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YMCA: help for youth services
09 Jun 2023
The YMCA will continue its summer activities to entertain and feed young people and children, particularly from struggling families. It wants the Government to invest more in youth projects to avoid crime down the line and…
NHS patient experience survey
09 Jun 2023
Data released on 8 June showed that A&Es experienced the busiest May on record, putting emergency care staff under significant pressure. Ambulance crews attended 624,092 call-outs, the highest number in a year. Alongside this, the figures…
Prince Harry and the media
09 Jun 2023
Prince Harry has been on a collision course with the tabloid press for years - and finally he is pressing charges of phone hacking. He has said that changing the media landscape is his ‘life's work’,…
Ukraine: hydropower dam destroyed
09 Jun 2023
Kakhovka hydropower dam in Russian-controlled Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing floods of water on either side of the Dnipro river. So far, thousands have been evacuated from local communities; but as water continues to gush, it…
Russia: Russians fleeing motherland
09 Jun 2023
When Putin announced ‘military mobilisation’, thousands of Russians rushed to the border. Hundreds of thousands have left since the invasion began. Many were against the war, so not wanting to be drafted they left. Poor training…
France: four children stabbed
09 Jun 2023
On 8 June, in a shocking incident, four children, aged between one and three, were stabbed in a playground in Annecy. Police overpowered and arrested the knifeman, who also stabbed two adults. The victims are in…