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13/01/2012
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Ex-BBC Presenter Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges
Former BBC and ITV presenter Peter Rowell has pleaded guilty to 12 charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 16. Rowell, 53, also pleaded guilty to six charges of making indecent pictures of children and one charge of possessing indecent pictures of children. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape and the Crown accepted an alternative charge of indecent assault.
Man Jailed Over Rottweiler Attack
A man who was found guilty of owning two Rottweilers, which savaged a 10-year-old girl in a Dundee street, has been jailed for a year. Derek Adam, 39, was also banned from keeping dogs for life. Adam's dogs escaped from the garden of his ex-partner's Dundee home in August 2010. They attacked another dog before pulling the girl from her bike, dragging her into the road and mauling her, leaving her with permanent scars.
Child Benefit Cuts To Go Ahead
Following calls for child benefit entitlements to be made fairer the benefit will be removed for higher rate taxpayers. Chancellor George Osborne has said that in the coming months he will set out how the new policy will be implemented. Labour has said that the current policy was “unraveling” and in an “utter shambles”. Meanwhile David Cameron has acknowledged that there is an issue with high earning families and that single earning families were being hit hard.
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Former BBC and ITV presenter Peter Rowell has pleaded guilty to 12 charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 16. Rowell, 53, also pleaded guilty to six charges of making indecent pictures of children and one charge of possessing indecent pictures of children. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape and the Crown accepted an alternative charge of indecent assault.
Man Jailed Over Rottweiler Attack
A man who was found guilty of owning two Rottweilers, which savaged a 10-year-old girl in a Dundee street, has been jailed for a year. Derek Adam, 39, was also banned from keeping dogs for life. Adam's dogs escaped from the garden of his ex-partner's Dundee home in August 2010. They attacked another dog before pulling the girl from her bike, dragging her into the road and mauling her, leaving her with permanent scars.
Child Benefit Cuts To Go Ahead
Following calls for child benefit entitlements to be made fairer the benefit will be removed for higher rate taxpayers. Chancellor George Osborne has said that in the coming months he will set out how the new policy will be implemented. Labour has said that the current policy was “unraveling” and in an “utter shambles”. Meanwhile David Cameron has acknowledged that there is an issue with high earning families and that single earning families were being hit hard.
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