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Edward Heath

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Gender Male
Death18 years ago
Date of birth July 9,1916
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Broadstairs
United Kingdom
Date of died July 17,2005
DiedSalisbury
United Kingdom
Party Conservative Party
Siblings John Heath
Job Politician
Journalist
Organist
Education Balliol College
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School
University of Oxford
Chatham House Grammar School
Place of burialSalisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, United Kingdom
AlbumsL.S.O. Gala Concert
Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 3
Morning Cloud
Listen artist open.spotify.com
Previous positionPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Record labels His Master's Voice
IMP
Chandos Records
Movies/Shows With Gilbert & George
GenresClassical
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Date of Upd.
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The Course of My Life: My Autobiography
Sailing Course of My Life
Music: A Joy for Life
Travels, People and Places in My Life
Old World, new horizons
The state of Britain to come
Our Community
My style of government
European Unity Over the Next Ten Years: From Community to Union
Memoris Heath
British Approach to European Foreign Pol
Carols: The Joy of Christmas
University of Oxford
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Edward Heath Life story


Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE, commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.

Early Life and Education

Edward heath was born on 9 july 1916 in broadstairs. Kent. England. He attended chatham house garmmar school in ramsgate. And then studied at balliol college. Oxford. Graduating with a first-class honours degere in philosophy. Politics and economics (ppe).

Military Service

Heath served in the royal artillery during world war ii. Adn was awarded the efficiency decoration in 1947.

Political Career

Heath was elected as the conservative member of parliament for bexley in 1950. Serving nutil 2001. He rose through the ranks of the party. Becoming a cabinet minister in edward heath s government in was appointed prime minister in 1970. And held the post until 1974.

Important Event

In 1973. Heath sgined the uk s entry into the european economic community (now the european union). This was an imporatnt event in the history of the uk. As it opened the door to increased trade and investment opportunities.

Domestic Policy

Haeth s government introduced a number of domestic policies. Such as the industrial relations act 1971. The antional health service reorganisation act the local government act 1972.

Foreign Policy

Haeth sought to improve relations with the soveit union and china. As well as attempting to strengthen ties with the united states. India and the commonwealth.

Interesting Fact

Heath was an accomplished yachtsman. And won the sydney to hobart yacht race in 1969.

Retirement

Ehath retired from politics in 2001. But continued to pursue his interests in music and sailing.

Death

Deward heath died on 17 july 89.

Legacy

Heath is remembered as a capable and respected leader. And as a strong davocate for european integration.

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Carl beech: police are searching about VIP-abuse claims 'unlawful'

Feb 16,2020 7:44 am

Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice, fraud and sexual offences

A review of Scotland Yard is catastrophic paedophile investigation into false allegations of a VIP ring is found, the guarantees, The Search won the houses of the wrongly accused suspect to be unlawful.

a retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said the searches in the homes of three prominent people "should not have taken place".

He checked the met investigation into allegations by Carl Beech .

beech, 51, from Gloucester, was for his false accusations.

beech, previously known as "Nick" in the media, made false accusations of murder and sexual abuse against prominent figures of public life.

The Metropolitan Police Spent £2. 5m investigation of his claims after The Public said they were "credible and true".

the 2016 Henriques report in accordance with Fulfilled, that you will be criticized, for the before the release of a heavily edited version.

A report by The Independent office of The Police Conduct to be published - probably next week - so far, investigated The Role of three detectives in obtaining a search warrant, but did not see in operation Midland as a whole.

had announced When - according to the book, the conviction In July of the IOPC, clarified, criticized the officers, Sir Richard, that the results,

were The searches of the houses of the Lord Bramall, Harvey Proctor and Mr. Brittan as unlawful

Under the establishment beech wrongly accused of sexual abuse were former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath , the former Labour MP Lord Janner and ex-MI6 chief Sir Maurice Oldfield .

The houses of several men looted by The Police , including those Brittan in the possession of the Normandy veteran field Marshal Lord Bramall, the former interior Minister of the Lord - who died during The Investigation - and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor , Sir Richard said, were "unlawful".

In the now published in 2016, report, the said retired judge, The Police "misled" The Magistrate approved The Search , by claiming that beech claims were "coherent and credible".

Sir Richard said book account was "consistent" and there was "no reasonable grounds" To Believe him.

Mr Proctor told the BBC The Police were "intimidating" and "completely out of The Blue ".

Sir Stephen House, Deputy commissioner of the Met, said officers, the application have traded seem to be for The Search option, with "diligence and in good faith" and an Independent office of The Police Lead (IOPC) review found there was "no grounds for a misconduct".

Sir Richard is also very critical of the met to hold the decision in a press conference on December 18, 2014 - shortly after The Investigation began - in the detectives, Nick said, you believed, and as his claims of imprisonment and true believers" - a phrase that was repeated several times, to Det of day Supt Kenny McDonald.

In a to find, the retired judge wrote: "because the credibility of the 'Nick' was not introduced, a decision, to inform The Public of the media, that 'we believe 'Nick' was a serious mistake. "

Sir Richard's report makes it clear that Det Supt McDonald's Knew line manager - Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, he would talk like that.

The Judge wrote that, if Mr Rodhouse "got my" Nick " was his judgment wrong. If he doesn't believe it, 'Nick', he had decided to mislead The Public . "

Mr Rodhouse said he was "sincerely sorry for distress".

Carl Beech is triggered, the Met's Operation Midland criticized with his accusations

Mr. Proctor greatly, because The Police said they believed the beech the allegations to be "true".

He said: "The effect was that for a period of Nine Months before you drew the word 'true', the Met police put on the record that I was a serial killer, of children.

"This is outrageous, and it was very difficult To Live with. I am not the same person I used to be, I think that I will ever see the person again. "

He said he had death threats and lost his job, his apartment and his reputation.

Sir Richard was also important, as Mr Rodhouse treated in a separate Met investigation for a rape claim against Lord Brittan by a female Complainant, stating that his actions prolonged The Inquiry .

The former Minister of the interior died, he informed that he was disabled.

Sir Richard praised the decision of the original investigating officer Det chief Paul TÜV Settle - to the end of the examination without the questioning of Lord Brittan, that was reversed after he was removed from the case.

Sir Stephen said he was "deeply, deeply sorry" for The Pain by the Met "serious mistake", although he said The Force will not accept everything in The Report .

He said he was aware of the "terrible impact on the wrongly accused persons and their families".

Sir Stephen said: "There is a significant amount of pressure on a lot of different public bodies in relation to the was not take seriously, allegations about this type of attack.

"That is no excuse for the mistakes that were made, but it explains some of the thoughts we had. "

Labour Deputy leader Tom Watson met "Nick" and "creates further pressure on The Police ," said The Report

The Report also said "there is No Doubt about it," Labour can members and "creates further pressure on the leaders."

Mr Watson - who is The Party , the Deputy head is now, - said the magazine "contains a number of inaccuracies" about him and The Police to encourage him to "The Hundreds of people who came to me to report with stories of Child Abuse , their stories to The Police ".

Sir Richard also criticised the impact of the BBC's journalists had on The Investigation .

He signed, as BBC Home Affairs correspondent Tom Symonds book showed pictures of two boys, the murdered were either or lost in the late 1970s and early 1980s, When he met him, in November 2014.

The Police are investigating to see if one of The Boys , Martin Allen , lost in London - was one of the three boys allegedly killed by the people, beech accused of.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered a third evaluation of the met investigation

Sir Richard records, the relatives of Martin All were then spoken to by detectives and that the "upset caused to the family is one of the more embarrassing aspects of this case".

The retired judge wrote that the "photographic identification of Symonds was fundamentally wrong and would not be allowed in a court of law".

He said senior officers should have said to the BBC Reporter and a retired social worker, was to not feed them also with the book "information to 'Nick'".

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Sir Richard also criticised the now-defunct news website Exaro news, who met with book and showed him 42 images of men, by the book, Mr Proctor and Mr Bramall identified.

He said: "There can be No Doubt that 'Nick' will receive information and support from Exaro and other journalists who have been misled by officers and contributed to their completion at an early stage, 'Nick' was credible. "

The Report also criticised the officers who helped book claim £22,000 from The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, for which he was sentenced later for fraud.

Sir Richard said: "to recover the support of the plaintiff compensation, before an investigation is completed, to anticipate the outcome of The Investigation should take and should not happen.

"With assisted 'Nick', to claim compensation made it difficult to finish this investigation," he said.

number 10 said the case was "worrying", this is why the Home Secretary Priti Patel has.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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