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San Quentin guard arrested in drug, bribery investigation : Lt. Samuel Robinson, a prison spokesman, said he did not have detailed information about the case but that the investigation is ongoing. "We here at San Quentin and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are determined to ensure ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Rooney Sr denies bet probe claims : Richie Rooney was detained at his home in Norris Green, Liverpool, while Mr Jennings was arrested at his Glasgow home and brought to a Merseyside police station for questioning. Mr Jennings, originally from Kirkby, near Liverpool, has been a Motherwell ... BBC News

Unfairly judged: gay lawyers say judiciary still ... - guardian.co.uk : Alex Aldridge: Recent research shows 70% believe there is prejudice within the selection process for judicial appointments. United Kingdom | Ireland

Dawn raids two months after riots : "My message to those who were involved in criminality is that you will not get away with it. "We have a huge team of dedicated officers working on this investigation and we will find you." During the riots there was disorder in 22 out of 32 London ... BBC News

Group for older people launches games meetings : Age UK recently said that one of the most difficult issues elderly people face is being out of touch with others and suffering from loneliness. We are hoping that events like this will help combat that.” United Kingdom | Ireland

Charity Launches New Online Course to Cut Rates of Stress and Anxiety in UK By Mental Health Foundation The charity The Mental Health Foundation has once again broken new ground in tackling the growing issue of stress and anxiety in today's society, by launching the UK's first interactive online course in mindfulness. ...

Man jailed for stealing from charity for sick children : York - A charity administrator in the UK was sentenced to time in prison for stealing money from a fund designed to help sick children. Howard Rose, 63, stole £76040 from the Yorkshire Children's Hospital Fund during a three-year period, and used it to ... DigitalJournal.com

Charity calls for children's sunscreen on prescription : By Simon Pitman - UK -based charity , Tenovus, is lobbying the Welsh government to make sunscreen available on prescription for children as a means of fighting cancer. The initiative could set a precedent in the UK and the European Union and ... United Kingdom | Ireland

New Glasgow facility workers on strike : NEW GLASGOW (CP) — Vocational workers at a Nova Scotia facility for adults with intellectual disabilities are off the job to back contract demands. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says a disagreement over provincial funding prompted the 22 ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Do something nice for World Mental Health Day : In 2008, the New Economics Foundation was commissioned by the UK Government's Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing to write a report which identified a set of evidence-based actions to improve wellbeing, which individuals would be ...

Mental ill-health costs UK billions a year, say Unite and Mind : Unite, the country's biggest trade union, has recently teamed up with UK mental health charity Mind to examine how mental health is affecting workers. Unite estimates that 70 million working days are lost to absences due to mental health problems and ... HRmagazine.co.uk

Four-in-10 disabled young 'poor' : By Angela Harrison BBC News correspondent Four in 10 disabled children in the UK live "in poverty", according to the Children's Society. In the population as a whole, about one-in-three children lives in poverty. The charity is calling on the ... BBC News

Dawn raids two months after riots : Police have carried out dawn raids in east London to arrest suspected rioters - two months on from the start of the UK's worst disorder for a generation. In August violence erupted across the country, sparked by the death of a man shot by police in ... BBC News

Welfare reform: Scotland's struggle to support its social tenants Not only will tenants in Scotland find it harder to make ends meet when the UK government implements changes to the housing benefit and welfare system, but social landlords may also find themselves short of cash. It is anticipated that the changes ...

Scottish News: Wayne Rooney's father and uncle arrested as part of probe into ... Wayne Rooney Snr and seven other people were held on Merseyside – while Motherwell's Liverpudlian midfielder Steve Jennings was lifted at his home in Glasgow. England and Manchester United striker Rooney was stunned by the arrests, which included his ...

Heroin and crack treatment falls : "More drug users are recovering from addiction , fewer need treatment, and more are getting over their addiction quickly," he said. Mr Hayes went on to say he thought the figures showed England had "probably passed the high watermark of the impact of ... BBC News

Councils in Wales spend £57m on redundancies in 3 years : The money was spent on redundancy payments to 3630 people, a Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales has revealed. The councils that spent the most on redundancies were Cardiff (£15.1m), Newport (£6.5m) and Swansea (£3.2m). ... BBC News

Four-in-10 disabled young 'poor' : Four in 10 disabled children in the UK live "in poverty", according to the Children's Society. In the population as a whole, about one-in-three children lives in poverty. The charity is calling on the government to rethink planned changes to welfare ... BBC News

Researchers seek patients for diabetes 'dating agency' : Around 2.8m people in the UK are known to suffer from diabetes. But the charity Diabetes UK believes another 800000 people may not know they already have the disease. Part of the reason researchers have found it hard to find diabetes patients is that ... BBC News

Drugs man has to sell property and vehicle to pay confiscation order : A Bristol man who ran cannabis factories in his home has been ordered to pay more than £117000 at a confiscation hearing at Bristol Crown Court. Graham Chappell from Brislington was ordered to pay £117, 423, being forced to sell property and a vehicle ...

Heroin and crack addict numbers dip : The NTA figures showed the number of drug users who have been treated successfully and are getting their lives back on track rose by almost a fifth last year. Some 27969 users were classed as recovering in 2010/11, a rise of 18% on the previous ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Shinfield Players present Rent : The cult musical pulls no punches, confronting the huge issues of HIV/Aids, homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction and homophobia. Jonathan Larson created it in the mid-90s, but Jennifer is convinced its messages are just as relevant today and the ...

Flurry at the Mersey -- Hand-to-Hand Combat Over the Meaning of Addiction : He distributed syringes that allowed the UK to escape the second wave of HIV infections, which the US was enveloped with when AIDS went from being the "gay disease" to becoming a plague afflicting injecting drug users. This was how we got onto the ...

Gay rights activists report another murder in Johannesburg : by Jessica Geen for PinkNews.co. uk Gay rights campaigners in South Africa say a fifth gay murder in Johannesburg suggests there may be a homophobic killer at large. In the last year, there have been four cases in which gay men were found dead in ... PinkNews.co.uk (blog)

Schools need to do more for gay students, says activist : A leading LGBT activist has said UK schools need to do more for gay and lesbian students. Sue Sanders – who is one of the co-founders of LGBT History Month – told the Croydon Advertiser that schools specifically in that region need to be increasingly ... Pink Paper

Country homes have £27000 premium over urban areas : Social housing provision is much lower in rural areas of England and Wales with just 13% of the housing stock accounted for by social housing compared with almost 20% in urban areas. There are five LADs where social housing accounts for less than 5% of ...

Google Opens First Retail Store in London, UK : By Elton Jones | Christian Post Contributor The London Evening Standard broke the news: “The world's first "Google store" opened not in California but in the less glamorous setting of PC World in Tottenham Court Road at 9 am local-time. ...

BBC Scotland set to shed 120 jobs : The job losses, which equate to nearly 10% of BBC Scotland's staff, were announced by director Ken MacQuarrie at the broadcaster's HQ in Glasgow . The announcement follows a nine-month staff consultation branded Delivering Quality First (DQF). ... BBC News

Cash taken from 'Costa criminals' : At Glasgow Sheriff Court, confiscation orders totalling £943366 were granted. Kearney and McCafferty were tracked down in the Costa Blanca town of Benissa in November 2008 after being featured in a Crimestoppers appeal to catch on-the-run British ... BBC News

A Glimpse of the World after the War on Drugs : In Europe, reformers such as Niamh Eastwood of the UK based drug and human rights organization, Release, draw heavily on the 10-year success of decriminalization policies in Portugal. In one decade, problematic or abusive drug use in Portugal--at one ...

Four in 10 disabled children live in poverty : By Janaki Mahadevan Friday, 07 October 2011 Almost 320000 disabled children in the UK are living in poverty, The Children's Society has revealed. The charity has claimed that previous government figures underestimate how many of the 800000 disabled ...

Michael Jackson tribute concert plagued by problems : The Cardiff , Wales , Millennium Stadium, holds 60000 people, but some fan clubs do not support the event and have lobbied for its cancellation. One of the issues for fans, which also proved a point of dissent in the Jackson family, is the timing of the ... CBC.ca

Four in 10 disabled children live in poverty : By Janaki Mahadevan Thursday, 06 October 2011 Almost 320000 disabled children in the UK are living in poverty , The Children's Society has revealed. The charity has claimed that previous government figures underestimate how many of the 800000 disabled ...

Whistleblowing nurse wins £15000 payout after unfair dismissal Shanta Sangraula, president of the Nepalese Nurses Association UK , was dismissed by the owners of the Whitefriars Nursing Home in Southall after she raised concerns about abuse of elderly residents by colleagues and poor administration of medicines. ...

Unfairly judged: gay lawyers say judiciary still plagued by homophobia : Interlaw, for example, has established a women's initiative, which holds quarterly meetings, organised a series of forthcoming events for transgender lawyers and is "seeking to make resources available" for LGBT lawyers employed by UK firms based in ... The Guardian

Concern Grows Over Immigrant Detainee Deaths in UK : Weeks earlier, a 47-year- old Pakistani migrant, Muhammed Shuket, died on his way to the hospital from the same immigration center, while a Jamaican immigrant who had overstayed his visa cut his own throat on a deportation flight from the UK to Jamaica ... Divanee

British homeless and immigrants preyed upon in modern slavery : While the UK is known as a major destination for people trafficking from abroad, the general consensus was that slavery was generally limited to immigrants. The raid has led some officials to question how UK -born citizens, who have access to welfare ...

Leftover Glasgow food to power up 3000 homes : By GORDON THOMSON MEAL scraps from Glasgow hospitals are to be used to help fuel a new recycling facility that will produce enough energy to power 3000 homes. Waste management company Shanks has opened a renewable plant in Cumbernauld, ...