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The Freedom of Information Act in Britain has unveiled a wealth of shocking, hilarious and downright weird ‘official secrets’ over the decades. Here’s some of the highlights :

    * The Thatcher Government concocted a plan to search for the Loch Ness monster using a team of dolphins

    * Foreign diplomats – who have diplomatic immunity – were accused of rapes, sexual assaults, child abuse and murders while working in Britain

    * Politicians are spending £2.2bn a year of taxpayers’ money on private management consultants

    * Tax inspectors are routinely offered bonuses to encourage them to collect as much money as possible

    * Tony Blair spent nearly £2,000 of taxpayers’ money on cosmetics over six years

    * Killings carried out by strangers have increased by a third since Tony Blair came to power

    * A clandestine British torture programme existed in postwar Germany, “reminiscent of the concentration camps”

    * Britain helped Israel to obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tonnes of heavy water

    * The NHS has been giving girls as young as 13 contraceptive injections and implants that make them infertile for up to three years, in an attempt to cut teenage pregnancies

    * Police in England and Wales spend £21m a year on interpreters

    * Six British military policemen died at the hands of an Iraqi mob in Majar al-Kabir because nearby reinforcements decided it was too dangerous to rescue them

    * Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he drowned

    * Countries with poor human rights records and those on the front line in the War on Terror, including Iraq, were targeted by the Ministry of Defence as the most lucrative places for British arms companies to sell weapons

    * Police were instructed to let off offenders with a caution if they commit any one of more than 60 types of crime, ranging from assault to some types of theft, criminal damage and underage sex.

    * In one year hundreds of 10»year»old children were charged with crimes including serious sexual offences, robbery, actual bodily harm and assaulting a police officer

    * The Elgin Marbles were damaged by two schoolboys fighting in the British Museum in 1961. One of the boys fell and knocked off part of a centaur’s leg

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