Watchdog cleared over travel bill
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The head of the government's spending watchdog has been cleared of wrongdoing over his Â£336,000 travel bill.
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"It is absolutely untrue that I ordered investigators to conceal payments from the OECD. This is what The Guardian alleged. It is categorically denied"  The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, has denied ordering British investigators to conceal from the international anti-bribery watchdog more than 1 billion in secret payments allegedly made to a Saudi prince.The payments were allegedly received by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States, from BAE Systems for setting up the 40 billion Al Yamamah arms deal in the 1980s with the full knowledge of the Ministry of Defence.The Guardian reported that when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - the world's anti-corruption watchdog - tried to look into the deal earlier this year, the details were not disclosed by British officials. Read more
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Airport operator BAA must pay half the compensation bill slapped on budget airline Ryanair for discriminating against a disabled man who had to pay for a wheelchair when he turned up to take an international flight, a court has ruled.
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Service providers can be  fined Â£15,000 for breaching gay sex laws, but a law on harassment is quashed.
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Britain did not give full evidence to the world&#39;s main anti-bribery watchdog because of national security concerns after Britain dropped a probe into a multi-billion pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for the attorney-general told The Guardian on Friday.
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The UK watchdog upheld complaints about a magazine advert which claimed that the open-source operating system Linux was more expensive than Windows.
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Travel group MyTravel will learn on Wednesday whether a High Court judge backs its controversial Â£800m rescue plan.
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Parliament's watchdog decides to investigate David Blunkett's giving of free rail tickets to his ex-lover.
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Legislation meant to improve the government's drug safety oversight cleared a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday without a controversial limit on television advertisements.
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By Alistair Osborne, Associate City Editor (Filed: 23/11/2004). A high court judge will rule tomorrow whether MyTravel, the troubled package holiday group, can force through an Â£800m debt-for-equity swap without the consent of its bondholders.
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Legislation meant to improve the  government&#39;s drug safety oversight cleared a U.S. House of  Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday without a controversial  limit on television advertisements.
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DAVID Blunkett failed to have his name cleared yesterday when an official investigation delivered an open verdict on whether he personally ordered that a visa for his former loverâs nanny should be fast-tracked.
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A complaint against Commons Speaker Michael Martin's use of air miles is being considered by MPs' standards watchdog
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A court Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor arrested over failed bomb attacks in Britain to return to Australia when it upheld a previous ruling that the government erred in cancelling his visa.
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Gloucestershire-based travel company, Travelscope Holidays, is placed into administration.
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Cartoon robber apprehended An advert for budget airline Ryanair has been banned by the UK's advertising watchdog after it made misleading and unfair comparisons with online travel agent Lastminute.com. The advert broke rules on truthfulness and comparative advertising.â¦
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Travel: Inspectors at Tarbes-Lourdes airport in France stopped passengers taking holy water on the Vatican's new pilgrim flights.