4 d. ago Teen who survived shark attack calls for changes to keep people safe in the water

Lulu Gribbin and her friend had been diving for sand dollars before the attack

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5 d. ago Shark attack survivor presses her state for an alert system to keep people safe in the water

An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year is asking her state's lawmakers to support the creation of a new alert system

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6 d. ago Augusta National finds place in heart of city after ravages of Hurricane Helene

Georgia is still recovering from the impact six months on and the famed Masters course will look different as a resultHurricane Helene made landfall in the early hours of Friday 27 September, in Big Bend, Florida. Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center had been watching it building for a week, as it moved away from Nicaragua, up past Grand Cayman, Cancún, and Cuba, and the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, had declared a state of emergency on the Tuesday afternoon.“The current forecast for Hurricane Helene suggests this storm will impact every part of our state,” Kemp said, but in Augusta, over in the east of the state, people felt safe, they hadn’t had a hurricane here in almost 100 years, and this one was forecast to pass it by. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago You're tackling roundabouts wrong – driving expert says many make simple error

A driving expert has shared a simple roundabout signalling rule that "everyone is getting wrong" - and it's safe to say others aren't happy when people make the mistake

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9 d. ago Venezuelans with legal status are being illegally detained in the US, lawyers say

Temporary protected status lets people stay when it’s not safe for them to go home, but Ice is arresting them anywayVenezuelans with legal permission to live and work in the United States are being unlawfully arrested by federal authorities at their homes, in their cars, at regular immigration check-ins and on the streets, attorneys say.They are then stuck in immigration detention around the country, sometimes for weeks, despite the law explicitly banning the government from keeping them behind bars. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Boost for South Lanarkshire Council service that helps keep vulnerable people safe at home

Technology Enabled Care (TEC) uses telecare devices to relay information from a person’s home to a 24/7 monitoring centre.

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2 w. ago Trump signs order on Washington DC as Republicans exert control over city

President says order will make capital ‘safe, beautiful’ by stepping up arrests of undocumented peopleWashington DC has found itself in the crosshairs of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in recent weeks, with efforts by both to exert more control over the overwhelmingly Democratic capital city.The president on Thursday signed an executive order he said would make Washington DC “safe, beautiful, and prosperous” by stepping up crime fighting, arrests of undocumented immigrants and the processing of permits to carry concealed weapons. Trump separately directed JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, which has many museums in and around the city. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live

The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live  Brent and Kilburn Times

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2 w. ago Signal: What is the app in the Trump leak scandal, how safe is it – and can you really add people by accident?

A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled

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3 w. ago Trump’s imperial plan is now eroding the rights of people who thought they were safe | Nesrine Malik

His targeting of foreigners with residencies or work visas was inevitable: to achieve his aims, more and more people must be disenfranchised The imperial boomerang effect is the theory that techniques developed to repress colonised territories and peoples will, in time, inevitably be deployed at home. Repressive policing, methods of detention and controlling dissent, forcing humans to produce goods and services for overlords in the metropolis, or even mass enslavement and killing: all “boomerang” back into that metropolis. First, they are used against those who are seen as inferior; then, they are deployed even against those citizens with full rights and privileges if they dare to question authority. In short, the remote other eventually becomes the intimate familiar.Donald Trump’s second term has so far been a case study in how systems built for those whose rights have been diluted or taken away eventually devour those who were assumed to be safe from such violations. There are thr...

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3 w. ago Probation Service launches huge recruitment drive to target dangerous London offenders

Watchdog warns there are “too few staff” with “little experience and training”

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3 w. ago Is it REALLY safe to store your private photos and documents in the cloud?

Despite most people believing cloud storage is sufficient for keeping crucial files safe, experts say other security measures must be taken to guard against losing special photos and videos.

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4 w. ago Is it REALLY safe to store your private photos and documents in the 'cloud'? Experts reveal the steps to take to protect your most sensitive information online

Despite most people believing cloud storage is sufficient for keeping crucial files safe, experts say other security measures must be taken to guard against losing special photos and videos.

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4 w. ago Probation Service work to keep people safe ‘consistently insufficient’ – report

HM Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales found staff shortages were impacting the quality of work to help offenders and protect victims.

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