News:Archive

• Former Minister of Education and Minister of Labour Sir Bernard Canton dies at age 97. He was the last living member of the Kenilworth government.
• Marshal of the RIAF Sir Alan Penderson (pictured) resigns from the position of Chief of the Defence Staff.
• The New Year's Honours List is released.
• Former Speaker of the House of Commons Nicholas Warner is found dead in his prison cell.
• Nine are killed and twenty are injured in a fire in a block of flats in Exeter. The building was reported to have no working alarm system.
• Governor-General Sir Steven Spell opens the 16th Parliament.
• Former cabinet minister Brian Rodney is elected Speaker of the House of Commons.
• A riot breaks out at HMP Haphonia.
• Prime Minister Sir John Goodwin and his cabinet are sworn in.
• Governor-General Sir Steven Spell accepts Pollack's resignation and asks Conservative leader and former Prime Minister Sir John Goodwin to form a new government.
• Prime Minister Roger Pollack announces his intention to resign.
• The Conservative Party receives a majority in the House of Commons.
• Ibaglians vote in the 16th General Election.
• Sir Jeremy Cannon, a Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Ibagli, announces an inquest into the June 2006 Coup.
• The Conservative Party and the New Conservative Party announce that they will be rejoining under the Conservative banner. Sir John Goodwin will lead the party.
• A General Election is called to be held on 16 November 2006.
• The House of Commons votes down a motion of confidence in the government of Roger Pollack.
• The appointment of Nicholas Warner to be a Knight Companion of the Order of the Palm is cancelled.
• Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Nicholas Warner and Former Minister of Defence and coup leader Steven Lyall is apprehended by Oswestry Police and Royal Ibaglian Navy personnel.
• House Speaker Sir Nicholas Warner flees the House of Commons after it becomes apparent that the House may be dissolved soon, causing Warner to lose his immunity.
• Leonard Shedd becomes the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Lawrence McCune becomes Minister of Labour in addition to his current job of Minister of Education and Skills.
• Sir Erik Barnes introduces a no-confidence motion in the House that could topple the Liberal government of Roger Pollack.
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Sir Jeremy Cannon resigns from his Ministry and from Parliament.
• Sir Steven Spell is installed as the eighth Governor-General of Ibagli.
• Prime Minister Roger Pollack demands the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Nicholas Warner.
• Three Ibaglian soldiers from the Royal Ibaglian Regiment are killed in action in Afghanistan. The deaths are the first deaths of Ibaglian soldiers in combat overseas since 1972.
• Sir Steven Spell is announced as the next Governor-General of Ibagli.
• Robert Clarke resigns as leader of the New Conservative Party to allow for the return of Sir Marcus Smallegan to the party leadership.
• An arrest warrant has been issued for Speaker of the House Sir Nicholas Warner and MPs Alexander Williams-Striver and Vincent Mott. Warner recalled the House from its recess to take advantage of the protection of MPs from arrest.
• Former Governor-General Dame Annette Farquhar admits that she could have stopped the recent crisis.
• Six police officers are killed and three are injured after a man suspected of robbing a bank and leading the police on a chase detonates his explosives-laden vehicle.
• The director of the Central Bank of Ibagli's coin procurement program reccomends the abolition of the 1p and 2p coins.
• Sergeant James Bancroft of the Royal Ibaglian Constabulary is given the George Cross for heroic actions undertaken during the apprehension of the masterminds of the ANZAC Day Bombing.
• Director of the Ibaglian Intelligence Service Sir Marcus Smallegan announces that, during the recent crisis, his agency did not officially support the government of Ibagli, and that they did support the actions taken by the Protectorate to reform the Senate.
• Former Prime Minister Marcus Smallegan is appointed to be a Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of the Palm.
• The appointment of Steven Lyall to be a Member of the Royal Ibaglian Order is annulled, along with grants of several medals and appointment to the Executive Council.
• Prime Minister Roger Pollack makes a statement highly critical of Israel's actions in the Middle East.
• It is announced that Chief Justice Sir Albert Wooster will head a commission that will investigate the recent crisis.
• The dictatorship led by Steven Lyall collapses, with Lyall going into exile in an unknown location.