Etiqueta: alarm
Alarm as leak reveals Prevent ‘carrying the weight’ for mental health services
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Mental health campaigners have sounded the alarm over a leaked Home Office report into the anti-extremism programme Prevent, which suggests those without extremist views are being referred to the programme to access f...
Alarm after EHRC says long Covid should not be treated as disability
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People suffering from long Covid have reacted with alarm to comments by government’s equalities watchdog that the condition should not be treated as a disability. Under the Equalities Act, anyone with a physical or me...
Prison firm made £11m in year Ofsted raised alarm about safety at youth jail
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A private prison company that ran an “inadequate” youth jail made £11m in the same year inspectors raised serious safety concerns about the welfare of children, some of whom were locked up alone for more than 23 horas...
‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored
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Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commis...
The Guardian view on Marine Le Pen’s surge: alarm bells ring
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In her prizewinning memoir The Years, the author Annie Ernaux recalled the collective panic on the French left in 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen unexpectedly made it to the runoff in that year’s presidential election. “...
Scientists sound alarm at US regulator’s new ‘forever chemicals’ definition
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) department responsible for protecting the public from toxic substances is working under a new definition of PFAS “forever chemicals” that excludes some of their widely used co...
Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists
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Startling heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles are causing alarm among climate scientists, who have warned the “unprecedented” events could signal faster and abrupt climate breakdown. Temperatures in Antarctica reached ...
SES units in flood-hit NSW raised alarm in 2020 that restructure threatened ‘future of the service’
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State Emergency Service units in some of the hardest-hit flood areas in northern New South Wales had warned the closure of regional offices in 2020 would reduce their ability to respond to natural disasters. Communica...
Sunday with Leila Farzad: ‘I like toast so burnt I set off our smoke alarm’
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Wake-up time? I’d naturally wake at 10am given half a chance. But my seven-year-old daughter trips into our room at 7ish and lifts me out of my inky slumber by whispering, ‘Can I watch TV?’ I say, ‘Go do it, babes!’ a...
‘I’m afraid Russia will invade us next’: alarm among Ukraine’s neighbours
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As fighting continues in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, people have been fleeing to neighbouring countries. The Guardian spoke to people living in countries near Ukraine about the situation, how they feel about thei...
‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters
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Container ship accidents at sea should be considered the “oil spills of our time”, warned environmental organisations that found a toxic mix of metals, carcinogenic and other harmful chemicals on plastic washed up on ...
‘Huge mess of theft and fraud:’ artists sound alarm as NFT crime proliferates
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When Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up by her. Van Baarle is a popular d...
‘A national tragedy’: Māori drowning rate causes alarm in New Zealand
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Aquatic safety instructor Clayton Wikaira is leaning against a small inflatable boat, his hair wet from the sea, speaking to a group of six university students who have just learned how to safely dive for kaimoana (s...
Heart attack patient raises alarm after NHS advised him to make own way to hospital
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An ambulance service has apologised after a man having a heart attack was advised to get himself to hospital or face a long wait. Graham Reagan said his son had to drive him to hospital after being told the nearest am...
Brasil: deforestation jumps in world’s largest savanna as scientists raise alarm
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Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil’s Cerrado, prompting scientists on Monday to raise alarm over the state of the world’s most species-rich savanna and a major carbon sink that help...
Departure of Frost as Brexit minister sets off alarm bells in Brussels
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The resignation of David Frost as Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister has set off alarm bells in Brussels, with officials unclear as to the approach that will be taken by the prime minister in the new year. In recent week...