Dr Jaddoo said: “Clearly, to ensure an orderly, transparent and fully cooperative process with the IOPC, it would have been prudent to remove the officer who fired the fatal shot from duty, as questions are being raised about the whole incident.” Mr Meade’s mother, Deborah Freckleton, asked if the decision …
Read More »Baby not given antibiotics ‘until after cardiac arrest’
On Thursday, a junior doctor on the unit told the court she did not return to Ben with antibiotics after another patient needed urgent attention. Dr Jessica Spaull told the inquest she could not recall a conversation with a consultant about giving Ben antibiotics, other than it would be “reasonable …
Read More »England to play Afghanistan despite boycott calls
England’s Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan will go ahead, despite calls for a boycott. A cross-party letter, signed by nearly 200 UK politicians, was sent to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) asking for England to refuse to play in response to the Taliban’s human rights record. Female participation …
Read More »Sam Kerr: Footballer denies ‘whiteness as insult’ against police
Ms Kerr was with her partner, West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, when the incident allegedly happened. The striker has previously told the court the driver took the couple to Twickenham police station after she “spit vomited” out of the window of his vehicle while Ms Mewis smashed the rear window …
Read More »Bob Marley fan from Driffield marks reggae singer’s 80th birthday
A Bob Marley superfan said listening to his music had “made him a better person” on what would have been the reggae legend’s 80th birthday. Robert Flake, 59, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, said he had first discovered Marley’s music in his sister’s record collection when he was a teenager and …
Read More »Nottingham attacks: Victims’ families ‘gagged’ over watchdog report
Mrs Webber added: “Like the NHS, the IOPC have also sought to gag us from speaking publicly and have forced us to sign NDAs saying we will not reveal their reports and findings. “I now call on the IOPC to do the right thing like the NHS did and disclose …
Read More »Met Police launches crackdown on mobile phone thefts
The Met’s Cdr Owain Richards said: “We are seeing phone thefts on an industrial scale, fuelled by criminals making millions by being able to easily sell on stolen devices either here or abroad. “By intensifying our efforts we’re catching more perpetrators and protecting people from having their phone stolen in …
Read More »Inquest told of injuries to Essex university students in crash
Four university students killed in a crash died of head injuries or multiple injuries, the opening of an inquest has heard. Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony “TJ” Hibbert, 24 and Daljang Wol, 22, died when a car crashed into a building on Magdalen Street, Colchester, at about 04:40 …
Read More »Romesh Ranganathan works behind bakery counter
Comedian and presenter Romesh Ranganathan has tried his hand working behind the counter in a bakery. A large queue formed in Dorking High Street in Surrey on Thursday morning to meet the award-winning comic before he moved on to another bakery in his home town of Crawley in West Sussex. …
Read More »Birmingham: Big demand for affordable lab-grown diamonds
At Skydiamond in Stroud, Gloucestershire, they have been making diamonds since 2019. Chief executive Madeleine Macey said they were “optically and chemically identical” to a diamond, and it was almost impossible to tell the difference between the two types. “Natural diamonds are utterly beautiful, but, from a human perspective, it’s …
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