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Crime commissioners 'public voice' - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Crime commissioners 'public voice'
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Crime commissioners 'public voice'. Nov 11 2012. Police and crime commissioners will take the "voice of the people" to forces across the country, Home Secretary Theresa May said ahead of the first elections for the positions this week. Mrs May denied ...
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Elections 'should send a message' - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Elections 'should send a message'
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Next week's elections for Police and Crime Commissioners should be used to "send a message" to the Government about public discontent with cuts to officers on the frontline, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said. Ms Cooper made clear that she ...
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Letter - No need for a police and crime commissioner - Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
Letter - No need for a police and crime commissioner
Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
Around here, I expect such a low turn out, as it is in the district and parish elections. The way our representatives treat us is shameful, and I see this appointment as an extension of misrepresentation. Probably yet another ultimate journey to the ...
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Best is yet to come, vows Obama - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Best is yet to come, vows Obama
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
At the end of one of the closest and most bitterly contested elections of recent times, Mr Obama told ecstatic supporters in his home town of Chicago "we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back". His victory speech came after his ...
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US heads to polls in tight race - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
US heads to polls in tight race
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have closed out their hard-fought battle for the White House, yielding centre stage to voters who face a stark choice on election day between fundamentally different visions for the ...
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First votes cast in US election - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
First votes cast in US election
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Before the polling booths opened President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has raced from one battleground state to another in the final day of campaigning before Election Day, trying to fire up core supporters with an emphasis on the high-stakes choice ...
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Final campaigning ahead of US vote - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Final campaigning ahead of US vote
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney raced from one battleground state to another in the final day of campaigning before Election Day, trying to fire up core supporters with an emphasis on the high-stakes choice between two contrasting visions for ...
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Candidates focus on swing states - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Candidates focus on swing states
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
But a majority of polls in the battleground states - especially in the Midwestern states of Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio - show Mr Obama with a slight advantage, giving him an easier path to the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. No Republican has won ...
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Encourage PCC voting - Cameron - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Encourage PCC voting - Cameron
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
David Cameron has said he is more concerned about encouraging people to go out and vote in the upcoming police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections than he is about low turnout. The Prime Minister said he hoped the public would recognise the ...
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Firework display guide in Bucks Advertiser paper - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Firework display guide in Bucks Advertiser paper
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
We also bring you an in depth look at the rising demand for school places in Bucks, all the major housing developments planned for the area and a look ahead at the police commissioner elections on November 15. We also bring you a bizarre story about a ...
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Name that tune - South Everett Beacon
Name that tune
South Everett Beacon
6 elections, although in that case you're either wandering through the web archives or you've dug up a slightly used edition of this newspaper. From where I write, it's also an unknown. What I do know something about is what has already happened, and ...
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Ballot paper blunder 'cost 13 Pcs' - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Ballot paper blunder 'cost 13 Pcs'
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
A £350,000 mistake on ballot papers in the upcoming police commissioner elections has cost the taxpayer the equivalent of 13 constables, it has been claimed. Preparations for the vote in Wales have been labelled "shambolic" after millions of forms were ...
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Israeli Jews Would Prefer a Romney Victory by a 57-22 Point Margin - CNSNews.com
Israeli Jews Would Prefer a Romney Victory by a 57-22 Point Margin
CNSNews.com
U.S. support for Israel, particularly in the face of the challenges posed by Iran's nuclear program, has featured fairly prominently during the U.S. election campaign, with the Jewish state mentioned almost three dozen times during last week's foreign ...
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May accused on police commissioners - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
May accused on police commissioners
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
She went on: "Theresa May and David Cameron need to come clean about the next wave of cuts to crime prevention before the November elections rather than conning the electorate and the new commissioners. David Cameron and Theresa May are weak ...
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WWII vet dies at age 93 after casting last ballot - CNSNews.com
WWII vet dies at age 93 after casting last ballot
CNSNews.com
Honolulu elections officials say Frank Tanabe's vote will be counted unless they receive his death certificate before the Nov. 6 election and they're able to find his ballot from among the tens of thousands of ballots mailed in. This generally isn't ...
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Hillsborough: Police chief quits - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Hillsborough: Police chief quits
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Sir Norman said the police authority and some of the candidates in the forthcoming PCC elections made it clear that they wanted him to go. "I do so, not because of any allegations about the past, but because I share the view that this has become a ...
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West Yorkshire Police chief constable Sir Norman Bettison resigns - Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
West Yorkshire Police chief constable Sir Norman Bettison resigns
Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
These processes should help to separate facts from speculation. “Fourthly, I sought to remain in post to address those allegations. It now appears that that will take some time. The Police Authority, and some of the candidates in the forthcoming PCC ...
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'Obligation' over prisoner votes - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
'Obligation' over prisoner votes
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
But a Government source told the newspaper that a final decision was unlikely to be taken until late November - after the elections for police and crime commissioners. The move would set the stage for another major showdown between Prime Minister David ...
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MPs' fury over prisoner vote plans - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
MPs' fury over prisoner vote plans
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
However, a government source told the newspaper that a final decision was unlikely to be taken until late November - after police commissioner elections. The move would set the stage for a another major showdown between David Cameron and Eurosceptic ...
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Hillsborough officer 'must go now' - Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Hillsborough officer 'must go now'
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Mark Burns-Williamson resigned as chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Authority on October 7 to stand in the forthcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections. He said Sir Norman should go in light of new information about his role in the aftermath ...
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