‘The watchdog tasked with scrutinising the work of Britain’s intelligence agencies is to demand an urgent report from GCHQ about revelations that the phone, internet and email records of British citizens have been analysed and stored by America’s National Security Agency.’
The Guardian, 21st November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘One of two men jailed for raping a 14-year-old boy in the toilet of a central Manchester department store has had his prison sentence cut.’
BBC News, 21st November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A hunger striker who is “near death” has failed to win temporary freedom pending his appeal court challenge to being held in an immigration detention centre.’
The Independent, 21st November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The MP who chaired an inquiry that led to stalking being made a specific criminal offence has warned the new laws are not being implemented.’
BBC News, 21st November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Hospitals have made no improvement in patient safety or treating the ill with dignity and respect despite the concerns triggered by the Mid Staffordshire scandal, according to the independent healthcare regulator. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) also found no improvement in hospitals monitoring and assessment of the quality of care they are providing.’
The Guardian, 21st November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Radical reforms to the way children and adult sex abuse victims give evidence in court have been floated by the former Lord Chief Justice.
Lord Judge, who stepped down as England and Wales’ most senior judge at the end of September, said there could be a “powerful case” to end the way in which rape and other sex crimes victims currently give evidence.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘It was, in the words of one charity boss, “just an ordinary house in an ordinary street”. Yet behind its doors, unbeknown to neighbours going about their daily lives, the elderly home owners were allegedly keeping three women as slaves in conditions that belonged to the pre-Victorian age.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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