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Raiders used an axe to smash and grab diamond rings and necklaces from a jewellery store. The two thieves ransacked the premises in Edinburgh on January 15. The raiders are both described as being 20 to 30 years old, and wearing jogging bottoms and hooded tops. Both perpetrators had their faces concealed in the £1 million raid. Officers went back to the scene in a bid to trace potential witnesses who may have been in the vicinity at the time.

Health service strikers set fire to their dismissal notices while they protested outside their bosses’ headquarters. The NHS workers committed the act on the fourth day of a five-day strike over proposed jobs losses and pay cuts in Wakefield. NHS chiefs in the region need to make cuts of £24 million by April, and in November the trust sent redundancy letters to 74 members of staff.

Plans to restore a Grade II-listed Victorian mansion may have been wrecked by metal thieves causing damage. The building was surrounded by locked gates that prevented the criminals from taking away the lead they were seeking. Instead the thieves dumped their swag taken from the porch roof, which left it open to the elements. Campaigners say the damage caused could add tens of thousands of pounds to the restoration bill at the Insole Court located in Cardiff.

A National Union of Teachers (NUT) representative did not think it was a good idea to fine parents or guardians if their children miss too much school. Owen Hathway from the NUT remarked the idea would fail because: “That’s going to cause a huge rift between them and the parents.

A dispute raged on Tuesday (February 5, 2013) over plans to introduce charges at public conveniences in a city centre. Councillors want to bring in a 30p fee for Edinburgh – the first time the council has made people pay for ‘spending the proverbial penny’.

The coalition at the weekend unveiled proposals that will allow new parents to choose how they share a year’s worth of leave after the birth of their child. All employees will have the right to request flexible working under the children and families bill, not just parents and carers.

The Hansard Society interviewed new politicians and revealed what life is like when they first ‘climbed the greasy pole,’ as former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli put it. A dozen members of the Welsh assembly were asked in July 2011 and seven more during the following April. Eleven of them took part in interviews.

A man has been charged in connection with two bank robberies that occurred in the space of 24 hours. Officers said cash was stolen from Yorkshire Bank on Princes Avenue on February 5 in Hull, and from the nearby NatWest the next day. Police have appealed for the return of a “significant quantity” of money. A 42-year-old man from the area was due to appear before magistrates today (Monday, February 11).

An employment tribunal ruled that a local authority had not provided information to a trade union on matters such as a collective redundancy consultation in 2012. The case involved breaches of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWRs) for dozens of workers at Barnet Council. The AWRs were introduced in October 2011 to provide greater parity of pay and conditions for long serving temporary staff.

The exact cause of a fire at a hospital is currently being investigated, but it is believed to be accidental. Twenty-seven patients needed to evacuated from the building following the late-night blaze at the Wrexham-based wards. The patients were led to safety to be relocated at another part of the hospital. Four fire crews found a small fire on the ground floor, which was extinguished in a short period of time, and as a result two wards were cleared.

Hundreds of pounds were stolen from a wine merchant after a shotgun was brandished at a shopkeeper. The armed robbers were dressed in yellow fluorescent clothing and escaped in the shop’s own van. The silver Renault, which was branded with the Swansea merchant’s trade dress, was recovered at a nearby location an hour later.

Police searches of a council candidate’s home and a fast-food takeaway business he owned revealed copies of forged documents. It was part of the evidence which convicted Cencizham Cerit to 12 months in prison for electoral fraud. He was found guilty of forging the signatures of his tenants to try and win an election in November 2011. Canterbury Crown Court heard Cerit delivered 200 postal vote applications to Ashford Borough Council that contained bogus signatures. Tensor have developed three versions of our award-winning Visitor Management software, guaranteed to suit all sizes of business. A Visitor Monitoring System (VMS) allows Signature Capture Tablets to be connected to the system so that the signatures of visitors and contractors can be stored at the point of entry to your premises. This signature can be used for verification purposes or as proof that the visitor/contractor has read and understood the site’s security policies. These signatures can also be printed on to visitor's pass for added security.