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...motives. The fact that police have security camera tapes of people who used the elevator to get on and off Woolmer's hotel room floor on the night of his murder may further narrow the pool of suspects. Still, says Jamaica's Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields, a former Scotland Yard detective leading the investigation, no prime suspect has yet to be identified...
...elected upper chamber. Straw hailed the "historic step forward," telling the BBC: "The message was a very decisive and clear one in favor of reform of the existing House of Lords." Long before that reform is agreed and implemented, the cash-for-honors inquiry will run its course. Scotland Yard is expected to conclude its investigation within weeks. But whatever the outcome, British politics has just got a little bit more transparent...
...Jesus; and Jose. Each name with the exception of Mariamene seemed common to their period, and it was only in 1996 that the BBC made a film suggesting that. given the combination, it might be that family. The idea was eventually discounted, however, because, as University of St. Andrews (Scotland) New Testament expert Richard Bauckham asserted in a subsequent book, the names with Biblical resonance are so common that even when you run the probabilities on the group, the odds of it being the famous Jesus's family are "very...
...result has all the delicacy and richness that have made Munro’s work famous, though it’s not without its forgivable flaws.The book is divided into two parts, the first centering on the lives of her ancestors as they make their way from Scotland to Canada and the second consisting of Munro’s partially fictionalized recollections of her own life. For much of the first section, Munro’s attempts to imagine, describe and fill in the details of the lives of her ancestors in Scotland’s Ettrick Valley run into...
...emerged that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations that seats in the House of Lords were sold for political donations. The interview, which took place on Jan. 26 at 10 Downing Street, was kept secret at the request of Scotland Yard. Previously questioned by police in December, Blair was again treated as a witness, not as a suspect...