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15/07/2022

Over 1,000 children in Telford were sexually exploited, inquiry finds

More than a thousand children in Telford were sexually exploited over decades amid the failure of authorities to investigate “emboldened offenders”, an independent inquiry into the scandal has concluded.
The three-year independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation (IICSE) found that abuse was allowed to continue for years and children, rather than perpetrators, were often blamed.
Issues were not investigated because of nervousness about race, the inquiry’s final report said, and teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual exploitation.
Tom Crowther QC, who chaired the inquiry, said: “The overwhelming theme of the evidence has been the appalling suffering of generations of children caused by the utter cruelty of those who committed child sexual exploitation.
It followed inquiries into child sexual abuse rings in a number of towns including Rotherham and Rochdale.

14/07/2022

‘Centaurus’: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant

Virologists have voiced concerns about the emergence of yet another rapidly spreading Omicron variant, which is rapidly gaining ground in India and has already arrived in the UK.
The BA.2.75 variant – nicknamed “Centaurus” – was first detected in India in early May. Here, cases have since risen steeply – and apparently faster than those of the extremely transmissible BA.5 variant, which is also present in India, and is rapidly displacing the previously dominant BA.2 variant in many countries.
BA.2.75 has also since been detected in about 10 other countries, including the UK, US, Australia, Germany, and Canada.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) designated it a “variant under monitoring” on 7 July, meaning there’s some indication that it could be more transmissible or associated with more severe disease, but the evidence is weak or has not yet been assessed.

14/07/2022

Mindfulness in schools does not improve mental health, study finds

Mindfulness has become a popular meditation technique aimed at focusing the mind on the present moment, and involves learning how to pay attention and manage feelings and behaviour, to improve resilience in the face of external stressors.
Prof Mark Williams, the found director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and co-investigator at the University of Oxford, said the findings confirmed the huge burden of mental health challenges that young people face, and the urgent need to find a way to help.
“They also show that the idea of mindfulness doesn’t help – it’s the practice that matters.” Those students that did engage improved, he said, but most did not. Many pupils were bored by the course and did not practise it at home.

14/07/2022

Schools close in water shortage chaos as families queue up for bottled water in sweltering heatwave

A burst pipe on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent means residents have reportedly been forced to line up in five-mile long queues for bottles of water.
One local Dave Boswell says people on the island are now beginning to panic and things are “getting dangerous”.
Six schools yesterday shut - and Kent County Council have said four more will join them today if the water supply is not reconnected.
Meanwhile several shops, bars, cafes and restaurants have also closed their doors.
It comes as the UK has been hit with sweltering water - with the mercury soaring above 30C.
Dave told The Sun: “Yesterday there were collection points to pick up water but the queues were five miles long. It was pandemonium.
“It's now getting to the stage where it's dangerous. There's not a drop to drink on the island.
“If you don’t have a car then you're stuck on the island with no water. It feels like we’ve been abandoned.

13/07/2022

BBC to publish internal investigation into Tim Westwood allegations

The DJ, who was a BBC radio presenter for almost 20 years, stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April after accusations by several women of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour.
The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, had initially insisted that in its records the BBC had “no evidence of complaints” against Westwood, who worked for the corporation between 1994 and 2013. Facing an objection over its handling of a freedom of information request, the corporation then backtracked and admitted it had received six complaints concerning the presenter’s tenure at the BBC relating to allegations of bullying or sexual misconduct – including one that had been referred to the police.
The BBC said that this particular complaint was historical and did not relate to an allegation of physical assault, adding that it would be in a position to say more when its investigation had concluded.

13/07/2022

Demand help to heat the homes of poor people in the UK over 50

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The UK government's support for the European Union's position on the war between Russia and Ukraine is causing a decline in living standards in the UK. Our poor are the hardest hit. The oil embargo is making fuel more expensive, which means many cannot afford to heat their homes sufficiently.

It is summer, but the government must take care of its poor citizens now. We are offering special assistance to people over the age of 50, who as a result of the crisis are in a difficult financial situation. Our fellow countrymen must not turn into icicles!

13/07/2022

UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world

A popular Latin course used to teach generations of British schoolchildren has undergone its biggest overhaul in 50 years to include more prominent female characters and better reflect ethnic diversity in the Roman world.
A fifth edition of the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC), a mainstay of mainly private schools since the 1970s, is being published later this month, in response to concerns from teachers, academics and students about the representation of women, minorities and enslaved people in earlier versions.
Girls studying the course, which is story-based, complained there were not enough female roles, and that those included were passive and undeveloped. There was also criticism that the Roman world was incorrectly depicted as predominantly white, and objections to the way in which slaves and slavery were represented.

10/07/2022

Leaves on railway tracks caused 3,000 hours of delays over the past four years

Train operators have blamed leaves on the line for more than 3,000 hours of delays in the past four years, figures show.
In that same time, the excuse hated by commuters was trotted out nearly 2,500 times, affecting 35,000 journeys.
Network Rail – which is responsible for all tracks and stations in the UK – has been battling the autumn issue of “leaves on the line” for years and regularly sends out special services to wipe the rails clear and fell trackside trees.
It claims leaves on the line are the rail equivalent of “black ice” and trigger a chain of safety issues.
Experts say leaves also cause the company a serious financial headache as it has to compensate train operators who then need to issue refunds to travellers. Since 2018, delays due to leaves amounted to 3,450 hours and affected 34,673 trains, 2,453 of which were cancelled either before they started or partway along their route, the Delay Attribution Board found.

10/07/2022

Pay contaminated blood scandal victims before they die, Boris Johnson urged

The delegation, including people from all four UK home nations, want the prime minister to implement without delay the recommendation for interim compensation made by Sir Robert Francis QC in his government-commissioned report.
About 3,000 people are believed to have died and thousands more infected as a result of the scandal, which has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. It resulted from haemophiliacs being given factor VIII blood products that were contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C imported from the US in the 1970s and 80s and patients being exposed to tainted blood through transfusions or after childbirth.
The letter says that 419 people died between July 2017, when the inquiry was announced, and February this year and that it has been reported infected people are dying at a rate of one every four days.

08/07/2022

Cancer spending threatened if NHS staff given 3% pay rise without extra funds

The NHS will have to cut investment in cancer care if ministers award frontline staff a pay rise above 3% but refuse to provide extra money to cover it, health service bosses have warned.
The NHS England chief executive, Amanda Pritchard, and Julian Kelly, its chief financial officer, made clear their belief that soaring inflation means the service’s 1.3 million staff deserve a pay award of more than the 3% the government has already given the organisation funding to cover.
But they warned that any increase above that would force it to cut services, including primary care and the planned new nationwide network of centres intended to diagnose killer diseases early – unless the Treasury covers the cost of the higher amount.

08/07/2022

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