A drilling rig has fallen off a truck and burst a water main in eastern Christchurch.
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Rabbi Jonathan Cahn: This Is a Time of Testing
Matthew 5:13 is manifesting before our eyes. But there is hope.
Haven for orphans in the heart of Watford
Founded in 1813, the London Orphan Asylum’s mission was to provide maintenance, instruction and clothing to destitute orphans, and to give them…
Former police chief Gordon Anglesea ‘had links with paedophiles’
A former police chief accused of historical child sex offences is alleged to have had links with convicted paedophiles. Gordon Anglesea, 78, is charged with four counts of sexual abuse against two teenage boys in the 1980s when he was a police inspector based in Wrexham. The former superintendent is accused of two counts of indecent assault and one count of serious sexual assault against the first complainant, and one count of indecent assault against the second complainant. Both complainants are now in their forties but were aged 14-15 at the time of the alleged abuse. Mold Crown Court has heard the second complainant was in care as a teenager and living at the Bryn Alyn children’s home, run by convicted paedophile John Allen. He said he was abused by John Allen, who was jailed for life in 2014, and that the abuse sometimes involved other adults when he was “handed around like a handbag.” Complainant Two later named one of these adults as Gordon Anglesea, claiming he indecently assaulted him. Eleanor Laws QC, prosecuting, said Mr Anglesea told Complainant Two that he had the power to send him away and that he would “never see [his] family again”. The court also heard Mr Anglesea was in charge at an attendance centre for young offenders in Wrexham in the 1980s, and it was here that he is alleged to have assaulted Complainant One. Ms Laws told the jury of seven men and five women: “The prosecution say Gordon Anglesea was in a position to abuse these two men when they were teenagers as a result of his position he held within the police force at the time, a time when the issue of institutional abuse and abuse by public figures was hard for most of us to believe, or want to believe and harder for complaints to be made.” Gordon Anglesea denies all the charges against him and the trial continues.
Source: Former police chief Gordon Anglesea ‘had links with paedophiles’
British teacher and Buddhist monk is jailed in Thailand
A British teacher who had been ordained as a Buddhist monk has been given a suspended jail sentence in Thailand for kidnapping youngsters who were used in child porn films.
Source: British teacher and Buddhist monk is jailed in Thailand
Bay people missing out on sight-saving treatment
Seventy-year-old Peter Marsh found out the hard way that where you live in New Zealand could determine how well you can see. When he and his wife Margaret moved to Tauranga last year he assumed sight-saving…
Q&A: Rape as a tool of war ‘won’t work forever’
British PM’s representative on preventing sexual violence says no culture can feel “smug” about violence against women.
