January 17, 2014
The IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for “wrongly” telling the media he had fired at police before he was shot dead in 2011. Via BBC News The Independent Police Complaints Commission’s chair Dame Anne Owers met the family of Mr Duggan on Tuesday. The IPCC said it would look into how “police responded to intelligence”. It also promised to interview some “key witnesses” who had previously declined to speak and those whose accounts were “inconsistent with other […]
January 17, 2014
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January 17, 2014
Oh dear… Via The Daily Mail A black woman is demanding an apology from NHS chiefs after she was sent a letter saying her password was set as ‘charcoal shade’ for a hospital website. Leanda Probert, 31, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was horrified when she discovered the ‘highly offensive’ password in a letter asking her to book an online appointment with a pain management clinic. The mother-of-one, who suffers from crippling condition fibromyalgia, said she thought NHS North Somerset was ‘having a laugh’ […]
