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Nottingham Post vindicated over reporting of police attack briefing

Nottingham Post vindicated over reporting of police attack briefing

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Nottinghamshire Live’s homepage coverage of the IPSO decision Update 18 October 2024: The Nottingham branch of the NUJ has issued an open letter hailing the Nottingham Post’s IPSO win over Nottinghamshire Police as “a victory for the free press”. The letter, addressed to Nottingham Post editor Natalie Fahy, can be found in full at the bottom of this article. Original story, 19 September 2024: The Nottingham Post has been vindicated after publishing articles about a “non-disclosable” police briefing relating to a stabbing attack that rocked the city last year. The Reach-owned title reported in February and March that Nottinghamshire Police had held a “non-disclosable briefing” for press about contact they had with Valdo Calocane before he committed a triple murder spree. In June last year Calocane stabbed to death two university students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley, and school caretaker Ian Coates. Thanks for subscribing. Close The Nottingham Post and its website Nottinghamshire Live published the headline: “Police don’t want us to tell whole story of attacks investigation / Police ask Post not to publish details …

Nottingham East voters: tell us which issues will decide this election | General election 2024

Nottingham East voters: tell us which issues will decide this election | General election 2024

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The Guardian will be reporting from Nottingham East ahead of the general election. This will be part of a series of pieces from across the country focused on finding out what matters most to the people who live there. If you live in the constituency of Nottingham East, can you tell us what will decide your vote? We’d like to understand the big issues facing you and your family and which policies matter to you. How happy are you with the state of housing, work, public transport, local facilities for young people, policing and health services? What local issues should we be looking at? Who has an impact on your community that we should meet? Are there issues in your family that create division? Are you thinking of switching your vote? Or perhaps you feel disengaged from national politics altogether. Share your views and experiences You can tell us about the issues that matter most to you in the constituency of Nottingham East using this form or messaging us via WhatsApp. Your responses, which can …

Premier League: Nottingham Forest fail to get four-point deduction overturned | UK News

Premier League: Nottingham Forest fail to get four-point deduction overturned | UK News

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The decision to deduct four points from Nottingham Forest following an admitted breach of the Premier League’s rules has been upheld by an independent appeal board. The club was docked the points in March after an independent commission ruled it had breached the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR). Forest had exceeded their permitted losses by £34.5m in the assessment period ending with the 2022-23 season, the commission decided. At the time, the deduction put the team, in its second season in England’s top division, in the relegation zone. They quickly said they would appeal, but the board has upheld the original penalty. It means Forest remain on 29 points, sitting three points and one place above the bottom three, with two Premier League matches left to play. Forest had sought a reduction because they felt the original commission should have taken the £47.5m sale of Brennan Johnson to Tottenham – two months after the end of the financial year ending 2023 – into account as a mitigating factor. They also felt the original …

Mark Clattenburg resigns as Nottingham Forest’s refereeing consultant

Mark Clattenburg resigns as Nottingham Forest’s refereeing consultant

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Mark Clattenburg has resigned from his role as Nottingham Forest’s refereeing consultant, in the aftermath of the club’s highly controversial defeat by Everton.  Nottingham Forest accused VAR Stuart Atwell of bias in an official statement after the game last month. Attwell had decided not to ask the on-field referee to review an incident that could have resulted in a penalty to Forest.  Forest’s statement strongly suggested that Attwell’s decision related to his support for Luton Town, who, like Forest are in a battle for Premier League survival. Clattenburg doubled down on that Forest statement in a column for the Daily Mail, calling penalty decisions in the Everton-Forest game a “joke” and a “hat-trick of howlers”.  In a statement on Friday first published by the Daily Mail, Clattenburg said: “This is to announce that I will no longer be providing match analysis services to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Since February this year, I have been proud to have done so under a consultancy agreement between NFFC and Referee Consultant Ltd. “I performed my services under the …

Schoolboy killed in sword attack remembered as ‘true scholar’

Schoolboy killed in sword attack remembered as ‘true scholar’

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Good evening. A 14-year-old boy killed in a sword attack in north-east London has been pictured for the first time. Elsewhere, migrants earmarked for deportation on the first flights to Rwanda have been detained in an operation by immigration enforcement officers. First picture of boy, 14, killed in sword attack Daniel Anjorin was a student at Bancroft’s School in Woodford Green, the same private school attended by Nottingham stabbing victim Grace O’Malley-Kumar. The flag of the school is today flying at half-mast and you can read its tribute to him, and follow other live updates on this story, here. First migrants set for Rwanda flights detained in house raids The migrants were picked up in raids by officers in the past two days and taken to immigration removal centres where they will be held ahead of the first flights in nine to 11 weeks. Three stabbed at school as boy, 17, is arrested for attempted murder A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed at a school …

Grace O’Malley-Kumar: Parents call for ‘hero’ daughter, 19, stabbed to death in Nottingham to be awarded George Cross | UK News

Grace O’Malley-Kumar: Parents call for ‘hero’ daughter, 19, stabbed to death in Nottingham to be awarded George Cross | UK News

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The parents of a student who was stabbed to death in Nottingham while trying to save her friend have called for her to be awarded the George Cross so she can be “remembered forever”. Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, “heroically and valiantly fought” Valdo Calocane when he attacked fellow student Barnaby Webber as they returned from a night out celebrating the end of exams last June, her father Dr Sanjoy Kumar said. During Calocane’s trial, prosecutor Karim Khalil KC said Ms O’Malley-Kumar had shown “incredible bravery” by trying to protect Mr Webber from Calocane’s blows and tried to fight him off, pushing him away and into the road. The killer then turned his attention to her and was “as uncompromisingly brutal in his assault of Grace as he was in his assault of Barnaby”, Mr Khalil said. Calocane admitted killing Grace, Barnaby and school caretaker Ian Coates on the basis of diminished responsibility, a plea which the Crown Prosecution Service has accepted. Image: (L-R) Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar MPs have since called for Ms O’Malley-Kumar, …

Grace O’Malley-Kumar: PM backs calls for 19-year-old stabbed to death in Nottingham to be awarded George Cross | UK News

Grace O’Malley-Kumar: PM backs calls for 19-year-old stabbed to death in Nottingham to be awarded George Cross | UK News

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Rishi Sunak has backed calls for a student who was stabbed to death while trying to save to her friend to be awarded a posthumous George Cross. Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, fought Valdo Calocane when he attacked fellow student Barnaby Webber as they returned from a night out celebrating the end of exams last June. During Calocane’s trial, prosecutor Karim Khalil KC said Ms O’Malley-Kumar had shown “incredible bravery” by trying to protect Mr Webber from Calocane’s blows and tried to fight him off, pushing him away and into the road. The killer then turned his attention to her and was “as uncompromisingly brutal in his assault of Grace as he was in his assault of Barnaby”, Mr Khalil said. Calocane admitted killing Grace, Barnaby and school caretaker Ian Coates on the basis of diminished responsibility, a plea which the Crown Prosecution Service has accepted. Image: (L-R) Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar Ms O’Malley-Kumar’s parents today called for her to be awarded the George Cross, an award recognising “the greatest heroism or of the most …

Nottingham attack families ‘traumatised’ by sick message | UK | News

Nottingham attack families ‘traumatised’ by sick message | UK | News

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A police officer described two of the Nottingham attack victims as “proper butchered” and said officers had tried to “hold their inners in”. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death in the city on June 13, 2023, with the “callous” comment made in the aftermath. The message, first reported by Sky News, read: “So 2 students on Ilkeston road have been proper butchered, 4 section [officers] turned up and tried to hold their inners in. Suspects then made off and attacked a man in a car on magdala [road] and stabbed him to death.” Barnaby Webber’s mother, Emma Webber, has written to the Nottinghamshire Police officer who she believes posted graphic details of the victims’ injuries in the chat group. Valdo Calocane, 32, used a dagger to stab Mr Webber, Ms O’Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates to death in Nottingham in the early hours of June 13 and attempted to kill three others. He was given an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter by diminished responsibility in January, after Nottingham Crown Court heard …

Nottingham attack families traumatised by ‘barbaric’ police WhatsApp message about killings | UK News

Nottingham attack families traumatised by ‘barbaric’ police WhatsApp message about killings | UK News

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A police officer described the students stabbed to death in Nottingham last summer as “proper butchered” and said officers “tried to hold their inners in”. Sky News can reveal the “disgusting” police WhatsApp message sent in the aftermath of the killings of Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar on 13 June 2023. Their families are horrified by the language used by an officer when discussing the stabbings with colleagues. Valdo Calocane, 32, a paranoid schizophrenic, stabbed the two 19-year-olds to death as they walked home from a night out before flagging down and killing 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates. At the time, one officer messaged colleagues on a WhatsApp group. The message said: “So 2 students on Ilkeston road have been proper butchered, 4 section [officers] turned up and tried to hold their inners in. Suspects then made off and attacked a man in a car on magdala [road] and stabbed him to death.” Another officer, PC Matt Gell, then shared the message outside of the police WhatsApp group with his wife and two friends. More …