Teenage Prison Drug Smuggler Given One-Year Sentence
A Dublin teenager, who became the first person in the State to be charged with a newly designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison, has been given a one-year sentence.
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Plan To Target Career Criminals
So-called “career criminals” could be banned from mixing with former associates when they are released from prison under Government plans. Failure to abide by the terms of strict licences might mean returning to jail for up to three years.
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Minister Sends Out Mixed Message On Chips Every Day In School Meals
The move to improve the diet of Scotland’s schoolchildren has been one of the Scottish Executive’s most important and high-profile initiatives. Keen to ensure that new guidelines would provide a solid base for the next generation, the Executive set up an expert advisory body consisting of nutritionists, dentists and education watchdogs to decide on what food should be served in school canteens and tuck shops.
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Mental Health Group To Push For Reform
Voluntary organisations bidding to make mental health services a major general election issue today take their campaign to Dublin. The Mental Health Action Group wants to see full implementation of the A Vision For Change blueprint, launched in January 2006.
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Inquiry Finds ‘Catalogue Of Failures’ Over Paroled Child Killer
The probation service failed to manage a dangerous psychopath and child killer who was released after 38 years in prison without a proper assessment of his risk to the public, an official inquiry has found.
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Police Operation Targets Dealers
Police carried out dawn raids across Fife yesterday in a bid to net alleged drug dealers. In the biggest-ever operation by Fife Police, more than 130 cops targeted 11 addresses in co-ordinated raids.
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Children’s Ombudsman Reports Four-Fold Rise In Complaints
The Children’s Ombudsman has reported a four-fold increase in the number of complaints received by her office during its second year of operation. Emily Logan said today that she received 790 complaints last year, compared to 177 in 2005.
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Kelly Complaint On Child Privacy Rejected
The Press Complaints Commission has vindicated the Daily Mirror for revealing that Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, sent her child to a private school. Ruling for the Mirror, the PCC said Ms Kelly, a previous education minister, had “understandable concerns” for the welfare of her son, who has special needs, but that the Mirror article highlighted a subject of “considerable public interest”.
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Prostitutes In Fear Following Another Killing
Prostitutes in Glasgow have been telling STV how they fear for their lives after another killing. Susan Shivers was working as a prostitute when she was stabbed three weeks ago. The 27-year-old fell ill again on Friday and died on her way to hospital.
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DPP Calls For Quick Rape Sentence Appeal
The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to set an early hearing date in the case of Adam Keane, the Co Clare man who received a three year suspended sentence for rape.
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