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Serious care failings were a factor in son killing his father, coroner in Wales rules

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 17:07

Swansea inquest hears how weak security at psychiatric ward enabled Daniel Harrison to escape and attack father an hour later

A string of serious failings in the care provided for a man with schizophrenia who killed his father an hour after absconding from a psychiatric ward contributed to the death, a coroner has ruled.

Coroner Kirsten Heaven also said that security systems at the hospital where Daniel Harrison was being detained were inadequate and played their part in events leading to the killing of retired chest consultant Kim Harrison.

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Strong winds and lightning strikes batter much of UK

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 17:58

Met Office says it could not verify if strong gusts in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire were a tornado

Strong winds and hundreds of lightning strikes have battered much of England, Wales and Northern Ireland with a possible tornado reported in Staffordshire.

The Met Office said it could not verify if the strong gusts in Newcastle-under-Lyme were a tornado but added that the winds forecast on Monday morning “had some potential” to create one.

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‘She wants to go to school’: parents of unwell child fear truancy prosecution

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 15:54

The Beaks are among the families in England and Wales who have faced fines over health-related school absences

Chloe Beak lives with chronic, debilitating migraines, which leave her unable to attend school for days at a time. But instead of receiving support from her school, her parents have been fined by the local authority for her truancy.

The family’s current fix is to send their daughter in with a migraine until she gets sent home, meaning her absences are registered as authorised. If they do not, the school will consider her a truant as it believes she has emotionally based school avoidance.

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The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 16:00

The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days

Courtney Love’s Women (6 Music) | BBC Sounds
Kicking Back With the Cardiffians | BBC Sounds
The Belgrano Diary | London Review of Books
Word in Your Ear | Acast

Sometimes it feels like we will never reach the peak of the celebrity podcast phenomenon, but few lives burst with the lively detail required for a multi-part series. Then along comes Courtney Love.

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Gardener ‘honoured’ to join gallery of servants at Welsh country house

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 11 April - 23:01

Glyn Smith is first addition since 1920 to portraits commemorating staff at Erddig in Wrexham

A rare collection of portraits of domestic staff at a Welsh country house that spans more than 100 years has gained a modern addition with a striking photograph of its recently retired head gardener.

The collection at Erddig in Wrexham highlights a new appreciation of the back-breaking work carried out by servants and staff in the upstairs-downstairs world of country houses and stately homes. Kensington Palace recently hosted an exhibition of portraits of overlooked, and often overworked, back-room staff in royal households.

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Courtier demanded assurance king could not be prosecuted under new Welsh law

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 11 April - 04:00

Palace official secured assurance under archaic custom that requires UK parliaments to get consent of monarch to draft bills

Royal courtiers privately put pressure on the Welsh government to ensure that King Charles could not be prosecuted for rural crimes under a new law that ministers had drawn up, documents reveal.

The elected minister in the Welsh government who is its chief legal adviser was “not happy” that the king was to be given the special exemption from prosecution but agreed to it last year.

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Shoplifting crackdown to include £55m for facial recognition tools in England and Wales

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 06:00

Mobile units will be deployed on high streets to identify wanted people – including repeat offenders

The government is investing more than £55m in expanding facial recognition systems – including vans that will scan crowded high streets – as part of a renewed crackdown on shoplifting.

The scheme was announced alongside plans for tougher punishments for serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, including being forced to wear a tag to ensure they do not revisit the scene of their crime, under a new standalone criminal offence of assaulting a retail worker.

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CPS says it was wrong to pursue case against press photographer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 11:42

Prosecution dropped day before trial of Dimitris Legakis, who was arrested working at a crime scene in Swansea

The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it was wrong to press on with a case against a news photographer arrested as he tried to lawfully take pictures at a crime scene.

Judge Walters at Swansea crown court described the case against Dimitris Legakis , which was dropped on the eve of his trial, as “disturbing” and said it seemed “the high point” of the prosecution was that a police officer “took offence” against someone whose job was to take photographs.

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Secret home insurance commissions raking in millions for landlords in England and Wales

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 7 April - 06:00

Insurers have made huge hidden payments for buildings cover over many years, experts say

Landlords of developments in England and Wales where residents face hefty service charges face calls to disclose millions of pounds in “secret commissions” raked in over the years for arranging buildings insurance.

Experts say these hidden commissions, paid to landlords including City investment funds that hold freeholds and managing agents, have been worth tens of millions of pounds a year. The arrangements were made without residents being told and resulted in higher service charges.