Six arrests after investigation into child sexual exploitation in Glasgow

Six people have been arrested after a police investigation into child sexual exploitation in one of Scotland’s most deprived communities. Specialist detectives were brought into Govanhill, in the south of Glasgow, after The Times published reports alleging that children were … Continue reading →

‘No grounds’ for Sheffield tree protest arrests IOPC says

There were no grounds to arrest six protesters for the prevention of harm and injury in a row about tree-felling in Sheffield, the police watchdog said. All six were held between November 2016 and February 2017 under the Trade Union … Continue reading →

Field Day

LEADING ARTICLE August 31 2018, 12:01am, The Times Field Day The Labour left has finally got its man in Birkenhead In A Strange, Eventful History, his intellectual history of the Labour Party, Edmund Dell chronicles the abject failure of economic socialism. … Continue reading →

Call for villagers to have say on Anston’s future

VILLAGERS will be urged to have their say on a new community plan to shape the future of their parish. Anston Parish Council is holding a series of consultation meetings in September to discuss the new masterplan. Aims outlined in … Continue reading →

Anti-Semitism row: Frank Field resigns Labour whip

Veteran Labour MP Frank Field has quit the party’s group in Parliament, saying the leadership has become “a force for anti-Semitism in British politics”. The Birkenhead MP also blamed a “culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation” in local parties. A … Continue reading →

Labour frontbencher spent thousands in taxpayer cash on legal battle with Jewish aide

A Labour frontbencher spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash in a legal row with his Jewish Parliamentary assistant after she accused him of religious discrimination. Shadow Europe minister Khalid Mahmood was taken to an employment tribunal by his staff … Continue reading →

Sex abuse reform ‘a step backwards’

The victims’ commissioner has accused senior police officers of taking a retrograde step over plans to abandon the national policy to believe alleged sexual abuse victims automatically. Baroness Newlove said that victims of rape and sexual assault would be less … Continue reading →

Andrew Vine: Scrap the waste of money that is HS2 and fix the North’s rail service

LIKE many another passenger on Yorkshire’s woeful rail network, I tend to approach every journey with the same sense of trepidation as an appointment with the dentist for root-canal treatment. How painful an experience will it be today? Am I … Continue reading →

Cross Keys – some illumination, perhaps?

Found in my Protonmail inbox today, Laid out for us by wordsmith and published by rikshelpers@rikv.net for Rik. “Boston Castle Ward resident here and I have been following the recent debate on Rothpol concerning the “career” of one of my … Continue reading →

Community Trigger

Recently a term has been mentioned that I find alarming as to why the council and police have done their best to ignore a “community trigger”, to those who don’t know about these… Community Triggers enable victims of antisocial behaviour … Continue reading →