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But Broadmoor could not take him and there were no beds available in any maximum security units

But Broadmoor could not take him and there were no beds available in any maximum security units, the judge was told.Judge Selwood said he was left with “limited options” and would have to remand Wyer in custody while he waited for a vacancy at Broadmoor. He said: “I deprecate the fact that I am placed in this position and I am placed in this position because of a lack of resources.” Judge Selwood added: “I am not going to let this man out on the streets without treatment, and if it comes to a custodial sentence, I am going to keep him inside for as long as I feel the Court of Appeal will allow me.”While Judge Selwood was making his comments, Lord Bingham was demanding greater powers for courts to order that violent criminals and sex offenders should undergo treatment programmes while in jail. Proposals by Britain’s most senior judge, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, to impose prison-based compulsory treatment orders for sex offenders and violent criminals were thrown into doubt yesterday after another judge was told in court that there were no places available to treat a convicted paedophile.
Judge David Selwood, hearing the case at Portsmouth Crown Court, criticised the lack of prison resources after being told that there was a six- month waiting list to treat serious sex offenders. Proposals by Britain’s most senior judge, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, to impose prison-based compulsory treatment orders for sex offenders and violent criminals were thrown into doubt yesterday after another judge was told in court that there were no places available to treat a convicted paedophile.

“We are looking for some really bright, sparky ideas from an agency with a feel for politics,” said the spokesman. “We will be interested to see ideas from anyone with a dynamic approach.”Although the creator of the red rose, Mr Mandelson, has his hands full as Northern Ireland Secretary, he will have a say in its future because he is chairman of the party’s election planning group.Mr Mandelson is believed to be reluctant to see it sacrificed. “We have a successful formula and should stick with it,” said one ally. “We did our changes in opposition when we had more time; we are now running the country and will let the Tories spend their time on finding a new identity and image.”. The agency that handled the party’s 1997 campaign, BMP DDB Needham, has stood down to avoid the heavy workload and financial burden of another election.Labour is now inviting bids from other advertising agencies and, with the party enjoying a huge lead in the opinion polls, there is unlikely to be a shortage of offers.Officials will interview about 12 firms after sifting through their proposals. What we might do is to make the branding we have got at the moment slightly moremodern.”He added: “We will consider whether we want a completely new look or just tweak things.” He cited products such as Coca-Cola, whose logos had been changed subtly over the years to move with the times.The party’s “New Labour, New Britain” slogan, which helped Tony Blair to secure his landslide general election victory in 1997, will also be reviewed. Labour will consider other options, although someofficials favour “tarting up”the logo without droppingthe words.The rebranding exercise will be discussed with a new advertising agency to be appointed by Labour in March.

Labour has consistently denied speculation that the symbol, adopted in the mid-1980s when Peter Mandelson was the party’s director of communications, is to be consigned to the compost heap. But now party officials believe the time has come to consider other options. At the very least, they believe the red rose will need to be revamped and given a new look for the new millennium.”We will shortly be looking into the whole issue of branding,” a Labour spokesman said yesterday. “No decision has been made about whether we will make significant changes. Labour’s red rose may finally be wilting and in need of some urgent watering.

Officials at the party’s Millbank headquarters have decided to launch a review of how the party should “rebrand” itself before the next general election.
The future of the red rose is a highly sensitive issue in Labour circles. Labour’s red rose may finally be wilting and in need of some urgent watering. Officials at the party’s Millbank headquarters have decided to launch a review of how the party should “rebrand” itself before the next general election. Things which he said over Christmas were taken entirely out of context,” Mr Hague said.He added: “I don’t think ministers realise how out of touch they are on these European issues.”They are spending tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money preparing to join the euro.”That money could be much better spent on schools or hospitals or returned to the taxpayer.”Mr Hague said his speech in Poland would rule out leaving the EU and added: “This country has made its decision and we have got to stand by that and make it work.”He also said that at the next election the Tories would put the case for “a Europe which gives nations the room to breathe and that champions free trade within Europe and with the rest of the world”.. Tony Blair is not resisting that agenda.”The argument for flexibility must be put in the negotiations for a new European treaty, he said, adding: “If we don’t do it now it will be too late. More and more of the rights and powers of this country will be given away.”The attack comes before Mr Hague makes a speech in Poland tomorrow in which he will call for the EU to give countries more “room to breathe”.Mr Hague said the issue would be one of the biggest at the next election as the Government was determined to get rid of the pound.”I know there are Government ministers who say different things about this depending on what day of the week it is, but what is all amounts to is that they would like to join the euro at the earliest opportunity,” he said.”If the Labour Party won another election the entire machinery of government and the advantages of the rules they have drawn up for referendums would then be used to try to secure a yes vote for the euro.”That is what this game is all about.”Mr Hague dismissed suggestions that former premier John Major thought his policy was absurd.”I was talking to John Major yesterday and he is entirely behind my European policy.

You can’t try to impose the same rules and regulations about everything on that number of countries,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.”But the agenda of the European Commission, as has been shown in a document published a couple of days ago, is very much to make it more centralised, to get rid of the independence of governments.”We have got to resist that agenda. Tory leader William Hague today issued one of his strongest warnings against the creation of a European superstate, saying it will soon be too late to stop the loss of the UK’s independence.
The European Commission plans for reform, published earlier this week, would lead to greater integration and less flexibility in the EU, he said.”We are heading for a European Union of 25 or more countries. “From my experience touring the constituencies, the attacks on me and Ken have, if anything, boosted our support and been counter-productive to those carrying them out.”. Tory leader William Hague today issued one of his strongest warnings against the creation of a European superstate, saying it will soon be too late to stop the loss of the UK’s independence. Mr Dobson said the cost of selecting the former GLC leader “both in economic terms and for the Labour party” was more apparent than ever before.Mr Phillips said it was wrong to describe Mr Livingstone as a radical “Ken’s worldview is the conservative one He hasn’t changed since the 1980s. That’s his big problem.”However, supporters of Mr Livingstone and Glenda Jackson, the other contender for the Labour nomination, counter that their popularity is holding up despite the cabinet onslaught for Mr Dobson.Ms Jackson, who has called for an internal inquiry into Labour’s selection system, said that the “carpet bombing” approach had backfired.