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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn
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Many parents of disabled children approach Gwynedd children's SS seeking support, their children only to be deemed 'not disabled' and daring to complain about matters can lead to parent blame and worse...
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A Foster Home Or A Small Group Home..? Cyngor Gwynedd Council...
Cyngor Gwynedd Social Services
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Children in Corby, Northamptonshire, have been born with birth defects, believed to have been caused when the town's steelworks were demolished and dismantled in the 1980s...
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Toxic Town parents test Corby's waterways to 'keep fighting'
A charity says it is helping the families to test the waterways at 50 sites across the town.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The report, Until Harm Ends, warns these children are at very high risk of re-trafficking and further exploitation due to gaps in the care system — especially when placed in unsafe or unsupported accommodation...
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Over 2,000 trafficked or asylum-seeking children went missing from UK council care in past year - SGM
More than 2,000 children who were trafficked or arrived in the UK alone to seek asylum have gone missing from the care of local authorities in the past year, according to a new report. Charities ECPAT...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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The purpose of the tweet, sent in October 2024, was to ask Ms Sharpe why she had not said anything publicly about former Hove Labour MP Ivor Caplin’s alleged pornographic online activities...
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Former editor cleared of sending 'indecent tweet' - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
Journalist broke down in dock as judge delivered verdict
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Many parents of disabled children approach Gwynedd children's SS seeking support, their children only to be deemed 'not disabled' and daring to complain about matters can lead to parent blame and worse...
gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-fo...
A Foster Home Or A Small Group Home..? Cyngor Gwynedd Council...
Cyngor Gwynedd Social Services
gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A recent report by Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello -
SYSTEMS GENERATED TRAUMA
How disabled children and their families are traumatised by dysfunctional public services when they ask for support
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November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Baroness Doreen Lawrence has today told the Undercover Policing Inquiry of her anger at covert officers' alleged attempts to "smear" and "destroy" her family...
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Doreen Lawrence speaks out about her anger at being spied on by undercover cops
Baroness Lawrence - whose son Stephen was killed in a race hate murder - is giving evidence at the Undercover Policing Inquiry at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London
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November 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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His tenure is best remembered for the Ombudsman for Wales reports highlighting serious concerns and failings within the children’s SS, including social workers faking assessments on children...
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Gwynedd Council – Deny Delay Deflect…
Sally Holland, former children’s commissioner, spoke at the cabinet meeting of cyngor Gwynedd held on the 11th November, 2025. As the chair of the council’s response board, set up …
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November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Byron Long, 66, was told to leave a B&M store at Cardiff Bay Retail Park and accused of stealing £75 worth of goods on a previous visit - until a review of CCTV footage showed he had paid for his shopping and not stolen anything...
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Cardiff man wrongly accused of shoplifting in B&M in facial recognition error
Byron Long, 66, was buying cat treats in B&M when his face was added to its theft warning system.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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On Friday 13 March, two senior No 10 officials are sitting in a key meeting of scientific advisers in Whitehall
"WE ARE NOT READY," one writes in capital letters in his notepad, external. The other leans over and crosses out "NOT READY", replacing it with an expletive..
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The private notes and secret documents that tell the inside story of the UK's Covid response
The Covid inquiry is set to publish its second set of findings looking in detail at the huge political decisions that had to be made in 2020.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Star Academies‘ Valley Leadership Academy in Bacup, Lancashire, rolled out a “virtual teacher” (VT) for its top set year 9 to 11 maths classes in September, prompting backlash from unions...
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Staff to strike over school's 'dystopian' virtual teacher
NEU members are to strike for six days in December and January over a school's use of a 'virtual teacher' to teach maths to secondary pupils
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November 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff...
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Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff | Computer Weekly
Swedish fintech has gradually replaced half of its staff with artificial intelligence and doubled its revenues.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 3 (Phase 1) | Day 15 - (18 November 2025) spycops...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has confirmed it is launching a criminal investigation following safeguarding concerns within the Presbyterian Church of Ireland (PCI)...
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Presbyterian Church: Criminal investigation launched over safeguarding issues
A dedicated investigation team will be set up to explore any alleged criminal activity within the Presbyterian Church, the PSNI confirm.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Foden smeared those who challenged him and reversed blame onto the victim - Darvo.
Blame the children - blame the parents - deny delay deflect...
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Deny Delay Deflect - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...
Cyngor Gwynedd Social Services
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November 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Lipscombe, 51, who is believed to have earned at least £91,000 a year as an associate director of NHS performance in Coventry, ferried his victims to rented hotels and Airbnbs in a Tesla...
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NHS manager who groomed young girls on Snapchat jailed for 28 years for rape and abuse
Paul Lipscombe used fake names and lied about his age to win over his victims.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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While Hertfordshire constabulary originally defended the arrest, it has now admitted it was unlawful and agreed a £20,000 payout, according to the Times. The force reportedly conceded the legal criteria for arrest was “not made out” and formally accepted liability...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Reed orders MPs to vote against environmental protections insidecroydon.com/2025/11/14/r... #Croydon #InfrastructureBill @rspbengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @elliechowns.bsky.social
Reed orders MPs to vote against environmental protections
Labour government is ignoring scientific advice on the risks posed by proposals in their new Bill, while senior ministers have been cosying up to lobbyists fo developers, reports PAUL LUSHION, our …
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The US justice department has confirmed it will investigate paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's alleged links to major banks and several prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton...
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US justice department investigates Epstein's alleged ties to Clinton and banks after Trump request
Trump said on social media he was seeking investigations into Bill Clinton and Larry Summers, as well as JP Morgan and other major banks.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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gwynedd council neil foden
As a cabinet, we have asked for assurances from the council’s chief executive that all necessary and appropriate steps will be taken to address any misconduct or failures to meet statutory or professional requirements....
www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/2561621...
Neil Foden: Gwynedd Council outlines next steps after report published
Gwynedd Council has shared the steps it will take following the publication of an independent report into the crimes of paedophile headteacher Neil…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The public prosecutor's office in Milan has opened an investigation into claims that Italian citizens travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on "sniper safaris" during the war in the early 1990s.
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Italy probes claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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An 'extended' CPR is undertaken when children were receiving care from the council at the time of the abuse. This care will presumably involve social workers of the children's SS, the 16+ team, the fostering team and perhaps youth justice...
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Publish The Woods Report - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...
Cyngor Gwynedd Social Services
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been granted early release from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for taking part in a criminal conspiracy...
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Former French president Sarkozy granted release from prison after three weeks
The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Monday morning and back on a very wet picket line at Leicester University. Fighting the massive job cuts and downgrading of jobs. #academicsky Solidarity to all HE staff trying to work through this decimation across the country.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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An investigation into prolific online sex abuser Alexander McCartney was delayed by "under-resourcing", a report by the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland (PONI) has found...
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Catfishing: McCartney investigation delayed by 'under-resourcing' - report
Alexander McCartney was given a life sentence last year, with a minimum of 20 years in jail, for the online abuse of children and the manslaughter of a 12-year-old girl.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The British state sent a "rape gang" of cops to abuse women campaigning for a better world... spycops
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The British state sent a "rape gang" of cops to abuse women campaigning for a better world
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November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM