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Pin- between 2011 and 2015 based on govern- story into an international image welfare payments and the pension age ment figures. Continued on page 4 raised to 66 by 2020, earlier than previ- Current spending includes items such as ously planned. salaries, hospital medicines, and school text from prison last month for a hearing at Even the Queen will take a hit, asked to books. Capital spending includes assets such THE HEADLINES a London court. trim the budget the government provides as school buildings, roads and bridges. The 24-year-old Naseer was arrested for her staff by 14 percent. Chancellor George Osborne in July on a US extradition warrant on Court Reinstates Order That charges of providing support to a foreign BAA Sell Three Airports terrorist organization, conspiring to sup- Investigations Show 75 Percent Of Benefi t Claimants Can Work BRITAIN’S Court of Appeal last month port a terror group and conspiracy to use reinstated an order requiring BAA to sell a destructive device. MINISTERS claim that three-quarters of were closed before a medical assessment who failed the assessment and then ap- Prosecutors allege Naseer was part people seeking a new benefi t were fi t to was completed. pealed won. three of the airports it operates to allow for greater competition. of a major al-Qaida conspiracy that in- work or withdrew their application before Employment minister Chris Grayling “Seriously ill and disabled people are cluded the New York subway plot. having a medical assessment. said: “With over two million people being severely let down by the crude BAA, which owns Heathrow airport and other facilities, has already sold Gat- District judge Nicholas Evans or- A total of 842,100 people applied for trapped on incapacity benefi ts, these fi g- approach of the Work Capability Assess- dered Naseer to remain in custody the Employment and Support Allowance ures underline how important it is that we ment,” she said. wick, Britain’s second busiest airport. The sales had been ordered by the before a scheduled three-day hearing (ESA) from October 2008 until February make sure everyone who has the potential PROBLEMS starting December 15. this year, according to the Department for to work gets the right help to move off “The government urgently needs to ad- anti-monopoly panel, the Competition Work and Pensions (DWP). benefi ts and into a job.” dress the problems with the test for ESA Commission. However, BAA success- Gurkhas Lose Court Of that number, 331,100 were fi t to But Lizzie Iron, head of policy at which are causing hardship to seriously fully appealed to a tribunal by arguing Battle On Army Pensions work and a further 307,200 people’s claims Citizens Advice, said 40 percent of people that someone on the commission panel Continued on page 4 also acted as an adviser to a pension fund RETIRED Gurkha soldiers have lost their latest court battle with Britain’s BONFIRE NIGHT linked with the owners of Manchester Airport, potentially a buyer of a BAA military over their army pensions. RememberR remember the fi fth of November airport. The former soldiers from Nepal had The Competition Commission order challenged a High Court ruling earlier Gunpowder, treason and plot. requires BAA to sell Stansted, an airport this year that rejected their bid to be paid serving London, and one of its Scottish the same pensions as military personnel I see no reason why gunpowder, treason airports. from Britain. BAA is owned by a consortium led by The Court of Appeal upheld the lower Should ever be forgot... Grupo Ferrovial SA of Spain. court’s decision last month. The British Gurkha Welfare Society NY Plot Man Held, Faces says about 25,000 Gurkhas who retired ‘Gunpowder Plot’ Plot’ before 2007 are not eligible for pen- conspirators Thomas UK Extradition Hearing sion payments equal to their UK-based Great GiftGf Ideas! Bates, Robert Wintour, A BRITISH judge says a Pakistani man counterparts. Christopher Wright, alleged to have planned an al-Qaida They were paid about a third of the UNION JACK John Wright, Thomas attack in Britain and wanted by US monthly pensions given to UK soldiers SUBSCRIPTION Percy, Guy Fawkes, authorities over the New York subway because they were recruited from Nepal Robert Catesby and bomb plot will appear for an extradition and stationed in the Far East. 12 issues all Thomas Wintour. hearing in December. The Gurkhas said they are consider- year long! Abid Naseer appeared by video link ing taking the case to European courts. Guy Fawkes & the Gunpowder Plot This practice, together with the nursery Words of “Remember Remember” rhyme, ensured that this crime would never £sd refer to Guy Fawkes with origins in 17th be forgotten! Hence the words “ Remem- COIN SETS century English history. 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