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Anti-knife crime campaigners on Westminster Bridge in central London, calling for action over recent bloodshed today
BEREAVED families outside Downing Street today demanded that the government holds a Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (Cobra) emergency meeting to help tackle the rise of knife crime on Britain’s streets.
Hundreds of protesters stood in Whitehall for #OperationShutdown to demand that the government takes urgent action in the way that it would in response to terrorism.
Organiser Lucy Martindale, whose cousin was fatally stabbed, said: “If there is a terrorist attack and one person is killed there is a Cobra meeting.
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’
Working in a high-risk sector, prison officers’ calls for proper PPE must be heeded – and the POA will be fighting to ensure effective protection at work is delivered, writes MARK FAIRHURST