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Anger over detention of Ekrem Imamoğlu becomes a touchstone for opposing President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanWhen demonstrators gathered ­at Istanbul’s city hall last week in outrage at the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, 26-year-old Azra said she was initially too scared to defy a ban on gatherings. As protests grew on university campuses and in cities and towns across Turkey, she could no longer resist joining.“I saw the spark in people’s eyes and the excitement on their faces, and I decided I had to come down here,” she said with a grin, standing among tens of thousands that defied a ban

Thomas Woldbye says most other airports operate similar back-up power systems to Heathrow, as Ed Miliband announces investigationThe chief executive of Heathrow has defended the running of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation stopped about 1,300 planes and disrupted the journeys of hundreds of thousands of global passengers.It comes after Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow for the disruption, while the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has now ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the outage. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/22/heathrow-boss-defends-running-of-airport-after-criticism-of-shutdown Author : Allan Glen Publish date : 2025-03-22

Five hundred canisters being examined after man arrested in East Sussex town on suspicion of producing illegal substancesA bomb squad has carried out a controlled burn of explosive chemicals discovered at a property in an East Sussex town as they continue to examine a further 500 canisters.A major incident was declared on Friday while an operation continued to make the chemicals safe, with 73 people forced to move to a nearby hotel. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/22/more-than-70-people-evacuated-from-st-leonards-after-explosive-chemicals-found Author : Allan Glen Publish date : 2025-03-22 14:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within yearTeenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), set up to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime in the capital, said the new research is the first direct evidence of “a clear link between children being excluded from school and involvement in violence”. Continue reading...