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LEGISLATION TO give councils the power to regulate body piercing firms will be introduced as soon as possible, the Home Office minister Paul Boateng promised.

A LOGO to promote the launch of plans to modernise government and give a better service to the public cost pounds 41,020 to develop, the Cabinet Office minister Peter Kilfoyle disclosed.

LORD HURD of Westwell, the former Tory foreign secretary, has been appointed to the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee by Tony Blair, joining Lord Thomson of Monifieth and Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde.

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