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People are willing to go to jail to draw attention to an escalating public health crisis [IMAGES]
People are taking drastic action to highlight a public health crisis which kills 40,000 people a year. Because they believe ...
Tag: police
The government’s disastrous drugs policy is about to be exposed in a very public way
The criminal justice approach to drugs policy, rather than the health one, is about to get some serious public exposure ...
London police are left bemused after people hand themselves in for ‘possession and supply’ of tents [IMAGES]
Police officers in London were left bemused on Saturday 21 October, as people turned up to hand themselves in. Their ...
A fracking company has just been completely shut down in a quiet Yorkshire village [IMAGES]
A small Yorkshire village is at the centre of a brewing storm after the entire operations of a fracking company ...
Police have been accused of ‘barbaric’ behaviour as people’s only homes are destroyed [TWEETS]
Campaigners have accused police and a local council of "barbaric" behaviour, amid allegations they are "destroying" people's homes. A 'last ...
Police have forcibly removed a great-grandmother who was serving tea. To them.
North Yorkshire police officers have forcibly removed a great-grandmother serving tea and coffee. The police say they moved Jackie Brooks and a ...
A man pleading to be jailed so he can ‘spend his birthday somewhere warm’ sums up the Tories’ homelessness crisis
A homeless man living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) turned up to a court appearance a day early to plead ...
While everyone’s distracted by Brexit, Tory austerity continues to cripple public services [OPINION]
Theresa May’s Brexit speech in Florence and the Labour Party conference in Brighton have dominated the news in recent days. ...
British police forces have been arresting children as young as 12 using a 193-year-old law
Freedom of Information requests (FOI) have revealed that a UK police force has been arresting children as young as 12 under ...
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There’s an elephant in the room on police funding, and we urgently need to talk about it [OPINION]
On 22 September, the head of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Sara Thornton, spoke out about terrorism funding for the police. ...
A top police officer savages the government’s spending cuts
Chief Constable Sara Thornton, current head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, has launched a stinging attack on Tory austerity. ...
A small Lancashire village is rapidly becoming the eye of a political storm [VIDEO]
Political heavyweights have been positioning themselves in the eye of a growing democratic storm, in a small Lancashire village. Labour's ...
Theresa May gives in and scraps the public sector pay cap. But there’s a catch.
Theresa May's government has given in to pressure and lifted the 1% pay cap, awarding police and prison officers higher pay. ...
Expansion of this UK government programme could be the biggest threat to our democracy yet
According to recently-unearthed documents, people who have participated in a demonstration, are members of a political campaign group, or who ...
Chaos in London as the world’s military is met with some fierce opposition [VIDEO]
On 9 September the might of the world's military was met with some fierce opposition in London. And the Metropolitan ...
In just one sentence, the government reveals why so many people are facing arrest to stop an arms fair
Defence Security Equipment International (DSEI), the London arms fair, starts on Monday 11 September and campaigners have spent the week ...
Scottish police accused of acting on behalf of a ‘racist’ foreign government
On 30 August, police raids took place in Edinburgh. But there were no arrests. And now, the "terrorised" victims have ...
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