01/07/2011
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Three Company Directors Charged With Manslaughter
Three people have been charged after an employee fell through a roof and died in Hyde. Kevin Palliser, 59 of Rishworth Rise, Shaw, Richard Vaughan Williams, 42, of Priory Close, Hawarden, Clwyd and Graham Coupe, 59, of Hampshire Close, Glossop, Derbyshire have each been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence. They have also been charged with failing to discharge the duty to which they were subject by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. They are due before Tameside Magistrates' Court on 2 August 2011. All three men are company directors of Lion Steel Equipment Ltd, which itself has been summonsed for corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences. At about 1.35pm on Thursday 29 May 2008, police in Tameside were called to an industrial unit in Johnsonbrook Road, Hyde, following a report a worker had been injured. Steven Berry, 45, was taken to Tameside General Hospital where he later died.
Emergency Legislation On Police Bail Launched
Policing Minister Nick Herbert has said the government will urgently bring forward emergency legislation to overturn a high court ruling on police bail. The judgment means the time suspects spend on bail could count towards any maximum period of pre-charge detention. The police have said the ruling will have a serious impact on their ability to investigate crime. Nick Herbert confirmed that the government fully supports the police appealing the decision to the Supreme Court, saying: “We cannot, must not and will not ask the police to do their work with one hand tied behind their backs.” Speaking to the House of Commons he added: “Emergency legislation will clarify the position and provide assurance that the police can continue to operate on the basis on which they have been operating for many years.”
Queen Opens Scottish Parliament
The Queen has officially opened the fourth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh today. Commenting on the event, First Minister Alex Salmond said: "This is a country increasingly comfortable in its own skin. We aspire to be more successful, more dynamic, fairer and greener. We want to uphold the values of the Commonwealth - to protect the vulnerable and nurture the young. We want to emerge from current economic difficulties into better times."
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Three people have been charged after an employee fell through a roof and died in Hyde. Kevin Palliser, 59 of Rishworth Rise, Shaw, Richard Vaughan Williams, 42, of Priory Close, Hawarden, Clwyd and Graham Coupe, 59, of Hampshire Close, Glossop, Derbyshire have each been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence. They have also been charged with failing to discharge the duty to which they were subject by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. They are due before Tameside Magistrates' Court on 2 August 2011. All three men are company directors of Lion Steel Equipment Ltd, which itself has been summonsed for corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences. At about 1.35pm on Thursday 29 May 2008, police in Tameside were called to an industrial unit in Johnsonbrook Road, Hyde, following a report a worker had been injured. Steven Berry, 45, was taken to Tameside General Hospital where he later died.
Emergency Legislation On Police Bail Launched
Policing Minister Nick Herbert has said the government will urgently bring forward emergency legislation to overturn a high court ruling on police bail. The judgment means the time suspects spend on bail could count towards any maximum period of pre-charge detention. The police have said the ruling will have a serious impact on their ability to investigate crime. Nick Herbert confirmed that the government fully supports the police appealing the decision to the Supreme Court, saying: “We cannot, must not and will not ask the police to do their work with one hand tied behind their backs.” Speaking to the House of Commons he added: “Emergency legislation will clarify the position and provide assurance that the police can continue to operate on the basis on which they have been operating for many years.”
Queen Opens Scottish Parliament
The Queen has officially opened the fourth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh today. Commenting on the event, First Minister Alex Salmond said: "This is a country increasingly comfortable in its own skin. We aspire to be more successful, more dynamic, fairer and greener. We want to uphold the values of the Commonwealth - to protect the vulnerable and nurture the young. We want to emerge from current economic difficulties into better times."
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