Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• UK lawmakers delay reform of tough libel laws (AP)
• Former PM Tony Blair returns to campaign trail (AP)
• McCartney's ex Mills made life a misery: nanny (AFP)
• Dutch, British police link 2 grisly slayings (AP)
• Britain emerges from recession with new growth upgrade (AFP)
• Press watchdog raps blogger over accuracy (AFP)
• US seeks more detail on Astra cholesterol drug (AP)
• Elephants move like 4x4s: scientists (AFP)
• RBS fined £29 mln for breaching competition law (AFP)
• Blair backs Brown as election looms (AFP)
• Blair makes UK comeback to help Labour face poll (Reuters)
• Nanny McPhee rides to top of UK box office (Reuters)
• Bloomsbury earns lose Harry Potter magic (AP)
• Britain to reduce Airbus A400M order (AFP)
• UK Q4 growth revised upward again to 0.4 pct (AP)
• Royal Bank of Scotland fined for competition lapse (AP)
• New expense rules mean MPs can still employ family (AFP)

UK lawmakers delay reform of tough libel laws (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - Freedom of speech campaigners accused British lawmakers Tuesday of blocking attempts to reform the country's notoriously tough libel laws.

Former PM Tony Blair returns to campaign trail (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:40 PM PDT AP - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair made a dramatic pre-election return to domestic British politics Tuesday with an attack on the policies of David Cameron, the smooth young Conservative leader sometimes nicknamed "Tory Blair."

McCartney's ex Mills made life a misery: nanny (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:50 AM PDT AFP - Pop legend Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills was "bitter" and made her staff's lives a misery following their split, her former nanny told an employment tribunal Tuesday.

Dutch, British police link 2 grisly slayings (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:32 AM PDT AP - Dutch and British police have joined forces to revive two old unsolved cases in which the bodies of women were found in canals, stuffed in bags with their heads and hands hacked off, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Britain emerges from recession with new growth upgrade (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:56 AM PDT AFP - Britain escaped from a record recession in better shape than previously thought in the fourth quarter of 2009, revised data showed Tuesday, but analysts agreed that the outlook remained weak.

Press watchdog raps blogger over accuracy (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:16 AM PDT AFP - Britain's media watchdog on Tuesday upheld a complaint against a blog written by a journalist in what was its first-ever move to censure a newspaper or magazine over comments by a blogger.

US seeks more detail on Astra cholesterol drug (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:12 AM PDT AP - AstraZeneca PLC and Abbott Laboratories said Tuesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked for more information about their Certriad cholesterol drug before approving it for sale.

Elephants move like 4x4s: scientists (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:44 AM PDT AFP - Elephants' legs work like a four-wheel drive vehicle, making them probably unique in the animal kingdom, scientists said on Tuesday.

RBS fined £29 mln for breaching competition law (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:19 AM PDT AFP - Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined nearly £29 million for breaking competition law, the Office of Fair Trading said on Tuesday.

Blair backs Brown as election looms (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:14 AM PDT AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair threw his weight behind his successor Gordon Brown on Tuesday, as he returned to the political stage weeks ahead of a knife-edge election.

Blair makes UK comeback to help Labour face poll (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:52 AM PDT Reuters - Tony Blair entered Britain's close-fought election campaign on Tuesday, seeking to work his charm on voters tempted to desert the ruling Labour Party after 13 years.

Nanny McPhee rides to top of UK box office (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:49 AM PDT Reuters - Emma Thompson as a 1940s supernanny has ended the three-week reign of Alice in Wonderland at the top of the UK box office, according to Screen International on Tuesday.

Bloomsbury earns lose Harry Potter magic (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:40 AM PDT AP - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC reported a 36 percent fall in net profit for 2009 — its first year without a new hardback or paperback Harry Potter release — but said that other best-sellers had given a boost to the start of trading this year.

Britain to reduce Airbus A400M order (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:34 AM PDT AFP - Britain will reduce its order for the much-delayed Airbus A400M military transport plane following a deal between governments and the company on cost overruns, the defence minister said.

UK Q4 growth revised upward again to 0.4 pct (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:55 AM PDT AP - Official data show that the British economy grew at a faster rate than previously estimated in the final quarter of last year when it exited recession.

Royal Bank of Scotland fined for competition lapse (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:43 AM PDT AP - Royal Bank of Scotland PLC has been fined 28.6 million pounds ($43 million) for violating competition laws by sharing price data with rival Barclays PLC, the Office for Fair Trading said Tuesday.

New expense rules mean MPs can still employ family (AFP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:38 AM PDT AFP - MPs will still be allowed to employ a family member paid for by taxpayers under new rules announced in the wake of an expenses scandal.

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