London, March 30 : British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been fighting to salvage her credibility and future political career following the humiliating admission that she claimed taxpayer-funded allowances for the cost of two porn films her husband enjoyed at her family home, while she was away in London.

According to reports, the episode has threatened to further undermine Gordon Brown's Government, which has been blighted by a series of expenses controversies in recent weeks.

London  - British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was in hot water Sunday over the billing to parliament of a pay-per-view package, which included the cost of two adult entertainment programmes.

Smith apologized for the billing of 67 pounds (96 dollars) for the TV package which was mistakenly applied to her parliamentary allowance as a part of her internet connection expenses, the BBC reported.

Smith added that the bill would be repaid to parliament in full.

London, Mar. 29 : The relationship between UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and her husband Richard Timney is said to be passing through a very difficult phase following revelations that he has been using taxpayer money to see pornographic films.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s political future is said to be in jeopardy after it was revealed that Timney, who works as his wife’s Commons adviser, used part of the Minister’s second-homes allowance to pay for the blue movies he watched on a subscription television channel.

London  - The British government Tuesday warned of the increased threat of a nuclear or chemical attack, while unveiling plans of a greater involvement of the public in the fight against terrorism.

A government assessment of the terrorist threat said that while terrorism networks such as al-Qaeda were "likely to fragment" and might not survive in their current form, their ideology would live on.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in a report to be submitted to parliament later Tuesday, said the "likely future direction" of the threat would involve the use of a so-called dirty bomb.

London, Mar 23 : Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has confirmed that Britain has been placed on terror alert, and warned that an attack on the country is "highly likely."

She said the country would train 60,000 shop and hotel staff to deal with any untoward incident.

Speaking ahead of the publication of a new anti-terrorism strategy, Jacqui Smith said: "An attack on this country is highly likely. It could happen without warning."

London, Mar. 22 : United Kingdom’s new anti-terror strategy, which will be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith next week, is claimed to be the most comprehensive counter-terrorism approach issued by any government in the world.

According to a Home Office spokesman, Smith wants the paper to go into more detail than ever before about how the authorities are seeking to prevent atrocities from happening and respond to attacks which take place.

The strategy will reflect security services'' judgment that the most serious terror threat to the UK continues to come from Osama bin Laden''s al Qaida network, the Daily Star reports.