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Bangladesh is the beating heart of the global fast fashion business. The BBC have reported: The clothes its factories export stock the shelves at H&M, Gap and Zara. Over three decades, this has transformed the country from one of the world’s poorest to a lower-middle income nation. But its garment industry, worth $55bn (£42bn) a […]
Priti Patel has been eliminated from the race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party. Patel was one of six candidates running to succeed Rishi Sunak as Leader of the Opposition after he led the Tories to defeat at the July General Election. The others are Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick Mel Stride, and Tom Tugendhat. They are […]
Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater Joe Powell has said he will raise concerns with Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood over the court backlog potentially slowing down the criminal investigations into the Grenfell fire tragedy. Powell, who was elected as the MP on 4 July, told PoliticsHome before the Grenfell Inquiry’s long-awaited final report that the building safety crisis and learning […]
Officers investigating a report of sexual assault in South Tyneside have released an image of a man they would like to trace. Between 8.45pm and 9pm on Thursday, August 29, it was reported that a man had approached two girls in the Masefield Drive area of Biddick Hall. The offender has then proceeded to lift […]
Stancik formerly of St Thomas Court, Long Sutton, failed to attend a trial at Lincoln Crown Court on his own behalf or that of his company. The court heard that, between December 2019 and September 2021, Edvars Stancik, 30, acted as a director of Platinum Group Metals Recycling Ltd. It was through this company that […]
Officers investigating a report of an assault have released an image of a man they would like to speak to. Just before 3pm on Sunday, July 21, police received a report that two women had been assaulted whilst walking a dog through a cemetery, on Burdon Lane in the Ryhope area of Sunderland. One of […]
St Mary’s Lighthouse will now re-open in mid-October instead of mid-September to allow for essential reglazing works on the lantern to take place. Several panes of curved glass on the lantern need replacing, which requires specialist manufacturing. The issue was brought to the team’s attention when they started the restoration works up close at the […]
One of the country’s oldest art societies put on a special birthday show at Middlesbrough Town Hall. The Cleveland Art Society (CAS) has been showing continuously since 1884, and marked its 140th anniversary with a weekend-long show in the historic Fire Station. And Middlesbrough Mayor Chris Cooke popped in to declare the ‘pop-up’ officially open. The show […]
A drink-driver who killed a man in a hit-and-run road traffic collision in Sunderland has been put behind bars. Ali Reza Ghaisar, 48, sadly died following the collision on Hylton Road in Sunderland shortly after 1.20am on July 31, 2022. Ali, who was out cycling at the time, was struck by a blue BMW car, […]
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously assaulted in North Tyneside. At around 11pm on Friday, August 30, police received a report via the ambulance service of a disturbance having taken place outside of a premises on Station Road North in Forest Hall. Emergency services attended where it was reported that a […]
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