by Agency Reporter | Apr 6, 2024 | Briefing
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has written to the Prime Minister condemning his recent comment on pay for nursing staff. Appearing on Talk TV the prime minister, speaking about pay and resolving industrial action, said that “the good news is we’ve resolved it with...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 5, 2024 | Briefing
QUAKERS will re-enact a meeting for worship in Gracechurch Street, London, which led to the now-threatened right of juries to rule according to their convictions. On Sunday, 7 April, Quakers will meet in silence to defend the right, established during the trial of two...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 5, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK government and arms industry is complicit in Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, including three British citizens, says Campaign Against Arms Trade. The workers were killed by a strike from a Hermes 450 drone manufactured by Elbit Systems. The...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 4, 2024 | Briefing
TO support journalists in the region affected by the war in Gaza, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has established a new press freedom centre in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. This follows the opening of two centres in Ukraine in the aftermath of Russia’s...
by Staff Writer | Apr 4, 2024 | Briefing
THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on Wymott prison, published on Wednesday 3 April. Inspectors visited the prison in Lancashire in December 2023, and found that high staff sickness rates resulted in there being too...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 3, 2024 | Briefing
ABOUT 1,000 people a day are fleeing into South Sudan from Sudan after nearly one year of war, arriving in scorching heat and with children in dire need of support, Save the Children said. More than 600,000 people – both refugees and returnees – have crossed the...
