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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. They're hanging bags of canine excrement in the trees. Little black parcels of poo swinging gently in the breeze. It is one of the more unlikely consequences of the pandemic: a plague of dog shit, with no obvious solution in sight. And it stinks. WIRED UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. The rise is down to the sheer number of potential pet owners that rushed to realize the dream of owning a dog while in lockdown. Such was the demand, the price of puppies in the UK more than doubled last year, with popular breeds s...

Index raises concerns over UK Freedom of Information We join media freedom organisations, editors and broadcasters in calling for an urgent review of right-to-know legislation 09 Feb 2021 The Right Honourable Julian Knight MP, Chair, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee CC The Right Honourable Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office The Right Honourable Chloe Smith, Minister for the Cabinet Office Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of op...

The editors of the Guardian, Financial Times, Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror have joined together in a rare show of unity urging the Government to look at reform to protect Freedom of Information  (FoI)  rights. A dozen current and former Fleet Street editors have joined a call for a review into the Government’s use of FoI, raising “serious concerns” their policies are contributing to a culture of declining press freedom in the UK. They have been joined by staunch critics of the newspaper industry such as Hacked Off founder Brian Cathcart and founder of rival pr...