Run for children

When I started to think about this I called up my brother, Paul, director of children’s services at Wirral council (who, as it happens, has just got himself an OBE for “improving provision for vulnerable children and families in Merseyside”). I hoped to pick his brain about the food poverty issue. We talked for a while about the volatile debate over the best way to deliver food – cash transfers, vouchers, food parcels or ready meals. Then he stopped the conversation and quoted Beveridge back at me: “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.” … [Read more...] about A brutal Covid legacy awaits our children. We need the will and ambition to tackle it

An official from the provincial Department of Police told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Saturday that officers had searched the house of Tran Thi Dam, 75, in Quang Trung Ward, Thai Binh City, which is the capital of the namesake province. … [Read more...] about Police break up drug ring run by septuagenarian woman in northern Vietnam

Yet, in July 2017, the company announced an £845m reduction in the value of its contracts, rising in September that year to a £1.04bn cut – a figure equating to the previous seven years’ profits combined. When liquidation came in January 2018, liabilities stood at nearly £7bn versus just £29m in cash. This was a company employing 43,000 people, including 19,000 in the UK. … [Read more...] about Moves by Kwarteng to attack workers’ rights may well run into a red wall

Manish Kumar, a 34-year-old machine operator at AIIMS who became the first person in Delhi to get the COVID-19 vaccine, said he had himself asked the hospital authorities to be vaccinated first as his colleagues chosen for the exercise were "scared" to get the jab. … [Read more...] about Vaccine fear is unwarranted: Delhi man after getting jab

"I thought: ‘That’s the fruit’," Michael says. "That effort we put in at Alpha in prisons at the beginning, I saw the fruit of this big Ugandan man who’d been on death row. … [Read more...] about I was an international drugs trafficker who found God in prison alongside Reggie Kray thanks to a Page Three girl

Paul Charles, CEO of the travel consultancy The PC Agency, also took to Twitter to question the move and he said: 'Surprised that and didn't alter #Spain travel advice yesterday when #France #Germany and #Norway did. Interesting to see a blanket #Spain advisory instead of a regional one just for #Catalonia. Indicates depth of #UKGovt concern on #Spain.' … [Read more...] about Around 1.4 million Britons in Spain face travel chaos as government introduces compulsory two-week ‘house arrest’ quarantine amid scramble to return home after bombshell axing of ‘air bridge’

Paul Charles, CEO of the travel consultancy The PC Agency, also took to Twitter to question the move and he said: 'Surprised that and didn't alter #Spain travel advice yesterday when #France #Germany and #Norway did. Interesting to see a blanket #Spain advisory instead of a regional one just for #Catalonia. Indicates depth of #UKGovt concern on #Spain.' … [Read more...] about Chaos as air bridge to Costas is axed overnight! Brits in Spain are ordered into 14-day quarantine on their return and trips for thousands hit as essential-only travel advice kicks in after new Covid outbreak – amid warning more countries will follow

Around two kilometers from the Ong De neighborhood, the landslide also killed Ho Thi Ha’s 56-year-old father. Before the storm hit, she had sent her two daughters to her parents’ house, thinking the house, which had survived many storms, was solid. … [Read more...] about Unbearable grief grips landslide survivors in central Vietnam

By the beginning of December, the Government gradually loosened the lockdown in order to "save" the Christmas, and people were happy to go to work. This is the time when the pandemic spreads at the most terrible speed. Around 30,000 new infections were reported per day and 300 to 400 among them died. In some days, the number of deaths even reached over 1,000 people. … [Read more...] about An overseas Vietnamese: Covid-19 infected, in lockdown and the desire to fly back home

She stated: “After Christmas, my friend Sandra asked me to visit her at home, which I did and she hosted me. When we got to Ogiso my friend said she heard my children and her children discussing that they wanted to go to the river. When I came out, I didn’t see any of them, so I went to the river where I saw Rachel, Christabel, Mercy and Precious. … [Read more...] about Anxiety in Edo as 11-year- old girl disappears after visiting river