Lives will be at risk when ambulance crews’ paid meal breaks are axed next month, unions have warned. In another blow to Wales’ crisis-hit ambulance service, some 1,700 paramedics and control room staff could refuse to respond to calls during break times in protest at the shake-up beginning on March 1.
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An NSPCC training booklet to help Welsh sports coaches spot child abuse has been branded a “joke” for testing them on whether it is acceptable for parents to have sex with their kids.
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The ex-wife of a Port Talbot businessman jailed for brutally assaulting her in the middle of a road has called on victims of domestic violence not to suffer in silence. Colin Evans drove his car into the back of his then estranged wife Cerri’s vehicle before launching a horrifying attack on her.
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Swansea Drugs Project is calling for rooms to be provided for addicts to inject themselves in, to lessen the risk to the public.The idea was floated as police reported a good response to their appeal for information about a needle-wielding drug user who stabbed a city car park attendant.
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Gun crime is being exported from the inner cities to the shires, the senior officer in charge of the national firearms policing strategy has told The Times.
{mosimage}Keith Bristow, lead officer on firearms crime for the Association of Chief Police Officers, was speaking as Scotland Yard battled to contain the violence in London, where one man was shot dead and another injured over the weekend.
A man in his twenties was admitted to hospital yesterday with a leg wound after a shooting on Harrow Road in the west of the capital. It followed the fatal shooting on Saturday of a 28-year-old man in Homerton, East London. Three others were wounded in shootings in Manchester.
The latest attacks came after a spate of shootings in South London in less than a fortnight, including the murders of three teenage boys.
But as the death toll mounted in the capital, Mr Bristow gave warning that the gun problem was moving to the shires. The proportion of gun crime occurring outside the hotspots of London, Birmingham and Manchester has risen sharply from 36 per cent in 2002-03 to 45 per cent in 2004-05.
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A review of gun laws to establish increased sentences for young offenders, with penalties for being gang members, was promised by Tony Blair yesterday amid fears that London’s gunmen are increasingly exporting drugs and firearms violence to other parts of the country.
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South West MP Gary Streeter is campaigning for families to be given the right to take short breaks from the stress of caring for disabled children.
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Former hostage Terry Waite has launched a branch of a homeless charity in Medway at Rochester Cathedral. Mr Waite is president of Emmaus UK, which offers homeless men and women a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives within a community.
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Ethnic minorities are now more likely to feel British than white people, research has found. The study by the Institute for Public Policy Research said that 51 per cent of blacks and Asians describe themselves as British compared with just 29 per cent of whites.
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The government is facing the prospect of House of Lords defeat over controversial plans to lock up some mentally ill people.
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