami Chakrabarti

Government may shelve DNA storage reform

Ministers are intending to reject a Conservative proposal cutting the retention period for DNA profiles of innocent people to three yearsHome secretary Alan Johnson may sacrifice his controversial proposal for the police to store innocent people's DNA ... [Published 17 hours ago by Kable]

Entities: DNA, Alan Johnson, Crime, Shami Chakrabarti, Database

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 2 Documents

Hilary Benn

Government drops 'dogs dinner' tax plans

The plans had been unveiled last week as a proposed change to the dangerous dogs act by the environment secretary Hilary Benn and the home secretary Alan Johnson.The plans would have forced five million dog owners in England and Wales to buy third-party ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Channel 4 News]

Entities: Hilary Benn, Alan Johnson, Taxes, Gary Gibbon, Nick Herbert

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Alan Johnson

English language schools plan legal challenge on tightening of visa rules

English language schools are planning a legal challenge against the Home Office over fears that the UK will lose thousands of jobs and £400m in income through tighter visa regulations this year.English UK, the body that represents most language schools, ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Guardian.co.uk]

Entities: United Kingdom, Alan Johnson, UK Home Office

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 2 Documents

Facebook in 'panic button' talks

Home Secretary Alan Johnson will hold talks with Facebook this week over a "panic button" to allow children to report suspected paedophiles.It would link to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre from the social networking site.Home ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by BBC]

Entities: Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre, Facebook Inc, Alan Campbell

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Home Office databases breached 11 times

The department has disclosed a number of security breaches as its e-Borders scheme comes under attack from the ConservativesThe RegisterIn response to a question from Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Grayling, home secretary Alan Johnson said ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Kable]

Entities: UK Home Office, Database, Damien Green, Identity and Passport Service

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Database state breached 11 times

Home Secretary Alan Johnson has given Parliament some details on the most recent breaches of the various identity databases held by his ministry.Johnson told the House of Commons that there were 11 occasions in the last year when information was used ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by The Register]

Entities: Database, Alan Johnson, UK Home Office, Damien Green

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Home Sec says 17m ID cards in circulation by 2017

The government expects to have issued 17 million ID cards by 2017, Home Secretary Alan Johnson told the Commons yesterday.Johnson was responding to a question from his Tory shadow, Chris Grayling, who asked: 'What proportion of the estimated 49 million ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by The Register]

Entities: Alan Johnson, Chris Grayling, Product Mix, Manchester

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Home Secretary swats away calls for Mosquito ban

A European committee is calling for a community-wide ban on the Mosquito device which gets rid of teenagers by emitting an irritating buzzing noise that older people cannot hear, even though the device has the backing of Home Secretary Alan Johnson.The ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by The Register]

Entities: Alan Johnson, Simon Morris, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Plymouth (United Kingdom)

More Content

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Speech by the Home Secretary, the Rt Honourable... [Muslim News - 4 hours ago]
Calls grow for ban on "legal high" cl... [Reuters UK - 13 hours ago]
Paedo panic button call [Mirror.co.uk - 13 hours ago]
Calls growing for "legal high" drug t... [Reuters UK - 13 hours ago]
BA strike: Has Gordon Brown given Unite control... [Daily Express - 13 hours ago]
Government may shelve DNA storage reform [Kable - 17 hours ago]
Head teachers call for ban on death drug [Reuters UK - 18 hours ago]
Police blast Tory Damian Green in crime claim s... [Mirror.co.uk - 19 hours ago]
Facebook paedophile panic button call [Mirror.co.uk - 19 hours ago]
Powerbrokers fight for party heart [Times Online - 20 hours ago]
Links to Browns Unite pals 0:47 [Scottish Sun - 23 hours ago]
Labour determined to make DNA storage an "... [open Democracy News Analysis - - Mar 17 2010]
BA strike union's £11m gift to Brown [Daily Express - Mar 17 2010]
Anti-knife crime campaign launched [10 Downing Street - Mar 16 2010]
Government drops 'dogs dinner' tax plans [Channel 4 News - Mar 16 2010]
Dossier reveals full extent of BA strike union'... [Mail Online UK - Mar 16 2010]
Dangerous dog law U-turn shows Labour's lack of... [Guardian.co.uk - Mar 16 2010]
Dossier reveals full extent of Unite's grip on ... [Mail Online UK - Mar 16 2010]
English language schools plan legal challenge o... [Guardian.co.uk - Mar 16 2010]
Facebook in 'panic button' talks [BBC - Mar 16 2010]
Scotland Yard forced to move £4m from crim... [London Evening Standard - Mar 16 2010]
Scotland Yard stumps up £4m to cover cost ... [London Evening Standard - Mar 16 2010]
Facebook urged over 'panic button' [Yahoo! UK and Ireland - Mar 16 2010]
Home Office databases breached 11 times [Kable - Mar 16 2010]
MP to quit ultra-marginal seat [ePolitix.com - Mar 15 2010]
Gordon Brown and denial [Telegraph - Mar 15 2010]
The great Tory wobble: Desperate Ken Clarke fea... [Mirror.co.uk - Mar 15 2010]
Police anger at 250K cost of guarding Eugenie [First Post - Mar 15 2010]
MPs step up demands for inquiry into MI5 tortur... [Guardian.co.uk - Mar 15 2010]
Identifying Israeli nationals [Online Journal - Mar 15 2010]

Blogs

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It's Nick Clegg's chance to shine, so he'd bett... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 14 2010] The Lib Dems have a fabulous opportunity, but will need exceptional discipline during the campaignIn conversation with friends about the forthcoming televised election ...
Jon Venables case reveals the dark side of onli... [Media: Organ Grinder \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 14 2010] Was the tabloid press telling readers what to think in the row over the return to prison of James Bulger's killer? Or was it responding to what they thought already?You ...
Breaking the Gaza deadlock \| Andy Slaughter [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 13 2010] Progress can be achieved through open engagement without preconditions – and that includes HamasI returned last week from a visit to Gaza as part of a parliamentary ...
These dogs are fashion victims \| Zoe Williams [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 10 2010] For a well-adjusted pet, status dogs who hang out with teenagers beat nutty, Saturday-only labradors hands downRight, conjure a picture of an open-jawed rottweiler, ...
The trend of falling violence is intact \| Giles... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 10 2010] Statistics record a wider range of sexual, racial and domestic offences than before. Britain's not broken – it's more humaneSomething puzzling yet wonderful is happening ...

Audio/Video

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Hilary Benn announces consultation on dangerous... [Defra UK - YouTube Channel - Mar 10 2010]
Home Secretary: "Crime rate is falling" [ITN News - YouTube - Mar 09 2010]
Dog owners could be made to insure against attacks [ITN News - YouTube - Mar 09 2010]
Crackdown on foreign student visas [ITN News - YouTube - Feb 07 2010]
UK Terror Threat Level Raised To Severe [Sky News - YouTube - Jan 23 2010]