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It is simply to provide the imprimatur of the Privy Council that the Royal Charter, which has been debated, discussed, argued over for months in public, is adopted.

Protocol dictates privy council meetings are held standing up to keep them brief. The president reads a list of orders to be made, and the Queen replies simply: Approved.

The medieval body is usually used to grant freedoms, such as allowing universities to award degrees. It is believed to be the first time a Royal Charter has been imposed on an unwilling industry.

The newspaper industry had proposed its own regulator, which would have entailed 1m fines for wrongdoing. The plans were rejected by politicians.

Newspapers that do not sign up to the new regulator face being handed exemplary damages by judges in libel actions.

The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers do not plan to subscribe to the new system.

Richard Gordon QC, for the Press Standards Board of Finance, said the politicians plans could give the state a worrying degree of control over the press.

What is envisaged in the Government charter is the possibility of executive control of the press for the first time since 1695, he said.

But Mr Clegg said it is wildly hyperbolic to claim the Royal Charter is a threat to press freedom.

No-one wants politicians to interfere with the cherished freedoms of your wonderfully raucous and vibrant Press, he said.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday attacked Nitish Kumar and said the Bihar Chief Minister never speak a word against Congress as he wants an alliance with the ruling party.

"Nitishji never spoke a word about Congress partys corruption.He never spoke a word against the problem of inflation..Actually, he is seeking an alliance and you all know it," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said while addressing a press conference here.

Criticising Kumar for slamming BJPs prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Prasad said: "Yesterday, Nitishji called Modiji a fascist. It is the language used by the Congress. It is same language used by the Congress for its opponents...BJP rejects the charge of fascism and Hitler levied on Modi."

Kumar on Tuesday attacked Modi and said he should be patient.

"A man who is aspiring to reach the countrys highest post should be patient. He should also learn to be brave as it is the most respectful position in our country," Kumar said while addressing a JD(U) meet here.

Referring to BJPs rally in Patna on Sunday where Modi addressed a huge gathering, Kumar said Modi had no sweetness in his speech.

"I heard that people of Gujarat love ice-cream....but there is no sweetness in his speech," Kumar said.

Slamming Modi, he said: "The dream of the Red Fort will remain a dream."

Addressing the BJPs Hunkar Rally in Bihars Patna city on Sunday, Modi had attacked Kumar and accused him of betraying with the BJP.

Modi said,"People often ask me why the Bihar Chief Minister, who was our friend, left us? I said that if a man can leave JP (socialist leader Jai Prakash Narain) then he wont stay with the BJP."

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By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer

(TriceEdneyWire.com) The editor-publisher of the award-winning Richmond Free Press has announced his paper will no longer use the name Redskins to describe Washington, D.C.s professional football team because he says the name is racist, harkening to the historic torture and abuse of Native Americans.

We want to make absolutely certain that the Free Press does not endorse or promote a totally unacceptable name. Also, it represents an opportunity to show that Washington, D.C. the capital of the United States is not riveted to the past and that Virginia is not riveted to the past. Its an opportunity to move ahead and not to continue to encourage this take our nation back theme that the ultra conservatives have, says Raymond H. Boone Sr. in an interview this week. We should never become acclimated to the outrageous. And the Free Press is leading the expunging of this name so that it will not be a cause for people to find an unacceptable, racist unpatriotic name acceptable.

Boone, who has a decades-long reputation as a force against racism in Virginia, announced his decision to drop the name in an editorial published in the October 17-23 edition of the Free Press. He says the paper will only refer to the team as the Washington professional football team.

He wrote, The Richmond Free Press is expunging the nickname of the Washington professional football team from its news and editorial columns. The reason: The nickname is insulting to Native Americans, racist and divisive. Plus, it promotes the spreading ugly Tea Party mentality that is growing in Virginia and the Nations Capital.

The editorial continues, Our use of the depraved nickname would only serve to cause people to become more acclimated to the outrageous. It would give a cause for the regeneration of the despicable N-word and other derogatory names given to other racial groups.

Daniel Snyder, the owner of the team, has vowed not to change the name, claiming that 90 percent of Native Americans, including many Native American students, do not want to change the name and view it as a source of pride. However, the stance by the 21-year-old newspaper joins a rising chorus of voices against the name, from people and organizations that associate it with race hatred, bigotry and the ethnic cleansing mentality perpetuated by President Andrew Jackson and his Indian Removal Act of May 28, 1830 among others.

Jacqueline Pata, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, a 69-year-old organization that promotes itself as the oldest, largest and most representative organization of American Indians and Alaska natives, also refrains from using the term, Redskins.

Speaking on an August 26 panel, No Lie Can Live Forever, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Pata said her community calls the team, The Local Team.

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Back in the pool: Michael Phelps. Photo: Reuters

NEW YORK: Michael Phelps has been working out with his former coach but there is no word yet on a return to swimming for the Rio Olympics.

Coach Bob Bowman said on Sunday that Phelps has been taking part in workouts with the North Baltimore Aquatic Club.

However, he's not yet committed to the sort of gruelling program that would be needed if he decided to return to competition.

In fact, Phelps attended an NBA preseason game in China on Friday, visiting a country where he has extensive endorsement deals and remains extremely popular.

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"He is occasionally training with the group to get back in shape," Bowman wrote in a text to The Associated Press.

Phelps and Bowman remain close friends and business partners.

Initially adamant he would never compete again, Phelps softened his stance after reports began swirling of an imminent comeback.

He said during the world championships in Barcelona, "I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow."

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