YET again, we see evidence of a Labour government tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime after 14 years of Tory failure, Tory austerity, and record Tory cuts to frontline services.
Examples of this include the introduction of plans to ban ninja swords, zombie-style knives and machetes; fines for social media executives for failing to stop unlawful online sales on their sites, strong action to crack down on gangs, and the launching of both the first ever knife-enabled taskforce to tackle crime and its causes as well as the Young Futures programme to stop young people being drawn into crime.
Hence, whereas the Tories were all talk with their big magic money tree, Labour is all action with fully-funded projects to make Britain safe again.
Geoffrey Brooking,
Saxley Court,
Havant,
Hampshire
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Join family walk to raise money for children
NEXT month, the NSPCC in Yorkshire would like to welcome families from across the region to a very special event – Walk for Children Leeds.
This is the first time that an event like this has been organised by the charity for Walk for Children, but people across the UK have joined walks in their local areas every Christmas since 2020 and raised more than £460,000 for the NSPCC.
Yorkshire is proud to be hosting the pilot on Sunday, December 8, at Roundhay Park, and hopes to welcome hundreds of people to walk a 5km or 3km fully accessible route through the beautiful park.
It’s a simple fundraiser, but we hope it will be the first of many and hope families and friends will come together for a fun, relaxing walk to support vital NSPCC services like Childline.
Last Christmas, Childline delivered around 5,500 counselling sessions to children. On average, a child contacts the service every 45 seconds, so it is vital counsellors are there around the clock, even at Christmas.
Everyone who takes part in the walk will receive an NSPCC T-shirt, and children go free. There will be fun events for all the family on the day – Santa will be on site, along with one or two other special guests.
If you sign up now, you can use the code NOVEMBER to get one free adult place on the walk too – to sign up, search online for NSPCC Walk for Children Leeds.
Katy Scott
NSPCC Community Fundraising Manager
North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
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Here’s an idea…
CURRENTLY our grey bin waste is taken for incineration and as a result produces some electricity.
The burning of plastic is an issue that needs further study.
On the basis that it seems environmentally acceptable to transport wood pellets thousands of miles from across the Atlantic by boat then rail to Drax power station to generate electricity; why are we not encouraged to fill our grey bins with dead leaves and other combustible garden waste to be taken about 12 miles to produce electricity by incineration.
James Langton,
Address supplied
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