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Aid charity Shelterbox under fire for not reporting three incidents of sexual misconduct
Disaster relief charity Shelterbox has come under fire after failing to report three of its aid workers who were involved in allegations of sexual misconduct. The charity, which delivers boxes of emergency kit to disaster zones such as Haiti or Nepal following earthquakes and hurricanes, has admitted "three sexual misconduct incidents pre-2013, one of which is unproven". However, Shelterbox, which has bases in Truro and Helston in Cornwall and receives millions of pounds in donations each year, reportedly only made...
Damning study reveals 1 in 7 EU companies are moving supply chain out of UK
A damning study has raised more serious questions about the benefits of Brexit after it was revealed one in seven EU companies with UK suppliers has moved part or all of their business out of Britain. A survey of over 2,000 supply chain managers by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (Cips) showed that commercial links have already been heavily disrupted as part of the Brexit process, with a third of UK suppliers forced to increase their prices because of a weaker...
Police say 18-year-old Maria Mustafa’s death at the hands of ten-strong girl gang was not racially motivated
Mariam Moustafa Abdel Salam was set upon as she boarded a bus in Nottingham city centre
Climate change could displace over 140 million by 2050, says World Bank
A report released today by the World Bank has painted a troubling picture for the world, for the years ahead. The report claims that by 2050 143 million “climate migrants” will be forced to move due to rising sea levels, blighted crops and droughts. In sub-Saharan Africa, 86m are expected to be internally displaced over the period; in south Asia, about 40m; and in Latin America, 17m. Tens of millions of people would pour into already crowded slums within their...
Climate change ‘threatens world’s largest seagrass carbon stores’
A summer-long heatwave killed so many marine plants it released the equivalent greenhouse gasses produced by an astonishing 1.6 MILLION cars. A study shows the "unprecedented" heatwave raised sea temperatures 2 to 4 degrees Celsius above average for more than two months, which proved fatal for more than 1,100 square kilometres of seagrass. This mass extinction released up to nine million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the three years following the 2010 heatwave in Shark Bay, Australia....
School bomb threat: 400 UK schools blackmailed by bomb hoax
Reports are emerging that around 400 schools across Britain received an email today with a threat to detonate a bomb if $5,000 dollars is not sent. The email said: “We have sent in a student with a bomb. The bomb is set to go off in 3 hours time. If you do not send $5,000 USD" Many parents around the UK received messages from primary and secondary schools saying that there had been a hoax threat today, and some of the...
Commuters driven round the bend by a “quarter of a mile” of debris dumped by fly tippers
The rubbish, which included a mattress, various pieces of furniture, ladders, and a watering can was strewn across the road, blocking the route
Murder investigation of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov finds no sign of forced entry.
They say he was not linked to the Salisbury poisonings
Police are examining 400 pieces of evidence from Nikolai Glushkov’s home
Police investigating the death of a Russian exile have removed hundreds of items of evidence from his home - and have ruled-out a break-in. Detectives analysing evidence in the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov have said there was no signs of forced entry at his home - where he was found hanging a week ago. The 68-year-old businessman, and noted Putin enemy, was found dead in his home in New Malden, south west London, on 12 March. The murder investigation...