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950 homes in Warmley is being reported by Gloucestershire Live.Bristol Live says people who are part of the community union Acorn have been banned from We The Curious. It comes after a protest on 19 July. And there are horrible reports of cats being mutilated in the St Paul's area, according to Bristol Live.In happier news, care home residents were visited by Shetland ponies. The ponies spent time with residents in their rooms, even travelling by lift to see those with limited mobility, the Wiltshire Times reported.
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Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a man walking his dog naked in Bentley Wood near Salisbury.Elsewhere, Heidi Alexander, the Labour MP for Swindon South, held a meeting with residents from Heritage Plaza and the Railways Quarter after reports of poor maintenance and rising service charges. She said after promising talks, there'll be a review with the managing agent in six months.Someone seems to have spotted a black adder in Stanton Woods, according to this post in the Swindon Community Noticeboard group.And there is also an annual message from Clifton Suspension Bridge managers saying it will be shut for the night glows on Friday and Saturday of the Fiesta.
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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
Black warehouse worker wins £3,000 payout over colleague's ‘slave' graffiti
A Black warehouse worker has won a race harassment claim after a disgruntled colleague wrote the word 'slave' on a piece of machinery. The colleague had meant it not as a racial slur but as an expression of his anger at, as he saw it, being overworked and underpaid, an employment tribunal heard. But the presence of the word in the workplace violated Seedy Fofana's dignity and created a 'hostile, humiliating and offensive environment for him,' the tribunal ruled. Awarding Fofana £3,000 compensation, the employment judge David Hughes concluded that the graffiti did relate to race even though that had not been the intention. Hughes said: 'This is because the term 'slave' will, we find, evoke in contemporary English speakers the enslavement of Black people. All right-thinking people regard slavery as a monstrosity. 'Mr Fofana, an evidently proud Black man, feels the evil of slavery viscerally. That is understandable and respectable. We accept his sense of hurt at the graffito is genuine.' He added: 'The graffito could bear a number of meanings. It could carry the meaning that [the colleague] intended. It might have been understood as a comment on obedient machinery … taking the place of the labour of humans, or on humans' relationship to machines. 'But when one hears the word slavery, English speakers in this jurisdiction in this decade will probably first think of the enslavement of black people by white people.' The hearing in Bristol was told that Fofana was the only Black man at Window Widgets in Gloucester, which deals in plastic and metal parts for windows. Another worker, Tony Bennett, had taken to writing graffiti referencing 'modern slavery' and 'slavery' around the warehouse in protest at working conditions. This included writing the words 'Slave No' with an arrow pointing to the number 3 on a Hubtex machine, which is similar to a forklift truck. Bosses removed all the graffiti created by Bennett except the one on the Hubtex as they had not spotted it, but Fofana saw it during a stock take. He did not report it but resigned the following month complaining about hostile behaviour and sued the company, claiming £500,000 in compensation. The judge said the conclusion that the company had failed to remove a piece of graffiti that it had not seen may be seen as harsh. The judgment said that once the company was made aware of it, it removed it.
BBC News
3 hours ago
- BBC News
Protests in China over viral school bullying case
A school bullying incident in southern China has sparked a series of protests and calls for more justice for the 14-year-old victim.A video of the girl being slapped, kicked and forced to kneel by three other minors went viral in the Jiangyou city in Sichuan province last police said the three suspects are all female, aged 13, 14 and 15 - and two of them had been sent to "specialised schools for corrective education".As news of the incident spread on social media, many felt the punishment was too light - especially after claims that the girl had been bullied for some time and that her mother, who is reportedly deaf, had pleaded with the authorities for more justice for her daughter. It has prompted a wave of public anger online and protests erupted outside the local government offices in than 1,000 people gathered in the street on 4 August and stayed until past midnight, according to local shop of them told the BBC that "things got bloody" after police used batons and electric prods to control the crowd. Several videos posted online appear to verify his account. Officers can be seen dragging protesters along the street and hitting them with batons. A witness also said he saw a few water bottles being thrown at the police."People just wanted justice," he said. "People were upset about the [lack of] punishment."The witnesses who spoke to the BBC were unwilling to give their names as the police have reportedly urged local people not to talk about the a call to the local Public Security Bureau, the BBC was told that there were "limitations on foreign press asking questions". Protests in China are not uncommon, but they are quickly shut down and censored on state-run media and the internet. The demonstrations in Jiangyou have forced the police to issue a second statement to clarify rumours that the assailants were the daughters of a lawyer and a police inspector. These claims are false, police said."Two of the parents are unemployed, two are working outside the province, one is a local salesperson, and one is a local delivery driver," the statement police have punished two people for spreading fake information online saying their posts have "seriously disrupted public order and caused bad social impact".A lawyer based in Shanghai said in an online post that this incident has highlighted an ongoing legal dilemma for Chinese officials. "The penalty for causing minor injuries is too mild, while the physical and mental trauma suffered by victims is overlooked by the law, which leads to a significant imbalance in the protection of their rights," he wrote on the Chinese social media platform credentials have been verified by the BBC, but he is unwilling to be has become a highly sensitive topic in China in recent years, and student deaths over alleged bullying have triggered protests in the January this year, the death of a teenage boy sparked violent protests in a city in north-west China. Objects were hurled at police during demonstrations in Pucheng in Shaanxi province. Authorities said the teenager fell to his death in an accident at his school dormitory, but there were allegations on social media of a year a Chinese court handed down lengthy sentences to two teenagers who murdered a classmate in Hebei province with a shovel. The 13-year-olds buried the victim in an abandoned vegetable victim was bullied by his classmates, his family and lawyer had alleged, while the court said that he had "experienced conflict" with the convicted teens.
The Independent
5 hours ago
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Palestine Action's future plans are disturbing, Yvette Cooper claims as she urges protesters to stay away
Yvette Cooper has said she has seen some 'disturbing information' relating to the future plans of proscribed terror group Palestine Action, urging people not to protest in support of the organisation. Speaking ahead of a major demonstration to protest the decision to ban the group, the home secretary warned the public that 'this is not a non-violent organisation', adding that more information about the group is likely to be revealed in future court cases. It comes after Downing Street on Monday warned: 'Those who seek to support this group may yet not know the true nature of this organisation'. The move to ban Palestine Action came after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20, an incident it subsequently claimed, which police said caused about £7 million worth of damage. Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, Ms Cooper said: 'The proscribing process is based on detailed security assessments and security advice to me as home secretary, and I have to take that immensely seriously. 'It's based on violent action and injuries that this group has taken, including on national security targets, but also injuries to people, and also some disturbing information referring to future planning as well. 'So that's the information that I have to take immensely seriously when making those proscribing decisions.' Speaking ahead of a planned mass protest in support of the group taking place on Saturday, Ms Cooper said: 'I do understand there will be people who do not know, who are wanting to protest, what the nature of this group is. 'Let's be clear: this is not about Palestine or protesting about Palestine. This is about a particular, narrow, specific group that has both a violent record and information and about future planning as well. 'More of that information is likely to be really revealed once court cases come through, and can't be in advance. But I would say to people, this is not a non violent organisation.' The Metropolitan Police and other forces nationwide have warned anyone found to be expressing support for Palestine Action will be arrested, following the government's decision to ban the organisation last month. Defend Our Juries said it planned to bring together at least 500 people for its planned demonstration against the ban on Saturday with organisers 'very confident' they have recruited enough participants, a spokesperson for the campaign group said. But they have denied that its planned mass protest will try to overwhelm the police and justice system. A High Court ruling on Wednesday decided that Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori had several 'reasonably arguable' beliefs in her challenge over the group's ban that would be heard at a three-day hearing in November, but a bid to pause the ban temporarily was refused. The ban means that membership of, or support for, Palestine Action is now a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison, under the Terrorism Act 2000. More than 200 people were arrested at a wave of protests across the UK in response to the proscription last month, as part of the campaign co-ordinated by Defend Our Juries. Many of the protesters were detained after writing and holding up the message 'I oppose genocide I support Palestine Action' on placards or pieces of cardboard.
