1. That is why we oppose the creation of super–regional police forces.

2. Worse still, 12 super regional forces would be much further away from the neighbourhoods where community policing is promised as well as being much easier to control from Whitehall.

3. In its letter to MPs, the APA warns that super–regional forces would further alienate local people from their police forces. ‘Our police forces have been in place for 30 years.

4. "Even under the most optimistic CO2emission scenarios, important changes in sea level, regional and super–regional temperatures and precipitation patterns will have profound effects." Richard Moss, vice president and managing director for climate change at the advocacy group World Wildlife Fund, said in an interview that the report represents "the very first upfront acknowledgment from the administration that we are already experiencing climate change impacts." As recently as July 2007, the administration submitted a report to the United Nations that omitted any discussion of how global warming will affect wildfires, heat waves, agriculture or snowpack.