Coventry: Pedestrian and cyclist hit by car die from injuries - BBC

Two people who were hit by a car in separate collisions in Coventry have died from their injuries.

West Midlands Police said two pedestrians were hit in Gosford Street at 08:00 BST on Sunday, before a cyclist was struck in Woodway Lane.

A 44-year-old pedestrian struck in Gosford Street and the cyclist have since died.

Officers are continuing to question a 33-year-old man in connection with the collisions.

The force said the car later crashed into a house in Beckbury Road, where a man was arrested at about 09:00.

The other pedestrian injured in Gosford Street is being treated for injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

Supt Ronan Tyrer said: "We have now informed the families of all those involved in today's tragic incidents and our thoughts remain firmly with them at this truly devastating time.

"We are still in the very early stages of our investigations and we have several scenes across Coventry which also means that some roads will be closed for a considerable time."

Gosford Street, Woodway Lane and surrounding roads will be closed as officers investigate.

Police have appealed for witnesses and are looking at CCTV footage.

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Man shot in stomach and legs in violent Small Heath gun attack - Birmingham Live

A man was rushed to hospital with multiple injuries after a shooting in Small Heath in Birmingham last night, September 2. West Midlands Police were called to reports of shots being fired shortly before 8pm on Saturday on Charles Road.

A man was found to have been shot in the leg and stomach and was rushed to hospital. Police have launched an investigation and have urged anyone with information to get in touch.

There have been no arrests at this stage, the force confirmed to BirminghamLive. Situated just off Green Lane, Charles Road is a busy route through Small Heath with a mixture of businesses including supermarkets and salons as well as residential homes.

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A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: "We are investigating after a man was shot in Birmingham last night. We were called to Charles Road shortly before 8pm after reports of gunshots.

"A 21-year-old man was taken to hospital with leg and stomach injuries, though they are not thought to be life-threatening. Enquiries are ongoing and officers are asking anyone who saw what happened to call 101 or use Live Chat quoting log 3874 of 2 September.

Pictures shared on social media showed a police cordon went up on Charles Road last night, with an area close to the road selaed off. Officers were stationed at the scene.

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Labour claims Rishi Sunak doesn't think schools should be safe in new attack ad - The Mirror

Labour has claimed Rishi Sunak doesn't think schools should be safe as it relaunches its controversial attack adverts against the Prime Minister. The social media post from Keir Starmer's party comes as more than 100 schools and colleges were told to partially or fully shut buildings over fears that dangerous concrete could collapse.

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the Government needs to "come clean" about the problem of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in schools as she accused ministers of ignoring years of warnings. The concrete was used in buildings between the 1950s and 1990s but has a life expectancy of just 30 years. Asked why the Labour government had not fixed the problem when it was in power, Ms Phillipson said her party had a plan to rebuild schools but the Tories and Lib Dems tore it up after being elected to government in 2010.

The Labour Party's official Twitter account launched a fresh attack on the Prime Minister by posting a photo of Mr Sunak next to the caption: "Do you think your child's school should be safe? Rishi Sunak doesn't." It added: "During Rishi Sunak's time as chancellor, he cut spending on school rebuilding by almost HALF. That's after the Tories and Lib Dems scrapped Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme in 2010. The Tories ignored Labour's warnings time and time again - now our children are paying the price with crumbling schools."

A huge row erupted after Labour published adverts earlier this year which claimed Mr Sunak doesn't believe paedophiles, people who possess a gun with intent and thieves should go unpunished. Despite the backlash, Labour leader Mr Starmer said he made "zero apologies" despite making supporters "squeamish".

The return of his party's adverts comes as the Department for Education suddenly changed its stance on dangerous concrete on schools last week, days before pupils were due to return back from the summer break from tomorrow. Ministers have still failed to publish the list of schools that have closed, or give a figure for those at risk. The Mirror revealed last night that up to 7,000 at-risk schools have yet to be checked for crumbling concrete as ministers scrambled to get a grip on the crisis. This newspaper understands that on Monday an army of structural engineers will be dispatched to inspect hundreds of schools.

Speaking on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, Ms Phillipson said: "Ministers need to come clean, be upfront and be honest with parents about what we're facing right now. I think we need to be upfront, have that full list, and be absolutely clear about what's going on and if we need further surveys to take place in order to determine the full scale of what's happened then so be it."

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RAAC: Fears over asbestos as Jeremy Hunt can't say how many school closures expected - The Independent

Expert explains why Raac is more dangerous than standard concrete

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Jeremy Hunt was this morning unable to say how many more schools were potentially at risk from RAAC amid reports up to 7,000 could contain the unsafe concrete.

The chancellor said the government was carrying out an “exhaustive” programme to identify more sites that may be affected as he vowed to “spend what it takes” to remove RAAC from schools.

“I don’t want to speculate on these numbers because I think that might scare people unnecessarily,” he told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, following reports that 7,000 schools are at risk.

The school RAAC scandal escalated overnight amid fears that asbestos could be exposed in some of the sites affected.

Asbestos and reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) often exist in the same building and at least 80 per cent of schools have asbestos present, according to The Sunday Times.

“Asbestos in schools presents a significant complicating factor in remediating issues relating to RAAC. Asbestos, once disturbed, is a serious hazard,” John Wallace, managing director of Ridgemont, a specialist estate law firm in London, told the paper.

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Watch: Jeremy Hunt explains why parents were told about unsafe RAAC schools so last minute

Jeremy Hunt explains why parents were told about unsafe Raac schools so last minute

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 11:07

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Labour won’t commit to spending more money on schools than government

Labour has refused to commit to spending more money on building schools than the government, insisting if it forms a government it will face a "really tall order."

"We had a plan, they scrapped it, had they pressed ahead we wouldn’t be having this conversation. That’s the reality," she told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg show.

Asked why she would not commit to spending for rebuilding schools, she said: "Because we face a really difficult situation around the economy."

She added: "The public finances are in a terrible state. The next Labour government, if we form a government, will face a really tall order, but I am confident that we will put education right back at the heart of the ambition that we have for Britain."

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 10:32

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Ministers need to ‘come clean’ about scale of RAAC issue - Labour

Labour shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the government needs to "come clean" about the problem of RAAC in schools

Speaking to Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips on Sky News, she said: "Ministers need to come clean, be upfront and be honest with parents about what we’re facing right now."

She added: "I think we need to be upfront, have that full list, and be absolutely clear about what’s going on and if we need further surveys to take place in order to determine the full scale of what’s happened then so be it."

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 10:16

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Hunt denies pupils face ‘months’ of disruption

Jeremy Hunt denied there would be "months on end" of children unable to access classrooms but refused to give a deadline for when the disruption would be fully resolved.

Asked whether disruption to schools could last "months on end", he told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: "It won’t be. This problem is currently affecting around 100 schools but the majority of those are able to operate face to face."

Asked to when the problem might be fixed, he said: "What I can give you a sense of is the speed at which we’ve acted... We’ve put in place counter measures in a majority of the remaining schools."

He could not guarantee that there are not hospitals in which patients are currently not safe due to RAAC, but promised that if the government receives any information suggesting this it would take "the action that is necessary".

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:40

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Hunt refuses to be drawn on 7,000 figure

Jeremy Hunt would not be drawn on reports that up to 7,000 more schools could be affected by RAAC.

He said the government would act as soon as it had information, when asked if ministers knew how many other public buildings contain the unsafe building material.

“I don’t want to speculate on these numbers because I think that might scare people unnecessarily.”

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:35

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Hunt: We won’t take any risks with child safety

The government will not take “any risks” with the safety of children in schools, Jeremy Hunt has said.

The chancellor also said the government would cover the cost of removing RAAC from the schools that have been affected.

“We will spend what it takes to sort out this problem,” he told the BBC.

He added that, when any new information comes to light about the potential risk in a school, parents will be told immediately, “however awkward or difficult is”.

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:29

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Hunt: We acted fast on RAAC

Jeremy Hunt has insisted the government acted “fast” to deal with the risk of RAAC.

In an interview with the BBC, it was put to the chancellor that the ministers had known about the risks for “years and years”.

He said: “I understand the frustrations..but what I would say to every one of those families is that we acted fast when the problem first arose.

“What happened in the summer months is that buildings that had been previously checked…classified as safe…the view changed.”

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:22

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Hunt unable to confirm schools will get extra money to cover cost of rent

Jeremy Hunt was unable to confirm that schools having to rent out buildings to house pupils over concerns about RAAC would get extra money to cover the cost.

“We will make sure that they [headteachers] can keep their children safe,” he told Sky News.

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:07

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Hunt: ‘Wrong’ to suggest we did nothing to protect schools

Jeremy Hunt has said it is “wrong” to suggest that the government has done nothing to protect schools from crumbling concrete.

The government has known since 1994 that some public sector buildings contain potentially compromised RAAC and has been monitoring their condition since 2018, following the collapse of school roof buildings.

More than 100 schools were forced to shut on Thursday evening - days before the start of the new term.

“Well I think that it is just wrong,” Mr Hunt said when it was put to him that the government “didn’t really do anything” when concerns were raised about the issue.

“The building schools for the future programme was changed and it was changed in order to reduce the cost of building more schools…so that we could spend more money on repairs to the schools in the estate.”

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 09:02

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Hunt pushes back on suggestions government doesn’t know how many public buildings affected

Jeremy Hunt has pushed back on suggestions that the government doesn’t know how many public buildings are affected by RAAC.

It was put to the chancellor that the government was unable to say how many schools, hospitals and courts contained the unsafe material.

He said: “I don’t think that’s a fair characterisation...of what’s been happening.

“I’m telling you that what the government has been doing is an exhaustive programme of contacting every school to try and identify where the risk is and acting immediately when we find the information.”

Matt Mathers3 September 2023 08:48

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First concrete, now asbestos: schools could shut for months - The Times

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First concrete, now asbestos: schools could shut for months

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Fixing our crumbling roofs threatens to release deadly fibres, compounding the farce for head teachers

Asbestos could be exposed in schools affected by crumbling concrete, experts have warned, meaning that many could shut for months.

There are fears that such is the scale of the problem that some schools may even have to be demolished.

More than 150 schools were told last week — days before they were due to reopen — that they would have to close buildings containing unstable reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

Engineers have warned with increasing urgency that RAAC, which was used by builders between the 1950s and 1980s and is often described as “Aero bar” concrete, can become unstable when it exceeds its 30-year lifespan.

Experts warn that the presence of RAAC also increases the danger of exposure to asbestos, which kills 5,000 people

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Jeremy Hunt: We will spend what it takes to make schools safe from crumbly concrete - BBC

England's children's commissioner Rachel de Souza says there is a "real problem" post-pandemic with school attendance

She speaks to research that finds 1.8 million children, of 8 million pupils, are frequently missing school.

De Souza says that, first of all, we have to accept that the effect of the pandemic is still present.

She says there are three types of pupils who are missing school on a regular basis.

"There is a group of children that are anxious," she says, adding that she is working with mental health support and hospitals to encourage better attendeace.

De Souza also notes that children with special educational needs also find it easier at home.

And the third instance is that some children are playing truant and not coming into school, she adds.

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2023-09-03 00:49:00Z
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Two men arrested by officers investigating NI police data breach - The Guardian

Two men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act by police officers investigating the PSNI data breach.

The suspects, aged 21 and 22, were arrested on Saturday in the Portadown area of County Armagh, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said on X, formerly known as Twitter. They will be questioned at the Musgrave serious crime suite in Belfast.

DCI Avine Kelly said: “We continue to work toward establishing those who possess information relating to last week’s data breach, and will take action to ensure that any criminality identified is dealt with robustly to keep communities, and our officers and staff who serve them, safe.”

In August the PSNI said a document was mistakenly uploaded in response to a freedom of information request, which included the names of about 10,000 officers and civilian staff members.

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