Ruth Kelly

Bill Blanko: Party politics

And there's only one thing to do on a night off: party, of course. Among a stack of US election night party invitations landing on my desk in Red Top Towers in recent weeks, one, from the "UK Obama for President" campaign,...

Labour woman to fight Kelly seat

LABOUR will select a woman to fight Ruth Kelly's Bolton West seat, the M.E.N. can reveal. Ms Kelly announced her decision to stand down as transport secretary at September's Labour conference in Manchester. She will also not...

Watchdog raps BAA for Stansted shortcomings

BAA was yesterday accused by the competition watchdog of acting against the public interest at Stansted.The Competition Commission said yesterday that BAA had let down passengers and airlines on three fronts: security queues...

All Change in Britain too: Brown resuscitates the cold and the dead

Home Comment at end 3rd November, 2008 WHERE & WHEN IS BROWN’S RAISING FROM THE DEAD GOING TO STOP? In January, at the nadir of his unpopularity, I wrote a post here on “Brown & The Undead Government”. He then had an equally...

Protests continue at Shipley open cast site

Protesters from Earth First! have invaded the Derbyshire site of the open cast mine twice in the last fortnight. On Monday a number of people climbed onto diggers and machinery, stopping work for over two hours. This was...

Why I'll always take it to the bridge

Do you want to impress real-life Vesper Lynds? But then I reasoned that nobody would be that mad, and carried on giving verbal directions to the taxi driver’s Taiwanese and extremely counter-intuitive sat-nav. Then I thought he...

C-charge referendum gets go-ahead

GREATER Manchester's congestion charge referendum will go ahead as planned after a crunch vote today . Leaders of the region's 10 councils voted to accept a draft question and ballot pack designed by independent expert Sir Neil...

Leading article: What a hypocritical way to run Britain's railways

There is an air of unreality about the demands that the Rail Regulator has laid out for Network Rail over the next five years. The regulator is demanding that Network Rail improve punctuality and deliver major new...

Eco Advice: How to build a zero carbon home

By ecoadvice@independent.ie Friday October 31 2008 Ruth Kelly advises you on your eco questions. I am in the process of trying to study as much as possible about eco design in relation to house building. I have a construction...

UK Church Leaders Deplore Passage of Anti-Life Bill

The vote was a tragedy for our country. Church leaders voiced their grave disappointment last week after the House of Commons approved the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill, allowing for the creation...