they have had more funding, jen and scrutiny has always been ... lacking.
also -
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The first ambulance called to take Best to the hospital arrived at the scene at 6:02 p.m.,about 14 minutes after the shooting. However, at the urging of other officers, that ambulance was used to take away a white police officer, Erin Perrotta, who had been involved..
www.cbsnews.com/news/officer...
A Home Visit From The Ombudsman For Wales...
gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-home
The Ombudsman also introduced the word 'variance' into the dialogue and it appears that recommendations for improvement can be downgraded once an investigation has been completed in a deal done between the Ombudsman and the CEO behind closed doors...
It was pointed out to the Ombudsman that Gwynedd council had not complied with other recommendations from past investigations and that if they had been called to account previously then further investigations would not have been needed. The Ombudsman did not respond to this point...
There was the council's Information manager's data breach report - written in spite of the evidence, the creation of documents that should not exist and legal documents written not to inform but mislead...
Evidence of wrongdoing by senior officers - from an officer leaving the council during one investigation then rejoining once interviews were completed through behaviour by officers that many have thought abusive...
Because of the unreasonable demands imposed by the council officer, the complaint did not proceed and was timed out by the council. After reading the emails, the Ombudsman returned with an offer of a complaint without enduring further officer bad behaviour...
They included input from the Monitoring Officer and also showed this 'investigator' sending correspondence to someone not involved in the complaints process...
thread...
The aborted Stage 2 complaint emails between the 'independent investigator' and Cyngor Gwynedd's safeguarding and quality officer were passed to the Ombudsman for his information...
THE WELSH GOVERNMENT has confirmed that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board will remain under the highest level of intervention, with ministers warning that patients in North Wales are still waiting too long for vital treatment...
herald.wales/north-wales/...
PFAS pollution in a drinking water source near the old Denham Film Studio, so high the source had to be taken out of use.
That's a water source that was providing 20 million litres a day to London, a city where water is already becoming scarce.
From my report on BBC Inside Science, today👇🏾
Juan Joseph, 43, also travelled to Latvia to go to the embassy of the same foreign state there and share confidential information He worked as an IT contractor for MI5 from 2009 to 2020 with access to highly classified information...
courtnewsuk.co.uk/mi5-worker-s...
UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 3 (Phase 2) | Day 17 - (12 March 2026) spycops...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKul...
Trump Explores Deep Sea Mining in American Samoa off Hawaii
This would not only obliterate deep sea life but also
generate sediment plumes that travel long distances, smothering coral reef and fish life on ocean top
insideclimatenews.org/news/1103202...
Mandy Wixon is due to be sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court after she was found guilty of keeping a vulnerable woman captive for 25 years...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Canada-Japan nuclear cooperation deepens
A new strategic roadmap will include stronger cooperation on clean energy technologies such as small modular reactors...
www.neimagazine.com/news/canada-...
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p
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Dylan Phelan, 21, encouraged Travis Dyer to take his own life on 30 October 2024 after the pair had been communicating for several months via-Discord
..that time, Mr Dyer, from Theriot, Louisiana, USA, was known to be vulnerable and struggling with his mental health..
www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man...
Cody Haywood Schaeffer, 32, admitted to the assault of four male youths - aged between 14 and 18 - at Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Her phone had been submitted voluntarily as part of an investigation into criminal allegations against a serving police officer...
Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 by the UK data watchdog after sharing the entire contents of a rape survivor’s phone with her alleged attacker...
news.stv.tv/scotland/pol...
The UK government has lost its appeal over a judge's decision to throw out a terror charge against a member of the Irish language rap trio Kneecap...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The French men involved ... Khalil Abderrahmen Mejbri, Romain Charles Michel Galatioto, Anthony Guy Gerard Wengler, Thomas Eric Coretin Wisniewski, Anthony Auque, Satilmis Sahan and Mouhamadou Wade.
The Swiss national ...Lucas Haiaiel Ngandjeu Djamen Tchatchou
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Nick Ephgrave, the director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), has announced that he will be stepping down from his role at the end of March.
Mr Ephgrave joined the agency in 2023 and is currently halfway through his five-year tenure...
www.osborneclarke.com/insights/reg...
Opening Scene | V FOR VENDETTA
strength through unity...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlg...
Mr Ansari, an Irish citizen, was returning from a family holiday with his wife and children – his case is against North Wales Police’s chief constable, Amanda Blakeman; and the home secretary, Shaban Mahmood...
Fahad Ansari, who is representing Hamas in in its application to have its proscribed status in the UK overturned, was stopped and questioned by and analysed by counter-terrorism officers in Holyhead on August 6, 2025...
www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/2591737...