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...Glasgow's tiny King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2006. "The night was more exciting to me than when I saw and signed Oasis at the same venue," McGee wrote on his blog for the Guardian. Lisa Marie Presley was inspired to seek out the band in Scotland last year after hearing their demo online. By this June, influential British music magazine the NME had put them on the cover and declared them THE BEST NEW BAND IN BRITAIN...
...Having just returned from another trip to Kenya to follow up two clues that turned out to be hoaxes, Ward told TIME that he hopes new DNA collection technology will help solve the case. He said that Scotland Yard was prepared to continue investigations, and that several new leads have yet to be explored. But he's been through this before. Sometimes, he says, he feels as if his search for justice faces insurmountable obstacles; now 74, he says he often vows to let the case rest. But then some new tip will arrive in the mail, or a piece...
...report, undertaken by the Lincolnshire Police on behalf of Scotland Yard and obtained by TIME, accuses the FCO and High Commission of "inconsistency and contradictions, falsehoods and downright lies," and concludes that "it is this that has not surprisingly led to John Ward believing that there was an active conspiracy to prevent him from identifying his daughter's killers...
...Nearly a year after her death, Kenyan police, with the help of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard, undertook a murder inquiry that let to the trial and acquittal of two men. The report criticizes that investigation as "inadequately resourced, completed with unseemly haste and superficial." (Another investigation in 1998 led to the trial of a third Kenyan, who was also acquitted...
...chill since the 2006 murder in London of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, also took a robust tone after Russia's invasion of Georgia, though it was David Cameron, the Conservative opposition leader, who raced to Tbilisi in mid-August to blast the Russians while Brown vacationed uncomfortably in Scotland. British Foreign Minister David Miliband took the baton and traveled to Ukraine, another country deeply worried about Moscow's expansionist ambitions. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, inhabited mostly by ethnic Russians and home to the Russian Black Sea fleet, is one of several areas with allure for Russian irredentists...