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BBC introduces Scam Safe, a week of special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and Online

With scammers growing bolder amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the BBC aims to provide a timely piece of public service into the rising fraud industry. The special week of programming is designed to spotlight what viewers can do to protect themselves ...

Homicides up 10% but still close to record low

PA Media A police officer stands with two women in front of a police van in PA Media. The number of homicide victims has decreased by 58% since 2004.

Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care doorstop – 29 October 2004

BILL SHORTEN, MINISTER FOR THE NDIS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Good morning, everybody. It's fantastic to be at Services Australia Newmarket offices in the electorate of Maribyrnong. We've got a great announcement to make, but before I do that, ...

Company fined £650k for failing to protect workers

It follows a routine inspection by the Health and Safety Executive of ASM Metal Recycling at its premises on Griffin Lane in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. HSE inspector Emma Page observed workers sorting waste were not sufficiently protected by ...

National minimum wage to rise by 6.7% from April, Reeves confirms

The national minimum wage will go up to £12.21 an hour in April after the chancellor confirmed a 6.7% increase, with more than 3 million low-paid workers in line for a pay rise.

Rail operator wins award for suicide prevention

Southeastern Railway's work to prevent people harming themselves on its network has been recognised with two awards. The company, which runs services between South East London and across Kent and East Sussex, said its staff had prevented 204 ...

Minister for Health and Aged Care and Treasurer, press conference – 29 October 2024

MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE, MARK BUTLER: Thanks everyone for coming out today. It almost goes without saying the COVID-19 pandemic, for anyone born after the end of World War Two, was the biggest national and global emergency in our lifetimes.

UK, EU and Canada impose new sanctions targeting Myanmar military regime and its associates

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UK sanctions target entities supplying aviation fuel and equipment to the Myanmar military. August 2024 saw the highest number of airstrikes on record by the Myanmar military, killing dozens of civilians. The UK, ...

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Contracts For Oct. 28, 2024

Department of Defense

ARMY. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $1,239,690,206 modification (P00061) to contract W58RGZ-22-C-0010 for UH-60M aircraft. Work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of ...

Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says study

Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found 38,000 fewer people would have died from heat if humans had not clogged the atmosphere with pollutants that act like a greenhouse and bake the planet. The ...