London, Oct. 15: A British Sikh kebab shop owner has been asked to close down his business after police caught him cooking kebabs with the corpse of a colleague lying on a sofa nearby.

Jaswinder Singh was ordered to stop preparing curries, kebabs and Indian sweets immediately.

According to The Sun, a magistrates’ court heard the catalogue of horrors at Pappu Sweet Centre and Catering in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

It included flies, rats, filth, mouldy food and staff dropping cigarette ends and spitting on the floor.

Refrigerators were running at more than 68°F (20°C). Singh, 45, was banned from working with food again after he admitted
12 hygiene and pest control offences.

London, Oct. 15 : A significant terror plot is being investigated by the security services, Britain’s counter-terrorism minister has warned.

Lord West''s comments came the day after the Lords forced the Government to abandon plans to extend detention without trial.

Lord West, who advises the Prime Minister on security matters, told the House of Lords: "There is another great plot building up again and we are monitoring this."

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith dropped the measure from the bill after it was defeated in the upper house but warned critics they were exposing the country to a greater risk.

London, Oct. 15 : An Egyptian al-Qaeda suspect and his family have won permission to live in Britain — and claim hundreds in benefits a month.

According to The Sun, the British Government has granted Hany Youssef “discretionary leave to remain”, even as the Home Office admits he is on a UN list of people “belonging to or linked” to the terror group.

The decision means he can stay in Britain with his wife and five kids up to 2011. He is also free to claim housing benefit, child tax credits and Jobseekers’ Allowance.

They have already been living in a house in Hammersmith, West London, at taxpayers’ expense.

London- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday called for agreements on reform of the global financial system and warned that the coordinated measures taken this week were not enough to ensure long-term stability.

Brown told foreign correspondents in London that the stakes were "higher than ever" and that the moves to shore up bank liquidity alone were not sufficient.

"We need to show that we have dealt with the difficulties' cause in the first place, that we are making the reforms that are necessary so that the global financial system will work."

London - Britain's nationalized mortgage lender Northern Rock said Tuesday it was "well ahead" of its government loan repayment target, having paid back more than half of the 26 billion pounds (45 billion dollars) in emergency loans from the Bank of England.

Government-appointed Northern Rock chief executive Ron Sandler said that, as at September 30, the sum of 11.4 billion pounds was still outstanding.

Since nationalization of Britain's fifth-biggest mortgage lender in February, Sandler's strategy has involved halving the balance sheet to 50 billion pounds by the end of
2011 by stopping all business lending and accelerating mortgage redemptions for existing customers.

London, Oct. 14 : Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a sleaze probe last night over claims he lied to MPs about a funding scandal.

Commons Speaker Michael Martin may recall Blair to Parliament to give him a chance to give his side of the story. Martin is “deeply concerned” over secret papers that said Blair did not tell the truth, The Sun says.

They show he personally intervened to exempt Formula 1 racing from a tobacco ad ban hours after meeting the sport’s multi-millionaire boss Bernie Ecclestone, who donated one million pounds to Labour, influenced the 1997 decision.

But the papers show he asked an aide just hours after the meeting to signal his support for the move.