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A RETIRED social worker was jailed yesterday for seven days for refusing to pay a £53.71 increase in her council tax. Sylvia Hardy, a 73-year-old spinster, had refused all offers of help from well-wishers. She was making a stand in the hope of forcing the Government to reconsider an unjust tax, she said. Bag in hand, she marched to the court from her Exeter home accompanied by a small crowd of banner-waving supporters. Hundreds more were waiting to wave her off. Hardy, only the second council tax protester to be jailed, was compared by supporters to Emily Pankhurst, the...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/29/02 Op.Mountain Sweep, Narizah, Operation Detachmental A-Team, 82nd Airborne, Bravo Company 7th Bat., 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Div, Baghdad, Iraq , Fallouja-3, Justice in Jerusalem, Magistrates Court, Temple wall collapsing, Kfar Darom, Nablus, Gaza, Johannesburg, China, Crawford TX, Oceanside, CA, Camp Pendleton === Afghanistan ===== Operation Mountain Sweep, Narizah ===== In Narizah, 86 miles east of Kabul, the US Army ODA, Operation Detachmental A-Team, 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces contfronts Al Qaeda supporters as he demands their weapons. More here from yesterday: In Narizah, the 82nd Airborne Division secures the area....