Brits want PMs wife booted
The wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair is the person Britons most want
kicked out of the country after her links to a convicted conman were
exposed in the recent 'Cheriegate' affair.
In a tongue-in-cheek BBC survey drawing 15,000 votes, Cherie Blair topped
the hall of shame with 31 per cent after damaging revelations last month
about her property dealings with a convicted fraudster dominated headlines
and embarrassed the government.
Mrs Blair, a high profile barrister, saw her public support tumble in
December as the media focused relentlessly on details of how Peter Foster
helped her buy two flats in Bristol, south-west England.
The BBC radio current affairs program Today, which carried out the poll,
said in a statement: "It has not been a good year-end for the Prime
Minister's wife."
In a parallel vote on who they wanted to see named honorary Britons, 51 per
cent went for Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi,
who was released from 19 months of house arrest in May.
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ATM stolen from Adelaide hotel
Police are appealing for information on the daring theft of an ATM from a
hotel in Adelaide's northern suburbs early this morning.
They say the machine was removed with a car and rope, which was used to rip
it through the wall of the foyer at the Cross Keys Hotel on Port Wakefield
Road.
The unit is valued at around $20,000 but police have not disclosed how much
money it contained.
Acting detective chief inspector Steve Ryan says those responsible forced
their way into the hotel's beer garden.
"As I said it is an unusual offence," he said.
"It's perhaps a brazen offence as we've said and again we are keen to catch
the people responsible."
