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Tag Archives: South Wales Evening Post
FOI Friday: Bad living conditions, school repair backlogs, teen drug dealers and the return of schoolyard compo
Revealing the findings of ‘neighbourhood renewal assessments’ – Stoke Sentinel Here’s one which could run and run across the country. The Stoke Sentinel reports on the findings of a council ‘neighbourhood renewal assessment’ – the likes of which are … Continue reading
Gallery: How the newspapers which knew Gary Speed best covered his death
The death of Gary Speed was one of those news stories which, when read first on Twitter, always makes me think: “I need to see that several more times from people I trust before I believe it.” Confirmation followed soon … Continue reading
FOI Friday: Council bosses and their expenses, dirty hospitals, police spying on neighbours and the problems with paracetamol
1. Hotel Stays I wonder if Andrea Hall, the chief executive of Suffolk County Council, agrees with Tony Blair that FOI was a big mistake. Thanks to FOI, we already know £12,000 was spenting on coaching sessions for her, not … Continue reading
FOI Friday: Nightstalker, OAP abuse, crime in villages and shredded letters
The nightstalker case The conviction of Delroy Grant, the Nightstalker sex attacker who police failed to catch despite being given a golden opportunity to do so, has been headline news this week. The News Shopper in London took the opportunity … Continue reading
FOI Friday (On a Tuesday again): Jet-setting council bosses, over 50s redundancies and racist schoolkids
1. ‘Culling staff aged over 50′ claim A fascinating FOI from an organisation called Wise Owls, which campaigns for older workers, made an impact in the Carlisle News and Star. It revealed, using FOI, that of 24 people made redundant … Continue reading
FOI Friday: Guns on the street, refunds for poor teaching, crimes in the town hall … and the hairbrush seized by cops
1. Guns off the streets Using the Freedom of Information Act, the Sunday Mercury in Birmingham reported on the number of guns which police had taken off the streets in the past three years – some 9,000. 2. Drugs cases … Continue reading
FOI FRIDAY: Wrongly-released prisoners, compo for teachers, police bill for mobile phone records and dodgy measures in the pub
Looking for an FOI idea? Here are 10 which made headlines recently…. 1. Wrongly released prisoners The Liverpool ECHO used FOI to find out how many prisoners had been released from the city’s two prisons by mistake over the last … Continue reading
FOI Friday: 10 things we discovered thanks to Freedom of Information this week
Compensation to prisoners, use of tasers in Cambridgeshire, probation breaches in Bedfordshire and the criminal record of a football legend. FOI Friday has a distinct criminal theme this week… Compensation paid to prisoners The Lincolnshire Echo published details of compensation … Continue reading
FOI Friday: 10 things we’ve learnt this week thanks to the Freedom of Information Act
A council with 100,000 unsuitable images on its computers, a police force revealing it doesn’t investigate almost a quarter of reported crimes and the rising cost of parking fines – here are 10 stories made possible this week thanks to … Continue reading
