Caught in the middle of the fighting were up to 50000 civilians according to Russia’s Deputy
Caught in the middle of the fighting were up to 50,000 civilians, according to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nikolai Koshman. Before the battle started, the Russian authorities had been trying to persuade women, children and the elderly to leave down special “humanitarian corridors”. HEAVILY ARMED federal forces pressed relentlessly into Grozny yesterday while Chechen guerrillas, coming into their own as close combat started, laid traps for the Russian Goliath among the ruins of their capital. Her successor, John Major, whose premiership was blighted by Tory infighting over Europe, was rated 17th.
The results: 1 Winston Churchill (Con 1940-45, 1951-55), 2 David Lloyd George (Lib 1916-22), 3 Clement Atlee (Lab 1945-51), 4 Herbert Asquith (Lib 1908-16), 5 Margaret Thatcher (Con 1979-90), 6 Harold Macmillan (Con 1957-63), 7 Marquess of Salisbury (Con 1895-1902), 8 Stanley Baldwin (Con 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37), 9 Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman (Lib 1905-08), 10 Harold Wilson (Lab 1964-70, 1974-76), 11 Edward Heath (Con 1970-74), 12 James Callaghan (Lab 1976-79), 13 Andrew Bonar Law (Con 1922-23), 14 Ramsay MacDonald (Lab 1924, 1929-35), 15 Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Con 1963-64), 16 Arthur Balfour (Con 1902-05), 17 John Major (Con 1990-97), 18 Neville Chamberlain (Con 1937-40), 19 Sir Anthony Eden (Con 1955-57).. The Conservative whose leadership inspired Britain through the Second World War beat the last Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George into second place and Churchill’s successor, Labour’s Clement Atlee, into third. Twenty historians, politicians and commentators were asked by BBC Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour to rank the 19 Prime Ministers from Lord Salisbury in 1895 through to John Major in the 1990s.
Tony Blair was not included because his spell in Downing Street is not complete. The top five places went to Herbert Asquith (fourth), whose government took Britain into the First World War, and Margaret Thatcher (fifth). They are currently in custody and are being interviewed.”Detective Superintendent Mick Creedon, of Leicestershire CID, who is leading the investigation, said: “It is vital that we identify and trace every person who was in the Eden club and might have vital information. This is a very serious incident and we are urging anyone who was in the club to make contact with police as soon as possible.”It is thought there were around 100 people seeing in Christmas at the club at the time of the shooting.. WINSTON CHURCHILL was the greatest Prime Minister of the 20th century, according to a new survey.
Ministers said the money will also be used to install more closed-circuit televisions and security devices in schools.. A 29-YEAR-OLD man shot in the head and killed as he celebrated at a nightclub in the early hours of Christmas Day was named by police yesterday as Jason Hill, from Anstey, Leicester. A second man was shot in the stomach and managed to take a taxi to hospital where his wounds were treated.
His condition was described as “stable” by staff at the Leicester Royal Infirmary.Police launched a murder investigation and the Eden club in Halford Street, Leicester where the shootings took place was sealed off.No further details of the dead or injured man have yet been released by police.A spokeswoman for Leicestershire police said: “Last night a 27 and 22- year-old man were arrested on suspicion of murder. It’s clearly a bid to save cash, but it’s wrong for work to be done by what is virtually slave labour.”The National Union of Students questioned the contracting out overseas of work which involved personal details about British students.t Teachers will receive more personal security training with the help of an extra pounds 22m to be announced by the Government today. Please sponsor me so I can work in England.”Workers in Calcutta were being paid pounds 1 a day to perform data processing work for the Government-owned Student Loans Company, which employs 550 people.The newspaper quoted an unnamed SLC source as saying: “There’s all hell on about this.
The Glasgow-based Student Loans Company (SLC) was reported to have placed the pounds 2m contract to process loan applications in May.
Some students in Britain, seeking loans which would be considered a fortune in India, were now receiving begging letters, The Sun newspaper reported.It said one Indian worker wrote: “I’m very poor and you’re obviously very rich. The homes of about 200 people in East Sussex had to be evacuated on Christmas Day.The lower reaches of the River Severn were on red alert, with its waters threatening homes and large areas of land. In Wales, large stretches of the River Wye were also on flood alert and a warning was issued for the whole of the Sussex coastline.. STUDENT LOAN administrators were last night at the centre of claims that some of the work has been farmed out to workers in Calcutta, India, who are paid just pounds 1 a day. “Nationally there are 175 yellow, 83 amber and 12 red river flood warnings in force. People in flood-affected areas must remain vigilant and prepared for flooding.”
He added that Sussex and Kent were the most vulnerable to flooding after 48 hours of almost continuous rain. The Environment Agency said the threat of further rain could create widesspread flooding along many rivers.