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| | Police vetting failures revealed in damning report | |  | | | | | | | | | An officer convicted of domestic abuse and another accused of sexual assault were accepted to serve in police forces. These are just two examples included in a damning report that looked at vetting checks. The police watchdog reviewed 725 vetting files and raised concerns about 131 of them - but the true total could be much higher. This means hundreds of police officers who should have failed vetting checks may be working in forces in England and Wales. Decisions on officers were "questionable at best", the watchdog said, with the Inspector of Constabulary, Matt Parr, adding: "It's far too easy for the wrong people to get in."
Vetting, which includes criminal, terrorism and social media checks, should be carried out when candidates apply for jobs or transfer to other forces, and regular checks continue after that. But vetting has been a concern for one woman who believes regular checks could have led to an officer - later sacked for gross misconduct - being investigated earlier. The force involved said its vetting complied with national policies. Despite this, wider concerns remain and the report, commissioned following the death of Sarah Everard, who was murdered by a serving officer, also highlighted cases of misogyny and sexual misconduct. "The confidence of the public and our staff is dependent on us fixing these problems with urgency, fully and for the long term," chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, said. A number of changes and actions are already taking place. Here's the full story. | | | | | |
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| | Inside Kent's overcrowded migrant centre | | | | | | | | | A migrant centre in Kent has been in the spotlight in recent days after concerns about overcrowding at the Home Office facility were brought to a head. Local Tory MP Sir Roger Gale and Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick recently visited the processing centre reportedly holding 4,000 migrants instead of 1,600. The government insists the numbers are coming down at the site, but what is it like for those living there? We have spoken to a recent resident who says conditions at Manston, a former military base, were like living in a prison or a zoo. He describes being forced to sleep on the floor, prevented from going to the toilet, taking a shower or going outside for exercise. He also claims he and others were not allowed to contact family during their stay.
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| | The cost of making a cup of tea | | | | | | | | | What's your hot drink of choice in the morning - or any part of the day? A cup of tea, perhaps? If it is, you might want to know that making a brew has become more expensive. According to BRC-NielsenIQ price index, the cost of the components you need to make tea all rose as food price inflation jumped from 10.6% last month to 11.6%. October has been a "difficult month" for consumers, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said. The cost of "basic items went up, with the price of the humble cuppa rising, as tea bags, milk and sugar all saw significant rises," she added. Read more here. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | Questions are being asked in India after a popular foot bridge collapsed, plunging scores of pedestrians into a river in the western state of Gujarat. The horror in the town of Morbi on Sunday evening is one of the worst tragedies in India for years, killing 135 people, most of them women, children and the elderly.
The 137-year-old suspension bridge had reopened just five days earlier following repairs - so what went wrong? The BBC spoke to survivors, first responders, local journalists and officials to piece together a story of needless tragedy. Local residents and journalists blame the company which operated the bridge - and the police and local authorities are also accused of failures. | | | | | | | | | | | | Geeta Pandey | | BBC News, Morbi | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | Former health secretary Matt Hancock appears on many of this morning's front pages following the announcement he will be competing in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! He tells the Sun he hasn't "lost his marbles" despite the move leading to him being suspended as a Tory MP, papers including the Daily Express report. He is accused of having "no shame" by the Daily Mirror, which carries reaction from Covid-bereaved families. Meanwhile, stories about vetting failures by police forces and secret emergency plans to cope with energy blackouts also make the headlines. Read the newspaper review in full here. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Courts Stalker's sentence an insult, says victim targeted for 19 years | | | | | | | Twitter Elon Musk says $8 monthly fee for blue tick | | | | | | | Prison Job advert banned for racial stereotyping | | | | | | |
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| | Need something different? | | | | | | | | | The invention of the fax machine changed the way documents could be sent and received. It was the go-to device in most offices but facsimile machines are pretty much obsolete now. With regulator Ofcom looking to confine them to history, we've taken a nostalgic look back at the device.
Next, to another invention that staged a comeback - the claw hair clip. The 1990s fashionable yet functional hair accessory returned when a trip to the salon wasn’t possible during Covid lockdowns. But do you know much about its past? It was invented by the foster father of our journalist Anne-Marie Dias Borges. Read more here.
And finally, on the subject of being inventive, photographers have been finding new ways to show ecosystems above and below the waterline. A close-up of a crocodile, honey hunters and dancing trees were some of the images they came up with. Take a look. | | | | | |
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| | On this day | | | | | | | 1986 US hostage David Jacobsen, who was being held by the Islamic Jihad group, is released after 17 months in captivity in Beirut. | | | | | | | | |
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