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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Nursery to stay closed after sexual assault arrest
A nursery that closed when a staff member was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault nearly three months ago said it would not reopen. Child First Nursery in Moulton, Northampton was shut by watchdog Ofsted on 9 May due to safeguarding concerns. Northamptonshire Police previously arrested a member of staff, who were later released on bail while inquiries continued. A spokesperson for Child First said: "It was always our intention to reopen. However, with the investigation ongoing, we believe this is the best course of action to end any uncertainty for all those impacted." Police have not confirmed where the offence was alleged to have taken place. The childcare setting was last inspected by Ofsted last year, when it was given a good rating. The provider runs five nurseries across Aylesbury, Northampton and Banbury and Bicester. At the time of the immediate closure, a spokesperson for Ofsted said: "Children's safety is our priority and we suspended this nursery on 9 May because we had reasonable cause to believe that children may be exposed to a risk of harm." A spokesperson for Child First said it had apologised to parents over the closure and offered support to find alternative childcare arrangements. It said: "We have taken the very difficult decision to permanently close the nursery. "We will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation." It said staff would be offered new roles across its other nurseries or will be supported to find a new role elsewhere. "We appreciate the support shown by our families and our staff team during this time. "The safety and welfare of the children in our care has always been our highest priority." Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Related internet links Child First Ofsted
BBC News
4 days ago
- BBC News
Northampton nursery to stay closed after sexual assault arrest
A nursery that closed when a staff member was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault nearly three months ago said it would not reopen. Child First Nursery in Moulton, Northampton was shut by watchdog Ofsted on 9 May due to safeguarding concerns. Northamptonshire Police previously arrested a member of staff, who were later released on bail while inquiries continued. A spokesperson for Child First said: "It was always our intention to reopen. However, with the investigation ongoing, we believe this is the best course of action to end any uncertainty for all those impacted." Police have not confirmed where the offence was alleged to have taken childcare setting was last inspected by Ofsted last year, when it was given a good rating. The provider runs five nurseries across Aylesbury, Northampton and Banbury and the time of the immediate closure, a spokesperson for Ofsted said: "Children's safety is our priority and we suspended this nursery on 9 May because we had reasonable cause to believe that children may be exposed to a risk of harm."A spokesperson for Child First said it had apologised to parents over the closure and offered support to find alternative childcare arrangements. It said: "We have taken the very difficult decision to permanently close the nursery."We will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation."It said staff would be offered new roles across its other nurseries or will be supported to find a new role elsewhere. "We appreciate the support shown by our families and our staff team during this time. "The safety and welfare of the children in our care has always been our highest priority." Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Boston Globe
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Congressman Seth Moulton draws a primary challenge after criticism over trans athlete remarks
Advertisement In a statement, a spokesperson for Moulton said the congressman spent the last week in Washington fighting back against the elimination of 'What he is not focused on is an election that is more than a year away,' said Sydney Simon, the Moulton spokesperson. Moulton, who lives in Salem, represents which stretches from Amesbury to Marblehead. Democrats in Moulton's hometown of Salem The 40-year-old Democrat works for healthcare software company Aledade, and volunteers for Democratic candidates and causes. Advertisement They grew up in rural Oregon and moved to Massachusetts in 2001 to attend Smith College, where they graduated with a degree in costume design. In 2016, Andres-Beck worked as a software engineer on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, where they wrote the code for her donation website. Andres-Beck currently serves as a member of Middleton's Affordable Housing Trust and Master Plan Committee and volunteers as an outreach coordinator for the Middleton Democratic Town Committee. They moved to the district in 2022. While 'It's not the only thing he's out of touch on, either,' they said. The saga around Moulton's transgender comments began after Trump's win in 2024, when Moulton told 'I have two little girls, I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that,' he said. Those comments drew immediate backlash from residents in his district and the Massachusetts Democratic Party. In Advertisement 'There are many who, shouting from the extreme left corners of social media, believe I have failed the unspoken Democratic Party purity test,' he said at the time. 'We did not lose the 2024 election because of any trans person or issue. We lost, in part, because we shame and belittle too many opinions held by too many voters, and that needs to stop.' Samantha J. Gross can be reached at
The Hill
15-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Rep. Moulton: ‘Open-ended question' if Trump wants Ukraine to win Russian war
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Monday said whether President Trump wants Ukraine to win the war against Russia is an 'open-ended question.' 'I think it's still an open-ended question, because — just because Donald Trump is saying the right thing in the last 24 hours, it doesn't make the last six months go away,' Moulton told NewsNation's Blake Burman on 'The Hill.' 'But listen, I'm happy with where Trump is today. He seems to make decisions based on politics, not on principle, even when you just heard him talking about this, he wasn't talking about the principles of democracies overcoming murderous dictators. He was just talking about who pays the bill,' he added. Trump recently said the United States will impose 'severe' tariffs against Russia if the country does not go along with a ceasefire in Ukraine within the next 50 days. 'We're very, very unhappy with [Russia], and we're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in about 50 days,' Trump said amid an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The president signaled he would impose a 100 percent 'secondary' tariff targeting other nations that do business with Russia. Since the start of his second term, Trump and his administration have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine but have not experienced much success. Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago after Moscow built up troops at the border. Trump campaigned on a vow to end the war in 24 hours, a timeframe he later stated was 'sarcastic.' 'Trump's newfound support for Ukraine is a sharp reversal from when he was parroting Putin's propaganda—and it's long overdue,' Moulton said in a post on the social platform X Monday.
Boston Globe
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Two Mass. military vets in Congress break from Democratic consensus of outrage over Trump's Iran strike
'I think the world is safer after these strikes than before, but it's also more complicated,' Auchincloss Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In an interview with the Globe, Auchincloss stood by that assessment, and acknowledged he is in a different place from Democrats who believe that a strike should not have happened. He lamented the lack of any congressional input which made the process worse, but said that if Trump had presented the military plan to Congress, backed up with a clear plan for a diplomatic resolution to Iran's nuclear threat, he would've voted for it. Advertisement Moulton, the Salem Democrat, reserved judgment in the wake of the attacks. 'One of the reasons I was reticent to just immediately condemn the strikes is because anything that gets us back to the negotiating table is helpful — that's where we need to be at the end of the day,' he told the Globe. (Trump said on Wednesday that the US and Iranian sides would talk directly next week.) Advertisement Congressman Seth Moulton speaks during a town hall event at Tewksbury High School on June 16, 2025, in Tewksbury. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff Asked if he would have voted for the strikes had Trump sought congressional approval, Moulton said, 'I would not; I can't say why.' (The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services subcommittee with jurisdiction over nuclear arms control, Moulton said he met privately with General Michael Kurilla, the head of the US Central Command, before the strike on Iran.) But Moulton said that one of the lessons he learned from serving in Iraq was 'you should not rush to judgment before you have all the facts… sometimes, something that looks bad turns out to be helpful at the end of the day.' That Auchincloss and Moulton have offered distinct interpretations of the Iran strikes is not especially surprising. Both are generally more pro-Israel than their Democratic colleagues — particularly Auchincloss — and more vocal on the urgency of blocking Iran's path to a nuclear weapon. Both have also been willing to use the phrase 'regime change,' which is politically toxic in many corners following Iraq and Afghanistan. Auchincloss said he did it as a way to 'purposefully poke the bear a little bit and force a conversation' about the role America could play helping Iranians toward self-determination without using force. Moulton also spoke about the desire to see the regime in Tehran gone and advanced that idea in a Wednesday interview, but worried that the strikes might have galvanized support for the Islamist government after speaking with an Iranian-American contact in Boston. Advertisement Still, both Democrats are far from uniformly supportive of any of Trump's other moves on the world stage. Both have been critical of the administration's handling of a number of foreign policy issues on substance and on execution. Asked about the potential difficulty of balancing openness to more aggressive action on Iran with deep opposition to the way Trump handles military and foreign affairs, Auchincloss said, 'everything in Washington is harder with this 'very stable genius' that we're dealing with.' Most Democrats, meanwhile, responded with apprehension and alarm over virtually every aspect of the strikes. Senator Elizabeth Warren summed up the feelings of many in a This divergence in Democrats' reactions to the strikes reflects the party's broader challenges to find a united front not just on their stance on this particularly thorny geopolitical issue, but on Trump in general. Matters could get more complicated as the initial shock of the attack wears off. While fears of a wider war including the US have not materialized—with Trump taking credit for brokering a ceasefire between Iran and Israel that has held—it's still unclear how effective the strikes were. A leaked US intelligence assessment found that the strikes did not obliterate Iran's nuclear program, as the Trump administration has repeatedly suggested. Advertisement Some top party leaders, however, have long navigated a similar balancing act of concerns between Israel, Iran, and Trump, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, a longtime Iran hawk and supporter of Israel. (Schumer has refrained from commenting on the strikes themselves, instead focusing on criticizing Trump's rejection of congressional approval.) But in some ways, Democratic opinion on the issue is narrower and more muted compared to the internal division on display when President Obama pushed to enact the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. A number of Democratic lawmakers opposed the deal—a signature initiative of their own president—when it came to a vote in Congress, fearing it would make Israel less safe. There is far more unity on these questions now than a decade ago, said Ned Price, a former State Department spokesman under President Biden and a National Security Council aide under Obama. 'To the extent there is a lack of consensus' right now, said Price, 'it is on tactics rather than strategy.' 'Yes, there are a couple of outliers—we are a big tent, especially on matters of war and peace,' he continued. 'Not everyone is going to be singing from the same sheet music.' Looking ahead, Auchincloss argued it's too early to say whether the strikes are a success 'because as it stands right now, there is an opportunity, but not a victory.' The opportunity, he said, is for the US to push 'coercive diplomacy,' pushing for a new agreement like the 2015 nuclear deal while also getting tougher on Iran's funding of terrorism through proxy organizations. That's where he and Moulton are in lockstep with the entire Democratic caucus. 'The only way to ensure long-term that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon is through a diplomatic deal that allows intrusive inspections,' Moulton said. Advertisement The fact that both Auchincloss and Moulton served in wars in the Middle East doesn't entirely explain their views, but it did impart them with lessons. 'I wanted a clear mission as a Lieutenant. I did not want a garbled chain of command, but that wasn't the problem,' Auchincloss said of his time in Afghanistan in 2012. 'The problem was the mission, and Congress needed to help, and we should help now.' Moulton offered a different point. 'I can't tell you how many times I've been surprised in the Middle East,' he said, 'when something we expect to be good turns out to be bad, and something we expect to be bad turns out to be good.' Sam Brodey can be reached at
