The Metropolitan police has finally apologised – not once but four times – to the family of Ian Tomlinson, who was unlawfully killed during the London G20 protests in 2009.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Snowden’s claim that GCHQ spied on delegates at the G20 summit “is timed to create maximum embarrassment to the UK government as it hosts the G8 in Northern Ireland this week”.
Could you live on just a pound a day? 1.4 billion people subsist below the poverty line around the world. Now leading chefs are joining a global challenge to raise awareness – and cash.
Chancellor George Osborne renews his call for global action to tackle the problem of multinational companies which move their profits around to avoid tax.
PC Simon Harwood faces a misconduct panel over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests.
Simon Harwood, the police officer cleared of killing Ian Tomlinson, is sacked after being found guilty by a disciplinary panel of gross misconduct for discreditable conduct and use of force.
The pathologist who wrongly said Ian Tomlinson, who died in the 2009 G20 protests after being pushed to the ground by a police officer, had died of a heart attack is struck off.
A GMC displinary panel finds former Home Office pathologist Dr Freddy Patel deficient, misleading and dishonest in the case of Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 demonstration in 2009.
A police officer accused of the manslaughter of a newspaper seller during the G20 protests says he believed the man was being deliberately obstructive when he hit him and pushed him over.
Gary Gibbon
We are in Mexico City for a trade trip on the way home from the G20 summit, writes Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Remember when Gordon Brown was claimed to have pleaded for an Obama face-to-face and didn’t get it – he was roasted by the press and (as we discovered at Leveson) very unusually lost his temper. Well, David Cameron’s bi-laterals at this world gathering will be with the leaders of Russia and Indonesia. He’s hoping fora chat with India’s prime minister but it wouldn’t be a long one if it happened.
Gary Gibbon
G20 delegates are going to bed as the UK wakes up, writes Gary Gibbon.
As G20 leaders in Mexico urge Europe to take act to end the eurozone debt crisis, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso declares that the crisis originated in the US.
On the day the US and Russia call for an end to Syrian violence, a cargo ship believed to be carrying Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria turns back in British waters.
Gary Gibbon
Rather like England at the Euros, expectations at the G20 summit in Mexico are pretty low.
