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We ask two south african policy experts where the country's allegiances should lie. the drug tranq is sweeping across the states of america — it's 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. we'll talk to a woman who was dependent on it, and a uk expert on the dangers it might pose here. and now borisjohnson says he's handed all his notebooks and whatapps to the government, will it hand them over to the covid inquiry by 4pm tomorrow orface legal action? lucy fisher, whitehall editor of the financial times, is here...

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 executive in early March 2020, just two weeks before national lockdown. When lockdown hit, what had been a ...