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Daily News Round Up 19/06



Personal data exposed on website - Personal data including the signatures of recipients has been exposed to those tracking deliveries on the Parcelforce website, the BBC has discovered.

A failure in the system allowed people using the mail tracing service access to the name, postcode and signature of various addressees. (full story)




Taxpayers foot MPs’ £235,000 bill with Labour campaign firm - Labour MPs have channelled £235,000 of taxpayers’ money to a computing consultancy that operates from the party’s headquarters, The Times has learnt.

An analysis of MPs’ expenses published yesterday shows that Alistair Darling, Yvette Cooper and her husband Ed Balls are among a number of ministers who have used their Commons allowances to pay Computing for Labour (CfL) to manage communications in their constituency offices over the past four years. (full story)




F1 faces split as eight teams break away
- Formula One was plunged into its worst crisis in its 60-year history on Friday after eight teams announced they would set up a rival championship, saying Max Mosley, the head of motorsport’s regulator, had ignored their demands over his controversial budget cap plans and had tried to drive a wedge between them.

The dramatic decision, announced in a lengthy statement from the Formula One Teams Association (Fota) came on the eve of practice for Sunday’s British Grand Prix and a deadline for entries for next year’s championship. (full story)




Iran's supreme leader to address nation after protests
- Iran's supreme leader is addressing the nation today in his first public comments since opposition supporters flooded Tehran's streets in an unprecedented challenge to the country's ruling clerics.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already approved the June 12 election results that gave hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a landslide victory, but he has not been able to ignore the powerful defiance of the opposition, which has called the vote rigged, of his authority. (full story)

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