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Peers are to investigate the ways in which the government seeks to change public behaviour in key areas.
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The two leaders will announce plans for French planes to use British refuelling aircraft The UK and France are to sign a treaty agreeing to the joint development and testing of nuclear warheads.
The plans will see one centre set up in the UK to develop technology and another in France to carry out testing.
Prime Minister David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy will also outline plans, at a London summit, for a joint army expeditionary force.
Downing Street called the measures “practical”, but Labour said they left “big questions” over the UK’s defences.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “This summit marks a deepening of the UK-France bilateral relationship. Ours is now a strategic partnership tackling together the biggest challenges facing our two countries.”
The summit comes two weeks after the UK government announced cuts to its armed forces, in the first strategic defence review since 1998, as part of savings aimed at reducing the country’s budget deficit.
Mr Cameron and Mr Sarkozy are to sign two treaties – one on greater general military co-operation and the other on nuclear weapons.
The latter will set up a centre in the UK to develop technology and another one in France to carry out the testing.
It is understood that each country will still control its own warheads, and that nuclear secrets will not be shared.
The other treaty will allow the setting up of a “combined joint expeditionary force”, thought to involve a brigade of about 5,000 soldiers from each side.
Each country will retain a veto for each operation, which will operate under one military commander to be chosen at the time.
The UK and France have also agreed to keep at least one aircraft carrier at sea between them at any one time.
Each will be able to use the other’s carrier in some form, certainly for training and possibly operations.
Meanwhile, France is to use British A400M fuelling aircraft when there is spare capacity, with plans in place for common maintenance and training.
Joint work on drones, mine counter-measures and satellite communications is also proposed.
Mr Cameron told MPs on Monday: “I do seriously believe that this link-up with the French over defence is in the long term interests of both our countries.
“And to those who worry that this might in some way lead to… European armies, that is not the point. The point is to enhance sovereign capability by two like-minded countries being able to work together.”
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said: “I support the government’s emphasis on international co-operation, taking forward the good work of the last government.
“We share common threats with countries such as France, from terrorism to privacy to cyber-attack. Deepening military ties is an essential part of modern defence policy.
“Interdependence, however, is different from dependence, and binding legal treaties pose some big questions for the government.”
Mr Murphy also questioned whether the the UK was entering “an era where we are reliant on our allies to fill in the gaps in the government’s defence policy”.
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A police investigation was launched after the suspicious death A 37-year-old man has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in the Peterhead area of Aberdeenshire.
Forty-year-old James Bruce, who was from Peterhead, died in hospital on Sunday evening following an incident in the Claymore Crescent area of Boddam.
Grampian Police said the man who had been charged was due to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
A report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.
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BP has changed its chief executive since the oil spill Oil giant BP has announced a return to profit in the three months to September after last quarter’s record loss.
The firm said its replacement cost profit for the period was $1.85bn (£1.15bn), as against the $17bn loss recorded from April to June.
The previous loss reflected the massive costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis, which followed an explosion on a drilling rig in April.
Bob Dudley, who led the clean-up, became BP’s chief executive last month.
He replaced Tony Hayward, who was criticised for his leadership during the crisis.
BP said the cost of the oil spill had now risen by $7.7bn to a total of $39.9bn, including $20bn set aside under pressure from the US government for compensation payments.
In another development, Japanese firm Mitsui said that one of its subsidiaries, Moex Offshore, had been billed $1.9bn by BP to cover costs from the oil spill.
Moex owns 10% of the Macondo oil well project operated by BP.
Mitsui said it had withheld payment, because it said there was uncertainty about the amount due.
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Firefighters have rescued a woman from the scene of a gas explosion in Greater Manchester but it is thought other people may be trapped.
Search and rescue teams have been sent to the area around Merlin Road and Silver Street area in Irlam, Salford.
The blast happened shortly after 0700 GMT on Tuesday. It is thought that three properties have been affected but the extent of the damage is not known.
One senior firefighter said he heard the blast from six miles away.
Greater Manchester Fire Service said there was a possibility that people could be trapped in the rubble.
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Blackpool boss Ian Holloway hits back at critics who claimed his side would be the worst in Premier League history.
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Stagecoach says it is on schedule to meet profit targets after a rise in revenues at both its bus and rail operations.
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The Times newspapers went behind an online paywall four months ago Publishers of the Times and Sunday Times have revealed for the first time how many people are paying to read their newspapers online or on mobiles.
They say 105,000 customers have so far paid to go behind the papers’ paywall.
A further 100,000 people have a joint subscription to read the newspapers digitally and in print, the papers add.
The figures have been eagerly awaited by publishers and advertisers since the two papers went behind an online paywall four months ago.
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Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen files for divorce from his third wife Brooke Mueller, citing irreconcilable differences.
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A pilot involving the deportation of asylum-seeking families without putting children in detention has seen just one family leave the UK so far.
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A planned summit with Russia will go ahead despite the territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands, says a senior Japanese spokesperson.
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US intelligence officials tracked suspicious shipments in September that they now suspect were a dry run for last week’s foiled parcel bomb plot.
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San Francisco win their first World Series since 1954 as a 3-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in game five seals a 4-1 overall triumph.
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The French-trained Americain wins the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup as hot favourite So You Think finishes third.
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The CIPD says private sector jobs will be hit harder by the cuts than the public sector The government’s spending cuts and the rise in VAT to 20% in January will result in more than 1.6 million job losses across the public and private sectors, research suggests.
The figure from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is far higher than previous estimates.
It said the full impact of the government’s Spending Review had been “understated”.
The government has estimated around 500,000 public sector jobs will go.
The Treasury defended its spending cuts, saying: “The independent Office for Budget Responsibility has set out its forecast showing sustained economic growth in the years ahead, with employment rising and unemployment falling.”
Some business groups, including the CBI, have said that job creation in the private sector will be able to compensate for losses in the public sector.
However, the CIBD said that the private sector would be hit harder than the public sector.
An average of 320,000 private sector jobs a year would have to be created by 2015-16 just to keep unemployment steady at 2.5 million, it said.
“The full impact of the coalition government’s planned fiscal tightening has been understated,” said Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser to the CIPD.
“The 490,000 public sector job losses cited in the Spending Review looks like an underestimate, given what most public sector managers are telling [us].”
He put the total number of jobs to be lost in the public sector between 2009-10 and 2015-16 at 725,000.
The number of jobs lost in the private sector due directly and indirectly from the cuts would be 650,000, with an additional 250,000 jobs to go due to the VAT increase, he estimated.
The CIPD said the private sector was “perfectly capable” of creating more than 300,000 jobs a year, but only if the economy grew faster than 2.5% on average a year.
This, it said, “looks like a tall order”.
Initial estimates show that the UK economy grew by 0.8% between July and September, and by 1.2% in the previous three months.
However, most economists expect growth to slow as a result of the spending cuts.
The government has argued strongly that the cuts are necessary in order to reduce the UK’s budget deficit, which is one of the highest in Europe.
Reducing debt levels will restore the confidence of international money markets in the UK, and reduce interest payments that are sucking money out of the economy, it says.
“The chancellor has set out a decisive plan to reduce the UK’s unprecedented deficit and restore confidence in the UK economy,” the Treasury said in a statement.
“Not taking action to tackle this problem would put the economic recovery at risk – a view shared by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, G20, Bank of England and the OECD.”
However, some economists argue that the size and the speed of the spending cuts could undermine the recovery.
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