A heroin addict has been jailed for three months for leaving a child locked in an empty house and starving him for 24 hours. Rebecca Brister told Sheriff Robert McCreadie she wanted to be locked up to receive help for her addiction.
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Finance Minister Sue Essex suggested the Assembly Government was flexible on the role of private finance initiatives today. She faced questions in the chamber about why there had been fewer PFI projects in Wales than in England under Labour.
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The police are to set up “retail jails” on high streets and in busy shopping malls to detain yobs and other offenders for up to four hours under Home Office proposals published yesterday.
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Cannabis plants with an estimated street value of £630,000 have been seized across Strathclyde. More than 2,000 plants were recovered from high value houses in Airdrie, Robroyston, Cambuslang, Clydebank, Battlefield and Budhill, in Glasgow.
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Nurses in Wales will be paid less than their Scottish colleagues as ministers ruled out breaking ranks with England. The Welsh Assembly Government last night said it would follow England’s lead and stagger a derisory and below inflation 2.5% pay rise for nurses throughout the year.
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In almost everyone’s life there will come a point when they need support and help with every day living. The ravages of old age, physical or mental disability in both adults and children, mean hundreds of carers across Wearside are needed each day to make sure there is always someone on hand.
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Three men who spent years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murder will have to pay for their prison board and lodgings, Law Lords have ruled. Brothers Vincent and Michael Hickey of Birmingham, spent 18 years in jail for paperboy Carl Bridgewater’s murder.
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Social care workers across the Reading area have been attacked on an astonishing 379 occasions since January 2005. A Reading Chronicle investigation has revealed that on average one person is attacked every day while doing their job.
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A teenage girl told a court yesterday how she was raped by a pub regular, after they swapped mobile phone numbers. Craig Davies, 26, and the school girl exchanged text messages when he invited her to a party.
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Payment by Results (PbR), the funding system for a significant portion of NHS care in England, must adapt and change if it is to improve patient care, says the Chairman of the BMA’s Consultants’ Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, when responding to the consultation on PbR1, launched today (15 March 2007).
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