TRANSPORT campaigners and unions in West Yorkshire called on the county’s new mayor today to begin the process of taking bus services into public control within 100 days of taking office, in line with an election pledge.
Tracy Brabin, Labour MP for Batley & Spen in West Yorkshire, was being sworn in as West Yorkshire’s first metropolitan mayor.
A coalition of transport groups and trade unions, headed by the TUC, campaigned for radical changes to public bus transport in the mayoral constituencies, including West Yorkshire, for 18 months before last week’s election.
Gareth Forest of the TUC’s Better Buses campaign said: “This mayoral campaign has been defined by our campaign to fix West Yorkshire’s broken bus system.
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People will no longer be able to pop into Thames Valley Police s Kidlington headquarters for front desk services PUBLIC-facing desks at police stations across the county are being permanently closed as part of a force-wide cut to front counter services. The move, which comes after a consultation by Thames Valley Police, will see help desks close at Kidlington South HQ, Bicester and Witney police stations. The force will also reduce Oxford’s St Aldate’s police station opening hours by two hours and Abingdon station will open from 8am - 4pm from August 30. Thames Valley Police says the closures aim to adapt to the different ways people now want to make contact with officers, such as via telephone or online.
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Human Rights Watch
Madam Chair, Distinguished Delegates,
First let me thank you for the opportunity to address you on behalf of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland and on behalf of group of 51 stakeholders, including 14 national human rights institutions and 37 civil society organizations from many different parts of the globe.
Our institutions and organizations are of the firm view that a comprehensive, binding international instrument would provide the strongest protection for the rights of older persons.
Following discussions at the previous sessions of the UN OEWGA, the decision to invite relevant stakeholders to submit normative content on the thematic areas discussed, has increased understanding of how human rights apply in older age. However, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older persons worldwide has made it clear that we need to accelerate our efforts to strengthen the international framework for the protection of human rights in older age. W