Kamis, 30 September 2021
'I am so sorry' says Met Commissioner Cressida Dick after Wayne Couzens whole-life sentence - Guardian News
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2021-09-30 15:47:39Z
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HGV driver dies in crash with three army trucks– multiple emergency service units deployed - Express
The horrific incident took place on the northbound stretch of the A38 near Mickleover shortly before 2pm on Wednesday, September 29. The collision involved three army trucks and a HGV, police said.
Derbyshire Constabulary confirmed the driver of the lorry, a 53-year-old man, was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, but was later pronounced dead in hospital.
Police said the victim’s family have been informed.
Investigating officers have urged anyone with information to come forward.
Motorists with dashcam footage have been encouraged to contact the police.
A huge emergency response was triggered yesterday with crews from Derbyshire Police, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service all in attendance.
Pictures show more than a dozen responders were deployed onto the carriageway.
Traffic was held in both directions for several hours on the A38 between Findern and Kingsway.
Motorists reported long queues stretching back to Burton.
In a statement Derbyshire Constabulary, said: "The incident, which occurred on the northbound stretch of the road close to Mickleover at 1.45pm yesterday (29 September), involved three army trucks and an HGV.
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In a brief statement on Wednesday, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We got a call out at 13.59 and are in attendance.
“We have crews from Kingsway, Nottingham Road and Ascot Drive.
"The police are leading with this. That is all we can say at this time."
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2021-09-30 14:07:00Z
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COVID-19: Warning of redundancies as £70bn furlough scheme ends - Sky News
The government's coronavirus furlough scheme ends today after supporting millions of workers during the pandemic.
Ministers say the wages of more than 11 million jobs were subsidised for at least some of the scheme's duration, at a cost of about £70bn.
There is now uncertainty over the almost one million people still thought to be on the scheme at the end of September, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates.
Meanwhile, job vacancies in the UK have hit a record of more than a million, according to recent ONS data, with openings in the hospitality and transport sectors up more than 75% in three months.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke told Sky News' Kay Burley: "There is a lot of opportunity out there for people now. There's never an easy moment to end these measures.
"They've been hugely important but it is also time to recognise that we are now, thankfully, out of the teeth of this pandemic... and we're in a situation where normal opportunity is back out there for people to embrace."
However, he added: "There will be some job losses but there are also these one million vacancies in the labour market for people to move towards and a huge range of support to help them do that."
Economists say there is likely to be a rise in unemployment due to new redundancies, despite the fact some may be able to find work in recovering sectors such as travel and hospitality.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said he still had "doubts" about whether the economy had recovered enough to re-employ all those coming off furlough.
The winding up of the scheme could hit some especially hard as it comes at the same time as the £20 Universal Credit uplift ends, and amid a background of rising energy bills.
The Liberal Democrats have warned of a "tidal wave" of job losses and want furlough to continue for some sectors.
In a letter to the chancellor, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said furlough should be maintained for another six months for 10 industries particularly badly affected by the pandemic, such as air travel.
"The withdrawal of furlough risks having a devastating impact on countless families already facing a winter of soaring energy bills," said Ms Jardine.
"The government needs to rethink its approach or the country could face a Coronavirus Black Thursday."
The party says the extension would cost about £600m.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: "I am immensely proud of the furlough scheme, and even more proud of UK workers and businesses whose resolve has seen us through an immensely difficult time.
"With the recovery well underway, and more than one million job vacancies, now is the right time for the scheme to draw to a close.
"But that in no way means the end of our support. Our Plan for Jobs is helping people into work and making sure they have the skills needed for the jobs of the future."
Following the end of the furlough scheme, the government has launched a £500m support package for vulnerable households over winter.
The new Household Support Fund will help people with essentials over the coming months and will be distributed by councils in England.
It will be available as small grants to meet daily needs such as food, clothing, and utilities and will be available to councils from October.
The devolved administrations will receive up to £79m of the £500m.
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2021-09-30 06:56:15Z
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Labour Party Leader Challenged On U-Turn On The £15 Minimum Wage & His Furlough Views | GMB - Good Morning Britain
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2021-09-30 08:58:35Z
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Petrol shortage: Waze uses push notifications to track fuel stocks - BBC News
Traffic app Waze is asking UK users to tell it which petrol stations have fuel available, amid the UK's shortage of petrol at the pump.
Users of the app are receiving push notifications asking them to "help your community stay informed".
This data is then plugged into the app's live map for others to see which stations are open.
Similar measures have been criticised as fuelling panic buying and adding to the problem.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic
Many local Facebook groups and apps such as Nextdoor have been flooded in recent days with messages from people offering advice about which petrol stations have fuel.
Waze, a subsidiary of Google, said the feature to show fuel stocks was not new but the company "has made the decision to push 'notify users' to encourage its use".
"Fears of disruption to fuel supply have created bumper-to-bumper traffic at petrol stations," Waze UK manager Ru Roberts said.
"In some areas, speeds have slowed to as low as 3km/h (1.9mph) as drivers rushed to fill their cars."
The push notifications "will enable motorists to guide others to forecourts which have remaining supplies, saving unnecessary journeys to those which have already run out," he said.
'Honey pot'
The government maintains there is no national fuel shortage - and any regional issues are fuelled by extreme demand.
Earlier this week, Brian Madderson, who chairs the Petrol Retailers' Association, told BBC News: "One of the reasons for this is social media.
"As soon as a tanker arrives at a filling station, people on social media are advising that a tanker has arrived and then it's like bees to a honey pot.
"Everyone flocks there… within a few hours, it is out again."
Waze's app is most often used to crowdsource live traffic data, so it can tell users about sudden road closures and traffic jams.
But now its data showed which areas of major population centres had the worst traffic around fuel stations, the company said.
For example:
- On Wednesday lunchtime in Liverpool, traffic at Hunter Street headed towards a BP petrol station on New Islington Road had had an average speed of just 5mph
- At the same time in London, one of the worst traffic jams had been on Park Lane, in Mayfair, heading towards the Esso station, where traffic had slowed to 7.5mph
Its internal data also showed in some areas - such as Liverpool, Luton, and Manchester - the distance driven had actually increased on some days, in part due to people searching for petrol.
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2021-09-30 11:17:36Z
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Rabu, 29 September 2021
Sarah Everard: Killer Wayne Couzens could be handed whole life order when sentenced today - Sky News
The police officer who kidnapped Sarah Everard before raping and strangling her could be handed a whole life order when he is sentenced later today.
Wayne Couzens, 48, used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to abduct the 33-year-old marketing executive as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of 3 March.
The firearms officer, who had finished a 12-hour shift at the US Embassy that morning, drove her to a secluded area near Dover in Kent before parking up and raping her.
Couzens then burned her body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned near Ashford, Kent, before he dumped the remains in a nearby pond.
Amid extensive publicity around the search for Ms Everard, Couzens took his family on a day out to the woods where he had taken her body and allowed his two children to play close by.
When he was arrested at his home in Deal on 9 March he concocted a story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang, but later pleaded guilty to Ms Everard's kidnap, rape and murder.
As Ms Everard's parents and sister condemned him at the start of his sentencing at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, he sat shaking in the dock with his head bowed.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC argued the case was so exceptional and unprecedented it could warrant a whole life order, which would see Couzens die in jail.
Opening the case, he said Ms Everard's disappearance was one of the most widely publicised missing person investigations the country has ever seen.
After her body was discovered a week later, it became summarised on social media by the hashtag "she was just walking home", which he said did not completely describe what had happened.
"Whilst it is impossible to summarise what the defendant did to Sarah Everard in just five words, if it had to be done then it would be more appropriate to do so as deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire," said Mr Little.
Lord Justice Fulford will hand down his sentence later today.
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2021-09-30 02:57:52Z
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Sarah Everard's final moments caught on haunting dashcam footage - Daily Record
Haunting video evidence has been released of the moment Sarah Everard was "arrested" by evil cop Wayne Couzens before he raped and murdered her.
The footage, taken from a passing vehicle's dashcam, has caught the chilling moment just before the killer 'captured' Sarah under the guise she was being arrested for breaking coronavirus rules.
Sinister police officer Couzens, used his law knowledge to dupe Sarah and detain her under false pretense, before bundling her into his car and driving her into the countryside.
A court heard today that it was in that location where Couzens raped and killed Everard before storing her body in a fridge.
At the Old Bailey it was revealed how Sarah had been conned as she walked home from a friend's house on March 3 earlier this year.
She vanished in Clapham in south London after Couzens had been driving for hours around the city.
The court heard just three days before, he had taken out a hire car in Devon and had even bought handcuffs from Amazon for the crime, according to a Mirror Online report.
Prosecutor Tom Little told the court Sarah "would have walked all the way back had she not have been kidnapped".
However, tragically she was "arrested" by Couzens, who had showed her his warrant, and taken on an 80-mile journey before she was raped, strangled and her body set on fire.
Sarah's body was found in a woodland stream in Kent, metres away from land owned by Couzens on March 9.
Mr Little said that at some point, after not being taken to a police station, Sarah "must have realised her fate."
Her killing prompted outrage across the UK and sparked protests at the rate of violence against women.
Sarah's family came face-to-face with evil Couzens for the first time today as they sat in the well of packed court 10.
Her father told Couzens to look at him as he read out his heartbreaking victim impact statement to the court.
Jeremy Everard said: "The horrendous murder of my daughter, Sarah, is in my mind all the time and will be for the rest of my life.
"A father wants to look after his children and fix everything and you have deliberately and with premeditation stopped my ability to do that."
The footage is from dash-cam and bus CCTV. One image shows the two of them standing behind his distinctive hire car with its hazards on. Another shows her in the back seat.
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Mr Little said: “Sarah Everard is standing on the pavement, behind the car, facing the defendant who is a few feet away. The defendant appears to touch his belt and to be holding up his hand towards Sarah Everard, as if showing her something in it.
“A couple were travelling on the south circulate in their car to their home address in south-east London and witnessed the kidnap of Sarah Everard.. The front seat passenger noticed what she described as a man and a woman standing on the pavement with the man behind the woman.
“The man was wearing dark clothing and she started to watch more closely because she saw a handcuff. The woman on the pavement already had her left arm behind her back.
“She was in the process of 'giving her other arm behind her back' as the man, who must have been the defendant, placed the handcuff on her right arm.
“She was compliant, with her head down and did not appear to be arguing. The defendant appeared to be confident. The immediate impression the passenger formed was that she was witnessing an undercover police officer arresting a woman, whom she assumed 'must have done something wrong.'
“So surprised was the witness by what she had seen, as she considered it to be relatively unusual and not something she had ever witnessed before, she remarked to her husband, ‘I’ve just seen a woman being handcuffed’.
"She then saw the man and the woman walking along in the direction of the vehicle with the handcuffed woman in front of the man and close together.
“All her husband, who was driving, was able to see or recall of the scene was a stationary white-coloured vehicle with its lights flashing.
“They were in fact witnessing the kidnap of Sarah Everard. She was detained by fraud."
Couzens will be sentenced on Thursday, September 30.
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2021-09-29 20:21:11Z
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