District judge Anthony Evans said Entwistle had to sign a form to waive his right to extradition proceedings. He said: “You are agreeing to be sent immediately to the US and there will be no extradition proceedings.” Entwistle nodded and replied: “That’s right, yes.”. Militant Muslim protesters could face arrest on charges of incitement to murder after calling for those responsible for publishing offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed to be beheaded, police warned. A British man arrested over the murder of his American wife and baby daughter today agreed to be sent to the United States to face the allegations. Neil Entwistle, 27, who was arrested in London yesterday, is accused of shooting his wife, Rachel, in the head before turning the handgun on nine-month-old Lillian at their home in Massachusetts three weeks ago.
At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in central London today, Entwistle’s lawyer said his client wished to be returned to the US “as soon as possible”. He will try to head off a double defeat at the hands of his own MPs next week, when the Commons will debate identity cards and a new offence of glorifying terrorism Ministers admit both votes will be close.

Mr Blair will say: “Labour is the party of opportunity and solidarity, but there cannot be opportunity without security There cannot be strong communities without security.”. In a speech to Labour’s spring conference in Blackpool today, Mr Blair will argue that providing security is just as important as the party’s aim of building a fair and just society. Mr Clarke had intended to introduce the cards ­ expected to cost around £93 each ­ on a voluntary basis first, with a view to making them compulsory later. Under the original legislation that would have required only a simple vote by MPs.
But government whips, who have been working overtime to try to avert another damaging defeat, warned him that MPs were in no mood to accept what many regarded as an unnecessary and expensive intrusion on personal liberty. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will publish proposed amendments to the Identity Cards Bill today, which will mean that there would have to be a separate Act of Parliament before the new cards could be made compulsory. Plans to compel people to produce their ID cards have been postponed indefinitely in an attempt to save Tony Blair from another embarrassing defeat at the hands of rebel MPs.

He said: “We are faced with the third review of child support in 15 years, during which time most of the children who needed help will have grown up without it We now have one last chance to get this right.”. We are announcing a reform of the system.”Philip Hammond, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: “Lack of political leadership has resulted in fundamental problems with the CSA not being addressed. Now the Government is announcing a review of the design of the child support system – in effect admitting that the CSA cannot be fixed.”David Laws, work and pensions spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said: “People wanted to hear today that there would be action and fundamental reform, but the Government is offering yet more patching and yet another review.”Chris Pond, director of the charity One Parent Families, warned that lone parents would be frustrated that there would be more delays before the future of child support was decided. Although he ruled out transferring the CSA’s work to the Revenue & Customs service,the inquiry may consider if the taxman should play a greater role in enforcing payment of maintenance.Rejecting criticism from the opposition parties, Mr Hutton insisted: “We are not announcing another review today. He will consider whether the Government should write off cases where there is little prospect of tracing the father of the child or securing payments. There is a backlog of more than 300,000 cases and more than £3bn of unpaid maintenance.It is unclear how much of the CSA will survive after legislation likely to take effect in 2008 or 2009. Mr Hutton announced a £120m plan to improve the agency’s performance in the short term, including the use of private firms of debt collectors to chase absent parents and the recruitment of an extra 1,000 staff.

He admitted there was little evidence the CSA was any more effective than the courts, which were responsible for maintenance before it was set up in 1993. “Neither the agency nor the policy is fit for purpose,” he said.
Mr Hutton vetoed as too expensive a plan by the CSA chief executive Stephen Geraghty to spend £300m in the next three years restructuring the agency on top of its £400m budget.Instead, Sir David Henshaw, the retiring chief executive of Liverpool City Council, will conduct a swift “all options” review and produce proposals for a new system by July. The Government was accused of putting off decisions about the beleaguered Child Support Agency (CSA) as it announced a root-and-branch review of the child maintenance system. John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said he wanted “fundamental reform” that would “completely redesign” the system. It suggests that Mr Huhne will lead in the opening round of voting, and will narrowly beat the party’s acting leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, in the second round. The poll, of 401 party members, gave Mr Huhne 32 per cent of first preference votes, Sir Menzies 29 per cent, and Simon Hughes 23 per cent, with 16 per cent undecided.