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stanley becher es of personal protective equipment PPE and a contact-tracing system.Following the Guardians revelations about the previously confidential report on Exercise Alice, the Liberal Democrats have questioned the credibility of Jeremy Hunt, who was health secretary at the time of the exercise, in co-leading an inquiry into lessons from the pandemic, which reports next week. Our loved ones might still be with us today if only the government had followed their own recommendations, said Lobby Akinnola, the spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which represents more than 4,000 bereaved families.Exercise Alice war-gamed cases of Middle East respirat
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In 1561, a little-known charter granted the University of Cambridge the power to arrest and imprison any woman suspected of evil . For nearly 350 years, the 颅university used this law to 颅incarcerate young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark in Cambridge.The women were considered prostitutes and could be forcibly taken to the universitys private prison and sentenced to weeks of confinement by the vice-chancellor. More than 5,000 were arrested in the 19th century alone.Now, a local historian is seeking to shine a light on what happened to these women 鈥?many of whom were teenagers 鈥?and is calling on Cambridge University to apologise or publicly acknowledge the 颅injustices they suffered.The Spinning House,
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stanley deutschland and demolished soon afterwards. Photograph: The Museum of Cambridge None of the women ever got a fair trial, and
stanley termos none of them had actually even broken the law, according to the law of the land 鈥?there was no 颅evidence of wrongdoing, said Caroline Biggs, author of The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked women in its private prison. The university didnt really care how they were treated. They wanted the women to be removed from the streets so they couldnt tempt the undergraduates. When women in Cambridge fell on hard times, it was easy to make money from sex work: Cambridge dons were not allowed to marry until the 1880s, and many young undergraduates had money to spend. Parent
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Before the counting had even started, senior Tory sources were briefing that their candidate for London mayor, Susan Hall, had pulled off a spectacular, and unlikely, victory.Despite the Labour incumbent, Sadiq Khan, having a consistent polling lead throughout the contest, Tory insiders briefed journalists that the mood was chipper at the Conservative headquarters on Friday night after polls closed, and that they were utterly convinced Hall had won.Such was their conviction that even some London Labour figures, who probably should have known better given no votes had yet been counted, began privately questioning whether the result could be tighter than they had expected.Sadiq Kh
stanley hrnek an elected London mayor for third term in further boost for LabourRead moreKhan himself had expressed concerns earlier in the week about the assumptions being made about a Labour victory, wary of complacency dampening his vote. People said Scotland was a Labour country, weve all seen how that ended, the nervous London may
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Global fascination with the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations has focused on Hollywood, as well as parallel scandals in international sport and the music industry, but the metoo stream on Twitter has dragged attention to less glamorous workplaces, highlighting how difficult it is for women to raise these cases, even in countries with strong legislation on sexual harassment.The outrage has already prompted women in all sectors to seek legal advice about how to pursue sexual harassment claims. Were getting many more calls since the recent scandals; women are standing up in solidarity, said Silvia Sta
stanley ca nciu, an employment attorney specialising in discrimination for New York law firm Phillips Associates.The crisis in Hollywood is merely the most eye-catching manifestation of a long-ignored problem worldwide. International research suggests workplace sexual harassment is most prevalent in sectors which rarely make headlines in this context 鈥?particularly in male-dominated areas like engineering and construction, the military, finance, transport, and in areas of minimum wage work where women are in public facing roles, care-workers going
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