Communities Secretary

'We Missed The Opportunity To Catch Savile'

PA | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK

The "best opportunity" to catch Jimmy Savile over abuse claims was missed by police who decided not to interview the former headteacher of a children'...

Savile Abuse Allegations 'Could Have Been Linked To Show Pattern'

PA | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK

Abuse allegations made against Jimmy Savile while he was alive could have been linked to show "a pattern of behaviour", Scotland Yard's commissioner s...

'We Will Not Cover Our Backs'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK

The chairman of the BBC Trust has said the BBC will face the music if wrongdoing was discovered at the corporation, as the inquiry into the "culture" ...

Dim And Dimmer?

PA | Posted 28.10.2012 | UK

Lighting on thousands of miles of motorways, trunk roads and city streets has been turned off or dimmed at night in order to save money and cut carbon...

BBC Should Be Less Secretive In Wake Of Savile Scandal, Says Pickles

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.10.2012 | UK

The BBC needs to be far less secretive in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said today. Mr Pickles said ...

Pickles Blames Troubled Families For 'Ruining Children's Lives'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.06.2012 | UK Politics

Problem families are destroying their own lives and those of their children, Eric Pickles said as he welcomed an expansion of a government scheme to h...

Pickles Warns Against 'Mansion Tax'

PA | Posted 19.10.2011 | UK Politics

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A senior Conservative Cabinet minister has warned against any move by the coalition to raise revenue by imposing higher property ...