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Palace Road, London, SW1W 0DTOne in five immigration
staff cite discriminationImmigration staff are seeing rising
levels of discrimination in the
workplace, an internal survey has
revealed. Employees at the Border
Force and Immigration Enforcement,
the Home Office body whose targets
for “illegal immigration” removals
were at the centre of the Windrush
scandal, have said they face increasing
discrimination from colleagues.
The findings raise questions about a
failure to address ongoing problems
within the department, highlighted by
a damning parliamentary report in
March. The recent survey of civil
servants found that one in five
immigration enforcement employees
had “personally experienced
discrimination at work”.NEWS BULLETIN
Snakes abandoned
outside vet’s surgeryA box of snakes has been dumped
outside a vet’s surgery in Somerset.
The RSPCA is appealing for
information after nine corn snakes
were found in a plastic box in Frome
on Saturday morning.
The reptiles were in “reasonable
condition despite being dehydrated”,
according to RSPCA inspector Hayley
Lawrence, and have been placed in
temporary homes.
She added: “It is never acceptable to
dump an animal. If people are
struggling to look after their pets,
there are many charities and
organisations that are able to help.
“Reptiles have very specific needs
such as heating and it is lucky these
snakes were found when they were.”Hearse and coffin at
Pride march criticised
A funeral company has been criticised
for parading a rainbow-coloured
hearse and coffin at a Pride march.
The hearse was seen travelling
alongside the 9,000 people who took
part in the Glasgow Pride event.
But some people were horrified to
see the hearse and matching wicker
coffin inside, claiming it was offensive
to those who died from Aids in the
Eighties. One said: “Absolutely
disgusted to see a rainbow hearse
today. This is so tasteless.”
The Co-op said: “[We are] a proud
supporter of Pride and the LGBT
community. The rainbow hearse was
requested by members and customers
some years ago, to help funerals
become more of a celebration of life.”Rugby fans warned of
lethal Zika-like infection
Rugby fans travelling to Japan for this
year’s World Cup are being urged to
take precautions against a deadly
Zika-style virus that kills one in three
of all patients.
Japanese encephalitis is an
uncommon and incurable brain
infection carried by mosquitoes in
Japan and Asia – and kills almost
20,000 people every year.
While the chances of infection are
rare, the Encephalitis Society is urging
tourists and rugby fans to take travel
health advice before setting off, as it
can be prevented with a vaccination.
Japanese encephalitis is part of the
flavivirus family, which includes the
Zika virus that marred the 2014 Brazil
World Cup and Rio 2016 Olympics.‘Drag’ racer sets cycle
speed record of 174mph
A cyclist has set a speed record of
174.33mph on a £15,000 bike released
from the back of a Porsche as it hurtled
down a runway.
Architect Neil Campbell, 45, broke
the previous record of 167mph using
an elongated, custom-built cycle.
He achieved the record at Elvington
Airfield in North Yorkshire on
Saturday, beating the previous mark
set by a Dutch rider in 1995.
Mr Campbell, from Little Horkesley,
Essex, said: “I am thrilled and relieved,
the team worked amazingly well.”
His next challenge will be to try to
reach 220mph next year on a six-mile
track at the Bonneville Salt Flats in
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for three monthsSEE PAGE 21 FOR DETAILSPM attacks anti-vax misinformation
By Danielle Sheridan
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
THE Prime Minister has said social me-
dia firms must share the responsibility
for the rising spread of measles as he
attacked anti-vax misinformation.
Boris Johnson will today set out
plans to improve vaccination rates on a
visit to a hospital in the South West, fol-
lowing a rise in cases of measles.
In the first quarter of 2019 there
were 231 confirmed cases, just three
years after the World Health Organisa-
tion declared the UK measles-free.
Earlier this year Simon Stevens, the
head of the NHS, said “fake news” by
anti-vaxxers on social media had
fuelled a tripling of measles cases and
added that the promotion of misguided
messages on Instagram and YouTube
was one of the factors behind the dip in
vaccinations.
Ahead of his visit, Mr Johnson, who
will call a summit of social media com-
panies to discuss how they can play
their part in promoting accurate infor-
mation about vaccination, said: “After a
period of progress where we were once
able to declare Britain measles-free,
we’ve now seen hundreds of cases of
measles in the UK this year.
“One case of this horrible disease is
too many, and I am determined to step
up our efforts to tackle its spread.
“This is a global challenge and there’sa number of reasons why people don’t
get themselves or their children the
vaccines they need, but we need deci-
sive action across our health service
and society to make sure communities
are properly immunised.”
The Prime Minister added: “From re-
assuring parents about the safety of
vaccines to making sure people are at-
tending follow-up appointments, we
can and must do more to halt the spread
of infectious, treatable diseases in
modern-day Britain.”
Mr Johnson called for health leaders
to renew their efforts to ensure 95 per
cent of the population have had both
doses of the MMR vaccine, as currently
only 87.2 per cent of children have thesecond dose of the jab. This is down
from a high of 88.6 per cent in 2014-15,
and the lower uptake is thought to be
partly behind the spread of measles,
Downing Street said.
NHS England will write to all GPs
urging them to promote “catch-up”
vaccination programmes, and will seek
to strengthen the role of local immuni-
sation coordinators in a bid to improve
uptake. It will also seek to update the
advice on the NHS’s website to address
misleading information about the dan-
gers of vaccines.
As part of the Department for
Health’s strategy, it plans to work with
the Department for Education to ex-
plore more ways in which students canbe informed about their health, includ-
ing the value of vaccinations, which
they hope will enable them to critically
assess misinformation spread online
about certain vaccines.
Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisa-
tion at Public Health England, said the
UK losing its measles-free status was “a
stark reminder of how important it is
that every eligible person gets vacci-
nated”.
She added: “Measles is one of the
most infectious diseases known to man- only one person travelling back to an
area with lower vaccination rates can
lead to an outbreak. Anyone who has
not received two doses of MMR vac-
cine is always at risk.”
By Danielle Sheridan
BRITAIN needs to return to the culture
of deference towards the police that ex-
isted decades ago, a minister has said in
the wake of the death of Pc Andrew
Harper.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the energy minis-
ter, said levels of respect between fig-
ures of authority and civilians had
dwindled over the past 20 years.
“This is a cultural issue. In terms of
level of respect for police officers,
that’s something which we have to re-
verse in terms of the decline, but it’s
not something which can be done
overnight,” he said.
“I think we’ve seen over the last 10 to
20 years people being less respectful,
not just policemen but out and around.
People are saying we are in a more vio-
lent and disrespectful age.
“It’ll take a while to get back to the
levels of deference that we saw in the
past.”
Mr Kwarteng cited the Prime Minis-
ter’s pledge to put an extra 20,000 po-
lice officers on the street as a“goodpplace to start” in terms of “reas-
suring the public”.
His comments come after 28-year-
old Pc Harper died from multiple inju-
ries after he was dragged hundreds ofyards by a suspect’s vehicle after re-
sponding to a reported burglary in
Berkshire on Thursday night. Last
night, police continued to question 10
male suspects, including a 13-year-old.
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, de-
manded a crackdown on criminals as-
saulting police officers, as figures
showed the average jail term for the of-
fence was just two months.
Ms Patel announced in The Sunday
Telegraph that the Government was
“accelerating plans” for a new police
covenant designed to enshrine protec-tions for officers, and said the Home Of-
fice was examining ways to better
support the families of those injured or
killed by criminals.
Mr Kwarteng added: “I think the
Home Secretary’s got the right ap-
proach. I think we have to look at pro-
tecting our policemen and women who
are at the front line and I think the po-
lice covenant is a good idea.”
A fundraising page set up by Thames
Valley Police Federation to support Pc
Harper’s widow, Lissie, and his family
has raised more than £60,000 so far.Social media
makes children
more impulsive,
study suggests
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
SOCIAL media can make children more
likely to have eating disorders or try
drugs because it makes them more im-
pulsive, a study suggests.
Too much social media – which in-
cludes Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp,
YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat –
makes them more impulsive, often
leading to bad decisions that will affect
the rest of their lives, warn scientists.
Children spending a significant
amount of time looking at screens, and
not getting enough sleep, are most vul-
nerable, the study found.
Dr Michelle Guerrero, a paediatri-
cian at the University of Ottawa and
lead author of the study, said: “Impul-
sive behaviour is associated with nu-
merous mental health and addiction
problems, including eating disorders,
behavioural addictions and substance
abuse.”
Her team analysed more than 4,
eight to 11-year-olds. Those who used
smartphones more than two hours a
day and slept less than nine hours a
night were more impulsive.
The results were based on the par-
ticipants’ self-reported scores on eight
traits such as perseverance, seeking
out thrills, setting goals, being sensi-
tive and acting rashly.
Dr Guerrero said the findings rein-
forced the importance of the Canadian
24-Hour Movement Guidelines for
Children and Youth. These advise five
to 17-year-olds get at least 60 minutes a
day moderate to vigorous exercise, a
maximum two hours of recreational
screen time and have nine to 11 hours’
uninterrupted sleep every night.
Meeting all three pillars of the rec-
ommendations was associated with
more favourable outcomes.
Dr Guerrero said: “Impulsive behav-
iour is associated with numerous men-
tal health and addiction problems,
including eating disorders, behav-
ioural addictions and substance abuse.
“This study shows the importance of
especially paying attention to sleep and
recreational screen time.”
In one of the first studies of its kind
her team looked specifically at the link
between screen time and behaviour in
adolescents. It is the first set of data
from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive
Development Study, which plans to fol-
low the participants for 10 years.
Forces ‘tied up for hours’
driving suspects to stations
Britain has lost its ‘culture of deference’ to the police
Continued from Page 1
Knight, custody lead for the Police Fed-
eration, said: “It is hard to ignore the
knock-on effect the sale of police sta-
tions and closures of custody suites has
had on policing as a whole.”
The figures showed a “particular
problem” with officers being “tied up
for hours” driving long distances.
Mr Knight added: “It may also mean
offenders ultimately escaping convic-
tion entirely because of the length of
time that has passed between the road-
side breath test and the evidential sam-
ple taken in custody.”
In North Wales many towns are
more than an hour from the nearest
station. In Tywyn, which has a huge in-
flux of holiday makers during the sum-
mer months, residents say crime is in
danger of getting out of control. Kath-
erine Wilson, 73, said: “We’re becom-
ing a forgotten town.”
Insp Andrew Berry, chairman of the
Devon and Cornwall Police Federation,
warned last month that some officers
were opting to drive suspects home
rather than to cells to save time.
Supt Richie Green, who is responsi-
ble for the Gwynedd South area for
North Wales Police, said the distances
presented a challenge “familiar to
many rural forces”. They worked with
neighbouring forces where possible.
North Yorkshire said facilities were
“frequently reviewed” to ensure they
were meeting demand. Avon and Som-
erset said that officers had vehicles fit-
ted with cages to transport prisoners.Exam reform ‘a costly and
damaging experiment’
Continued from Page 1
for 90 per cent of schools to enter all
their pupils for the EBacc by 2020.
After an initial rise in pupils being
entered between 2012 and 2013, the
proportion has failed to rise beyond 35
to 40 per cent for the past five years,
figures show.
The Ebacc has been a “costly and
damaging experiment”, which has“failed and is virtually indefensible”,
the letter concludes as it urges minis-
ters to allow students greater choice
over their GCSE subjects aside from
English, maths and science.
Lord Baker, who served as education
secretary from 1986 to 1989, told The
Daily Telegraph that it is “disgraceful”
that the EBacc is still “hanging around”.
He cited a Sutton Trust report thatfound that the Ebacc has not helped
disadvantaged students, adding that
the fact that poorer children are still
falling behind their better off peers is a
“national disgrace”.
A study published earlier this year
by the Education Policy Institute found
that children from poorer backgrounds
are finishing a year and a half behind
their peers by the end of GCSEs.
In the past year, the gap between
rich and poor children widened by 0.
months to 18.1 months, the study found.
Lord Baker introduced the General
Certificate of Education (GCSE) over
two years, between 1986 and 1988, to
replace the O-level and the Certificate
of Secondary Education (CSE) exams.
A DfE spokesman said: “The EBacc is
at the core of our mission to drive up
social mobility by encouraging all
young people to take the core academic
subjects that are essential for keeping
their options open for further study
and careers. The Ebacc, which should
be studied with subjects like the arts
that reflect pupils’ interests, has been
instrumental in halting and reversing
the decline in uptake of languages at
GCSE.”News
Kwasi Kwarteng said
that levels of respect
for authority figures
had dwindled over
the past 10-20 years5
The number of good GCSEs students
must get as part of the EBacc
qualification introduced in 2010Johnson urged to
keep transport
pledge to the North
BORIS JOHNSON has been urged to
keep his promises after a report sug-
gested the North is set to receive at
least £2,300 less per person in trans-
port spending than London.
The Government’s planned trans-
port spending for London is almost
three times more per head than the
North unless investment in the North-
ern Powerhouse gets the go-ahead, a
think tank said.
That figure rises to seven times more
per person compared to Yorkshire and
the Humber, or the North East, accord-
ing to IPPR North research based on
government figures.
Its analysis says the capital will re-
ceive £3,636 in transport spending per
person, while the North will receive
£1,247 in planned spending.
IPPR researcher Luke Raikes said:
“These figures show that the Prime
Minister must urgently follow through
on his promises to invest in northern
transport infrastructure and devolve
power to the North’s leaders.
“The Northern Powerhouse agenda
could benefit people across the whole
country. Northern transport infra-
structure is a national priority.” Aberdyfi in
North Wales to
the Caernarfon
custody suite:
66 miles and
1 hour and 45
minutes
Hawes in
North Yorkshire
to Harrogate
custody suite:
45 miles and an
hour and a half
Berwick-
upon-Tweed in
Northumbria tothe force’s
headquarters in
Wallsend: 63.
miles and a 1 hr
17 minute drive
Dulverton in
Avon and
Somerset to
Bridgwater
custody centre:
42 miles and a
1 hr 7 min drive
Gillingham,
Dorset, to Poole
police station: 31
miles, 1 hr 1 minClocking up the miles
Long journeysBoy, 6, swept
away by river is
‘unlikely’ to
have survived
By Daily Telegraph ReporterA SIX-YEAR-OLD boy who was swept
away after falling into a river is “un-
likely” to have survived, the police of-
ficer leading the search has said.
Lucas Dobson slipped and fell into
the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent, on
Saturday afternoon, while on a fishing
trip with family members.
Supt Amanda Tillotson, of Kent Po-
lice, said more than 100 members of
the emergency services and some 200
volunteers have been taking part in a
“massive operation”.
She said: “I’ve just come from speak-
ing to the family, and they wish to pass
on their absolute gratitude for every-
body, and they’re overwhelmed at the
amount of people that have come out to
help and search for Lucas.”
Asked how likely a positive outcome
is, she told the PA news agency: “Obvi-
ously, as time has gone on now, I think
it is unlikely, unfortunately.
“But, we will continue to search and
obviously I would like to have a posi-
tive outcome, I would like to find Lu-
cas, [but] we are getting increasinglyconcerned with the amount of time
that is going on now.
“But it is really important that we
continue to search for Lucas and con-
tinue to do that for the family, and my
heart goes out to them, it really does.
This is an awful, tragic incident.”
She said there were dive units still
searching the river, along with special-
ists from other agencies, and that the
current focus of efforts was centred
near to where the incident happened,
at Richborough Road, at 1.20pm.
Maciee Stanford, 18, Lucas’s aunt,
said the boy’s father jumped into the
water after Lucas fell between a jetty
and a boat he had been trying to step
on to. She told the MirrorOnline: “He
was with his dad and his dad’s friends,
along with other children. As soon as
he fell, the three adults jumped in after
[him] but the current was too strong,
he had already gone in the short
amount of time, he could not be found.”‘As soon as he fell, the three
adults jumped in but thecurrent was too strong...
he could not be found’Novel approach Actress Lily James is seen on the set of the film remake of Rebecca, based on
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