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Police decided to investigate an allegation that Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, had persuaded someone else to take penalty points for speeding that he should have incurred. In parliament, Mr Huhne outlined plans for Britain to halve carbon emissions by 2027. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, outlined plans for a new House of Lords to contain 300 members, 80 per cent of them elected. Two teenagers were convicted of murder and three of manslaughter for the killing of Sofyen Belamouadden, aged 15, at Victoria Station in London last year. Mothercare announced the closure of a quarter of its shops. Catholics in England and Wales were told by their bishops to abstain once more from eating meat on Fridays from 16 September.
The Queen visited Ireland, the first monarch to do so since George V in 1911, and the first ever to the Irish Republic. Irish terrorists sent a coded bomb threat to London in a telephone call, and a pipe bomb was found on a bus bound for Dublin the day before her arrival. She laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance. The annual rate of inflation (by CPI) rose to 4.5 per cent from 4 per cent in March, but the rate according to RPI fell a touch to 5.2 per cent from 5.3. For the 16th month in a row the figure was at least one percentage point above the Bank of England’s target of 2 per cent. Avram Grant was sacked as manager of West Ham after it lost 3-2 against Wigan.
Dr Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, said in a letter to the Prime Minister, leaked to the Times, that he could ‘not support’ a statutory requirement for Britain to spend 0.7
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