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BBC News
07-04-2025
- Health
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Wolverhampton cancer support team wins award for prison visits
A cancer team has won a regional award for its "massive" support to 200 Living With and Beyond Cancer team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) won Healthier Futures' Wolverhampton Team of the Year with cancer support charity Macmillan and HMP Oakwood at Featherstone, the team worked to improve access to healthcare and information, and boost appointment attendance means 2,136 inmates now have access to trained cancer champions among their colleagues, and healthcare information. Cancer care navigator Kelly Ward, who visits the prison monthly, said: "To be recognised for our continued support of patients in all areas, without judgment, has been a huge boost for our team."She said the team were proud to support all patients in all settings and jumped at the chance to get involved."Due to rules in prison, inmates were unable to have support at appointments surrounding cancer investigation, diagnosis or follow-ups," Ms Ward said."Previously they struggled to access information booklets and information at appointments to take back with them to read and gain understanding of their pathway." Also known as Black Country Integrated Care System, Healthier Futures brings providers and commissioners of NHS services together with local authorities and other partners to plan and deliver joined-up services to improve people's judges' shortlisting said: "The team has improved pathways and communication, delivered cancer champion training to inmates, which allows them to support each other and hosted cancer awareness sessions for more than 200 inmates. A massive piece of work that deserves recognition." Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
23-03-2025
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Three arrested in Doncaster illegal off-road bike crackdown
Three people have been arrested as part of a crackdown on illegal off-road bikes in said the arrests were made when Doncaster's neighbourhood policing team joined up with the force's motorcycle and rural crime team to patrol a quarry off Lound Lane in Brodsworth which had become a "hotspot" for off-road bikes were spotted and, following a short pursuit, one driver was detained and reported on summons for driving offences, with his bike also seized for having no stop saw two occupants of a vehicle searched and subsequently arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs and possession of offensive weapons, police said. The "day of action" also saw three vehicles recovered, with one involving a driver who had no insurance and two involving vehicles being driven with false or cloned plates, a force spokesperson said. 'Anti-social behaviour' Sgt Kelly Ward said: "We know how much of a nuisance off-road bikes are in our local communities and we recognise people's frustrations towards them."Every piece of information we gather on off-road bikes is used to shape our local intelligence picture and helps us to locate the vehicles involved and seize them."We use that intelligence to shape our policing activities every day and these days of action involving the motorcycle and rural crime team allow us to adopt a high visibility approach and better monitor off-road locations where we know off-road bikes to be more prevalent."Sgt Ward added that members of the public could help police by providing specific times, dates and locations of where off-road bikes and illegal e-scooters were being should also provide descriptions of the riders, including details of their clothing and helmets, as well as the bikes themselves, including make, colour and Ward added: "We need your help to continue to crack down on off-road bikes as your intelligence really does aid us in stopping this particular type of anti-social behaviour." Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
BBC News
14-02-2025
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Man cons Leeds City Council out of £710,000 in 'Greggs' swindle
A man pretending to be a property manager for bakery chain Greggs conned a city council out of £710,000, a court has Baig, 47, made fraudulent small business grant claims from Leeds City Council against 32 properties which were branches of the firm during the coronavirus pandemic in May who had no links to Greggs and was not employed by the company, was eventually caught out and all but £90,000 was later returned to the Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, Baig, of Paisley Road West, Glasgow, was found guilty of three counts of fraud and is due to be sentenced at the same court on 31 March. Account frozen According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Baig contacted Leeds City Council pretending to be a group property manager at the bakery chain's head asked for business rates numbers for the firm's Leeds branches, details of which he claimed he could not access himself due to the Covid then used the details to apply to the Small Business Grant Fund, money from which was paid into a bank account associated with his catering grant was one of several government schemes aimed at helping small businesses stay afloat during the same month, when the council realised the claims were fraudulent, the account was frozen and Baig was arrested in Glasgow two months later by Police Scotland officers.A total of about £16,000 in cash was found at his house, as well as forged remittance slips which officers believed he was planning to use to try and persuade the bank to return the frozen money, the CPS said. 'Stealing funds' Following the guilty verdict, Kelly Ward, from the CPS, said: "Baig took advantage of the difficult circumstances of the pandemic in 2020 to defraud the council out of taxpayers' money."Those who cheat the public purse are stealing funds which should rightly go towards services and the community or, in this case, towards supporting small businesses through an extremely challenging time."Ms Ward said proceedings would be started to recover any assets resulting from Baig's to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
