Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:27
'They are earning as much as £700,000 a year despite the Coalition’s promise to have a “bonfire of the quangos” and freeze public sector pay.
The true scale of the pay packets received by top-earning public officials is far higher than those previously disclosed because official figures omit hundreds of thousands of pounds in additional payments.
James Wharton, a Conservative member of the Commons public accounts committee, described the sums as “staggering” and called on the Government to “bring this ridiculous situation under control”.'
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:19
'Activists of We Are Change Switzerland confront Swiss Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard about Bilderberg Conference 2011, and are immediately led away and temporarily held for questioning by undercover police.'
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