“I still find it very difficult to say no to anyone who comes to us with a legitimate need We have felt obliged to expand But we do not intend to change our ethos We will carry on filling the gaps It’s just that now we hope to fill more of them.”. Secret papers left on a train by a MI5 agent are still missing today – despite extensive efforts to recover them. Secret papers left on a train by a MI5 agent are still missing today – despite extensive efforts to recover them.
The MI5 man is reported to have realised his papers were missing when he arrived in Dorset for a meeting last month and discovered he had mislaid his briefcase.Spy chiefs ordered police to search every train and station on the line – but officials admit the secret papers are still missing – and are appealing for anyone who found them to hand them back.The loss follows a series of similar blunders which have seen a laptop computer stolen from another MI5 operative, an MI6 spy lose his computer in a tapas bar and a senior Army official’s laptop stolen at Heathrow.A Home Office spokeswoman urged anyone who found the missing case to hand it in to their nearest police station.”We understand that some papers were lost,” the spokeswoman said.”As is normal procedure the security service did an immediate risk assessment and concluded there had been no breach of national security.”The matter was reported to the police and they are aware of the loss.”. The Government is proposing that working fathers should be entitled to a fortnight’s paid paternity leave. They would receive £60.25 a week, the same as the flat rate for maternity pay.

Should the proposals in the Green Paper on working families be endorsed by Parliament, fathers will also be able to work fewer hours until the end of their partner’s maternity leave, unless their employers can prove it will damage their business. But do fathers find the time at home beneficial, or do they simply count down the days until they’re back in the safe, nappy-free environment of the office?

The Government is proposing that working fathers should be entitled to a fortnight’s paid paternity leave. They would receive £60.25 a week, the same as the flat rate for maternity pay. Should the proposals in the Green Paper on working families be endorsed by Parliament, fathers will also be able to work fewer hours until the end of their partner’s maternity leave, unless their employers can prove it will damage their business. But do fathers find the time at home beneficial, or do they simply count down the days until they’re back in the safe, nappy-free environment of the office?
 Three weeksDavid Long, 40, a senior product manager, lives in south-east London with his wife, Vanessa Bone, an arts management consultant, and their son Anthony, aged five. DavidI was in the fortunate position of working for a company which gave one week’s leave anyway, and I saved up additional leave so I could spend the first three weeks of Anthony’s life with him. I really wanted to be able to bond with him, to share the load, and share the experience.

I’m very glad that I did, and it was a bit of wrench at the end of the three weeks to have to go back to work. I think two weeks is the absolute minimum time that I would have wanted to spend at home I gained a huge understanding of, and love for, Anthony I was also able to give a lot of support to my wife. The birth was a Caesarean and there were one or two complications afterwards, which meant it was all the more necessary for me to be around It was such a pleasure to be there. If you make an anagram of my name it becomes “loving dad”. VanessaHaving David at home was extraordinarily nice for all three of us. It provided sufficient time for us all to get to know each other, and that’s not an experience you can recoup at a later date. Even a tiny baby is very much an individual, and is capable of responding to those closest to it quite quickly David shared everything except the breastfeeding. He helped during the night, and did more than his fair share of nappy changes, and a lot of just holding and cuddling, and talking to me.

I was very tired, so he was bringing me cups of tea and pampering me as well. Giving birth and the first two or three weeks afterwards make a complete change in your life, and I think that it’s entirely right that both of you go through that rapid and profound change together. Three weeks were very good, obviously more would have been splendid. Six weeksKhalifa Saber, 33, a creative director of a web development company, lives in north London with his wife Kay, 36, a Pilates instructor, and their son Max, almost two. KhalifaI co-own the company so for the first six weeks I was basically at home Kay and I took it in turns to care for Max. Obviously at that age the mother really is the primary carer because of breastfeeding, so my main job was to do things around the house and the shopping. The biggest benefit of staying at home for that period was achieving a much closer bond with Max It also made life easier for Kay The other benefit was a financial one.