by Richard McLaughlin | May 3, 2024 11:03AM | Elections 2024
Verification of 18 out of 21 wards are now complete here in Barnsley. Only Oldtown, Penistone East, Worsborough, and North East are still verifying ballot papers. Counters who have finished verification have been sent for lunch and will begin the official count at...
by Richard McLaughlin | May 3, 2024 10:31AM | Elections 2024
By Richard McLaughlin and David Hall We will be reporting throughout the day, live from the Barnsley Metrodome where the count is underway. After a quiet start this morning, the ballot papers are piling up. Labour are feeling confident after the party took Blackpool...
by Richard McLaughlin | May 2, 2024 3:19PM | Campaigns - Drink Spiking
The UK’s first anti-spiking charity is calling for the government to make spiking a standalone offence. Despite the huge increase of spiking in clubs and bars, there is no single law for the act – instead it is prosecuted in conjunction with another crime. ...
by Richard McLaughlin | May 1, 2024 11:31AM | Campaigns - Drink Spiking
The parents of a student who was killed by drink spiking are campaigning to modernise old-fashioned laws. Greg Mackie was 18 years old when he tragically died in November 2017 after his non-alcoholic drink was spiked with the equivalent of five ecstasy tablets. His...
by Richard McLaughlin | Apr 22, 2024 3:53PM | Long Reads, News
Spice Girl Mel B has joined forces with Women’s Aid in a campaign to keep children safe from domestic abuse. Melanie Brown, who fled her own ten-year abusive relationship is pushing for judges to receive mandatory domestic abuse training. “Judges need to wake up and...
