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LGBTQ+ community faces major barriers in accessing alcohol services, study finds

People from the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to have problems with alcohol than others, but experience major barriers in accessing alcohol services, according to new research. The Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) study on LGBTQ+ people’s ...

23 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Shop workers injured after being attacked with noxious liquid

Three shop workers were sprayed with a noxious substance in two separate “frightening” attacks in south London. Two members of staff at a bookmakers sustained minor injuries while a third person, a post office worker, was sprayed in the face. ...

30 Mar 2022 at 09:55

Scotland

LGBTQ+ community faces major barriers in accessing alcohol services, study finds

14 Jun 2022 at 17:42

Derry News

Derry Council buildings to light up red in memory of lives lost to substance misuse

Council buildings will be illuminated in red on Wednesday October 19 to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of 15 year-old Martin Connolly and all those within the Council area who have lost their life to substance misuse. It ...

18 Oct 2022 at 14:33

DerryNow

Co Derry man who died in custody was ‘in need of addiction services’

County Derry man James Fleck who died in custody could not get the best addiction services while in custody according to the Prisoner Ombudsman report into his death. The Ombudsman acknowledged that the Prison Officers kept him ...

28 Mar 2023 at 17:33

Northern Ireland

Substance misuse initiative helping to transform lives, probation board says

A justice initiative targeting people who commit crimes related to drug or alcohol abuse is helping to transform and save lives, a probation chief has said. Staff from the Probation Board for Northern Ireland have been ...

08 Oct 2023 at 11:00

Scotland

Charity calls for tougher restrictions on advertising vapes and e-cigarettes

A charity has revealed children as young as seven have been in possession of vaping products in a call for tighter restrictions on advertising and promotion of e-cigarettes. In response to a Scottish Government ...

29 Apr 2022 at 11:55

Barbara Taylor Bradford had ‘elegance, poise and steely determination’

The journalist who Barbara Taylor Bradford named as the first Woman of Substance has hailed the late author as someone with “elegance, poise, and steely determination”. The awards were launched to coincide ...

25 Nov 2024 at 11:36

A Woman Of Substance winner remembers Taylor Bradford’s ‘steely determination’

Women emerging from humble beginnings to achieve great things was a constant theme in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novels, echoing her own rise to sparkling literary success, and in 2009 I was honoured to ...

25 Nov 2024 at 12:35

Derry News

Foyle MLA Delargy: Substance Use Strategy must be implemented

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy has welcomed the publication of the Public Accounts Committee report into addiction services. However, the representative for Foyle said the report's findings showed how ...

01 Feb 2022 at 15:33

No sign of chemical attack suspect since Wednesday, police reveal

Alkali attack suspect Abdul Ezedi was last seen on Southwark Bridge in London on Wednesday night, police have revealed. Counter-terrorism officers have been drafted in to help scour hundreds of ...

05 Feb 2024 at 16:40

Local News

Suspected rat poison found at same grounds where dead sparrowhawk was discovered

A toxic substance, suspected to be rat poison, has been found on the grounds of the former Maghera High School site. Mid Ulster District Council has yet to confirm whether or not the substance ...

15 Mar 2024 at 13:33

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