The UK government is seeking advice on whether to make possession of laughing gas a criminal offence. The Home Office has asked the independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to analyse the harm caused by nitrous oxide following what the department describes as a “concerning” rise in use of the substance. Laughing […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will nominate Alvaro Bedoya, a privacy advocate and Georgetown University law professor, to serve on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the White House said on Monday.FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo“It is the honor […]
He was always “a private man”, says Georgina Beyer, who once slept in Sir Ron Brierley’s bed. “Oh not when he was in it, of course,” she laughs. Rather, it was a coincidence of a broken marriage and her step-father Colin Beyer flatting with Brierley in early 1970s Wellington. It illustrates the close proximity Beyer […]
