Month: November 2018

Protest follows anger at extent of highly sensitive personal information often demanded by investigators Protesters have targeted the headquarters of the Crown Prosecution Service, demanding that the authorities stop making sexual abuse victims hand over reams of highly sensitive personal information before prosecuting their attackers.Members of Sisters Uncut, which previously Read more…

Retailer forced to pay out after woman suffers fractured ankle in Taunton storeWH Smith, the retailer, has been fined more than £300,000 after a customer fell through a trapdoor into a basement in one of its stores.The 64-year-old woman suffered life-changing injuries after falling about three metres (9.8ft) while browsing Read more…

But Labour says ‘we need urgent and systemic change and quite simply there isn’t an app for that’ Via: 'GoCompare' style app will level playing field for poorer students, minister says

Report added points for coffee shops, pubs, libraries and vape stores but docked them for tanning salons, bookies and vacant businesses Via: Towns with 'unhealthy' high streets have lower life expectancy, report finds

Many female candidates experience ‘abuse or harassment from the media, the public and from members of their own party’, Fawcett Society says Via: Women face obstacles getting into Parliament 'at every stage', study suggests