Mr. JOHN REID (British Home Secretary): The change in the threat level does not mean that the threat has gone away.
Last October, British Home Secretary Theresa May rejected a U.S. request to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker who has admitted accessing American military computers.
British Home Secretary Theresa May ordered Dewani's extradition in September, but he appealed to the High Court, saying it would breach his human rights under European law.
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Former British Home Secretary David Blunkett was one of several suspected phone-hacking victims who cited fear of interfering with the prosecution when declining to comment on the charges.
He spent 503 days under house arrest before being allowed to return home after the British home secretary ruled he was too old and sick to be put on trial.
British Home Secretary Theresa May also applauded Tuesday's ruling.
The potential scope of disruption following a Greek Euro exit was revealed this evening when British Home Secretary Teresa May told the Daily Telegraph that the UK authorities were exploring emergency immigration controls in case of a Greek exit and further economic turbulence in countries like Spain.
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As British Home Secretary Theresa May confirms that the packages in planes departing Dubai and the UK for the US indeed contained explosives powerful enough to destroy a cargo plane (and possibly a passenger plane, had they been on one), Iran continues to maintain that no explosives have been found.
The visit is part of a series of high-profile British visits to India coming after the home secretary and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
Details of a message sent to the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, Brian Faulkner, from the then British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas Home, were also presented.
Recently over a scandal in the British cabinet, BBC news reader Jonathan asked the Home Secretary: 'Did you threaten to sack him (a junior minister)?
Instead the home secretary went back to square one in the British courts instead, insisting with great fanfare that her legal strategy would work.
In April British members of Parliament learned that almost a year earlier the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, had secretly authorised the transfer of licence-plate data recorded by roadside cameras to foreign intelligence agencies.
In Britain , dispute arose over urgings by David Blunkett, the home secretary, that immigrants should do more to adapt to British ways, and over a report on some race riots earlier this year, which lamented that brown and white communities live almost entirely apart.
One good thing that the home secretary has done is to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke, the Cabinet official in charge of domestic security, told the British television network ITN that police are facing "total carnage" at the bomb scenes.
This was the now jailed British jihadi, Abu Izzedeen, also known as Omar Brooks, challenging John Reid who was then Home Secretary when he visited East London two years ago.
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