The man is out of the operating theatre and stable but will require further surgery. It is always a tragic scene for officers when women and children are involved but it is even more tragic at this time of year.”He added that police still did not know what had triggered the events at the house, where presents for the girls were unopened. “We are treating this as a murder inquiry but we are keeping an open mind,” he said.An officer is believed to have gained entry to the house at 7.35pm on Christmas Eve after spotting the woman’s body through a window. Police arrested him after they discovered the bodies when they went to inform Ms Higgins of the accident. The authorities claim that Hizb-ut-Tahrir was banned in Egypt after an attempted coup in 1974, although the men argue the group was never banned in law.”It is pressure, abuse and punishment for innocent people who are not guilty of any crime,” said Hodan Pankhurst, wife of Mr Pankhurst.The families of the three men have repeatedly appealed to the Egyptian government for their release and last week accused Tony Blair of “hypocrisy” for taking his family to Egypt on holiday, as they claimed his actions “endorsed” the imprisonment of the men.. A murder investigation was under way yesterday after the bodies of a mother and her two young daughters were discovered at their home.

The surname of the girls was not known and police have not said whether the man arrested was related to them or their mother.Assistant Chief Constable Anil Patani, of the West Midlands police force, confirmed yesterday that the woman was the mother of the children.He said the man was injured when his car was involved in a collision on the A41 at Tong on the Shropshire and Staffordshire border, near junction 3 of the M54, on Christmas Eve.”Following the incident police found the bodies of a 25-year-old woman and her two young children at an address in Willenhall,” he added.”They suffered fatal injuries and we are waiting to talk to a man who is injured in hospital. Mr Nisbet, 29, and Mr Pankhurst, 28, both from London, and 26-year-old Mr Nawaz, from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, were accused of attempting to revive Hizb-ut-Tahrir, the Islamic Liberation Party.The three – all married with children – were charged with promoting the group’s goals, including the overthrow of the Egyptian government in a post-11 September. Three British Muslims held in jail in Egyptfor almost two years will have to spend at least another three months behind bars after a court appearance scheduled for yesterday was delayed yet again. Dr David Hope said many would have been amazed by the recent “fuss” – which almost split the Anglican Church – over the consecration of a practising homosexual as a bishop in the US.

In another Christmas sermon, the Right Rev Iain Torrance, head of the Church of Scotland, accused the kirk of reinforcing hatred of gay people and urged the country to shake off its homophobia.. And it’s given new life by the threat of terror carried out in the name of a religion – even when representatives of that religion at every level roundly condemn such action as incompatible with faith.”Dr Williams said the Christian faith had to show it was “on the side of humanity”.* The Archbishop of York used his Christmas sermon to call on the Church to live “together with and in difference” with one another. It has appeared as itself intolerant of difference (hence the legacy of anti-Semitism), as a campaigning, aggressive force for uniformity, as a self-defensive and often corrupt set of institutions indifferent to basic human welfare.”He added: “That’s a legacy that dies hard, however much we might want to protest that it is far from the whole picture. Yesterday, the couple attended morning mass near Chequers.In his address, Dr Williams said: “It isn’t all that surprising if a secular environment looks at religion not only with suspicion or incomprehension but with fear.

Discomfort about religion or about a particular religion may be the response of an educated liberal or, at the opposite extreme, the unthinking violence of an anti-Semite; it isn’t easy to face the fact that sometimes the effects are similar for the believer.”Urging Christians, Jews and Muslims to “stand with each other”, the Archbishop said: “Historically, the answer is, alas, that religious faith has too often been the language of the powerful, the excuse for oppression, the alibi for atrocity. Although he has been accused by some commentators of parading his religious views, he has often refused to talk about them. “We don’t do God,” Alastair Campbell, his former communications director, told one interviewer earlier this year.Mr Blair has been criticised for receiving the sacrament at a Catholic Church even though he is not a Catholic – unlike his wife Cherie. “And in case we think the whole debate is just a French problem,” he said, “we should recognise just a little of the same unease in the nervous sniggering about the Prime Minister’s religious faith which ripples over the surface of the media from time to time.”Mr Blair declared himself a Christian Socialist before he became Labour leader in 1994, and his beliefs have influenced his political views, notably his determination that people should accept “responsibilities” to society in return for their “rights”.The Prime Minister said in 1993 that he “can’t stand politicians who go on about religion”. Labour is beginning to erode trust by not banning hunting as they promised.”. “We are saying come in and look for yourself if you think hunting is cruel The battle has done an awful lot of good for our sport We have got a lot of new young members We have learnt to be a lot more open,” she said.