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Sewage in our Rivers

The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.

14 Sep 2022
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Terror police 'shot' man in coma

A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat. Nicholas Gaubert has described how the incident happened in July 2005, just a week before the fatal shooting of Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes.

15 Nov 2007
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Hearing loss 'costs UK £13.5bn'

A leading charity - the Royal National Institute for Deaf people - says the economy could earn billions more if extra cash was spent on research. It points out that just over 0.1% of the £13.5bn goes on research into "life-changing" treatments.

15 Nov 2007
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Schools 'failing' diabetic pupils

Schools are not giving pupils with diabetes the support they need and are demanding parents come in to treat their child, charities claim. Some 70% of 2,500 schools surveyed by a coalition of diabetes charities said that when pupils could not inject themselves, parents were asked to help. Diabetic children were also missing out on school trips, the charities said.

15 Nov 2007
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Anger over basement post office

A post office which was moved to a shop basement is proving hard for disabled users to access, it has been claimed. The Bishop Street post office in Leicester closed and the new branch opened in Gallowtree Gate's WH Smith.

15 Nov 2007
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MEPs vote for ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets in Bali

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the strategy for the Bali Conference on Climate Change on 15 November. MEPs stressed that binding emission targets for all industrialised countries, a global ´cap and trade´ system and a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century should be some of the EU´s core targets for the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference.

15 Nov 2007
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