UK Cops Fined for Haircut at Police Station in Breach of CCP Virus Rules
A group of 31 police officers have been fined for breaching CCP virus rules by having their hair cut while on duty at their police station.
Each of these officers is facing a £200 ($275) fixed penalty notice (FPN) for breaching COVID-19 regulations while on duty, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement released on Tuesday.
On Jan. 17, the officers had their hair cut by a professional barber while at Bethnal Green police station in East London. The New Scotland Yard logo is displayed on a revolving sign outside the Curtis Green Building, the new home of the Metropolitan Police in London on Feb. 22, 2017. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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Philip Martin, who has died aged 82, was a writer whose work for television synthesised gritty, often bleak and sometimes violent subjects with sly, offbeat humour and an innovative approach to the medium.
His groundbreaking series Gangsters (1976-78) began as a one-off Play for Today on BBC1, shot on location in Birmingham, where Martin had embedded himself for weeks in order to authentically capture the city’s underbelly. A revenge story, it had a backdrop of seedy strip clubs and dodgy business deals as Maurice Colbourne, playing the anti-hero John Kline, uncovered a web of crime and illegal immigration. It was a raw, violent work with the odd surreal twist (including a pair of standup comedians acting as a chorus), deftly directed by Philip Savile with an unusually strong and well written array of leading parts for black and Asian actors.
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