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British attitudes to buses are infected with snobbery. Whether urban or rural local services, or long-distance coaches, these vehicles lack the charisma of planes, trains and automobiles. Its not hard to see why. Air travel is associated with leisure stanley cup and exotic destinations. Railways are a cherished part of our heritage. Cars have strong associations with individual freedom and a stanley shop re the most valuable object that most people own apart from their home. Buses, by contrast, are not viewed as technologically exciting. Not coincidentally, they are disproportionately relied on by poorer people, women, children and pensioners.The consequences of this low status are no less damaging for being predictable. Buses and their passengers struggle to attract the attention of policymakers 鈥?or the resources that follow from this. Since services outside London were deregulated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, private operators have become adept at running profitable routes. The problem for local transport authorities and the people they serve is that other services, often in rural areas, require subsidies in order to work.Local authorities used to fund them. But after a decade of bus budget cuts 鈥?拢645m in real terms since 2010, according to Labour stanley cup 鈥?the network is in a poor and disjointed state. This has damaging effects on productivity and wellbeing. Buses are urgently in need of a boost. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has grasped this better than most, and has made improvements to buses Dnov Ithaka review 鈥?emotional look at absent Julian Assange s legal troubles
Prisons in England and Wales are holding nearly 7,300 more inmates than they were designed for, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Prison Reform聽Trust.Some jails had twice as many inmates as they were supposed stanley cup to, the analysis of official statistics found, despite a recent slowing of the rise in prison population.The trust argues that fewe stanley kubek r short spells behind bars and community-based penalties are more effective at cutting crime.It claims that last month 77 of the 131 prisons in England and Wales held more inmates than the Prison Service s certified normal accommodation CNA level 鈥?a measure of capacity for each jail that results in the good, decent standard of accommodat stanley cup ion that the service aspires to provide all prisoners .According to the trust Kennet prison in Liverpool was the most overcrowded. Designed for 175 men, it now holds 337. In second place was Shrewsbury built to house 170 men, holding 326 and third Swansea built for 240, holding 436 .The prison population has been steadily rising. On 17 August it was 86,801. The same time last year it was 86,233, and five years ago it was 80,762. The average population in custody during 2002 was 70,860.A spokesman for the trust said: For people in prison themselves, overcrowding has a tangible impact. Figures for 2010/11 show that nearly a quarter of people in prison are being held in overcrowded accommodation, either doubling up in cells designed for one occupant or being held three to |
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