He would be the only British citizen at Guantanamo Bay.”I would be prepared to go to court for him But it took a long time to get the others back. The Government described the ruling as disappointing.Mr Hicks’ lawyer, Stephen Grosz, said he will urge the Home Office to seek Mr Hicks’ release from the detention camp in Cuba and for him to be brought to the United Kingdom. Mr Hicks says the Australian government has refused to plead for his release and prevent his trial by a US military commission.Louise Christian, a human rights lawyer, said: “If he has got British citizenship then the Government will be obliged to do the same for him as they did the others. The American authorities have accused him of attending terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.Mr Hicks, 30, applied for UK citizenship as his mother was born in Britain before emigrating to Australia as a young girl.After the High Court found in his favour yesterday, his lawyers said that they would press the Government to make arrangements for him to take the required citizenship oath and pledge.Although Mr Justice Collins gave the Home Secretary permission to appeal, he refused to suspend the appeal.

To the Government’s embarrassment, the High Court ruled that Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, had “no power in law” to deprive David Hicks of his citizenship “and so he must be registered”.
Mr Hicks, often described as the “Australian Taliban”, has been held at Guantanamo since January 2002 after being picked up by US forces in Afghanistan.He denies charges being prepared against him of conspiracy to commit war crimes and of aiding and abetting the enemy. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that taxpayers have to foot the bill for this,” he said.”I think that the magistrates couldn’t believe we were back in court again,” Mr Trotman added. Ministers are facing calls to intervene on behalf of an Australian held as a terrorist suspect at Guantanamo Bay after he won a four-year legal fight to become a British citizen. “I just think that the council felt that they couldn’t lose face and had to appear to be tough All they care about is their image.”. Laura Trotman, 25, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, fought an 11-month battle with her local council over a £100 parking fine – which she had refused to pay.
She had been given an absolute discharge by magistrates in November and was told she would not have to pay after the court accepted the ticket machine had been out of order when she parked her car.But the council decided to launch a costly challenge against the sentence – which was rejected yesterday at the same court.The council was thought to be considering taking its fight to the High Court – but revealed it had finally ended its prosecution.Mrs Trotman’s husband, Paul, said the case should never have gone to court and branded the council as “ridiculous” for pursuing the matter for so long. Whitehall sources said that the security service had already built up a “very good picture” of the circumstances surrounding the four bombers..

A council that dragged a mother of two through the courts over an unpaid 40p parking ticket was accused of “wasting” thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money after it lost the case. The security services have also tracked the group’s overseas travel in minute detail, particularly trips to Pakistan between 2003 and the bombings in July this year.The Home Secretary has consulted Scotland Yard on the implications of issuing the file to the public, possibly in an edited form.Any report published by the Home Office will be the first official overview of the atrocities, which killed 52 innocent people. “It has to be a fully comprehensive public inquiry that will provide us the information we need as to what actually happened, how it happened and why it happened so that we will be better prepared to prevent such tragedy happening again,” he told the BBC’s News at Ten.A Home Office spokesperson said: “The Home Secretary is currently considering what materials he might be able to make available to support the parliamentary inquiries which are currently under way into the various aspects of the July 7 atrocities.”MI5 has compiled a detailed picture of the influences thought to have been exerted on the bombers, and their motivations. If they don’t then they have failed the people who died,” he said.The shadow minister for homeland security, Patrick Mercer, said: “We want an inquiry independent of Government. That independent inquiry should ask questions about the surveillance of the suspects before the attack, the lowering of the level of alert five weeks before the attack, and links between home-grown and international terrorists.”In addition, it should examine any links between the perpetrators of the July 7 attack and the perpetrators of the attempted attack on July 21.” He said he did not want to detract from the success of the intelligence services who have prevented many attempted attacks on the country.Sir Iqbal Sacranie, chairman of the Muslim Council of Britain, repeated demands for a full inquiry. This is not something we will go away on.”The 24-year-old added: “I heard cost is being cited as being one of the reasons for not holding a public inquiry, and that’s ridiculous.

It’s not just about the people who died, but they are our main focus They deserve a public inquiry. Behind every one of those names is a family and a group of people who are suffering hugely.” She said she had not been contacted by the Home Office.Graham Russell, whose son Philip died in the wreckage of the Tavistock Square bus, said he would wait to see whether the details published by the Government proved adequate “If the facts come out anyway then it’s all well and good. MPs and leading Muslims also voiced their anger as the Home Office confirmed there would be no public investigation into the attacks, and called on the Government to order a “comprehensive public inquiry” so that the country is “better prepared to prevent such tragedy happening again”.
The Government will instead publish a definitive “narrative of events” of what happened, including material gathered from intelligence agencies and evidence compiled by police.Saba Mozakka, whose mother Behnaz was killed when one of the four bombs ripped through a Piccadilly Line Tube train near King’s Cross station, said: “This is not acceptable to us, and the families will be campaigning for there to be a full public inquiry A narrative of events will not satisfy anybody. The delays were ordered to save money as hospitals exceeded the Government’s waiting times for operations.. Families of the July 7 bombing victims attacked the Government for not holding a public inquiry into the bombings in London. The report, NHS in 2010: Reform or Bust, by Professor Nick Bosanquet of Imperial College London, warned that cost pressures on the health service such as extra staffing, prescribing and PFI schemes, would demand an extra £18.2bn of funding, while an extra £11.4bn was likely to be available.There was more embarrassment for the Government at the weekend over a leaked NHS e-mail by Sarndrah Horsfall, the chief of staff to Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, ordering a halt on new commitments to cover all programme budgets.

And because payment by results gives every hospital a real incentive to improve its clinical efficiency and its cost efficiency, the new system will help solve the problem of the deficits and raise productivity in the NHS,” she said last night.In a memorandum to Labour MPs, Ms Hewitt also rejected claims by a think-tank, Reform, that the NHS faces a deficit of nearly £7bn by 2010 unless a “productivity miracle” was achieved. Some may be some distance from home, but it is intended to speed up operations for those prepared to travel.The Health Secretary is refusing to bail out hospitals faced with a deficit. She had ordered that within two years, NHS primary care trusts and hospitals should be in surplus or balancing their books. Her remarks risk infuriating her critics and patients whose operations have been delayed, but Ms Hewitt said that the reforms were exposing deficits which were previously swept under the carpet.”Because the system is far more open, far more transparent than we have had it before, it is revealing underlying deficits that in the past were concealed.