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Sex offender ex-bishop letters revealed
A former Archbishop of Canterbury wrote to police with letters of support for the then Bishop of Gloucester - Peter Ball - who was being investigated for sex offences, it is revealed through FOI.
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Health
- Hospital staff pay error cost £2,500
- Killings by mentally ill revealed
- Hospital spent £16.6m on consultants
- Paramedics 'blacklist 200 homes'
- Hospital parking fines 'ignored'
- Chaplains cut in 40% of hospitals
- 'Extensive' abuse at care homes
- Private healthcare spend 'rises 60%'
- NHS in London spends £13m on PR
- 'Damaging' fall in hospital's income
- Hospital toll of preventable errors
- Ambulance waiting exceeds six years
- X-ray machine among hospital thefts
- NHS trusts overpaid staff by £3m
- No show patients 'cost hospitals £42m'
- Hospitals' safety checks 'working'
- Trusts' incentives over care plan
- NHS trust spent £700 on chocolate
- Trust reveals £1bn PFI overspend
- NHS trust lost £4m in three years
- Care home abuse allegations rise
- Secret NHS death reports released
- Obese hospital patients 'on rise'
- Hospital 'overcrowding' concerns
- Hospital criticised over baby's care
- NHS disabled charges 'unlawful'
Home affairs
- Police car crashes cost £350,000
- Rise in abusive online message cases
- Hundreds of offences by under-10s
- Concern over cost of EDL policing
- CPS worker 'friended' accused online
- Delays over 999 reaction times
- Recorded sex crime up since Savile
- Phone-hacking probes cost Met £19.5m
- Police overtime payments increase
- Few cyclists fined for bad riding
- Domestic abuse reviews made public
- Calls for review of police bail
- Sharp fall in young police officers
- Police checks on partners broke law
- Wedding day arrests rise sharply
- Million-volt stun guns in mail
- Prison attacks 'rise by a third'
- Police cautions given for sex crimes
- Non-urgent police calls 'unanswered'
- No fire checks for high risk towers
- Facebook misuse police workers quit
- Restorative justice 'is working'
- Thefts on bikes triple in London
- Child crimes in Norfolk revealed
- Assaults cost police 1,700 days off
- 'Rise of 50%' in night bus crime
- Drop in big cat reports to police
- Police stress-related absence up
- Police staff in second job growth
- Fire services count obesity cost
- Attacks on prison staff revealed
- Dawn raids resulted in 71 charged
- Children detained in police cells
- Children in custody falls by 68%
- Top police vetting needs updating
- Met Police got £23m from sponsors
- Almost 3,000 guns missing in UK
- Scheme used to spot sex offenders
- Old Firm policing costs revealed
- Police 'wanted' list above 30,000
Politics
- Council sickness 'twice as high'
- 'Fraud probable' at city council
- Council 'thumb twiddlers' paid £2m
- Councils broke data law 60 times
- Charging points cost £1,750 per car
- Bid to block minimum alcohol pricing
- Soldier suicides exceed Afghan toll
- Soldiers selected for redundancy
- All MLAs take pay rise except SDLP
- Council staff warned on social media
- MoD 'loses' bayonets from base
- Rejected incinerator cost £3.3m
- Councillor resigns over pool deal
- Firms lobbied council over bypass
- British citizenship no longer for life?
- Councils bid to claim foreign fines
- Hackers target council systems
- Council reduces workforce 'by 50%'
- Risk register 'double standards'
- Hillsborough files 'must be seen'
- Hillsborough file release appeal
- People who snubbed honours named
- Fewer fake passports being found
- Legal warning for heritage scheme
Transport
- Some 20mph zones 'not enforced'
- £500,000 pothole plan approved
- £23m of parking tickets 'unlawful'
- M4 speed cameras net 1,200 drivers
- Why do people still buy personalised number plates?
- Train operator defends £110m subsidy
- Over £600,000 left on Zip Oysters
- £37m bridge 'glitches' defended
- Flyover collapse risk 'was known'
- Firms fined £31m over roadworks
- Rail operator gets £46m bail-out
Miscellaneous
- Death prophecy over skyscraper winds
- Anger over park fitness licences
- City car charging points seldom used
- Exotic animals seized at airports
- Child runaway numbers up by 75%
- Children excluded for sex misconduct
- FSA delayed horse tests for months
- Rise in abandoned horse complaints
- Met Office advice was 'not helpful'
- Baby ashes 'inconsistencies' found
- Fitness-to-work appeal wins rise
- UKBA alerted to sham partnerships
- London Met student numbers fall
- Homecarers face abuse allegations
- Anti-tank shell handled at airport
Nations and Regions
Hospital 'serious incidents' revealed
Nearly 400 "serious untoward incidents" were reported in Kent's hospitals in the last financial year, a BBC investigation discovers.
U-turn M1 drivers avoid prosecution
A road safety group says drivers "seemed to have got away" with illegal U-turns on the M1 motorway despite being filmed.
One courthouse sold since closures
Scotland's court service has sold just one of its former courthouses since a series of closures began more than two years ago, BBC Scotland has learned.
Blue lights stolen from police car
A money jar, blue lights from a police car and a cement mixer are among items stolen by thieves from Wales' four police forces.
Private child fostering bill nears £7m
Almost £7m has been spent on private foster agencies in Somerset due to a shortage of council foster families.
Some term-time holiday fines 'unfair'
Some parents fined for taking holidays in term-time may have been dealt with unfairly and unlawfully, an assembly member claims.
Oxford Circus 'closes every three days'
Oxford Circus Tube station had to be closed 113 times in a year because of overcrowding, new figures reveal.
No action over 60,000 speeding cases
A council vehicle tracking system records nearly 60,000 cases of speeding over four years but no staff are disciplined or face prosecution.
Council leader should quit, says mayor
A local authority leader who "misled" councillors over contracts awarded to his personal physiotherapist's firm should resign, the area's mayor tells the BBC.
More than 1.8 million fines at crossing
More than 1.8 million penalty charge notices are issued to drivers failing to pay the new cashless Dartford crossing charge, figures show.
Library book expenditure in decline
The purchase of library books has decreased by up to a third in parts of Scotland, according to data obtained by the BBC.
Agency social workers cost soars to £16m
South West councils spent £16.5m on agency social workers last year, up from £6.8m in 2012, it has emerged.
Council waived rules over physio deal
A council waived its own financial rules three times when awarding contracts to a firm run by the local authority leader's personal physiotherapist, the BBC learns.
Ambulances 'dropped' over staffing
Ambulances are not being deployed due to a lack of staff, a paramedic tells BBC News.
Race case force promotes one officer
A constable who took Wiltshire Police to a racism tribunal is the only black officer to be promoted within the force in five years, the BBC learns.
NI school crime topped 1,200 in 2014
More than 1,200 alleged crimes linked to schools in Northern Ireland were reported to police last year.
'We couldn't have been the only ones'
As bereaved families gather to remember children whose ashes were never returned to them, the reporter whose work led to an inquiry into the scandal reveals his personal connection to the story.
Third of homeless moved from boroughs
A third of homeless families in temporary accommodation in London are being moved outside of their boroughs, according to new figures.

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