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A child that, after blowing the whistle, had to hide in a cupboard whilst the social workers at cyngor Gwynedd waited for the correct form to be filled in before they allowed the police to be called to Ysgol Friars...
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PPE MONEY: WHAT HAS DHSC CLAWED BACK?
The ICO has ruled DHSC can't use law-enforcement or confidentiality exemptions to hide what it has recovered from Covid PPE suppliers.
It must disclose by 8 November, 30 days from the 9 October ruling.
We're watching.
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On July 21 Simon Andriesz, who exposed US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, spoke of the huge toll exposing wrongdoing was having on his physical and mental health...
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Data centers already account for around 1.5% of global electricity consumption, and this share is expected to rise to approximately 3% by 2030, with total demand projected to reach nearly 945 TWh worldwide...
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) estimates that the UK’s total radioactive waste inventory could fill a volume roughly the size of Wembley Stadium...
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...around 223,000 fewer adults were receiving long-term council-funded care in 2024/25 than 20 years earlier, and that 96,780 people were waiting for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessment in March 2026...
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Queen's University professor 'surveilled' by energy firm over oil terminal campaign.
The family behind the company was ranked second in this year's Sunday Times rich list for NI. Two of its directors are now suing the academic.
Story on the front of Monday 12th's @News_Letter
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Another example of the inequity.
Two deaths, same cause, same harm, different timing, different justice.
The law may be ‘as it is’, but the law requiring a report to address this has also been in place for over 7 years.
Why does one have more standing?
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This is exactly the same as Harriet and Wynter. Both our beautiful girls died in shockingly similar circumstances yet Harriet didn’t get an investigation had she got an investigation and had lessons been learnt Wynter wouldn’t have had to die. Wynter got an investigation because she took a breath but lessons could have been learnt 6 years prior. The fact this is taking so long to rectify is probably also one of the reasons their is a reluctance to call a public inquiry because everyone knows all the inaction that could have saved many babies lives yet still no urgency. 4 families affected right here there will be thousands more. The prob is the NHS doesn’t need another action plan it need action and accountability. @Sajhawkins1 @andyburnham @YvetteCooperMP @AlexJJNorris @MichelleWelshMP
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He went down the alley because he heard a woman screaming and he thought he could help.
The police shot Termaine Hicks three times in the back.
Then they charged him with the r@pe he had run towards.
He served nineteen years. South Philadelphia, the early hours of 27 November 2001.
Hicks heard a woman being attacked in an alley and went in. Officers arrived moments later.
They shot him three times. All three rounds entered his back. One lodged near his spine.
The account the officers gave was that he had drawn a gun from his jacket pocket, pointed it and lunged at them. They produced a weapon they said they recovered from that pocket.
Here is what the evidence actually showed, decades later.
The gun was registered to another Philadelphia police officer as his personal off-duty weapon.
The gun was covered in the victim's blood. There was no blood at all inside Hicks's jacket pocket, where the officers said it had been.
The officers described him wearing a grey hooded top matching the attacker's description. His clothing was preserved. It was a coat, a striped polo shirt and a white t-shirt. There was no hooded top, and none was found at the scene.
Detectives had viewed surveillance footage on the day showing the actual attacker in a hooded sweatshirt. That footage was not disclosed until after his trial.
He was convicted of rape, aggravated assault and related offences and sentenced to twelve and a half to twenty-five years.
He was denied parole in 2015 because he would not admit to it.
On 16 December 2020 the Philadelphia District Attorney's office conceded that the officers had lied under oath and moved to vacate the conviction. He walked out after nineteen years.
Pennsylvania is one of the states that does not compensate the wrongly convicted.
He ran towards a woman screaming. They shot him in the back for it and then convicted him of her r@pe.
He spent 19 years in prison before prosecutors acknowledged that officers had lied under oath and his conviction was overturned.
This is why we have taken time to uncover and document the injustices too often buried, denied, and forgotten savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
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BBC PAID HIM 6X MORE.
THE TRIBUNAL SAID THAT WAS ILLEGAL.
Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK presented Newswatch on @BBC for years. Same format. Same length. Same job. Read viewer feedback on camera, wrap it up, go home.
Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine did exactly the same thing on Points of View.
She got £440 per episode. He got £3,000.
Ahmed spent years trying to fix it quietly through internal BBC processes. The BBC said there was no problem.
She filed for tribunal. In January 2020, the tribunal ruled unanimously in her favour. The BBC could not explain the difference. They tried. They argued Vine needed "a glint in the eye" and to be "cheeky."
The tribunal said that was not a skill. It was a story the BBC told itself.
The total underpayment was close to £700,000. Sarah Montague, another BBC woman, settled separately for around £400,000.
The National Union of Journalists flagged around 70 more cases waiting resolution internally. After Ahmed won, 700 BBC women received pay rises.
The BBC's statement after losing? They regretted it had gone to tribunal.
Not that they paid a woman six times less than a man for the same work for years. Just that it became public.
Sources: @guardian, @BBC, @IFJGlobal, Others
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IMPORTANT!
The link below takes you to a Press Statement by the APPG on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services entitled:
“WHISTLEBLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD UNITE IN THEIR CONDEMNATION OF THE UK’S FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY”
As you’ll see, it has an accompanying anthology.
As far as we know this is the first time whistleblowers around the world have spoken out together on behalf of a fellow whistleblower who has fallen.
They are speaking out against @TheFCA's decision to not move forward with a proper independent 3rd party investigation into their handling of the whistleblowing of Simon Andriesz R.I.P., and a wider systemic review of how they have dealt with other whistleblowers.
Instead, @TheFCA just wants to do a narrow, ‘mark their own homework’ exercise, which has caused outrage in some quarters.
You can access the press statement and accompanying anthology through this link:
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Please do all you can share this important message.
And huge thanks to everybody involved in the press statement and anthology:
✅ John McDonnell MP: @johnmcdonnellMP
United Kingdom
✅ John Robertson: @J_Robertson_UK
United Kingdom
✅ Pav Gill Singapore
✅ Hester Bais: @Wftproof
Netherlands
✅ Brendan Lyon: @lyon_brendan
Australia
✅ George Patellis
United States
✅ Everett Stern: @EverettStern1
United States
✅ Tom Hayes: @robilypj
United Kingdom
✅ Wayne Johncock: @johncock_wayne
United Kingdom
✅ James E. Miller
United States
✅ Reggie de Jong
The Netherlands
✅ John Christmas
Country not specified
✅ Ahmed Latif
United Kingdom
✅ Paul Carlier: @Carlier_J87
United Kingdom
✅ Mark Wright: @BankConfidenti1
United Kingdom
✅ Steve Middleton: @stevemiddi1
United Kingdom
✅ Ian Tyler
United Kingdom
✅ Lorraine Morris: @MLorrM
Ireland
✅ Jeremy Roseberry: @jeremyroseberry
United States
✅ Jacques Richard
Country not specified
✅ Jesse Griffiths: @JesseLGriffiths
United Kingdom
✅ Professor Richard Moorhead OBE
United Kingdom and Australia
✅ Jimmy Kande Senegal
✅ Ken Kivenko Canada
✅ Jean-Jacques Lumumba: @LUMUMBAJj
Democratic Republic of the Congo
✅ Ian Foxley: @ianfoxley
United Kingdom
✅ Dr. Agris Auce
Latvia
✅Wayne Johncock: @johncock_wayne
United Kingdom
✅James E. Miller
United States
✅Reggie de Jong
The Netherlands
✅John Christmas Country not specified
We are all very grateful to everybody who has been working together to help @SAndriesz speak up, now that he can no longer do so himself.
Thank you!
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🎓 One fewer GCSE. More preparation for life?
Former headteacher James explains why his school reduced its GCSE offer from ten to nine making room for financial, political and legal literacy, alongside other skills.
Would you support dropping a GCSE to make room for these skills? 👇
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The FOS Data Protection team has told my legal team that it withheld information Intact provided to FOS in confidence. Ian asks FOS to confirm whether any of that information was relied on when my complaint was assessed...
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Plaid is the newer and more revealing case. At its Aberystwyth conference, the party’s own trade union section, Undeb, tried to set party policy against freeports, including the one in the leader’s constituency...
Please read my latest article about the dangers of free zones in Wales, and why the public knows next to nothing about them.
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PODCAST: This is the first of a two-part podcast containing an overview of the {i} Kincora Boys' Home paedophile scandal and {ii} the Donaldson affair, which overlap. MI5 And MI6 have been manipulating Unionist politics since at least June 1970.
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🌪️ Last Night, Sebastian asks who is protecting people experiencing homelessness as preparations are made for the storm.
He reports that 10 people are sleeping outside our shelter, despite repeated calls to Glasgow City Councils out-of-hours emergency service throughout the night. Our team tried to secure accommodation before conditions worsened, but nobody was accommodated through those calls.
📞 As Sebastian highlights The Scottish Government’s emergency meetings about the weather, he questions how those left without shelter are being included in the response.
People sleeping outside need somewhere safe to go. We urgently ask Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government to ensure that storm preparations include practical help for those exposed on our streets.
⛺ A sleeping pod should never be someone’s only protection during a storm.
What arrangements should be in place for people with nowhere indoors to go during severe weather? Please share your views below.
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Only one nurse on duty for 755 Mountjoy prisoners on night infamous gangster died
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Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council – Process for making and recording Delegated Decisions.
At the Full Council meeting held on 22nd October 2026, Councillor Declan Sammon questioned the processes involved in making and recording of delegated decisions.
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Five years after hundreds of thousands of dead crustaceans washed up along the North East coast, the fishermen who lost their livelihoods are still fighting for the truth about what happened...
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