Written By Unknown on Senin, 22 Desember 2014 | 00.35
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an off-duty police constable was beaten to death in Liverpool.
Neil Doyle, 36, was attacked by a group of men during a Christmas night out with colleagues from Merseyside Police.
Two other off-duty officers suffered facial injuries in the attack, which took place near the Aloha nightclub in Colquitt Street at around 3.15am on Friday.
A 28-year-old suspect from Huyton walked into a police station on Friday evening and is still being interviewed by detectives.
Now a 30-year-old man from the same area has been arrested and taken to a police station for questioning.
Both men were also arrested on suspicion of assaulting the two other officers.
Detectives are investigating the possibility they were targeted because of their jobs.
PC Doyle got married in July and was due to go on honeymoon next month.
In a statement, his widow Sarah said: "Neil was very well loved by all of his family, friends and colleagues and it is a great loss to us all.
"We are finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with what has happened and need time to be left to grieve."
Mr Doyle, who joined the force in May 2004, was taken to the Royal Liverpool Hospital, but died a short time later.
A post-mortem examination concluded he died from fatal bleeding around the brain, consistent with an assault.
Chief Constable Sir Jon Murphy said: "On behalf of everybody connected with Merseyside Police I extend our heartfelt and sincere condolences to his wife Sarah and the rest of his family.
"Constable Doyle was enjoying a Christmas night out with his work colleagues.
"At around 3.15am Neil left the Peacock bar and walked with two colleagues along Colquitt Street in the city centre.
"The three officers were subjected to an apparently unprovoked and vicious attack by a group of males."
Mr Doyle had received a commendation for his actions in arresting three men after a violent robbery.
The two other officers required hospital treatment. One suffered a fractured cheekbone.
Victims of domestic abuse are being warned to beware of Christmas gifts containing hidden spyware.
Abusers will hide cameras or listening devices inside presents such as mobile phones, laptops and toys to snoop on their targets, say campaigners.
Jennifer Perry, CEO of Digital-Trust, which helps victims of digital abuse, said: "Surveillance technology is getting cheaper, better disguised, simpler to use and easier to find.
"We work with a range of domestic violence professionals who are telling us that digital abuse is making it much more difficult to help women and keep them safe."
She said new smartphones given by a possessive spouse could include an app that can turn on the microphone remotely and eavesdrop on their partner's conversations.
Emma, a woman with a jealous and controlling partner, said: "I had been out having coffee with a friend and when I returned he played back part of our conversation.
"I couldn't figure out how he had done it.
"Had he hired someone to follow me? Did he bug the cafe? It was my domestic violence case worker who told me to check my phone.
"I found he had put spyware on my phone and had been listening and reading my texts for months."
Digital-Trust said listening devices can be hidden in everyday products such as extension cords, phone chargers and carbon monoxide detectors, all of which will function normally.
It said the new Paddington Bear movie will promote sales of a voice-activated Paddington Bear recorder, which could become popular with people who want to spy on their partners or have shared custody of children.
"An abuser can send the bear home with the child and then during their next visit the abuser can listen to the recordings and charge the battery," Ms Perry warned.
"Add a small tracking chip in the bear and the abuser will also be able to track the child and its mother."
The trust offers advice for anyone who suspects they are being monitored at www.digital-trust.org.
Some patients who need an ambulance may soon have to wait longer for it to arrive even if they are classed as a serious case, under new proposals seen by Sky News.
In a letter, the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives suggests the target time to get to patients suffering a range of "serious but not the most life-threatening" problems, including strokes and seizures, could be increased to 19 minutes.
The current target for an emergency vehicle to reach people in life-threatening situations is eight minutes.
According to the memo, NHS England says there will be no changes to response times where patients have "immediately life threatening" conditions such as cardiac arrest, choking and major bleeding - known as Red 1 calls.
In these instances, a "fast response" car is often sent ahead of a fully-crewed ambulance to meet the time limit.
Video:Labour: Ambulance Changes 'Unsafe'
For serious cases like strokes and fits - Red 2 calls - there would be an extra three minutes added on to the response time.
But a proportion of Red 2s would have the eight-minute target scrapped in favour of a 19-minute one for a full ambulance crew to be sent on its own.
Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, said: "This has all the hallmarks of a panic move and suggests Jeremy Hunt's only solution to the A&E crisis is to give up and move the goalposts.
"Rather than getting ambulance response times back up to established standards, it looks like he is running up the white flag. The situation in the NHS is now serious and Jeremy Hunt is failing to provide the leadership it desperately needs.
Video:A&E Waiting Times: The Figures
"While there may be a case for reviewing these rules, this is not the way to do it. It is nothing short of dangerous to make a snap decision at the start of the most difficult winter in the NHS for years.
"Hunt's decision risks leaving thousands of seriously ill people waiting longer for ambulances this winter. The Health Secretary needs to provide urgent reassurance that this change can be safely made and won't put lives at risks."
But a Department of Health spokesman insisted there were "absolutely no plans" to increase ambulance waiting times.
"We have given ambulances an extra £50m this winter to ensure the service remains sustainable and the Secretary of State agreed that NHS England should investigate a proposal from the ambulance services themselves to see whether the service they offer the public could be improved," the spokesman said.
Video:'We're Looking At Options For NHS'
"No decisions have been made, and the Secretary of State would only agree to proposed changes that improve response times for urgent cases."
In an interview with Dermot Murnaghan, Chris Grayling told Sky News: "This is not something that has been decided. The Health Secretary will not give the go-ahead to something that weakens the support the Ambulance Service provides to our community."
The long-range weather forecast now goes as far as Christmas Day - and reveals where it is most likely to snow.
The data, which at this stage is still open to change, indicates that on 25 December it will be mainly dry and a sunny day for all areas.
It will be chilly as well with the winds coming in from a cold northerly direction and temperatures for some will be just below the average for the time of year.
There will be the risk of some showers as well, especially across Scotland, Ireland, northwest England and parts of Wales, some of which could turn to sleet and snow over high ground.
Snow is most likely over the tops of the Scottish Highlands, mainly over 200m (650ft).
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Gallery: Snow Blankets Parts Of UK
Middleham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales after overnight snow
The blanketing of snow came overnight, showing that winter is well and truly here. Continue through for more images
Survivors have welcomed reports, in a letter seen by Sky News, that Theresa May is planning to scrap the panel set up to investigate allegations of historical child sex abuse.
The letter, signed by more than 60 victims and representatives who wish to remain anonymous, lists a series of demands for the Home Secretary regarding the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry.
It calls for a statutory inquiry to be declared, a public announcement that the existing panel will be scrapped and replaced on a "transparent fit-for-purpose" and the appointment of an inquiry chair who has "demonstrable experience and ability in challenging the establishment".
It reads: "Following the mistakes of the last six months, we consider your proposals as an opportunity to place the inquiry on to a firm footing whereby it can focus on dealing with organised and institutional abuse and cover ups at the highest levels.
"It is important that the inquiry is centred on bringing perpetrators before the courts, holding those that have failed in their professional duty or covered up allegations or been obstructive to account and delivering justice for survivors."
May says survivors want the appointments to be more transparent
On Sunday a letter to panel members obtained by the investigations website Exaro News revealed the Home Secretary says she is considering three options in the hope of regaining the trust of "survivors" of sexual abuse.
She wrote: "Survivors have stressed that if they are to have confidence in the inquiry, it must have the power to compel witnesses.
Video:'No Transparency' In Abuse Inquiry
"I am clear I want to give the inquiry those powers and there are three options for doing this. i) Convert the current inquiry into a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, subject to consultation with the chairman once appointed. ii) Set up a statutory inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act. iii) Establish a royal commission."
But the panel believe that the decision to disband the inquiry has already been made.
The Home Office has not confirmed or denied reports the panel is to be dismissed.
Video:Esther Rantzen On Abuse Panel
A statement released on Saturday night said: "The Home Secretary is determined that appalling cases of child sexual abuse should be exposed so that perpetrators face justice and the vulnerable are protected.
"She is absolutely committed to ensuring the Independent Panel Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse has the confidence of survivors. The Home Secretary is also clear that we have to balance the need to make progress with the need to get this right."
Sky News has asked the Home Office "whether the Home Secretary or any other Home Office representative has told any panel member that the panel will definitely be scrapped" and whether the Home Secretary has decided yet "whether she will disband the existing panel".
Video:4 Dec: Abuse Victim Andy Kershaw
So far, they have not responded.
In her letter, Mrs May explained that "survivors also feel that the process by which the panel was appointed should have been more transparent".
There is a feeling within the current inquiry that too much attention is being paid to a "vocal minority of survivors".
Video:5 Dec: New Hope For Abuse Probe
Panel member Sharon Evans, chief executive of Dot Com Children's Foundation, herself a survivor of abuse, has written to the Home Secretary expressing that she is "devastated" at the prospect of the inquiry being dissolved and informed Mrs May the panel had been told in off the record terms that they will be stood down after Christmas.
Mrs Evans noted that the panel has met with 70 survivors so far. Some 90% of them support the inquiry as it is, she said.
But the inquiry, which was set up in July of this year to investigate whether public bodies and other non-state institutions failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales, lost two chairpersons - Fiona Woolf and Baroness Butler-Sloss - due to conflicts of interests.
Video:Abuse Survivor Slams Govt Inquiry
Some survivors have also said they have lost confidence in the rest of the panel.
Six months on, the Home Secretary will be keen to gain the trust of survivors and the public as a whole.
Written By Unknown on Minggu, 21 Desember 2014 | 22.11
By Nazaneen Ghaffar, Weather Presenter
The long-range weather forecast now goes as far as Christmas Day - and reveals where it is most likely to snow.
The data, which at this stage is still open to change, indicates that on 25 December it will be mainly dry and a sunny day for all areas.
It will be chilly as well with the winds coming in from a cold northerly direction and temperatures for some will be just below the average for the time of year.
There will be the risk of some showers as well, especially across Scotland, Ireland, northwest England and parts of Wales, some of which could turn to sleet and snow over high ground.
Snow is most likely over the tops of the Scottish Highlands, mainly over 200m (650ft).
1/7
Gallery: Snow Blankets Parts Of UK
Middleham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales after overnight snow
The blanketing of snow came overnight, showing that winter is well and truly here. Continue through for more images
The Home Office has failed to confirm or deny reports that Theresa May is planning to completely scrap the panel she set up to investigate allegations of historical child sex abuse.
In a letter to panel members obtained by the investigations website Exaro News, the Home Secretary says she is considering three options in the hope of regaining the trust of "survivors" of sexual abuse.
She wrote: "Survivors have stressed that if they are to have confidence in the inquiry, it must have the power to compel witnesses.
"I am clear I want to give the inquiry those powers and there are three options for doing this. i) Convert the current inquiry into a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, subject to consultation with the chairman once appointed. ii) Set up a statutory inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act. iii) Establish a royal commission."
But the panel believe that the decision to disband the inquiry has already been made.
May says survivors want the appointments to be more transparent
The Home Office has not confirmed or denied reports the panel is to be dismissed.
A statement released on Saturday night said: "The Home Secretary is determined that appalling cases of child sexual abuse should be exposed so that perpetrators face justice and the vulnerable are protected.
Video:Esther Rantzen On Abuse Panel
"She is absolutely committed to ensuring the Independent Panel Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse has the confidence of survivors. The Home Secretary is also clear that we have to balance the need to make progress with the need to get this right."
Sky News has asked the Home Office "whether the Home Secretary or any other Home Office representative has told any panel member that the panel will definitely be scrapped" and whether the Home Secretary has decided yet "whether she will disband the existing panel".
So far, they have not responded.
Video:4 Dec: Abuse Victim Andy Kershaw
In her letter, Mrs May explained that "survivors also feel that the process by which the panel was appointed should have been more transparent".
There is a feeling within the current inquiry that too much attention is being paid to a "vocal minority of survivors".
Panel member Sharon Evans, chief executive of Dot Com Children's Foundation, herself a survivor of abuse, has written to the Home Secretary expressing that she is "devastated" at the prospect of the inquiry being dissolved and informed Mrs May the panel had been told in off the record terms that they will be stood down after Christmas.
Video:5 Dec: New Hope For Abuse Probe
Mrs Evans noted that the panel has met with 70 survivors so far. Some 90% of them support the inquiry as it is, she said.
But the inquiry, which was set up in July of this year to investigate whether public bodies and other non-state institutions failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales, lost two chairpersons - Fiona Woolf and Baroness Butler-Sloss - due to conflicts of interests.
Some survivors have also said they have lost confidence in the rest of the panel.
Video:Abuse Survivor Slams Govt Inquiry
Six months on, the Home Secretary will be keen to gain the trust of survivors and the public as a whole.
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an off-duty police constable was beaten to death in Liverpool.
Neil Doyle, 36, was attacked by a group of men during a Christmas night out with colleagues from Merseyside Police.
Two other off-duty officers suffered facial injuries in the attack, which took place near the Aloha nightclub in Colquitt Street at around 3.15am on Friday.
A 28-year-old suspect from Huyton walked into a police station on Friday evening and is still being interviewed by detectives.
Now a 30-year-old man from the same area has been arrested and taken to a police station for questioning.
Both men were also arrested on suspicion of assaulting the two other officers.
Detectives are investigating the possibility they were targeted because of their jobs.
PC Doyle got married in July and was due to go on honeymoon next month.
In a statement, his widow Sarah said: "Neil was very well loved by all of his family, friends and colleagues and it is a great loss to us all.
"We are finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with what has happened and need time to be left to grieve."
Mr Doyle, who joined the force in May 2004, was taken to the Royal Liverpool Hospital, but died a short time later.
A post-mortem examination concluded he died from fatal bleeding around the brain, consistent with an assault.
Chief Constable Sir Jon Murphy said: "On behalf of everybody connected with Merseyside Police I extend our heartfelt and sincere condolences to his wife Sarah and the rest of his family.
"Constable Doyle was enjoying a Christmas night out with his work colleagues.
"At around 3.15am Neil left the Peacock bar and walked with two colleagues along Colquitt Street in the city centre.
"The three officers were subjected to an apparently unprovoked and vicious attack by a group of males."
Mr Doyle had received a commendation for his actions in arresting three men after a violent robbery.
The two other officers required hospital treatment. One suffered a fractured cheekbone.
Victims of domestic abuse are being warned to beware of Christmas gifts containing hidden spyware.
Abusers will hide cameras or listening devices inside presents such as mobile phones, laptops and toys to snoop on their targets, say campaigners.
Jennifer Perry, CEO of Digital-Trust, which helps victims of digital abuse, said: "Surveillance technology is getting cheaper, better disguised, simpler to use and easier to find.
"We work with a range of domestic violence professionals who are telling us that digital abuse is making it much more difficult to help women and keep them safe."
She said new smartphones given by a possessive spouse could include an app that can turn on the microphone remotely and eavesdrop on their partner's conversations.
Emma, a woman with a jealous and controlling partner, said: "I had been out having coffee with a friend and when I returned he played back part of our conversation.
"I couldn't figure out how he had done it.
"Had he hired someone to follow me? Did he bug the cafe? It was my domestic violence case worker who told me to check my phone.
"I found he had put spyware on my phone and had been listening and reading my texts for months."
Digital-Trust said listening devices can be hidden in everyday products such as extension cords, phone chargers and carbon monoxide detectors, all of which will function normally.
It said the new Paddington Bear movie will promote sales of a voice-activated Paddington Bear recorder, which could become popular with people who want to spy on their partners or have shared custody of children.
"An abuser can send the bear home with the child and then during their next visit the abuser can listen to the recordings and charge the battery," Ms Perry warned.
"Add a small tracking chip in the bear and the abuser will also be able to track the child and its mother."
The trust offers advice for anyone who suspects they are being monitored at www.digital-trust.org.
Some patients who need an ambulance may soon have to wait longer for it to arrive even if they are classed as a serious case, under new proposals seen by Sky News.
In a letter, the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives suggests the target time to get to patients suffering a range of "serious but not the most life-threatening" problems, including strokes and seizures, could be increased to 19 minutes.
The current target for an emergency vehicle to reach people in life-threatening situations is eight minutes.
According to the memo, NHS England says there will be no changes to response times where patients have "immediately life threatening" conditions such as cardiac arrest, choking and major bleeding - known as Red 1 calls.
In these instances, a "fast response" car is often sent ahead of a fully-crewed ambulance to meet the time limit.
Video:Labour: Ambulance Changes 'Unsafe'
For serious cases like strokes and fits - Red 2 calls - there would be an extra three minutes added on to the response time.
But a proportion of Red 2s would have the eight-minute target scrapped in favour of a 19-minute one for a full ambulance crew to be sent on its own.
Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, said: "This has all the hallmarks of a panic move and suggests Jeremy Hunt's only solution to the A&E crisis is to give up and move the goalposts.
"Rather than getting ambulance response times back up to established standards, it looks like he is running up the white flag. The situation in the NHS is now serious and Jeremy Hunt is failing to provide the leadership it desperately needs.
Video:A&E Waiting Times: The Figures
"While there may be a case for reviewing these rules, this is not the way to do it. It is nothing short of dangerous to make a snap decision at the start of the most difficult winter in the NHS for years.
"Hunt's decision risks leaving thousands of seriously ill people waiting longer for ambulances this winter. The Health Secretary needs to provide urgent reassurance that this change can be safely made and won't put lives at risks."
But a Department of Health spokesman insisted there were "absolutely no plans" to increase ambulance waiting times.
"We have given ambulances an extra £50m this winter to ensure the service remains sustainable and the Secretary of State agreed that NHS England should investigate a proposal from the ambulance services themselves to see whether the service they offer the public could be improved," the spokesman said.
Video:'We're Looking At Options For NHS'
"No decisions have been made, and the Secretary of State would only agree to proposed changes that improve response times for urgent cases."
In an interview with Dermot Murnaghan, Chris Grayling told Sky News: "This is not something that has been decided. The Health Secretary will not give the go-ahead to something that weakens the support the Ambulance Service provides to our community."
