Before you next trip to Britain get your Ads appear Essential London Kit in newspaper Kit includes discounted tickets to: and internet! Union Jack 20102010 WORLDWORLD CUPCUP • 3 Day (Zones 1-2) Peak London Travelcard • The London Eye • Tower of London internet- PAGE • The Original London Sightseeing Bus Tour CLASSADS 7 Go to: ujnews.com [click on the VisitBritain Shop logo] See Page 16 Vol. 28 No. 4 July 2010 Everyone in Britain will feel the strain, he said, from shoppers paying higher Britain Marks Armed Forces Day THE HEADLINES sales tax, wealthy people hit for higher capital gains taxes, banks targeted by Bloody Sunday a new levy and even the Queen- who accepted a freeze in her support from Killings Ruled Unjust taxpayers. By Peter Morrison and David Stringer Here some key points of Chancellor THE BRITISH soldiers who killed 13 George Osborne’s Budget: Catholic demonstrators in Northern Ire- TAX land during “Bloody Sunday” nearly four VAT: Rate will rise from 17.5 percent decades ago committed “unjustifi ed and to 20 percent from January 4, 2011. unjustifi able” killings of unarmed and Personal income tax allowance: To be innocent victims and then lied about it, a increased by £1,000 in April to £7,475 fact-fi nding investigation concluded June – worth £170 a year to basic rate taxpay- 15 after a 12-year hunt for the truth. ers. It is expected that 880,000 of the More than 1,000 Londonderry resi- lowest-paid will be taken out of income dents applauded, hugged and cried out- tax altogether. side city hall as the long-awaited verdict Council tax: Could be frozen for one was announced live on a huge television year from April 2011 in England, but ex- screen. They had campaigned for 38 tra funds will only be offered to councils years for the victims – originally branded Continued on page 4 as Irish Republican Army bombers and gunmen – to have their good names re- Former PM Thatcher stored and the guilt of the soldiers proved beyond doubt. Visits Downing Street More than 600 British soldiers returning from Afghanistan marched through the southern English “Unjustifi ed and unjustifi able. Those SOME 20 years after she left No 10 town of Winchester on June 23, in the largest ever homecoming parade staged in Britain. are the words we’ve been waiting to hear Downing Street, a frail-looking Margaret since January the 30th of 1972,” Tony Thatcher was back to visit with her Con- SERVING TROOPS marched with they can come home and come back to Helmand province. servative successor, David Cameron. massive public support. It is exactly like Armed Forces Day was created last year Doherty, the son of one Bloody Sunday veterans and cadets through the Continued on page 4 Thatcher, 84, clung to the railing out- sun-soaked streets of Winchester being a rock star.” amid criticism that the country didn’t do side the famous black door as she walked Thousands of people were in the Welsh enough to honor its military. up to the doorstep to pose for pictures. and Cardiff last month, as Britain city for the event. A fl ypast and church The Queen sent a message of support Budget: Sharpest marked its second annual Armed She waved to photographers, but made service followed the parade, and hundreds to mark the day, which she said celebrated Cuts In Decades no comment. Forces Day. of smaller celebrations took place across “servicemen and women past and present, TREASURY chief George Osborne Thatcher’s visit last month, which Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the the country. and the cadet forces.” unveiled last month the toughest cuts lasted about 45 minutes, came as the Con- Duchess of Cornwall, reviewed the parade On June 23 over 600 returning troops “The men and women of our Armed to public spending in decades, a raft of servative government said it was prepar- in Cardiff, the focus of a national ceremony from the 11 Light Brigade marched Forces have always been admirable exam- tax rises and a new levy on banks in an ing what are likely to be the deepest cuts to honor Britain’s military. through the streets of Winchester after a six ples of professionalism and courage,’’ her emergency budget aimed at restoring the to public spending since Thatcher was in “When men and women walk through month deployment in Afghanistan. message said. “Then as now, they perform country’s ravaged public fi nances. offi ce. Britain’s budget defi cit is forecast the streets in uniform like this it makes It was a deadly month in Afghanistan their duties in often the most diffi cult and In his fi rst budget, Osborne told law- to reach 10.4 percent of gross domestic them feel 10 feet tall,’’ said Captain for the British military, which announced dangerous of circumstances, both at home makers his austerity package – which will product this year, and the government Jimmy Carroll of the Queen’s Dragoon the deaths of eight soldiers. Since the be- and overseas.” see welfare payments and spending pro- is under considerable pressure to slash Guards, who served in Afghanistan last ginning of operations in Afghanistan, 307 At Wimbledon, 14 members of the grams slashed – was necessary to quickly expenditure. year. “The guys out in Afghanistan know British troops have been killed. There are armed forces were invited to watch the reduce crippling national debts racked up Thatcher has been in poor health since that people are out marching today and about 10,000 British troops in Afghanistan, tennis tournament from the Royal Box, during the global fi nancial crisis. a series of strokes in 2002. that the crowds are out. They know that mainly focused in the volatile southern and were given a standing ovation by the Bulger Killer Charged With Fake Cop Not Prince Harry Takes The Child Porn Offenses Happy With Mound For The Mets PROSECUTORS said that a man con- Prosecution lawyer Gavin Millar read victed of murdering a toddler in 1993, the charges out for the record at London’s England Fans when he himself was just 10 years old, Central Criminal Court. He said Venables RESIDENTS of Worksop were taking has been charged with child pornography is accused of downloading onto his com- down their England fl ags and removing offenses. puter 57 indecent photographs of minors their football shirts on the orders of a Jon Venables, 27, has been charged with between February 2009 and February this . bogus policeman. downloading and distributing indecent year, and of distributing seven indecent im- The “offi cer” operating in and around photographs of children. Venables was in- ages of children over the Internet between Worksop, told people to remove their dicted earlier, but the charges could only be February 1 and 23 this year. England shirts and take down their reported last month after a judge ordered Venables and another 10-year-old, Rob- fl ags. some reporting restrictions lifted. ert Thompson, lured two-year-old James A probe was launched after the Bulger away from a shopping center in Guardian revealed that a woman in the Liverpool in 1993 and beat him to death town had been asked to take down her BRING NEW by an isolated railway line. England fl ags by what she thought was MEMORY a genuine police offi cer. The crime shocked Britain because of It emerged that someone is posing CUSTOMERS TO the ages of the victim and his baby-faced as a Police Community Support Of- killers, and was seared into the national fi cer (PCSO) and was in Clumber Park memory through closed-circuit video lasking people to remove their England YOUR BUSINESS! footage of the two older boys leading the shirts. toddler away to his death. Chief Superintendent Dave Wakelin Advertise in the next Venables and Thompson were released said: “I am aware of last week’s public- from juvenile detention in 2001, when they ity regarding the story that one of my issue of the Union Jack! were 18, and given new identities, which staff members advised a local Worksop the press is barred from revealing – a rare resident to remove her fl ag from her and highly controversial move. balcony as it was upsetting foreign The case continues to arouse strong residents.” Call: feelings. While some applauded the deci- “We are now absolutely certain that sion to release the young killers and hailed these were not bona-fi de members of 1-800-262-7305 their apparently successful rehabilitation, Notts Police, and this, linked to reports others, including Bulger’s parents, argued that over the weekend similar incidents they should never have been freed. occurred with people in Clumber Park for Rates and Venables was taken back into custody being told remove their England shirts, in February for violating his parole condi- leads me to believe that there is someone Information tions. Offi cials then would not give details in our local community intending to of his alleged offense, saying it could cause unease.” or email: prejudice any future trial. 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