four boys school in wakefield. four boys have been suspend it. why?tly scuffed a book, seemingly unintentionally . a book that the boys themselves had purchased. so why is this wakefield school delivering surprisingly harsh punishment ? delivering surprisingly harsh punishment? what many might see as normal teenage carelessness ? as normal teenage carelessness? sadly, this is not due to a newfound sense of rigorous discipline. no this is about a school. acquiesce to a baying mob . because the book we're mob. because the book we're talking about is the book that became slightly scuffed. i happened to be a copy of the koran . now local labour koran. now local labour councillor ali declared that the koran had been quote, desecrated at the school, calling it a quote, terrible provocation. those watching on could see the book there , slightly scuffed . book there, slightly scuffed. now the school suspended the boys from their studies, from their education and after consulting with the police and quote community leaders . now, to quote community leaders. no

this a school in wakefield, this is a school in wakefield, about a 20, 30 minute drive from batley. rememberl batley. you remember that school there four there as well. anyway now four kids been suspended because kids have been suspended because a bit minor damage to a little bit of minor damage to the koran. last time i looked, we don't have blasphemy laws in this country. so what earth this country. so what on earth is on? we'll look at that is going on? we'll look at that in a couple of minutes. hello there. welcome back to dewbs& co with me, michelle dewberry. i'm keeping you company right through until 7:00 this evening alongside me. i've got emma burnell, a political consultant and toby young, director of the free speech union. we've just been talking about housing and what is going on with that case. starmer's promises that he's going to sort it all out. in short , one of my it all out. in short, one of my view is that just got in touch saying, michel, the answer to this is to stop people buying properties just to keep empty. i think you make an interesting point that because i don't

elsehwere wigan beat wakefield 60 points to nil.d rob mcellhennney are set to actually play for their club, not professionally though — or in the league — but their on pitch debuts will be in a "soccer tournament�* in the usa injune. the actors and directors will be in the squad alongside some former players,and it could earn the club a million dollars.. half of which the owners pledged to spend on community projects. that's all the sport for now. this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. in a lot of the stories that we tell, they can be so bleak. you need to show some hope as well, because hope is important. and that's the thing that, and all of those rescuers, all of those search and rescue teams, they were all there because they had hope that people had survived. even now as we talk today, they're still finding people under there. and those stories are really important. they are so important. but i think what we have to do is also balanc

elsehwere wigan beat wakefield 60 points to nil.s of wrexham, ryan reynolds and rob mcellhennney are set to actually play for their club, not professionally though — or in the league — but their on pitch debuts will be in a "soccer tournament�* in the usa injune. the actors and directors will be in the squad alongside some former players, and it could earn the club a million dollars.. half of which the owners pledged to spend on community projects. that�*s all the sport for now. her name was ella, and some say she was the canary in the coal mine. this is the church which held her baptism, herfirst communion and, aged nine, herfuneral. she literally drowned in her own mucus and i know that�*s really hard for people to hear, and i think there were a few times i wanted to die, too. i think i was in such despair. so, the decision i had to make is do you carry on and fight for others or do you just walk away? this was ella�*s best friend, anais. hello! mwah, mwah! you�*ve gotten taller! no, i haven't. i'm still the same height! laughs. t

this was how the day ended in west yorkshire, in wakefield. stunning.h we kept a lot of cloud, and after a sunny morning the cloud has come back into scotland and we have started to see outbreaks of rain moving in here, accompanied by gusty winds. winds reaching 50 odd miles per hour. those winds will calm down later in the night as a band of rain pushes southwards reaching parts of northern england by the end of the night. there will be an early frost quite widely across england and wales, but overnight that frost will be limited to the far south. tomorrow we have this weather front pushing its way southwards through the day. it will be bringing quite a lot of cloud with it and some patches of rain. most of the rain will not be heavy at all. this rain works into northern ireland, wales and across northern and central parts of england, eventually reaching the south later in the day. behind that we will see some sunshine returning to all of scotland and a good chunk of northern england. some showers across the north—east, and you will notice the winds wi

should say, two revolutionary war veterans down to pope's creek on the potomac, which was the site of wakefield plantation in 1732, where george washington was born. and they rolled out a stone with some from the locals. and this was later called the stone to commemorate washington. now, custis as as an individual where his i say his first more famous relatives were handsome soft spoken and duty driven. custis was short, big nosed, verbose paunchy and playful. in other words, approachable. his in their later introduction to his memoirs, wrote mr. custis was of medium height, well formed his complexion fair poor and somewhat florid. his eyes light and expressive, great kindliness of nature, his voice for rich and melodious, his deportment graceful and winning his courtesy to strangers extremely cordial, and his affection for his friends, warm and abiding. now he possessed this mellifluous voice that in an age before microphone tones could enthrall hundreds in a room or a public square, often on george washington's birthday, he endorsed for president. he liked military heroes such as andrew jacks

but just last week, "the wall street journal" reported that a new study by cushman and wakefield failed only a few went back to work in federally leased buildings in washington, d.c., in october and november. the federal government's abuse of telework has gotten so bad that washington, d.c., mayor bowser has called on president biden to suspend its telework policies for federal workers or turn over federal buildings in d.c. for conversion to affordable housing. and the current o.p.m. director stated that federal employees are actually getting transfers to agencies where they can telework more. not so they can serve our constituents and the american citizenry the best. the show up act offers a much-needed solution to this problem of federal agencies and federal employees putting their own comfort before our constituents' needs. it requires federal agencies to immediately return to prepandemic levels of telework. this ensures that from the day of enactment, priority number one for the federal workforce will be profmpt and effective service to our constituents, not increasing the perks for

i wakefield and whatever.would i would ask him, think again that poll just just again on that poll just just finally, i mean, how strong are the supporters within the the corbyn supporters within the labour party still ? have they labour party still? have they all sort of disappeared anyway, or are they still very strongly labour party associate ? and, and labour party associate? and, and if they, if there is still quite a strong presence , how damaging a strong presence, how damaging could this be in the sense could those people, because it always struck that corbyn was like a cult really for many people . cult really for many people. could those people be in danger actually abandoning the labour party if they see that jeremy corbyn's been kicked out of it . corbyn's been kicked out of it. i think their time he's done tell it, to be honest. i think a couple of years they definitely had control of the labour party , they had control of the national executive committee of the labour party . they were very the l

heat incident by the police and it's a west yorkshire police became involved careful high school wakefield an autistic boy was told to bring in a copy of the islamic holy book the koran not the koran, not crying is a music magazine. it was a dare by his friends after a video game and it was damaged after being dropped in a busy corridor and four pupils were suspended for a week and the police, after rumours spread that it was set alight were which were totally false and just, you know, it fell from a bag as far as the evidence shows and, you know, was mildly scuffed . but still, you know, scuffed. but still, you know, this is was incendiary news for the for the and so the police acted it as a non crime he and the boys were four pupils were suspended so that shows that we now have de facto blessing new laws in the uk where, you know if this had been a copy of the yellow pages or or a harry potter, nobody would have or the biped or the bible, nobody would have it on. blasphemy have passed it on. blasphemy laws were specifically taken from statute book in 2008 from the statute book in 2008 be

one of the ones that really resonates with me is the student nurses in areas like wakefield and yorkshireare learning how to look after us all and having to fork out so much money because there is no boss to get them to the hospital at that time of night, they have to use a taxi. it is also impacting kids quite a lot of them, actually head teachers are stopping and reprimanding kids when they turn up because they know it is not their fault, just the fault of the unreliable buses that have been cut so people are having to find very laborious ways of getting to school. massive impact in those ways and people our communities. we know yorkshire has _ people our communities. we know yorkshire has some _ people our communities. we know yorkshire has some big _ people our communities. we know yorkshire has some big urban - yorkshire has some big urban conurbations but also lots of rural areas. talk about the relative impacts on urban and rural? we do see a range — impacts on urban and rural? we do see a range of _ impacts on urban and rural? we do see a range of impacts _ impacts on urban and ru

but just last week, "the wall street journal" reported that a new study by cushman and wakefield failed only a few went back to work in federally leased buildings in washington, d.c., in october and november. the federal government's abuse of telework has gotten so bad that washington, d.c., mayor bowser has called on president biden to suspend its telework policies for federal workers or turn over federal buildings in d.c. for conversion to affordable housing. and the current o.p.m. director stated that federal employees are actually getting transfers to agencies where they can telework more. not so they can serve our constituents and the american citizenry the best. the show up act offers a much-needed solution to this problem of federal agencies and federal employees putting their own comfort before our constituents' needs. it requires federal agencies to immediately return to prepandemic levels of telework. this ensures that from the day of enactment, priority number one for the federal workforce will be profmpt and effective service to our constituents, not increasing the perks for

she was assaulted whilst serving a time in hmv, a new hall in wakefield , west new hall in wakefield,s attacked in the in the exercise yard . i mean, sexually exercise yard. i mean, sexually assaulted . and she is saying, assaulted. and she is saying, you know, it's without doubt there are some and predatory men who are using the transgender legislation to prey on very vulnerable women in women's prisons. so good for her for talking out about it. as i say, she's she was able to she has drug issues. she's been very incredibly vulnerable and in 2018 at leeds court, the person who was accused of assaulting her was given the life of raping two women outside of a jail and sexually assaulting two inmates at new hall. previous year. at new hall. the previous year. so on laura for talking so good on laura for talking out, because this is the saying that women being told won't that women are being told won't happen. that women are being told won't happen . so what is the solution happen. so what is the solution then? we get gender neutral then? do we get gender neutral prisons? because quite c

we were getting to that wakefield but actually, he still had so many miles to run, ten, 20 miles leftrts of wakefield. l by the time he got to me, he could hardly walk. - felt like i'm having to switch different systems off just to keep alive, keep going. ifelt like i was in a cockpit and you run out of fuel, you're probably about to go down but you're just trying to stay in the air as long as you can and find a way of hitting the runway. everything had pretty much switched off. the other things that were going were the things that were keeping me putting one step in front of the other. it's that thin line where you need him to push but at the same time, how much can we allow him to push? i remember going through leeds as well, and we were genuinely worried at that point that there was a chance we could collapse. so we had to run with him as well, as we were getting closer to you headlingley. you are going through your mind, "what are we going to do "if that happens? " we hope it doesn't happen, but we have to be prepared as well, there is a likely chance that it could happen. come on

well, the disgraced mp for wakefield reportedly left brixton prison this morning, being met by friends dnven his belongings to car before driven away and the pictures appearing to show him were not here. these are previous not having long hair and a beard, we're being told after serving months. that's the latest pictures we got with the ministry of justice confirming he had been released two days after winning his seat in west yorkshire. he contacting one of the victims relatives who expressed concerns about the incident 2008. the victim then going to the police. he was expelled from the conservative party resigning after his conviction to trigger the by—election which was won by laboun by—election which was won by labour. we remember the court case said it displayed a significant degree of brutality in the lead up the assault at a house in staffordshire. he dragged his victim upstairs , dragged his victim upstairs, threw him on a bed , forcing the threw him on a bed, forcing the teenager to drink gin , then ask teenager to drink gin, then ask him to watch . and in sentencing him to wa

this very peculiar this is a very peculiar situation going in wakefield in a school for i've been a schooleah it's caused absolute outrage among in the muslim community some very strange scenes occurring so yeah i want to get into that and more in what just a few minutes just a matter of seconds that's going to be going on now, by the way. and i'm glad you're covering it. okay. right, michelle will be coming very, very shortly coming away very, very shortly with well, hello there. it's 6:00 michelle dewberry and this is dewbs & co. hey, well, what can dewbs& co. hey, well, what can i say? stoma have you been following his five point plan ? following his five point plan? today's focus is well, hello there. it's 6:00 michelle dewberry and this is dewbs & co. hey, well, what can dewbs& co. hey, well, what can i say? stoma have you been following his five point plan ? following his five point plan? today's focus is all

wakefield standing by. health minister and indeed still practised this., minister. good morning . so you, minister. good morning. so today, biggest day of strikes in the nhs is 75 year history. what are your thoughts on that this morning ? well obviously very morning? well obviously very disappointed that this strike action is going ahead. but to patients in england where we are responsible for health care, it is less than half of the nhs trust for the nursing strike. for so most patients they will be unaffected . they've got be unaffected. they've got appointments and procedures today but obviously we also have the strikes on top of the ambulance strikes on top of that, which also pressures to nhs services today. that, which also pressures to nhs services today . so do you nhs services today. so do you believe that lives will be at risk today ? but i think it's risk today? but i think it's going to be very difficult . going to be very difficult. obviously we've put in as much preparation as possible, working with nhs trusts again to minimise disruption t

wakefield, catalan dragons. the promoted lead leopards, promoted and renamed against salford.'t _ that same kind of threat. they do spit but we don't want _ that same kind of threat. they do spit but we don't want that - that same kind of threat. they do spit but we don't want that on - that same kind of threat. they do spit but we don't want that on a l spit but we don't want that on a rugby field. what? have you never been spat at by a llama?! i certainly have, in dorset quite who hasn't?! nojumping plane down under in the world cup challenge that they will start their super league season on the 26th. hat will start their super league season on the 26th— on the 26th. not for the first time, matt is looking _ on the 26th. not for the first time, matt is looking a _ on the 26th. not for the first time, matt is looking a bit _ on the 26th. not for the first time, matt is looking a bit baffled. - on the 26th. not for the first time, matt is looking a bit baffled. i - matt is looking a bit baffled. i have to ask you, have you been spat at by _ have to ask you, have you been spat

elsewhere, there were wins for wigan against wakefield and warrington against huddersfield. england had earlier declared at 8/435, having scored 120 runs in less than two hours. day three will get under way earlier in order to make up some of the overs lost on the opening two days. england captain heather knight has promised her team will come back stronger after they failed to make the final of the women's t20 world cup, losing to hosts south africa by six runs. despite being strong favourites to reach the final, england struggled to contain the south africa batters. opener tazmin brits top scored with 68 as her side made 4/164. in reply, it all boiled down to england needing 13 from the final over. but after having lost three wickets in the 18th, the writing was on the wall and the hosts sealed a 6—run victory. south africa play champions australia in the final tomorrow. i think this side doesn't define us, the way we have made a mentality shift and i guess changed the way we want to play a little bit and really tried to take the game forward and it's something we should b