North East voters dump plan for regional assemblies
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One of the British government's landmark political policies appeared doomed after voters in northeastern England overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to set up the first of a planned series of regional assemblies.
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Protests are expected as councillors vote on plans to redevelop Carmarthen town centre.
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The government has been defeated over its plans for the NHS at the Labour Party conference.
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Michael Howard calls on Tony Blair to scrap England's network of unelected regional chambers.
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BELFAST: Britain shut down the legislature in Northern Ireland on Tuesday and announced a new election March 7 to seal the fate of power-sharing, the central goal of the peace accord for the province.Comment
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DUBLIN -- Voters decided yesterday whether to stick with the 10-year-old government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern or dump him, amid rising concern over Ireland's painful cost of living, crime, and overwhelmed hospitals.
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Britain shut down Northern Ireland's legislature Tuesday and planned a new election to determine the fate of power-sharing, the central goal of the peace accord for this British territory.
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With the possible exception of David Blunkett, no minister suffered a greater personal humiliation in 2004 than John Prescott, with the overwhelming rejection of his plan for an elected regional assembly in the ...
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The new electoral register for Northern Ireland reveals that 82,000 voters have been wiped off the lists.
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As thousands of North-east students take part i
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MADRID (International Herald Tribune) - The Spanish government on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the head of the Basque regional government to let Basques vote on whether to continue being part of Spain. The plan presented to Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero by Juan JosÃ© Ibarretxe, head of the Basque government, revived debate about the status of the Basque region amid a crackdown by the authorities on the separatist movement's radicals as well as questions of nationhood threatening to dominate general elections in March.  Zapatero rejected the proposed referendum as unconstitutional and said it was a rehash of a similar plan, floated by Ibarretxe in 2005, that was rejected by Parliament. That plan called for Basques to vote on becoming a "free associated state" within Spain and for separate representation before bodies like the European Union. Ibarretxe, a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region as part of a coalition, denied that a referendum would be illegal and vowed to press ahead with it in October 2008. He said it would be the first step in a "Basque-style Downing Street process," referring to the 1993 declaration by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom that paved the way for peace in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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Opponents of a plan to give the ethnic Albanian minority in  Macedonia greater clout aim to force a vote  on the issue.
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BERLIN - Voters in two states in what was East Germany are expressing their discontent with the dominant political parties in Germany by endorsing radical right-wing and former communist parties in state elections, exit polls suggest.
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THE North-East could see investment and employm
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A vote is to be held on controversial proposals to re-organise health services across north Wales.
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Tony Blair shares a platform with Charles Kennedy to push for a yes vote in the North East assembly referendum.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.