Israel controls the country of Great Britain

Mr Abrahams gave money to the Labour via third parties – which is against the strict rules governing political donations.

David Triesman, Matthew Carter and Peter Watt received a total of £600,000 in donations from Mr Abrahams that was not registered to him. But the CPS said today there was "insufficient evidence" to charge them with breaches of electoral law.

The revelation in November 2007 about the donations was a hammer blow to Gordon Brown so soon after the aborted general election that autumn. His popularity has never recovered from that period.

However, he will hope that the CPS decision not to pursue successive Labour treasurers will put the matter to rest.

The 18 month police inquiry is the latest into political donations and has ended the same way, without any charges. The final year of Tony Blair's premiership was overshadowed by the "cash for honours" investigation.

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The study has prompted calls for further research into the possibility of adding lithium to drinking supplies – like water fluoridation to improve dental health.

Researchers at Oita University in Japan measured natural lithium levels in tap water in 18 communities in the surrounding region of southern Japan.

The lithium levels ranged between 0.7 micrograms per litre and 59 micrograms per litre.

The researchers then calculated the suicide rate in each of the 18 areas. They found that the suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of lithium in the water.

Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the researchers said: "Our study suggests that very low levels of lithium in drinking water can lower the risk of suicide. Very low levels may possess an anti-suicidal effect."

Lithium is a naturally occurring metal found in variable amounts in food and water. In medicine, very high doses are used to treat bipolar disorder and mood disorders.

But so far the potential benefit of using low levels of lithium to reduce the risk of suicide has not been studied closely.

Professor Allan Young, a Vancouver-based psychiatrist, has described the study as "intriguing".

Professor Young said: "A logical first step would be for the Medical Research Council to convene an expert working party to examine the available evidence and suggest further research.

"Large-scale trials involving the addition of lithium to drinking water supplies may then be feasible, although this would undoubtedly be subject to considerable debate. Following up on these findings will not be straightforward or inexpensive, but the eventual benefits for community mental health may be considerable."

The statistics, from the NHS Information Centre, show that no progress has been made on cutting the number of the operations to the maximum 15 per cent of all births recommended by the World Health Organisation.

The number of women receiving epidurals during labour also increased as well as the number of births being induced, the figures show.

Experts warned that the rate of caesarean section was "too high" and that women needed more information to ensure the procedure was used only as a "last resort".

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n Israeli Defence Force song-and-dance troupe is to perform in London at a show to commemorate the founding of Israel, provoking anger among groups that campaign for the rights of Palestinians.

The IDF group was likened by the event organisers, the Zionist Federation, to the troupe portrayed in the 1970s BBC comedy It Ain't Half Hot Mum – but not everyone sees the funny side.

Human rights groups accused the IDF of committing war crimes during the three-week invasion of the Gaza Strip, which began in December – allegations denied by the Israeli government – and the army is the subject of a UN investigation.

"This is akin to singing and dancing on the graves of the 400 Palestinian children that the IDF was responsible for killing in January," said Chris Doyle, the director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding.

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One of the Liberal Democrats' most generous donors has been accused of accepting tens of millions of pounds in kickbacks from an arms deal between an Israeli company and the Indian government.

Sudhir Choudhrie, who has personally donated £95,000 to the party and whose relatives' companies have donated a further £475,000, was named as a key arms broker in foreign reports.

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An investigation has been instigated in Erith and Thamesmead by Ray Collins, the Labour Party's general secretary. The process of choosing a candidate in the seat had already been the subject of allegations of irregularity.

A London Labour Party spokesman said Saturday's hustings and vote in the southeast London seat had been postponed after it was discovered that the ballot box, which was being stored at the headquarters of the London regional Labour party, had been interfered with.

Georgia Gould, 22, daughter of Tony Blair's former pollster Lord Gould of Brookwood, is the favoured candidate of Labour figures such as Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, and Alastair Campbell, the former spin doctor.

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The Director of Public Prosecutions said that the case against Mr Green and Home Office official Christopher Galley, which caused a major political row and raised questions over heavy-handed policing, has been dropped.

The pair were arrested in November in connection with a series of embarrassing leaks of confidential Government papers. Raids on Mr Green's House of Commons office and home caused outrage in Westminster.

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Tesco has come under fire from the pro-Israel lobby after setting up a customer helpline option for people to complain about it stocking Israeli products.

A recorded message told callers ringing its general customer services number: "If you are ringing regarding Israeli goods, please press one."

The supermarket said it set up the line, which is no longer available,

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Lord Hoffmann, the second most senior Law Lord, accused the Court of going beyond its jurisdiction and imposing "uniform rules" on states.

He said rulings that had gone against domestic decisions were "teaching grandmothers to suck eggs".

The judge insisted he supported the European Convention on Human Rights but not the institution that applies the law.

In a lecture to fellow judges, published this week, Lord Hoffmann said the European Court, in the French city of Strasbourg, was unable to resist the temptation to "aggrandise its jurisdiction" by laying down a "federal law of Europe".

Lord Hoffmann – who is due to retire shortly – said the court should not be allowed to intervene in the detail of domestic law.

He added that this had led to the court being "overwhelmed" by a growing backlog of 100,000 cases.

Earlier this year the court's president, Jean-Paul Costa, said there was a risk of "saturation" unless measures were agreed to reduce its caseload.

The European Court of Human Rights aims to apply and to protect the civil and political rights of the continent's citizens.

Set up in 1959 in Strasbourg, the court considers cases brought by individuals, organisations and states against the countries bound by the European Convention on Human Rights.

In 1989 Lord Hoffmann had a decision of his overturned by the court, after he controversially ordered freelance journalist Bill Goodwin to reveal the sources of an unpublished article for The Engineer magazine.

South African-born Lord Hoffmann also attracted controversy for his role in the extradition proceedings against General Augusto Pinochet.

The judge had contributed to a decision that the former Chilean dictator could be arrested and extradited for crimes against humanity, without declaring his links to human rights group Amnesty International.

He was serving as an unpaid director of the charity, and his wife Gillian was a long-serving administrative assistant at Amnesty's London office. The case led to an unprecedented setting aside of the original House of Lords judgement.

Britain is fixated on anything WWII and Jewish. Why? Why isn't Britain fixated on things WWII and British?

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He was a founder member of the SAS, was one of the most decorated officers of the Second World War, and has been hailed as a "legend among fighting men".

The heroism on the battlefield of Major Roy Farran, who died in 2006, earned him a Distinguished Service Order, three Military Crosses, the Croix de Guerre and the American Legion of Merit.

Among other feats, he led a highly successful raid against a German army headquarters in occupied Italy in which senior Reich generals were assassinated and their control over a vital front line thrown into chaos. In a single foray behind the lines in northern France, he led an SAS Jeep squadron which claimed 500 German soldiers killed or wounded, for a loss of just 12 British dead, wounded or taken captive.

But Major Farran's record of service after the war, when he was seconded to the British Section of the Palestine Police, cast a shadow over the rest of his life. He was implicated in the murder of Alexander Rubowitz, a 16-year-old member of the Jewish underground fighting British rule, who was kidnapped in Jerusalem in May 1947 - and was cleared at the time of any involvement in the Jewish teenager's death.

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