London: A poll commissioned by BBC radio suggests that more than half of all Britons oppose their country's military campaign in Afghanistan.

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed by pollster ICM said they opposed the war and only about 37 percent supported it.

http://www.dailytownsman.com/article/GB/20091007/CP01/310079963/-1/CRANBROOK/bbc-poll-more-than-half-of-britons-oppose-their-countrys-campaign&template=cpArt

Secret deal over killer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw.

The Foreign Office bowed to Libyan pressure and agreed that Britain would abandon any attempt to try the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, shot outside the Libyan embassy in London 25 years ago.

Anthony Layden, Britain’s former ambassador to Libya, said this weekend he had signed the agreement with the Libyan government three years ago, when Straw was foreign secretary. At the time Britain was negotiating trade deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds with Libya.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6832361.ece

Camel hides, I take it.