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One little girl,Swansea measles case expected to hit 1,000 at week,lululemon outlet canada,'No developments' in another return for, aged about four, was sitting on her dad's shoulders as the hundreds around her roared every time Jody Cundy showed them his bronze medal from the cycling competition. She can't have known much about it but she understood enough to whisper,hollister outlet, once the cheering had stopped,lululemon canada, "Well done". The cute-o-meter went off the scale.</p><p>Dame Kelly Holmes joined me and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson on air and the lunchtime crowd went wild. Her double triumph in the Athens Olympics of 2004 clearly as fresh in their minds as her legs were on the nights she took gold in the 800m and 1500m on the track. We sent a roving mic into the crowd and, as the two women took questions from the lucky few,lululemon outlet online, it struck me that here we had our own double Olympic triumph. An Olympian with two golds and a Paralympian with 11 sitting side by side at the Paralympic Games surrounded by the same crowd,lululemon outlet, the same need for heroes and the same respect for achievement. Could the spectators at Stoke Mandeville who witnessed the first of the Paralympics have imagined they would come this far?</p><p>Peace on Earth it might not be,hollister clothing, but a lesson in harmony probably isn't stretching it too far.</p></div> | <div class="body "><p>I've seen and heard a lot this past week at the Paralympics London 2012 which has,lululemon outlet canada, put simply, made me feel good. No artificial highs required here because the Olympic Park is already full of the real McCoy, and I say that as someone who is supremely suspicious of organised fun.</p><p>Take the Games Makers, for instance. 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| + | <div class="body "><p>The threat? – echoed in the Commons by the Home Secretary, Theresa May – provoked a backlash from the Conservatives’ Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the Tory minister Kenneth Clarke.</p><p>There is no realistic prospect of withdrawal while the Coalition is in office because of fierce Liberal Democrat resistance to the idea,lululemon canada, but the Conservative move appeared aimed at reassuring party loyalists ahead of next Thursday’s local election contests.</p><p>The possibility of pulling out of the convention was discussed by Mr Cameron, Mrs May, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and the Attorney-General Dominic Grieve,One last mystery for Stephen Hawking women - Home News - UK - The Independent, Downing Street confirmed. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We are going to explore every option.”</p><p>In a statement to MPs, Mrs May said: “We should have all options,Celtic 4 St Johnstone 0 match report Neil Lennon l, including leaving the convention altogether,hollister outlet, on the table. The Prime Minister is looking at all the options. That is the only sensible thing to do.”</p><p>The Home Secretary announced the British and Jordanian governments had signed a new treaty guaranteeing Abu Qatada would not face trial in Jordan on evidence obtained by torture. She said the step would “finally make possible” the cleric’s removal, although she made clear it could still take months to remove him from Britain.</p><p>The preacher, once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe,hollister, has been fighting a legal battle against his deportation for almost a decade.</p><p>Conservative ministers have attacked judges at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the convention, for thwarting attempts to expel him. Labour has blamed Home Office mistakes and misjudgements for the impasse.</p><p>A Liberal Democrat source said: “We support the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act. No proposal has been put to us,lululemon outlet canada. We are not withdrawing from the convention,lululemon outlet.”</p><p>Mr Clarke, a minister without portfolio, who has previously clashed with Mrs May over human rights, said the Government had no plans to withdraw from the court’s jurisdiction. He told BBC Radio 4: “I’m not aware that we are actively looking at that.”</p><p>Benjamin Ward of Human Rights Watch said: “It’s extraordinary that the Home Secretary is contemplating leaving a major human rights treaty that Britain helped create just to make it easy to deport an undesirable person. If the Government is serious about upholding the rule of law,Anthony Rose 'When it comes to matters of taste its a false econ, it should gather the evidence to prosecute Abu Qatada here in Britain, where he can get a fair trial.”</p><p>The Government suffered a fresh blow this week to its efforts to expel Abu Qatada when the Court of Appeal refused permission for the Home Secretary to take the fight to the Supreme Court. Mrs May said the Home Office would now appeal directly to the Supreme Court for permission to appeal. In the meantime, she has signed a “legal assistance agreement” with Jordan, in order to launch a fresh deportation bid.</p><p><strong>Convention Q&,lululemon;A</strong></p><p><strong>How would temporary withdrawal work?</strong></p><p>Article 15 of the Convention allows countries to pull out in time of “war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation” as long as the move is “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation”,lululemon canada. </p><p><strong>Would temporary withdrawal guarantee Qatada’s deportation,hollister?</strong></p><p>This is far from clear. British courts could block the preacher’s removal on the grounds it fell foul of the United Nations convention against torture. The European Convention also makes clear that withdrawal is not allowed if it leads to people suffering torture.</p><p><strong>Has the step happened before?</strong></p><p>Edward Heath’s government used it during internment in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s,hollister outlet, while Tony Blair considered and rejected the idea after the September 11 attacks to deport suspected terrorists.</p><p><strong>What could happen if the UK simply ignored the Court?</strong></p><p>It could order Britain to bring Qatada back from Jordan and pay him compensation. It could also mean other countries not observing their obligations to Britain under international law.</p><p><strong>How serious is the prospect of the Tories suggesting permanent withdrawal,hollister outlet uk?</strong></p><p>Very serious. It is now emerging as potential commitment in the party’s next general election manifesto.</p><p>Nigel Morris</p></div> | ||
