The Ethics Committee hired Martin in July 2011 to review the case after multiple reports of possible improper communication among committee attorneys and lawmakers on the panel.

CNN: House panel says Waters' rights not violated

Home Office minister Baroness Browning, said: "I would expect people on the panel to have some form of communication back with their local authority, so that if the local authority for example was concerned, that concern would be expressed through their representative on the police and crime panel".

BBC: Call for councils to have closer relationship with PCCs

Liberal Democrat councillor Katie Hall, vice-chair of the panel, said she had used Friday's meeting to ask for improved communication between the hospital, surrounding councils and other social care providers.

BBC: Bath's Royal United Hospital has 'worst ever winter'

Drafting the conclusions, the Panel's Chairman Mogens Schmidt, UNESCO's Deputy Assistant Director General for Communication and Information Sector, said that the successful establishment of an truly independent PSB requires a mix of legal preconditions, economical and editorial independence, capacity building of professionals, and accountability towards the public.

UNESCO: Education

The science fiction future, as imagined by children growing up between the 1950s and 1980s is already here: we have the flat panel televisions mounted on the wall like canvases, we have the Dick Tracy personal communication devices (and we've managed to cram jukeboxes inside them -- we call them iPhones) but we're missing something.

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