 There has been only limited reporting of a trial at Stafford Crown Court which collapsed two years ago six months after it opened. The case involved alleged abuse of child victims by men of Pakistani origin. For those who subscribe to The Times there is a full report. Indeed the disgraceful conduct of many of the barristers during cross examination of the vulnerable victims will no doubt be commented upon during a Ch4 programme “The Hunt for Britain`s Sex Gangs” being broadcast tonight at 9.00p.m.
Not having seen the programme I would hazard a guess that the presiding judge HH Judge Robin Onions will come in for some criticism which, on the surface, appears to be warranted owing to his offering little protection to the victims from very aggressive cross examination; so aggressive that it bordered on being improper and beyond the bounds of being reasonable and justified in the interests of the defendants or in the interests of justice. Keep a watchful eye open whether or when The Office for Judicial Complaints investigates.
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A car wash will be held in Newport on May 25 to raise funds to transport much needed fire engines to Romania.
Staff from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are holding the Saturday fund raising event at Newport Fire Station from 10am to 3pm.
“We need as many people as possible to come and have their car washed on the day and to contribute what they can towards the charity trip,” said Newport firefighter Charlie Cartwright.Read more
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- String of police commissioners hiring dozens of officials to work with them
- 14 of the PCCs are costing more than the Police Authorities they replaced
- Critics have accused PCCs of ‘building cosy little empires’
Elected police commissioners have sparked a cronyism row by packing their offices with taxpayer-funded political appointees.
A string of them have appointed former campaign aides, party colleagues and local councillors to highly-paid deputy posts in their expanding offices, a report revealed.
MPs found that the commissioners, who are paid up to £100,000 a year to supervise local police forces, were hiring dozens of officials to work with them, on salaries of up to £70,000.
Former MP Tony Lloyd, who heads the Greater Manchester force, has appointed 45 members of staff, including two communications officers and a head of ‘scrutiny and engagement’
Once the cost of their offices are totalled up, 14 PCCs – or one in three of the total – are...
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Speech by Dr Laurence Buckman to BMA conference to say plans unrealistic and health secretary doesn’t bother with facts
 The BMA’s head of GPs is to attack plans to put out-of-hours care back into the hands of family doctors
The growing row between the government and the medical profession will get worse when the leader of Britain’s GPs accuses the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of “spouting rubbish” and rejects his demand that family doctors take back responsibility for out-of-hours care.
Dr Laurence Buckman, the chair of the British Medical Association’s GPs committee – which represents the UK’s 40,000 GPs – is to launch a sustained personal assault on Hunt over his “denigration” of GPs and his blaming of them for the growing crisis in A&E care.
Buckman’s speech, to Thursday’s annual conference of the BMA’s local medical committees (GP branches), will highlight the increasingly vocal unease about Hunt’s approach felt by the BMA and the medical royal colleges which represent the...
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Today is the day we will be driving around the county collecting your old bras! Here are the collection points and times for the day:
Basingstoke Sainsbury’s, 3 Wallop Drive 10am – 11am
Andover Sainsbury’s, Spring Lane 12 pm – 1pm
Basingstoke Football Club 2pm – 3pm
Garthowen Garden Centre, Four Marks 4pm – 5pm
Asda, The Bridge Shopping Centre, Fratton, Portsmouth 10am – 11am
Sainsbury’s, Hedge End Retail Park (near the petrol station) 11.30am – 12.30pm
Winchester, Middlebrooke car Park 1pm – 2pm
Paulton’s Park, car park 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Beaulieu Motor Museum, car park 4pm – 5pm
There will be a special collection route around Southampton with Eco Ernie, the recycling milk float, loaned to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance by Southampton Solent University. Here are Ernie’s collection points:
Eco Ernie:
West Quay Retail Park 11am – 12pm
Central Baptist Church, Devonshire Road 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Southampton Solent University 2pm – 3pm
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50 firefighters were called to a blaze at Wincomblee Workshops, a disused building on White Street in Walker earlier today (22 May). Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service's Control Room received a call at 13:40 about the incident. Eight fire appliances and two specialist appliances from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service attended the incident. Two appliances each from Byker, Newcastle Central and Wallsend Community Fire Station attended the incident, along with one appliance each from Hebburn and West Denton. An aerial ladder platform from Gosforth Community Fire Station and the Command Support Unit from West Denton Community Fire Station also attended. The fire started on the third floor of the four storey building. It was tackled from the outside by the aerial ladder platform, two jets and a hose reel. Six firefighters wearing specialist breathing apparatus entered the building to help tackle the fire. The building was boarded up which caused some difficulty in fire crews gaining access to the...
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Ingrid Loyau-Kennett spoke to the two men who have since been arrested over the attack. She told Conal Urqhart her story
 One of the men holding a knife talks to Ingrid Loyau-Kennett after the Woolwich attack.
“I was just on my way home after a trip to France. I was visiting my children in Plumstead and I had taken a 53 bus to get to Parliament Square where I was going to meet my children and walk to Victoria coach station before getting the coach to Helston in Cornwall.
“I was sitting on the lower deck and the bus stopped. I could clearly see a body in the road and a crashed car. I trained as a first aider when I was a Brownie leader, so I asked someone to watch my bag and then got off to see if I could help.
“I went over to the body where there was a lady sitting there and she said he was dead. She had comforted him by putting something under his back and a jacket over his head. I took his pulse and there was none. I couldn’t see the man’s face but I could see no evidence...
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What is an average day? There isn't one. It is as simple as that. Last year I blogged a 24 period, in real time, as it happened on my shift. I felt it would be therapeutic to visit the idea again and share a random day shift as a lone responder. Here goes. Eyes open, to eyes shut, to eyes open again. Sorry about the toilet stops!
The following takes place between the hours of 4:30am and 08:41am
04:30
 No one should ever have to wake up at this time. Ever. No one should really have to know what 4:30am looks like! The light from my phone physically hurt my eyes as I turned off the dulcet sounds of Michael Buble's Mack the Knife! (Don't judge me!) Despite the desire and need to snooze, I couldn't. I got dressed, jumped on my bike and cycled the 5 miles to work. The cold air made my eyes stream the entire way and by the time I arrived, it looked like I'd just been to a funeral......in a hurricane! I had a shower at work, got everything ready, uniform on, drugs signed out, me signed in and all my kit on the car and I was ready with about 10... Continues, Read More...
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SCHOOL dinners at North Chadderton School had a fire safety
theme when Red Watch firefighters joined pupils over lunch to talk
water safety.
As summer approaches, the Chadderton Fire Station crew have been
building relationships at the school with regular visits to help
educate pupils on the risk of grass fires and water safety.
The initiative is part of the Safe4Summer campaign, which is a
joint campaign between Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
(GMFRS), Greater Manchester Police and the 10 local authorities
aimed at keeping people of all ages safe from summer risks such as
the dangers of water and grass fires, and addressing community
concerns about youth-related crime and anti-social behaviour during
those months.
Watch Manager Pete Marshall said: "We started off by meeting the
school council, but we've been down three times recently to chat to
students about our role in the community and fire safety.
"With the summer holidays approaching, we talk about the dangers
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Early days about what happened in Woolwich.
One man apparently butchered on the street.Two males who apparently did this paraded for a period whilst awaiting police to turn up. They duly did and, frankly, faced with the scene and activity before them neutralised the risk.The welfare of the two involved is in the hands of our beleaguered health system.
My main thoughts are with the male (and his family and friends) who was killed by these two.
Followed by a close second to the officers and emergency services who had to deal with the immediate aftermath and will have to account for their actions when they arrived.
The rent a quote 'wudda cudda shudda' will have their soundbites in the days ahead.
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Scum, heroin addict, loser and disqualified driver Lovell ran over and killed a lovely couple due to his moronic behaviour.
Their grieving families stood outside the court in shock at the shit sentence given to a loser scum-dog that the police had caught and stuck in front of 12-other courts…
“3-years a piece…that’s what it children’s lives were worth”, said one dad…
The judge said it was the worst case he had seen…still didn’t give him a maximum sentence though…they never do…
Oh of course, if they had jailed him for 5- years …they may still be alive…
See how jail works…
 
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Police reported to have shot two suspects with Government treating incident as act of terrorism
A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street outside the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.
Two men were injured after armed police arrived, one of them seriously. Shots were heard but there is no official confirmation of what happened.
Prime Minister David Cameron has described the killing as “truly shocking” and said he had asked the Home Secretary Theresa May to chair a meeting of Cobra, the Government’s emergency committee. According to the BBC she has also requested updates from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, and the head of MI5. The Government is reported to be treating it as a suspected terrorist incident.
Officers were called to John Wilson Street in at around 2.20pm and the immediate area has been cordoned off by police.
Several witnesses described seeing a “beheading” as a man was reportedly...
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50 firefighters were called to a blaze at Wincomblee Workshops, a disused building on White Street in Walker earlier today (22 May).
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service's Control Room received a call at 13:40 about the incident. Eight fire appliances and two specialist appliances from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service attended the incident.
Two appliances each from Byker, Newcastle Central and Wallsend Community Fire Station attended the incident, along with one appliance each from Hebburn and West Denton.
An aerial ladder platform from Gosforth Community Fire Station and the Command Support Unit from West Denton Community Fire Station also attended.
The fire started on the third floor of the four storey building.
It was tackled from the outside by the aerial ladder platform, two jets and a hose reel.
Six firefighters wearing specialist breathing apparatus entered the building to help tackle the fire. The building was boarded up which caused some difficulty in fire crews gaining access to the...
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