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BBC News
17 hours ago
- General
- BBC News
Guide Dogs Sheffield appeals for people to foster puppies
Guide Dogs Sheffield is appealing for volunteers to foster puppies to ensure there is no delay in their charity aims to train 45 puppies a year at its centre in Tinsley but there is a shortage of fosterers who can look after pups at home from a few weeks old to about 14 is also a lack of fosterers who can look after older puppies on evenings and weekends while they finish the final stages of their Dogs says the two roles are "vital and without volunteers there's a risk of delays giving someone with sight loss their independence". Sarah Longley has fostered Vector since he was eight weeks old and started his initial training at her home."It's similar to normal puppy training but we introduced him to trains, buses, shops and noisy places so he is hopefully a well-rounded puppy ready to go to the next stage."Vector is now 14 months and is moving on to the next stage of daily training at the Guide Dogs cannot keep him as part of his training is adapting to a new family, but she hopes to get another foster pup."I thought I would learn something new, it would be fun and it was giving something back," she said."He'll leave us and it will be really hard saying goodbye but it's emotional in a good way as hopefully he's going on to do a brilliant thing." Kirsty Simpson is employed by Guide Dogs to train older puppies during the day on a mock street with bollards, bus stops and fake pedestrian Kirsty is their trainer, Guide Dogs still need fosterers to look after the older pups in evenings and weekends until they fully qualify when they are about said: "Fosterers are families of all sizes, it doesn't matter if you live alone or you have children, you can even have other pet dogs, because our dogs need to be okay with other animals in the home. You don't need a big garden either."You don't need previous experience with dogs, we train everybody and fully support people. Guide Dogs will fund everything such as food, vaccinations and equipment, we just ask for a loving family and a lovely home."If people are out at work all day, Kirsty suggests fostering an older puppy."They are training all day Monday to Friday so you can drop off from first thing in the morning and collect at teatime, then you get to enjoy the dog throughout the rest of the evening and over the weekend." Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
San Francisco Chronicle
14-07-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Milwaukee man pleads guilty to carrying concealed pistol near Republican National Convention
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed pistol outside the Republican National Convention's security perimeter last year. Federal agents stopped Donnell Tinsley as he was walking near the convention's security zone on the gathering's first day in July 2024, according to a criminal complaint. Tinsley was wearing black pants and a ski mask and was carrying what the complaint described as a black tactical backpack. Agents found an AK-47-style pistol in the backpack. The arrest came just two days after Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign appearance in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was a presidential candidate at the time and went on to capture the White House in the November elections. Online court records show Tinsley, now 22, pleaded guilty July 3 to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Marisabel Cabrera, a former Democratic state representative, sentenced him to 26 days time served.
Toronto Star
14-07-2025
- Toronto Star
Milwaukee man pleads guilty to carrying concealed pistol near Republican National Convention
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed pistol outside the Republican National Convention's security perimeter last year. Federal agents stopped Donnell Tinsley as he was walking near the convention's security zone on the gathering's first day in July 2024, according to a criminal complaint. Tinsley was wearing black pants and a ski mask and was carrying what the complaint described as a black tactical backpack. Agents found an AK-47-style pistol in the backpack.
Winnipeg Free Press
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Milwaukee man pleads guilty to carrying concealed pistol near Republican National Convention
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed pistol outside the Republican National Convention's security perimeter last year. Federal agents stopped Donnell Tinsley as he was walking near the convention's security zone on the gathering's first day in July 2024, according to a criminal complaint. Tinsley was wearing black pants and a ski mask and was carrying what the complaint described as a black tactical backpack. Agents found an AK-47-style pistol in the backpack. The arrest came just two days after Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign appearance in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was a presidential candidate at the time and went on to capture the White House in the November elections. Online court records show Tinsley, now 22, pleaded guilty July 3 to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Marisabel Cabrera, a former Democratic state representative, sentenced him to 26 days time served. Tinsley's attorney, public defender Elizabeth Ellsworth-Kasch, declined comment when reached by phone Monday.
RTÉ News
17-06-2025
- Health
- RTÉ News
Organ opt-out law 'changing the narrative', says campaigner
The soft opt-out organ donation law "is changing the narrative around how we think about organ donation", campaigner Orla Tinsley has said. Ms Tinsley received a double-lung transplant in 2017 and made a documentary about her health as waited for the transplant. She also under went a kidney transplant last year. The first phase of the Human Tissue Act 2024 comes into operation today, meaning everybody will be considered an organ donor unless they opt-out or are included in a so-called excluded group. The act will introduce an opt-out system of consent for organ donation and will allow for altruistic living organ donation to strangers. If a person does not register, they will be considered a potential organ donor and the family will be approached to give final consent. "It's still giving some power to the family, which needs to be dealt with through a lot of education," Ms Tinsley said. Speaking to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, she said that organ donation will go from something "we don't want to talk about" to something "that you have to think about", adding, "because if you don't have a conversation with your family member and choose whether you opt in or opt out, then you can't have your wishes followed through with." It has been proven that a soft opt-out alone does not make a big difference to organ donations and she said that while there was a lot of great work being done, more could be done to continue the progress around informing people of organ donation. There should be specific modules taught in schools to teach about organ donation "in a very clear and dedicated way and particularly emphasising what soft opt-out means", she said. Support and education for those waiting on a transplant is also really important, Ms Tinsley added. "The act of becoming an organ donor can save up to eight people's lives. I personally am alive because of two people who decided to be organ donors. It's a miracle of life and a gift of life that is one of the most profound legacies that someone can leave," she said.
