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The first female chief constable of Police Scotland has been appointed, with Jo Farrell taking on the role.She will succeed Sir Iain Livingstone when he steps down in August after six years in the job.Currently in charge of Durham Constabulary, Ms Farrell's appointment follows a six-week assessment process.

The King and Queen will attend an event in Edinburgh next month in a historic occasion to mark their coronation.Charles will be presented with the Honours of Scotland the oldest crown jewels in Britain at a national service of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral on Wednesday July 5, as part of Royal Week.

Fermanagh showed off its strong community ties as the King and Queen completed their two-day visit to Northern Ireland at Enniskillen Castle on Thursday.Charles and Camilla spent around an hour at the 16th century site meeting schoolchildren and community groups.A choir performed Rather Be by Clean Bandit as the couple entered the historic courtyard.

A food-sharing initiative in Worcestershire has been crowned winner of the Coronation Communities competition as part of the Coronation Big Lunch celebrations.Food Share Wyre Forest won top prize in the contest, which aimed to find the country's most welcoming streets and communities.The Stourport community group repurposed materials to set up a space to share food three times a week and provide breakfasts and roast lunches to support people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

Residents neighbouring an RAF base which is expected to be used to house migrants have said they don't feel secure and feel they are nothing to the Government.Homeowners next to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, who live in former military housing, say they have received absolutely jack-shit by way of communication from the Government about its plans to house migrants on the site.

Out with the smoke, in with the rainbows!After Canadian fire smoke blanketed the five boroughs earlier in the week, Brooklynites of all ages stepped outside and swarmed Fifth Avenue on June 10 for the annual Brooklyn Pride festival and twilight march.There was a noticeably larger crowd along Fifth Avenue than in recent years when many events were subdued due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Electronic transportation devices are everywhere in New York City now and from daily commuting to food delivery, they are revolutionizing how we get around.E-bikes and e-scooters are a convenient and low-cost alternative to cars.They help reduce congestion on our streets and make our city cleaner and greener.

By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large-
On May 30, 2023, I, along with my colleagues on the Oakland City Council, had the honor of passing the 2nd Annual Resolution proclaiming May 28-June 3, 2023, as Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) Week in the City of Oakland and commending the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition for organizing, mobilizing, and inspiring our QTAPI community and for uplifting the numerous contributions made by the QTAPI community locally, nationally, and globally.

City officials, aldermen and community-based organizations are meeting at a shuttered high school in the South Shore neighborhood Thursday to discuss plans to open a respite center there to accommodate the city's influx of migrants.The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the former South Shore High School building at 7627 S. Constance Ave.

This nazi presence follows a similar drag story hour nazi protest that took place in March in Wadsworth, Ohio.Tennessee State Police stand between members of the Proud Boys and counter protestors during a protest against gender-affirming care by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, at the War Memorial Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 21, 2022.

Students at a high school east of Oshawa, Ont., are taking their concerns to the school board after a video appearing to show a student tearing up pages from a Qur'an and crumpling them up began to circulate last week.School board officials say they became aware of a "concerning incident of Islamophobia" on March 3 at Courtice Secondary School after a student damaged a Qur'an earlier that day.

Resources that should have been used to rescue people were spent on chasing down petty thefts and nonviolent crimes.A New York State trooper pulls over a truck in Buffalo, New York, on December 26, 2022.Joed Viera / AFP via Getty Images Buffalo, New York, has long been known as a resilient city of "good neighbors."

Eviction cases are piling up in Los Angeles County courtrooms, especially now that the county's COVID protections have ended.Landlords almost always show up with attorneys, while tenants tend to represent themselves.Reporter: David Wagner, LAist
Sacramento Rushes To Aid Migrants Flown Into State
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg says he's proud of the way community groups and local officials are stepping up, to aid the dozens of bewildered migrants who've arrived in his city by chartered jets in recent days.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

After heated criticism from community groups and environmental justice advocates, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has announced that it will publish detailed records of work done to remove lead-contaminated soil from properties surrounding the former Exide battery recycling plant in Southeast Los Angeles County.

Here is a guide for coping with the three-day Los Angeles Unified School District walkout set to begin Tuesday morning.The basics
The walkout - which will last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - would include as many as65,000 workers.Schools would be closed during a strike.That is leaving parents scrambling.

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

An after-school program can make a life-changing difference, but it's not reaching enough students, according to Haziel Gonzalez, a 16-year-old junior at the selective Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.His words embodied the general message at the Friday kickoff for an effort to make high-quality after-school programs widely available across the county.

Firefighters Mike Age and Aaron Thomas pulled up to the listed address for a top-priority prescription delivery Friday but couldn't initially spot the Lake Arrowhead house.A 15-foot berm created from multiple plow trips blocked any view - or access - to the home's driveway, requiring some exploring a perpendicular road to find the house down a long driveway.

On the same day that a Southern California Gas Co. executive took heat from frustrated customers and advocacy groups over a proposed $4.9-billion rate hike, a coalition of community groups pressed the Los Angeles city attorney to investigate the utility over "potential price gouging and market manipulation."

Can members of the Los Angeles City Council be trusted to ignore their own political interests and hand over power to an independent redistricting commission?Perhaps.With the cloud of scandal still hanging over City Hall and overwhelming public support for an independent commission that would draw City Council and school board district boundaries without political interference, city leaders are under pressure to put good government policy over personal agendas.

With natural gas prices more than doubling since December, many Southern Californians could need help paying their heating bills this winter.Happily, there are a number of programs available to cut your gas bill.Some are aimed at low-income households, while others try to help every Californian spend less on energy while staying warm.

A meeting between public officials and community representatives after the deaths of two best friends in Cardiff sparked a riot has begun with a moment of reflection for the teenagers.Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, is chairing the meeting between local politicians, agencies, and community groups, including Ace (Action in Caerau and Ely).

Wales' first minister Mark Drakeford will chair a meeting between public officials and community representatives in Ely after the deaths of two teenagers sparked a riot.Harvey Evans, 15, died alongside his best friend Kyrees Sullivan, 16, when the Sur-Ron bike they were riding crashed in the Ely area of the city just after 6pm on Monday.

Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford will chair a meeting between public officials and community representatives in Ely after the deaths of two teenagers sparked a riot.Harvey Evans, 15, died alongside his best friend Kyrees Sullivan, 16, when the Sur-Ron bike they were riding crashed in the Ely area of the city just after 6pm on Monday.

One of the basic needs we humans have is safety and security, and I'm not talking about just physical safety.Emotional and mental safety is also one of the most important needs we have.If we're always on edge and anxious, how are we expected to thrive and live a comfortable and fulfilling life?We all have insecurities and our insecurities indeed hold us back from a lot of things.

A Muslim has been set on fire by a man as he walked home from a mosque prompting a counter-terrorism investigation.The victim suffered facial burns when his jacket was set alight in Shenstone Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, at around 7pm on Monday.He suffered serious injuries but they are not believed to be life-threatening.

A Muslim man suffered burns when he was set on fire by a stranger as he walked home from a mosque.Counter-terrorism police are now involved in the investigation and a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.The victim suffered facial burns when his jacket was set alight in Shenstone Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, at around 7pm on Monday.

H undreds of mourners gathered at an historic central London church for the funeral of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World War.Flight Sergeant Peter Brown died alone aged 96 at his home in Maida Vale, west London, in December last year.His funeral service was being held on Thursday at St Clement Danes Church on The Strand, central church of the RAF, which can seat 600 mourners.

Hundreds of people will gather at an historic central London church on Thursday for the funeral of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World War.Flight Sergeant Peter Brown died alone aged 96 at his home in Maida Vale, west London, in December last year.Arrangements have been made to ensure the Lancaster bomber receives a dignified send-off worthy of his life story at a service hosted by the RAF.

As voters prepare to choose either former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas or Chicago Teachers Union organizer and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson to be the next mayor of Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a new appointment to the Board of Education Friday.A few days after failing to advance to the April 4 runoff, Lightfoot said she was "thrilled" to appoint Miquel Lewis, former chair of the Noble Network of Charter Schools and acting director of Cook County's juvenile probation services, to the board overseeing Chicago Public Schools.

Missed the webinar?You can still access the recording and related materials by registering here.What if you could create a marketing tool in under seven hours that could generate seven figures in revenue?As I discovered accidentally in my own law practice, the e-book is one of the least expensive and most effective marketing tool out there.

Perched next to a city park baseball diamond one sunny day this week, a group of Toronto teens took in a vivid lesson about a Canadian story that remains unfamiliar to many.An on-site performance transported them to Depression-era Toronto, when exploding antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiment in the city ran parallel to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany ultimately erupting in the Christie Pits Riot, one of the largest race riots in the country's history.

With Global Accessibility Awareness Day just days away, Apple is previewing a raft of new iOS features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice and more.The company said it worked in "deep collaboration" with community groups representing users with disabilities, and drew on "advances in hardware and software, including on-device machine learning" to make them work.

Tens of thousands of migrants are expected to attempt to enter the United States in the next few days, after a Covid-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expires late on Thursday.The policy allowed the rapid expulsion of migrants on public health grounds.Most migrants crossing the border are adults traveling alone.

Jointly owned by the London Canal Museum and Angel Community Canalboat Trust, the passenger boat will offer a wider programme of trips from the King's Cross museum, including full day outings to Paddington or Victoria Park in East London, and shorter trips through Islington's long canal tunnel.All will include a knowledgable guide giving historic commentary.

Advocates pressing to change course on the Gardiner Expressway East rebuild say they will try to make the project an issue in the mayoral campaign after a key city committee sidelined their call for a deeper dive into its costs.Albert Koehl, a spokesperson for Gardiner East Transparency, a coalition of some 40 community groups, said they still hope to push candidates to demand answers from the city on the controversial billion-dollar project.

An unusual affordable housing lottery is taking place, for five Columbia Street Waterfront District co-op apartments for sale rather than for rent.Estimated sale prices range from $183,039 to $203,904 for a studio or two-bedroom apartment.The lottery is open until the end of the month.Located at 55 Summit Street, formerly home to a parking lot and auto repair shop, the five-story, five-unit building under construction will be 100 percent affordable under the city's Inclusionary Housing Program because the site was rezoned to residential from manufacturing in 2019.

Forty community groups have signed a letter to the city's deputy mayor calling for a full accounting of the controversial Gardiner East project costs and any revenues which might be left on the table after the expressway is rebuilt.The coalition calls itself Gardiner East Transparency and includes groups like Community Bikeways, ClimateFast and Transport Action Ontario.

The Theatres Trust has removed three venues from their Theatres at Risk Register for 2023, after the Century Theatre, Walthamstow Granada and Swansea's Palace Theatre were considered no longer at risk of closure, redevelopment or severe decay.The charity and UK's advisory public body for theatres has issued their annual report, which has identified 38 theatres from across the UK as at risk.

T he Theatres Trust has removed three venues from their Theatres at Risk Register for 2023, including Walthamstow Granada.The charity and UK's advisory public body for theatres has issued their annual report, which has identified 38 theatres from across the UK as at risk.The Theatres Trust have said that east London's Walthamstow Granada soon to reopen as Soho Theatre Walthamstow along with the Century Theatre in Coalville, Leicestershire, and the Palace Theatre in Swansea are are no longer considered at risk due to advocacy, planning and viability advice from the Trust and the support of their respective local authorities, theatre operators and community groups.

A majority of the residents calling in to a Tuesday virtual hearing on a new parking plan for the northeast Mission were unhappy and argued it would worsen a situation where it can already take up to half an hour or more to park.
"I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here," said Darrell Williams, the owner of a commercial photo studio and event space since 1994.

Counter-terrorism police are involved in an investigation into a man being set alight as he walked home from a mosque and a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.The victim suffered facial burns when his jacket was set alight in Shenstone Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, at around 7pm on Monday.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Former US president Bill Clinton is to visit Belfast to attend an international conference to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement at Queen's University.

Dutch architecture practice Studioninedots has transformed a former railway warehouse in Utrecht into a cluster of co-working and community spaces named Bovenbouwwerkplaats.Looking to celebrate the "rawness and elegance" of the early 20th-century building, Studioninedots restored its neglected brick and steel structure but left its original fittings and materials exposed.

Photo by Renee Dominguez/KUT.Austin ISD Board of Trustees members Arati Singh, Ofelia Zapata and Noelita Lugo during a board meeting in August.The board is searching for a new permanent superintendent.Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by Becky Fogel, KUT
The Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees is hammering out the details for its superintendent search.

Yvette Cooper revived Tony Blair's tough on crime slogan as she set out Labour's pledge to recruit 13,000 new neighbourhood officers and her vision for a modernised bobby on the beat.The shadow home secretary unveiled her party's neighbourhood policing guarantee in a keynote speech at the Institute for Government think tank, which she concluded by directly channelling the former prime minister.

The as-yet unscheduled hearing had been planned to explore various hazardous waste issues, but the chair of the state Senate's Environmental Quality Committee said it will now also probe the out-of-state dumping.It's a real concern, said Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Redondo Beach.I think at a gut level, everybody feels as though every state should be handling its own toxic waste and not sending it across borders to other states and countries with less stringent environmental standards.

The 1983 Bermondsey byelection took place 40 years ago today and was a key moment in modern British political history.It's widely regarded as one of the dirtiest and most violent elections in 20th-century Britain.As a leftwing gay Labour candidate, I was subjected to more than 100 assaults while canvassing.

A man stabbed to death in Tottenham on Sunday night has been named by police as 25-year-old Jordan Briscoe.Cordons were in place at the scene on Arnold Road on Monday as police searched for forensic clues.Officers were called to the scene at 10.17pm with paramedics, who rushed the victim to hospital.

Black-led businesses could be given more support to procure lucrative government contracts by a future Labour government as the party refines its offer to ethnic minority voters ahead of the next election.Labour's race equality task force, led by Baroness Doreen Lawrence, hopes to ensure that black-led groups get the chance to access a fair share of the billions of pounds paid out each year through government contracts, according to The Voice newspaper.

Are you always putting others' needs before your own, to the point where you have no time for yourself?You could be a 'super-helper', and it might be doing you more harm than good...
Some of us are better at helping others than we are at looking after ourselves.Maybe this sounds familiar to you personally, or perhaps it conjures up an image of someone you know.

The decision by health minister Mark Butler to end the temporary increase in Medicare rebates for psychological counselling, halving sessions from 20 to 10 a year, has led some to ask how committed the Albanese government is to mental health and suicide prevention.As Butler was the previous Labor cabinet minister for mental health and ageing, he is well aware of the size of the unmet need for better mental health services.

Rishi Sunak's government has been accused by Labour of coming up with a charter for cronies that would effectively legalise its VIP lane for Covid contracts.Sir Keir Starmer's party said minister must remove loopholes from its procurement bill as it returns to the Commons on Monday.Labour will put forward amendments to outlaw so-called VIP lanes which saw some firms fast-tracked for contracts after MPs, ministers and senior officials passed on offers during the pandemic.

The King said he was very impressed as he was presented with a plaque made to commemorate his visit to community groups in Aberdeenshire.Charles visited the Mid-Deeside Community Shed, near Aboyne, on Thursday to meet representatives of organisations working across the region.He also drank tea with members of the Aboyne Men's Shed, which is housed in the community shed, and watched craft skills including wood and stone carving in action.

PIEDMONT  It was a year of change in the Piedmont Unified School District with Superintendent Randy Booker departing for another job, principals leaving and students returning to school after the pandemic.Otherwise, the city was busy obtaining a contractor to build the new community pool complex, promoting green energy for residents and holding an election for City Council and school board officers.

Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles president Dan Yukelson (LinkedIn, Getty) Landlord advocacy group Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles has joined with a nonprofit tax policy lobbying group to file the first legal challenge to Measure ULA, the controversial new City of L.A. transfer tax measure.

From left: Rick Caruso and Karen Bass (Getty) After months of signature-gathering and door-knocking, hundreds of millions of dollars spent and untold hours of backroom lobbying, the Nov. 8 election  or, more accurately, the November-ish election, because of California's slow but inclusive vote counting  has finally wrapped.

If you don't plan on sleeping through the first day of 2023, here's our suggestion on what to do in London on New Year Day.  1 Hyde Park Winter Wonderland  Catch this Christmas carnival one last time before it winds down on December 2. There's ice skating, markets and a 45m ice slide, as well as the Magical Ice Kingdom, made with more than 500 tonnes of ice and snow that comes with a life-sized unicorn and an ice palace.

EFF is announcing a letter signed by 44 community groups who stand united in opposition to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors authorizing the San Francisco Police Department to deploy deadly force with remote-control robots.The signers include racial justice groups, civil rights and civil liberties organizations, LGBTQ organizations, and labor unions.

Big news for Prospect Heights this week.Egg, a breakfast favorite for more than a decade, will reopen in the Brooklyn neighborhood next year after closing during the pandemic.Evan Hanczor, the longtime chef at Egg, confirmed the plans to Eater, saying the restaurant will reopen in early 2023 at 657 Washington Avenue, near Saint Marks Avenue, a space that's been home to popular neighborhood restaurants like MeMe's Diner and, later, KIT.
"It's going to be a little sibling to what Egg was in Williamsburg," Hanczor says of the Washington Avenue space.

A hall linked to the legends of King Arthur and an educational institute once run by Charles Dickens are among historic sites at risk of being lost forever.Over the past year, Historic England has added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings under threat as a result of decay, neglect or inappropriate development.