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This article is very worth reading, as it covers so many important related issues and is also very moving, as articles go.
“Both Naomi Hunte and Fiona Holm were vulnerable black women who called on the police for protection from Carl Cooper, a man who was known to the Met to be a serial perpetrator of high-risk domestic abuse,” says Sophie Naftalin, a partner at Bhatt Murphy solicitors, acting on behalf of the families.
“In Fiona’s case her report of a serious assault in April 2023 came when Carl Cooper was already under investigation for murdering Naomi, but the evidence suggests that within the Met there was a complete failure to adequately information-share, which led to a failure to adequately assess and act upon the risk that Carl Cooper posed to Fiona. Both these deaths were preventable. My clients are deeply pained by the inference that Naomi and Fiona were both treated with contempt by the police because they were black women with mental health conditions and not therefore considered to be deserving of protection or help.”
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My friend Bartle isn't happy that they didn't ask him whether they could use his name. :)
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The BC site doesn't seem to have been updated at all, are they still trading on-line even if the shop is shuttered?
It is a great shame, but as Muc-ed-off says, shops come to an end. I hope it wasn't acrimonious or as a result of the general raw deal shops have been getting. I'd like to hear what is possible to be made public.
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Yeah, but that's just about @hippy , and he's no sprinter.
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"A washed Aussie sprinter"
Wait, not unwashed?
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I can't remember at all, and I guess Ed wouldn't much care to recall it to mind, either. :)
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
It's not like me to want to get the last word in...
Well the last word is 'in', yeah.
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I couldn't help thinking that this scene showed a great deal of tenderness.
A crash involving two lorries has created long delays on the M4 near Heathrow.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/m4-m25-heathrow-piccadilly-line-storm-eowyn-b1206570.html
Yes, I was just wondering if they still have stock to dispose of. I hope they manage to use it to partially cancel debts if they have them; I've seen a couple of shops close that then held closing-down sales, and were besieged for bargains there. I wouldn't go along to one of those, especially if I knew and liked the shop, as it would just feel wrong.