Thursday 09/02/12 Police raid Ealing off licences for fake booze
COUNTERFEIT booze and tobacco worth thousands of pounds has been seized from shops across Ealing.A joint operation was led by Ealing Police, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the borough council’s Licensing team.
Wine, spirits, beers and tobacco which had not had duty paid on them were seized from 15 off-licence premises across the area.
The haul included more than 450 litres of spirits, 7,960 cigarettes, 420 litres of beer and nine kilograms of tobacco.
Wednesday 08/02/12 Body of man found near Greenford Roundabout
THE body of a man was found near Greenford Roundabout early Wed morning (8).A man, believed to be in his 60s, was found dead in the slip road near the junction with Greenford Roundabout and A40 just before 8am. Police and ambulance attended the scene.
Officers are investigating but are treating the death as 'unexplained'.
A police spokeswoman said: "Police believe they know the identity of the deceased, next of kin have been informed. At this stage, the death is being treated as unexplained."
Poor youngsters are dropping out of college because the government's replacement for the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is "inadequate", a report says.The Barnardo's report says lower levels of money and a lack of access to it are leaving some of England's poorest students with no choice.
Young people are skipping meals in order to pay their fares to college, it adds.
The government said EMA was wasteful.
Education Secretary Michael Gove announced he was axing the £560m a year scheme soon after his party came to power in 2010. He said he wanted support for poor pupils more targeted.
Monday 06/02/12.Young jobless 'Neets' reach record level
The number of young people not in education, training or work has risen to a record level in England. Official figures for the third quarter of this year say there were 1,163,000 people aged from 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (Neet).
That is almost one in five of that age-group and an extra 137,000 compared with the same point last year.
The government says the number has been "too high for too long".
Last week, figures were published for UK unemployment, showing it had risen to a record level of 2.62 million in the three months to September.
Thursday's figures - for England - show about one in seven 16- to 18-year-olds - a total of 267,000 - are Neet.
That is 2,000 more than at this time last year.
A programme to persuade young gang members to abandon lives of street violence has been launched in London.Enfield is the first council in England and Wales to turn to the innovative "call-in" process to deal with its gang problem. The scheme aims to give young known gang members a stark warning about street violence and criminality by making them listen to parents who have lost their children in gang-related violence, ex-gang members, community leaders and surgeons forced to choose between saving the life of an elderly heart-attack victim or that of a young gangster, sliced beyond recognition with a blade.
