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Thousands of British individuals made a fortune out of the abolition of slavery, when they received astonishingly high compensation from the Slave Compensation Commission, which was active from 1833 to 1842. In some instances, those compensation payments formed the basis of tremendous windfalls...

Something has clearly gone wrong if the Hospital is turning to the police to protect its staff who are being abused. As for your ridiculous question, just allow me to be offended by the language that you are using. "An ethnic" ? Really!

Because the hospital authorities are, quite rightly, refusing to cave into the mob mentality that has overtaken much of social media.

"This story has seriously misrepresented the actions of our member of staff, who was acting in good faith and trying to be kind and helpful" - spokesperson for the NHS trust that runs the hospital, quoted in The Isle of Thanet Gazette.

The latest development seems to be that outraged citizens are overstepping the mark, causing the hospital to seek police protection, as they fear attack.

The Hull game was the occasion when Norman Baker made a complete tit of himself by claiming that Prescott's meat pie was a bribe.

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The people who voted for Cornyn to become Labour leader in 2015 weren't choosing a Prime Minister for 2020. They were choosing someone to be opposing Cameron now. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, since there hasn't been serious opposition by a political party to any government...

You've been digging deep into the NSC archives and unearthed the fact that I, along with a lot of people in Brighton, supported the successful campaign by the Argus and the UK government, to get Omar Deghayes released from Camp Delta. That stuff dates back to 2005. I'm struggling to see the...

If lottery funds are going to be spent on historic transport relics, would desprateseagull prefer the money to be spent elsewhere than in Brighton? If so, where?

So... tell us what YOU know about the perpetrators of previous incidents.

I've known that happen.

The prime responsibility of NHS staff is the health and safety of patients. It's a sad fact that violence in A&E Departments is a regular phenomenon, offer caused by people with real mental health issues. By all means condemn the perpetrators, but give credit to the NHS staff who intervene to...

That's the totality of the story. There have been commentators and journalists who have tried to explain why this happened, but they all seem to have had an agenda that they wished to pursue as well.

Fine on 104.5 in East Sussex.

There had previously been an attack at that A & E Department by a member of the public on a patient in military uniform. Staff were aware of this and offered the RAF man the option of waiting for treatment out of view of the public. He accepted the offer and thanked them. What was wrong with...

If only all of Notts County's achievements had been a hundred years ago! I have this vague recollection of them doing rather well in 1991.

... to say nothing of that weird building nearing completion at the Southern end of the Cuilfail Tunnel. It's due to be featured on Grand Designs any day now.

I'm trying to suppress my Yorkshire origins. Stuff like this doesn't help.

Or 100 balls without scoring. Just as valuable.