Fighting With Pride charity will lead work for memorial at National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire
The UK’s first memorial commemorating the “lost legion” of LGBT people who have served in the armed forces is to be built at the National Memorial Arboretum.
The memorial will be built after a charity spearheading efforts to get justice for veterans affected by the pre-2000 ban on LGBT people serving in the UK armed forces was awarded a £350,000 grant.
Continue reading...68-year-old held on suspicion of murder after two women found in house in Cheadle
A man has been arrested after two women were found dead at a house in Cheadle, Staffordshire, on New Year’s Eve.
The 68-year-old was arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder, Staffordshire police have said.
Continue reading...HMP Wandsworth holding more extra prisoners than any other jail despite recent high-profile problems
Two-thirds of prisons in England and Wales are officially overcrowded, with HMP Wandsworth holding more extra prisoners than any other jail despite the alleged escape of a terror suspect last month.
In September there were 663 more men in Wandsworth than the 950 the south London prison has “good, decent” accommodation for, under the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) definition. That means prisoners sharing cells designed for one, often with a toilet in the middle shielded by a curtain.
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