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its goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers — newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as "troublemakers" or "difficult". i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at...

To work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as "troublemakers" or "difficult". i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. well ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight — south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attend...

But what people remember is the awful tissue necrosis the drug can cause in humans. it�*s given a grotesque turn to an already devastating human crisis among some of the poorest and most vulnerable in america. let�*s speak to melanie beddis, director of programmes at savage sisters recovery in philadelphia, who was dependent on this drug and has been clean for two years. caroline copeland is a lecturer in pharmaceutical medicine at king�*s college london and director of the national progra...

Drug so it can slow the - and fentanyl? so, its a sedative drug so it can slow the heart - and fentanyl? so, its a sedative | drug so it can slow the heart rate and reduce — drug so it can slow the heart rate and reduce the breathing rate and if you are _ and reduce the breathing rate and if you are layering that with other opioids— you are layering that with other opioids youre taking at the same time _ opioids youre taking at the same time its— opioids youre taking at the same time its i...

Trends _ to the programme i ran, looking at trends in _ to the programme i ran, looking at trends in drug—related deaths. unfortunately my programme doesnt have that _ unfortunately my programme doesnt have that much funding and we receive — have that much funding and we receive hundreds of reports a month and it— receive hundreds of reports a month and it took— receive hundreds of reports a month and it took us until november to get to this _ and it took us until november to get to this...

We ask two south african policy experts where the countrys allegiances should lie. the drug tranq is sweeping across the states of america — its now here in the uk as well. it can leave users in a a zombie—like state and it can also lead to lesions and open wounds. well talk to a woman who was dependent on it, and a uk expert on the dangers it might pose here. and now borisjohnson says hes handed all his notebooks and whatapps to the government, will it hand them over to the covid inquiry by...

The 43rd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded with major wins for the rights of teachers and researchers to adapt and choose materials for quality education and research. Education International participated together with member organisations CONADU (Argentina), AUSPS (Fiji), and UASU (Kenya).

Gift of the Givers has distributed 1,500 food hampers to people around the town of Keimoes in the Northern Cape who have been affected by the lower Orange River floods. A helicopter brought in supplies to settlements that have been cut off.

Wrexham’s public help and customer support system is to relocate to the town’s library this summer as the local authority looks to further modernise its services. The move of Contact Wrexham, which is currently based on Lord Street, has been proposed as part of the local authority’s ICT & Digital Strategy 2020-23. The plan, which […]

Rob Huntington – assistant chief executive.robhuntington@sthelens.gov.uk Traditional and resistant to change was how the Local Government Association summed up St Helens MBC following a peer chal­lenge in 2019. Although tentative steps had been taken to develop a modern and efficient council fit for the next decade, it would take a climactic event like Covid- 19 and a new leadership team to start the wholescale transformation currently happening. I joined the council as the new chief executi...