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🦊✨ Species of the Month: The Fox! 🏙️➡️🌲 From city streets to countryside hills, foxes are the ultimate adapters!
This month’s feature is extra special, dedicated to a true fox enthusiast and storyteller, Chris Soper aka "Sniffer," who loved these clever creatures like no other. ❤️
Explore the life, habits, and fascinating folklore of the fox—from their keen hunting skills to legendary tales about wily old Reynard! Whether they’re raiding your compost or trotting through fields, foxes keep us on our toes.
Check out more about these incredible animals! 🐾
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A company director has been fined more than £60,000 after workers demolishing a former hotel in Cornwall were exposed to asbestos.
The deadly substance was found scattered across the site in the summer of 2020.
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Forget what the media say about our Police Officers in the UK, they are second to none .... how many of you would run into in danger one minute to showing compassion and professionalism the next when faced with today's societies ills.
'I was concerned for members of the public and knew we had to stop him.'
PC Gerrard and PC Mulhall reflect on how they instinctively confronted a knife-wielding man in Leicester Square last year, sustaining serious injuries.
Today, their attacker has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
Every day, courageous officers put their lives on the line to protect Londoners
@metpoliceuk I'd refer yourselves to the IOPC for failing to discharge your duties.... clearly it would and did cause an outrage to public decency. Get a grip and stop making excuses,sick of it now. Frontline officers are getting the flak for poor leadership.
The police have learned that every time they take firm action they end up thrown under the bus by their seniors, by politicians and, sometimes they lose their employment as a result. The media harangue them, social media attacks them. For decades now, civil courts and the complaints system have been used by vexatious litigants and lawyers with questionable agendas in a way designed to inhibit policing, to make cops fearful of the fallout from making an arrest. We're now seeing the results. As a result, police are now reluctant to get involved and lack the confidence needed to tackle appalling problems now affecting society.
@JohnnyMercerUK Never in all my 40 years of service to my country and community have I seen such a wanton level of disrespect to the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for our freedom.... Just Two days of respect that's all we ask, two days.
Words by the prime minister are just that....
UPDATE | Met Police Federation Release Statement As Crowdfunding Campaign For Two Met Officers Reaches Nearly £50K
Rick Prior [ @mpfvicechairman ], the vice chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation [@MPFed ], has released a statement after two officers were sacked from the @metpoliceuk without notice following a six-week misconduct hearing that found two officers gave false statements about smelling cannabis after Ms Williams and Mr dos Santos were stopped and searched in central London.
On 4th July 2020, officers from the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG) [@MetTaskforce ] noticed a vehicle with blacked-out windows which was being driven erratically in Maida Vale, London.
Officers were patrolling the area after an increase in violent crime. As reported at the time, the officers spotted a vehicle with tinted windows being driven on the wrong side of the road.
It was alleged that the officers spotted the ethnicity of the driver of the car and that the stop and search was initiated because of this. However, this allegation was found not proven.
As they attempted to catch up with the car, it made off from them at speed. The vehicle stopped, and after a few seconds, the TSG' carrier' caught up with it.
It was alleged that the officer driving the carrier had initiated a pursuit that he was not authorised to do and that the vehicle being driven by dos Santos was 'boxed in'. However, the panel found this allegation not proven.
Officers exited the police carrier, not knowing who was inside the vehicle or whether it might attempt to make off from them again.
Inside the car was Bianca Williams and her partner, along with their 11-month-old son.
Ms Williams recorded the point at which officers tried to secure the vehicle and its occupants on her mobile phone before uploading the footage to social media. The partial clip of the incident soon went viral.
In placing dos Santos in cuffs, it was alleged that excessive force had been used. Again, the panel found this allegation not proven.
Shortly after the incident, the Met released the following statement:
'At around 13:25hrs on Saturday, 4th July, officers from the Territorial Support Group were patrolling in the W9 area in response to an increase in violence involving weapons.
'Officers witnessed a vehicle that was being driven in a manner that raised suspicion, heavily braking and accelerating, which included driving on the wrong side of the road. They indicated for it to stop, but it failed to do so and accelerated off.
'The officers caught up with the vehicle when it stopped on Lanhill Road.
'The driver initially refused to get out of the car.
'The occupants, a 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, were informed that they were being detained for the purposes of a search under Section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
'They were both handcuffed due to the officers' views, which took into account the manner in which the vehicle was being driven, that the vehicle was attempting to evade police, and due to the driver refusing to leave his vehicle.
'Following a search of the vehicle, the man and the woman, nothing was found. No arrests were made, and the occupants were allowed on their way."
Speaking about the findings, Mr Prior posted on X:
'We continue to support the two officers dismissed after yesterday’s extremely disappointing GM panel findings and we have been in detailed discussions with the officers’ legal team today concerning appealing the two adverse decisions.
Before I commented on this matter, I wanted to have read the panel’s Summary of Findings, which I did this afternoon.
The vast majority of allegations against all officers were found to be unproven and were rejected.
Allegations pertaining to honesty & integrity were found proven against two of the officers in relation to the smelling of cannabis.
The stop and search was lawful and the search carried out under s1 PACE and not s23 MDA - so there was little to no advantage to provide an additional search ground in respect of the use of drugs - a point conceded by the panel.
No complaints or allegations pertaining to race discrimination were upheld against any of the officers concerned.
The IOPC’s statement is therefore highly misleading and supports the view that they are a politically influenced and partisan organisation.
Couple of interesting points on the panel’s conclusions…
1. They discounted the possibility that any of the officers could have been mistaken about identifying the odour as cannabis.
2. They accepted that there had or may have been a smell of cannabis, but that this came from a source which was not from the complainants or their vehicle; examples provided by the panel being a passer-by, a vehicle or nearby building.
3. Having conceded point 2, they still found that the two officers were untruthful in stating that they smelt cannabis.
4. Allegations that two of the other officers did not smell cannabis were found not proven.
The officers’ Fed Rep has done, and continues to do a fantastic job in supporting these officers. We will continue to support him and the two dismissed officers until all possible avenues of appeal have been exhausted.'
As of the time of publishing this article, a JustGiving page [ https://t.co/sFH3trEM3v] - set up to assist the families of the officers had raised nearly £50,000. The author of the page noted:
'This page has been created in order to support two former Metropolitan Police Officers who on the 25th October 2023 were dismissed without notice.
'PC Jonathan Clapham and PC Sam Franks.
This comes at a time of great austerity where both will be affected by mortgage payments, food bills and general cost of living.
'Despite people’s personal views on this decision; this page has been created to solely support the officers and their families at this difficult time. So please refrain from airing them on this platform.
Every penny will go to the support of the Officers and their families.
'Any support will be greatly received and appreciated.'
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