6 h. ago Dragons fall short of first league victory in a year following dramatic finish

Filo Tiatia's side couldn't quite manage a victory, ending up with a 17-17 draw against the Sharks

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8 h. ago Ospreys let another South Africa lead slip after scoreless second

Mark Jones' side ran out of steam in Cape Town, going down 26-10 at DHL Stadium

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60 h. ago Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales, report finds

Non-UK nationals make up 12.4% of inmates versus 16.8% of population, data shows, as far-right protests continueUK politics live – latest updatesForeign nationals are underrepresented as a proportion of prisoners jailed in England and Wales, an analysis of government data has found.While non-citizens made up a higher proportion of people convicted for sexual and theft offences over the past decade, researchers cautioned that a lack of data for offenders’ age and sex complicated the picture and meant it was hard to make clear assertions. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Paedophile head teacher report delayed hours before publication

Neil Foden, who was head of Ysgol Friars in Bangor and strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, was jailed in 2024 for 17 years for 19 sexual offences against four girls

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3 w. ago Hundreds of prison officers may have to leave UK after Labour’s visa rule change

Prison Officers’ Association says change in eligibility for skilled work visas is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘pandering to Reform’ Hundreds of foreign prison officers will lose their jobs and could be forced to return to their home countries at short notice because of a change in visa rules introduced by Labour, governors and a union have warned.More than 1,000 staff, mainly from African countries, have been sponsored by prisons across England and Wales allowing them to come to the UK on skilled worker visas. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 20 people report injuries but 'nothing found' at Heathrow Airport

Officers conducted a thorough search of the area

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3 w. ago Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests

Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economyThey were places of crushing hardship for the poorest people in Britain for centuries but a new report highlights how closely workhouses in England and Wales were linked with slavery and British imperialism.Workhouses, perhaps best known in popular culture through the Charles Dickens story Oliver Twist, were routinely funded and administered by people involved in the slave trade, the study says.The paper Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World was published in Antipode. Continue reading...

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