A schoolgirl in Bristol, England used her karate training to fend off an attacker in the woods two weeks ago. The police launched their general appeal about the attempted crime yesterday and The Guardian has the story here.
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From Monday 29th April there is an update due on further allegations of historical child sexual abuse at North Welsh residential care homes from the 1970s onwards. Over 100 further disclosures were received by police following last year’s initial enquiry regarding the Bryn Estyn and other notorious care homes in Wales. The BBC has the…
A Los Angeles School has replaced its entire teaching staff as they deal with the aftermath of multiple charges of sexual abuse against the children. As well as facilitating the police investigation, it also covers any future charges brought against staff found to have known but failed to act about the abuse. Two teachers have…
Within the past 36 hours a new wave of criticism hit the BBC after it emerged that former Director General George Entwhistle received a payoff higher than his contractual obligations. The general report link summarising everything to date is here at the BBC News site and the summary of the specially commissioned report, one of…
He talks about the upcoming movie, “Precious” and how working on it brought back memories of the horrific childhood he survived. I really enjoyed this quote from Perry: “I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you…
The Deputy Children’s Minister has presented the sections of the report guaranteed to give her maximum exposure in the newspaper backing her campaign. The full report is due in September. We’ll comment further on this whenever the presentations are shown on the BBC’s Parliament channel to get the full context; for now the Daily Mail’s take on…
