Rishi Sunak's failure to wear seat belt to be investigated - BBC

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Lancashire Police are "looking into" Rishi Sunak after he was filmed not wearing a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car.

The prime minister has apologised for the incident, saying it was an "error of judgement" to take his seat belt off to film a social media clip.

Not wearing a seat belt carries a maximum £500 fine.

Mr Sunak "fully accepts this was a mistake and apologises", his spokesman told reporters.

The spokesman added the PM "believes everyone should wear a seat belt".

The BBC understands the prime minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed, during a trip across the north of England.

The video - to promote the government's latest round of "levelling up" spending - was posted on Mr Sunak's Instagram account earlier.

In the clip , which lasts around a minute, Mr Sunak can be seen addressing the camera while the car travels along, with police motorbikes briefly appearing in the background.

Passengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available, unless covered by a valid exemption, can be given an on-the-spot £100 fine. The fine can increase to £500 if the case goes to court.

'Painful viewing'

Labour said Mr Sunak's video added to "endless painful viewing" after he was seen struggling to make a contactless payment with his card last year.

"Rishi Sunak doesn't know how to manage a seat belt, his debit card, a train service, the economy, this country," a spokeswoman said.

"This list is growing every day, and it's making for endless painful viewing."

The incident followed criticism of the prime minister for travelling in an RAF jet for a series of official visits on Thursday.

Mr Sunak made the 230-mile journey to Blackpool from London in the plane, before later flying 120 miles to Darlington.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: "It seems like the PM is getting too used to flying around in private jets that he's forgotten to wear a seat belt in a car."

Passengers aged 14 and over are responsible for ensuring they wear a seat belt in cars, vans and other goods vehicles if one is fitted. Drivers are responsible for passengers under 14.

Exemptions include having a doctor's certificate for a medical reason, or being in a vehicle used for a police, fire or other rescue service.

Those who are fined for not wearing a seat belt can not currently be given penalty points on their licence, except in Northern Ireland.

But in October, Transport Minister Katherine Fletcher said the government was considering introducing penalty points in England.

"In 2021, in 30% of all car occupant fatalities recorded, seat belts were not worn. This is unacceptably high," she told Labour MP Barry Sheerman.

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Manchester Airport temporarily closes both runways due to heavy snowfall - Sky News

Manchester Airport temporarily closed both of its runways due to heavy snowfall.

The airport said it was clearing the airfield as pictures showed travellers stuck inside planes on the runway.

In a tweet, the airport said health and safety will "always be our top priority" and advised passengers to contact their airline for the latest flight information.

After a 2.5hr shutdown, just before 9am the airport said "operations have resumed" and thanked passengers for their patience.

A Virgin Atlantic flight from Atlanta was diverted from Manchester to London following the runway closures, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.

One traveller at Manchester Airport said they had already faced two hours of delays and were sat on a plane for another hour "going nowhere".

It comes after temperatures plunged to below -10C (14F) in parts of the UK overnight.

A number of severe weather warnings for snow and ice have been in place across the UK during the past few days following a fall in temperatures.

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Drumnadrochit near Inverness in the Highlands hit -10.4C (13.28F) in the early hours of Thursday, making it the coldest recorded temperature of the year so far.

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As the temperature in Topcliffe in north Yorkshire dropped to -7.4C (18.68F), the coldest in England, Manchester Airport was forced to close both its runways.

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The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice across Manchester and other parts of the UK until midday today, with wintry showers expected to bring "further disruption".

Forecasters expect milder air to start moving in from Friday afternoon in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Drivers have been urged to be careful after dozens of people were injured following a crash involving a double-decker bus and a motorcycle in freezing conditions in Somerset on Tuesday.

Avon and Somerset Police received more than 100 reports of road-related incidents in the space of just five hours on Monday night - with treacherous conditions causing most of them.

Between 6pm and 11pm, a total of 53 collisions were reported to the force, and seven of these incidents reportedly resulted in injuries.

A level three cold weather alert issued by the UK Health Security Agency, warning of conditions that "could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services" is in place until 9am on Friday.

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Woman who reported police officer ex-husband for rape found investigation 'more traumatic than incident' - Sky News

A woman who reported her police officer ex-husband for rape says detectives mishandled the case and their investigation "was more traumatic than the actual incident".

The woman, who we will refer to as "Sally" as she cannot be identified for legal reasons, has said those running the investigation into her allegation had been colleagues or old friends of the accused.

Sally, who was also a police officer in the north of England, says the first person she confided in waited for her to finish her story, before telling her he'd known her husband since school and had been on a team tour with him.

Sally said: "He let me tell him everything that had happened from start to finish, and then at the end of it said, right let me tell you that I grew up with him."

She added: "The detective sergeant who was leading the investigation, she told me that my partner had worked for her as well, which shocked me."

It had taken eight years for Sally to come forward since the rape, and she only found the courage after learning that her ex-partner was also alleged to have been violent towards his new wife.

Separately, she later discovered a neighbour had raised the alarm about loud, potentially violent behaviour in the early hours of the morning.

The man had written: "The worrying thing is he works for the police and I thought he'd know better."

Sally said the alleged victim was never formally interviewed.

Following her allegations, Sally's husband faced both a criminal investigation and a probe by Police Professional Standards. She said that when the criminal investigation was dropped, that seemed to be the cue to drop the internal review.

She said: "I just don't feel believed. I feel like it's all been brushed under the carpet."

Image: Sally claimed she was raped by her ex-husband

Her husband kept his job until retirement and at one point it was suggested he would be working in the same building as Sally.

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After a subject access request, Sally discovered that the file passed to the Crown Prosecution Service included what she said were false allegations against her, claiming she had repeatedly accessed files on her husband.

Overall, she felt she was unsupported and was made to feel "needy" by asking for updates on the case. And she said, as a police officer herself, she "wasn't allowed to be a victim".

'If it happened again, I wouldn't report it'

With great reluctance, Sally admits she has lost trust in her own force.

She said: "If it happened to me again, I wouldn't report it. I found the investigation was more traumatic than the actual incident."

In the wake of serial rapist PC David Carrick's conviction, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, revealed that more than 1,000 of his officers remain in service despite allegations of sexual or domestic abuse.

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The Home Office has asked all police forces to check their officers and staff against national police databases.

Sally said the police need to take complaints against its own more seriously. And she believes the police would have acted differently if her ex-husband was not an officer.

That is the big concern - that the police have a blind spot for its own bad apples.

Sky News contacted the police force that Sally worked for, but it declined to comment.

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Teenager convicted of murdering software engineer after row at Asda supermarket - Sky News

A 15-year-old has been found guilty of murdering software engineer Ian Kirwan, who was stabbed in the chest after a row at an Asda in Redditch.

Mr Kirwan, 53, was knifed in the heart by the youth, then aged 14, after challenging him for messing around in the supermarket's toilets on 8 March last year.

The killer, from Birmingham, travelled with a group of male friends by train to the Worcestershire town and subjected Mr Kirwan to a minute-long attack near the entrance of the Asda store.

The youth acted as a part of a masked gang which "terrorised" members of the public in Redditch.

Three other youths - two aged 14 and one aged 16 - were cleared of murder and manslaughter but jurors found them guilty of violent disorder.

A fifth boy, aged 16, was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and violent disorder, having claimed he was not involved in the fatal confrontation and could not have predicted it.

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A ten-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, was told Mr Kirwan, an artificial intelligence engineer who worked at Jaguar Land Rover's Coventry headquarters, was an "unfortunate member of the public in the wrong place at the wrong time".

All those convicted will be sentenced, at the same court, on 15 February.

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Ambulance staff and nurses to strike on same day - BBC

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Ambulance workers are to join nurses in taking strike action on 6 February in England and Wales in what will be the biggest NHS walkout in this dispute.

The GMB announced four new walkouts for ambulance staff - one which coincides with a nurse strike date.

It is the first time both ambulance staff and the Royal College of Nursing will have taken action on the same day.

It comes as RCN members are taking part in two days of strikes on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

What patients need to know on Wednesday

• People seriously ill or injured, and whose life is at risk, should call 999 as usual, or call 111 for non-urgent care
• Other services, such as some cancer treatments or urgent testing, may be partially staffed
• More routine care is likely to be badly affected, including planned operations such as knee and hip replacements, community nursing services and health visiting
• Anyone with an appointment not already rearranged should attend at their allotted time
• GPs, community pharmacies and dentists will be unaffected

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GMB national secretary Rachel Harrison said: "Ambulance workers are angry. In their own words 'they are done'.

"Our message to the government is clear - talk pay now."

The walkouts by staff including paramedics, call handlers and support workers in seven of the 10 English ambulance services along with the national Welsh service will take place on 20 February, 6 March and 20 March as well as the 6 February one.

On Monday the RCN set 6 and 7 February as the dates for its biggest strike to date, involving more than a third of services in England and all but one health board in Wales.

Under trade union laws, both unions will have to provide emergency cover.

But it raises the prospect of urgent 999 calls for falls not being responded to and a huge chunk of pre-planned hospital care such as hernia repair, hip replacements or outpatient clinics not being done.

The call to get round the negotiating table was echoed by RCN general secretary Pat Cullen as her members walked out on Wednesday for the third time this winter.

"I am saying to the prime minister today, he can continue to have strikes if he continues to dig into his trenches.

"We have extended an olive branch, in fact the whole tree, to government. We've said meet us halfway, so now come on."

'I won't strike - but I back the fight'

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Clint Cooper, a nurse for nearly 30 years, will cross the picket line on Wednesday to work on a heart-care ward at Scarborough Hospital, in North Yorkshire, while fully supporting his striking colleagues.

"I believe in the principle of what my colleagues are doing," he says, "but I voted 'No', as I cannot walk out and leave my patients.

'Last week, I had two patients who were very poorly and I wonder if I hadn't been there and escalated it, would they still be alive, if I had walked out - that's my conscience talking to me."

Nevertheless, the government needs to find the money for a bigger pay rise, Mr Cooper says.

'I'm a Tory voter - I have voted for them at every election apart from one - but I can't vote for them again," he says. "The NHS is in crisis.

'This is not just about pay, it is about the future of the NHS. Nurses don't want clapping. They want the resources to do their job. They are highly skilled and they are the backbone of the NHS.'

Both unions have asked for above-inflation rises.

But the governments in England and Wales have given NHS staff an average of 4.75%, with everyone guaranteed at least £1,400 - as recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body.

That is less than half the rate of inflation, although latest figures show the rate at which prices are rising has started to slow.

Meanwhile, patients are being warned to expect widespread disruption to services on Wednesday and Thursday because of the RCN walkout.

One out of every four hospitals and community services are affected by the strikes from 08:00 to 20:00.

But GP practices will run as normal, as nurses working in those services are not involved in the strike action.

Saffron Cordery of NHS Providers, which represents NHS services, said the scale of the walkout and the fact it was over two consecutive days meant it would probably have "greater impact".

"We're expecting widespread disruption," she said. "It will be felt on the day as well in the days that follow."

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, warned that without a pay deal patients would face the effects of a "prolonged war of attrition between the government and the unions".

But the government has made it clear it is not willing to move on this year's pay award.

However, one option being explored by Health Secretary Steve Barclay is backdating the 2023-24 rise to January. It would normally kick in in April.

This has already been tabled in Scotland, leading to NHS strikes being halted for further negotiations - although staff there received a 7.5% pay rise this year.

But the Treasury has not agreed to the idea.

Physios and ambulance members at Unison and Untie will also be striking in parts of England and Wales next week.

Mr Barclay said he had had "constructive talks" with NHS unions and looked forward to continuing the dialogue.

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David Carrick: Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer - BBC

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A serial rapist who used his role as a Metropolitan Police officer to put fear into his victims has been sacked by the force.

David Carrick, 48, admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women across two decades.

The Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised for failings and told BBC Breakfast opportunities to remove Carrick from policing were missed.

Carrick was dismissed at a misconduct hearing on Tuesday morning.

Hywel Jenkins, counsel for the commissioner, told the hearing that the offending was "heinous, targeted and deliberate" and the impact on victims and their families could be "summed up in one word - catastrophic".

In the chair for the hearing, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said she was in no doubt Carrick's actions amounted to gross misconduct.

She said: "Carrick's multiple convictions for multiple serious offences plainly discredits the police service and undermines public confidence in it."

Carrick did not attend the hearing, did not respond to the disciplinary charges and did not have legal representation.

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He served as an armed officer in London with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command and was suspended from duty when he was arrested in October 2021.

His crimes, which included 24 counts of rape, spanned 2003 to 2020 and most took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived.

Meeting some of the women on dating websites, Carrick, from Stevenage, would control what they wore, what they ate, where they slept and he even stopped some of them from speaking to their own children.

The Met apologised after it emerged Carrick was brought to the attention of police over nine incidents including allegations of rape, domestic violence and harassment between 2000 and 2021.

At Tuesday's hearing, the assistant commissioner said the public reaction showed how his conduct had "gravely undermined" confidence in the police.

Ms Rolfe added that the case had caused public harm, particularly to women and girls who may be less likely to "come forward and report they have been the victims of criminal offences."

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Sir Mark told BBC Breakfast: "What he's done to his victims is truly abhorrent. Their courage in coming forward is truly admirable. But we've let London down - he's been a police officer for 20 years.

"Through a combination of weak policies and weak decisions, over those 20 years we missed opportunities when he joined and subsequently, as behaviour came to the fore, we should have removed him from policing.

"Whether it would have affected him being a sex offender I don't know, but he shouldn't have been doing it as a police officer."

He agreed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was a "spectacular failure" by his force.

'Evil people'

The Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.

Former Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, Vera Baird, who resigned from her post last year, said: "The Metropolitan Police seem incapable of not employing - and furthermore retaining - some quite evil people."

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan it was "unacceptable" that "there were various opportunities where the chance to get rid of [Carrick] and get justice were missed".

Speaking on Tuesday, he said: "That is one of the things that Sir Mark Rowley is getting to the bottom of. The reality is there are so many cultural issues within the police service."

Carrick pleaded guilty to six offences at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, and had already admitted 43 others in December.

He is due to be sentenced in February.

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Met Police reviewing over 1,600 cases of alleged sexual offences and domestic abuse involving its staff - Sky News

The Metropolitan Police is reviewing more than 1,600 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving its own officers and staff.

It comes after a serving officer turned out to be one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders.

PC David Carrick - who was known to his colleagues as "B*****d Dave" - admitted dozens of rapes and sexual offences following attacks on 12 women.

Image: Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick is one of Britain's worst-ever sex offenders

He admitted 49 charges - including 24 rape counts - for crimes committed over an 18-year period.

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The Met Police has now said a total of 1,633 cases involving 1,071 officers and staff are set to be reviewed.

The force said accusations ranging from arguments to the most serious sexual crimes from the last 10 years are being checked to make sure that the appropriate decisions were made.

Scotland Yard added that most officers whose cases are reviewed will remain on duty without being subject to restrictions while the inquiries are carried out.

A spokesman said: "In the event that information was to emerge from a review that raised concerns then an officer or member of staff's status would be reconsidered without delay.

"All new allegations against officers and staff are subject to robust risk management including restrictions and suspension where appropriate."

It comes after Downing Street said Carrick's crimes were "appalling" and urged forces to root out criminal officers "to restore the public's trust which has been shattered".

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the force had "failed" and Carrick "should not have been a police officer".

The force has apologised after it emerged Carrick came to the attention of officers over nine previous incidents, including claims of rape and domestic violence - but faced no criminal sanctions or misconduct findings over those allegations.

Image: David Carrick joined the Met Police in 2001 - his offences were branded 'absolutely abhorrent'

Carrick joined the Met in August 2001 after serving with the Army and worked with the force's parliamentary and diplomatic command from 2009.

The armed officer, whose role included policing parliamentary, government and diplomatic premises, was only suspended after a second rape complaint was made against him in October 2021.

The Met said Carrick was vetted in 2001 and again in 2017, and passed on both occasions.

The court heard that Carrick met some of his victims through online dating sites, such as Tinder and Badoo, or during social occasions - and used his position as a police officer to gain their trust.

The 48-year-old admitted raping nine of the women, some on multiple occasions over months or years, with many of those attacks involving violence that would have left them physically injured.

Some victims were locked in a small cupboard under the stairs in his Hertfordshire home for hours without food or forced to clean his house naked.

Carrick whipped one woman with a belt, urinated on some of his victims, and told them when they could eat and sleep.

He called women "fat and lazy" or his "slave" as he controlled them financially, isolated them from friends and family, and forbade them from speaking with other men or even their own children.

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'We are truly sorry... we missed opportunities'

The Metropolitan Police had already faced heavy criticism of its internal disciplinary procedures, with Baroness Casey finding the system is racist and misogynistic.

Baroness Casey also found that allegations of sexual misconduct or discrimination are less likely to result in a case to answer than other claims.

The peer said that some officers and staff were getting away with misconduct and even criminal behaviour.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley had previously said he believes hundreds of corrupt officers are serving within the force and should be sacked.

National concerns have also been raised about how police forces deal with allegations of domestic abuse made against officers and staff.

Watchdogs found that there were systemic weaknesses in the way that the claims are dealt with following a so-called super-complaint, a system used to raise wider issues in policing, made by women's justice campaigners.

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