The government has unveiled how it will use the extra funding allocated in this year’s budget to boost the fight against crime. It will be targeted at dealing with persistent offenders and on counter-terrorism measures.The Home Office received 180 million pounds of new funding in the Budget along with 100 million pounds from the Criminal Justice Reserve. The Home Secretary has also reallocated over 60 million pounds from the current Home Office budget making a total spending plan of over 340million.

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More than half a million people and businesses are using the internet via high-speed broadband connections. New figures from Oftel show that the take-up of broadband connections has now reached 20,000 a week.The current level of growth outstrips the demands seen for both mobile phones and ordinary dial-up Internet when they first became widely available.

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