Two police officers who conducted the “humiliating” strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. Misconduct has been proven in case of a third police officer, after the girl, known as Child Q, was searched at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020. Child Q, who was wrongly suspected...
The new members of US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s panel of vaccine advisers will review long-approved immunisation schedules for children and teens. The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) met for the first time on Wednesday, weeks after Kennedy ousted all 17 of their predecessors. The Acip recommends who...
A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it “fails to guarantee” the rights of the Chagossian people. The deal, signed last month, returned sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, but the UK retained the right to run a military base on Diego...
A Devon council is planning to install solar panels on three of its leisure centres to help make them more financially sustainable. South Hams District Council said it would install the panels at facilities in Ivybridge, Dartmouth and Totnes. The authority said work to install panels on a fourth leisure centre, Quayside Leisure Centre in...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A school staff member who called the police over a black pupil she wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis did not expect an intimate search to be performed, a gross misconduct panel has been told. The deputy...
BOOMITY Answers and accountability are coming. After three months of the Department of Defense engaging in a review of what Hegseth rightly calls ‘this catastrophic event in our military’s history,‘ he has ordered Sean Parnell, Assistant to SecDef for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor, to convene a Special Review Panel for a comprehensive review. U.S....
France’s President Emmanuel Macron says he will set up a commission to study French-Haitian history and the impact of a huge debt imposed on Haiti in exchange for its independence exactly 200 years ago. Macron said the panel of French and Haitian historians would make recommendations to help build a more “peaceful future”. Haiti gained...
A doctor found by a tribunal to have raped a young woman at his home avoided being struck off over what the panel described as a “one-off” attack. Dr Aloaye Foy-Yamah, then a consultant at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, instead had his medical licence suspended for 12 months for attacking the woman. Police investigated but did...