The Ministry Of Justice Accidentally Leaks That Prison And Probation Staff Levels Are Dangerously Low

The Ministry of Justice accidentally divulged that prison and probation service staffing levels were approaching dangerously low levels.

In an obvious blunder, the MoJ aired its concerns in the description of a recruitment contract on the government procurement website.

The £8 million contract blamed government commitments on prison expansion and high staff attrition for the shortages.

It warned a third of regions in England and Wales have less than 80 per cent of the probation officers they need, and it said 15 per cent of prisons were lacking more than a fifth of the prison officers or support staff they require.

The MoJ contract also outlines the challenges facing ministers due to the shortages in prison and probation services. It states that prison and probation staffing is approaching dangerously low levels and that this has been made more acute by government commitments to prison expansion and high staff attrition levels.

Labour’s justice spokesman Steve Reed said that if a third of the country has dangerously low levels of probation officers, they risk seeing even more cases where violent criminals who never should have been released from prison in the first place are allowed to strike again.

But a government source hit back, telling a newspaper outlet it was great to hear Steve Reed back tougher parole measures.

An MoJ spokesman said it had hired a record 4,000 probation officers since 2021 and would recruit up to 5,000 more prison officers by the mid-2020s.

Perhaps prisoners could be rehabilitated as prison officers, after all, they have the experience.

Being a probation officer isn’t an easy job. They have numerous high-risk cases, in addition to interviews and sentence plans. They have to find housing, write licences, and write progress reports. Then there are the police checks, home visits, check tags are working on the tracker system, prepare home detention curfew plans, paperwork for recalling to prison, do paperwork for the court when a person on probation breaches their order.

They have to work with many dangerous people who have been given a slap on the hand by woke judges. There’s no security so they could be attacked.

Some are fortunate to work with a lovely team, however, some coworkers in other places suffer from bullying, and inept managers in a regime plagued with the diversity and equality dictate, so one could understand the low retention levels.

The problem is that the Conservatives have for over a decade repeatedly cut police, probation, court and prison budgets.

Our government has diverted the money to finance its obsession with incentivising millions of economic migrants to overwhelm the country for low-paid workers. The consequences of Conservative incompetence are everywhere you look, but saying that, there’s not one thing that’s not broken in the United Kingdom now.

The Tories might talk tough about crime, but sentencing has become more and more lenient, and violent crimes in some parts of our nation have become out of control. Meanwhile, our nation’s population increases dramatically every year.

The Tories need to realise that this is what happens when you cut services to the bone and don’t pay staff enough money. But the Tories don’t care, because they’re more interested in supping champaign and scratching their heads and their backside – I must say they’re doing a good Ken Dodd impression.

It was said that the Ministry of Justice accidentally revealed this information, but it wouldn’t have mattered because everyone has known for years that prisons and probation services are dangerously understaffed and underfunded – what do they really believe that people are that stupid?

The London Weather Forecast Predicts 26C Temperatures

We’re finally expected to get the rest of the summer we’ve been waiting for.

Many people across the country have agreed that this summer’s weather has been, well underwhelming. Chilly, rainy, windy and gloomy, the last month has been a disappointment for Brits hoping for some essential Vitamin D and mood-boosting sunshine after a glorious June.

But at last, we’re due to see some more heat in London, with temperatures reaching 26C. After days of rain, the sun is finally going to appear regularly, according to forecasts from the Met Office and the BBC.

The Met Office is reporting sunshine from Sunday, August 6, through to next weekend, with the mercury ascending each day until Thursday, August 10. That day, Londoners can expect highs of 26C and lots of sunshine, making a change from what we’ve seen so far. Only Tuesday threatens to be a day you might need to have a raincoat to hand.

Even in the coming days, it’s still going to feel much warmer and more like the summer we know and desperately need. Monday is expected to reach highs of 22C with sunshine all morning until 2 pm.

Tuesday is set to be slightly less promising, with light rain forecast during the afternoon, and Wednesday brings the sun back out. Temperatures will climb to 24C that day, with sunshine forecast all day.

Thursday will be the best day of the week, weather-wise, with highs of 26C and a soft breeze. The sun appears to overexert itself and will fade for a rest on Friday, occasionally occurring but leaving the temperature a tad cooler, with highs of 24C.

The BBC adds that on Friday, it could rain during the morning, and has predicted more chance of the sun during the day. The last day of the forecast at the moment from the Met Office is Saturday, August 12, when temperatures are due to drop further down to 21C with the occasional spot or two of rain.

The BBC’s London forecast persists further into the following week and is predicting mostly sunshine, with temperatures sitting at around 22-24C.

Up To Fifty-Seven World Championship Triathlon Athletes Fall Sick

Health bosses have confirmed that at least 57 people have fallen sick and are suffering from diarrhoea after swimming in the sea during the World Triathlon Championships in Sunderland.

Approximately 2,000 people took part in the major tournament last weekend, which saw athletes swim in the sea at Roker Beach, which was given a prestigious Blue Flag award for its cleanliness only two years ago.

A test run by the UK’s Environmental Agency only three days before the event revealed that there were 3,900 E. Coli colonies per 100ml, which is almost 40 times higher than typical readings from June.

E. Coli bacteria can cause severe stomach and life-threatening attacks of diarrhoea.

A newspaper outlet reported that the British Triathlon, which handles official triathlons in the United Kingdom, said these results were only published after the event took place and that the tests were conducted outside the area where its sea swimming event occurred.

It added that its own tests showed the waters had passed the required standards for the triathlon.

In 2022 alone, England and Wales suffered more than 380,000 spills, or almost 2,350,000 hours, of treated sewage and overflows of untreated sewage.

Water companies up and down the country have come under fire for allegedly not doing enough to clean up their messes.

In June, Thames Water’s chief executive Sarah Bentley dramatically resigned from her post after the water company was heavily criticised for spilling raw sewage into the sea 22 times a day, as well as being £14 billion in debt.

Earlier this year, the campaign group Surfers Against Sewage released an interactive map to warn Brits of the beaches they need to avoid due to high levels of sewage.

Tope Australian athlete Jake Birthwhistle, who’s won several triathlons across the world, said in an Instagram post earlier this week that he’d been feeling pretty rubbish since the race, but he guessed that was what you got when you swim in sewage.

He said he wasn’t feeling great in the individual race so decided to save himself for a good relay leg, and there were some positives to take away leading into Paris in two weeks, but the swim should have been cancelled.

Other athletes who said they were also at Roker Beach last weekend agreed, with one person saying in a comment response that was why they spent Monday night with their head in the toilet after racing Sunday morning.

This country has become one of the largest sewage works, and it doesn’t function anymore. We appear to be going backwards. We were once famous for our Blue Flag beaches, but now Britain is one of the largest cesspits.

This is what taking back control looks like. So, now sewage companies can dump their waste to their heart’s content without any kind of EU regulation holding them back. This just about sums up Britain now – it’s just a dumping ground.

We’re now going back to pre-privatisation days when our waterways, beaches and coastal waters were far more polluted than they are now. Infrastructure and utility regulators need the sharpest teeth and the most transparency.

Some people voted for Brexit, so this is what they have to look forward to, and if nothing is done about it, then it will just get worse.

Of course, sewage dumping has happened before but they seemed to be isolated cases and water companies were battered with fines when they did so. Nowadays, they’ve been given carte blanche to dump as much as they like and get away with a very small penalty, which then gets made up by higher bills paid by the masses.

A New ‘Deathtrap’ Pavement Pits Cyclists Against Pedestrians

A new cycle path has been branded a deathtrap that pits cyclists against pedestrians due to its complex layout and absence of adequate signage.

The cycle lane on Longport Road in Canterbury, Kent, also switches sides and blocks off the entrance to a historic abbey, sparking outrage from locals, and according to the National Federation of the Blind (NFBUK), the route is so dangerous they raised concerns over it a year ago before it had even been built.

A consultation in November 2022 found the designs were dangerous, discriminatory and a deathtrap for any blind or visually challenged pedestrian, but the council still pushed on with it regardless.

It added the designs bring cyclists directly into conflict with any pedestrian using the pavement and pedestrian crossing.

It also added that they bring any pedestrian into direct conflict with the explosion of people now using e-bikes, e-scooters, e-unicycles, e-cargo bikes and delivery bikes, many of which are illegal and illegally modified, ridden at speed with no consideration at all for any pedestrians.

Kent County Council said the lane, which was designed in consultation with Active Travel England, would encourage new and less confident cyclists as well as slow vehicles down.

Presently, the lane widths are said to be temporary while construction work takes place.

However, locals are less impressed by the new design, with many fearing it could cause a potentially life-threatening accident.

Some called the cycle lane on Longport as the best in Britain but most criticised the bright red path as confusing and a waste of money.

Christine Moore, 74, told a newspaper outlet that it was an accident waiting to happen and that everyone who lives around there was totally flummoxed by the thing.

She said that the cycle lane goes right to the entrance of St Augustine Abbey across the road where people go with their children or to walk their dogs, and that people come out of the Abbey grounds and straight into the path of a bicycle and that it was ridiculous.

Factory worker Darius Luidokas found himself cycling against the oncoming traffic.

Darius Luidokas, 47, told a newspaper outlet that he didn’t know where he was meant to be cycling.

He said he came onto the right-hand side of the road because he wanted to turn right up the road a bit.

Marcus told a newspaper outlet that it was so confusing, they had no idea which side of the road they were meant to be cycling on. There were no signs, nothing.

This is indeed councils squandering our money on fads per usual.

However, it’s not just these cycle lanes that are the problem, all cycle lanes are dangerous, but it’s also up to the cyclist to be alert and ride with consideration, but the problem is they don’t. Cyclists should be like any other motorist, if there’s a red light then they should have to stop at a red light, not just speed through it, and if they don’t then they should be fined on the spot.

Cycle lanes are also extremely dangerous for people who are deaf or hard of hearing because they can’t hear anything if a person on a bicycle calls out for them to move out of the way.

Councils evidently don’t care about the pedestrians, and it’s impossible to walk across a road, even a zebra crossing because you never know when a cyclist is going to be speeding and a lot of them just speed through red lights as if they have the right of way, and numerous people are being injured because of this.

Cyclists appear to want to have equal rights, the same as motorists and if this is the case then they should be insured, taxed and have some type of registration plate.

Councils never seem to have enough money to fill in potholes and maintain the roads, but they seem to have enough money to put in pointless cycle lanes – enough is enough!

King’s Guard Breaks Protocol In A Heartwarming Moment

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Adorable footage shows the moment the King’s Guard made a rare break in protocol to nod at a little fan sporting his own miniature livery and bearskin.

Frank, who adores soldiers, received a special nod from one of the troops who greeted him at St James’ Palace.

The child watched in amazement as he witnessed the soldiers parading past him in unison.

The heartwarming video filmed by his father reveals the moment Frank stood and saluted the soldiers before one at the back exchanged a compliant nod with the small lad.

Frank was so delighted that he seemed to stand in disbelief for a few moments before giving the camera a thumbs-up.

The military men famously hold an expressionless demeanour as they’re typically not permitted to interact with members of the public. They can even be landed with a £200 fine for laughing or smiling and have to work through all weather conditions.

Frank, who posts videos on his TikTok account @frankthesoldier, which has more than 35,000 followers, melted hearts as social media users reacted to the footage.

One person commented on the video saying that the last nod brought tears to their eyes.

Another wrote it was sweet the Guards gave the little boy a quick acknowledgement.

A third said this his salute was spot on, and that he was a sweet young boy and said that they loved how the officer and guards acknowledged him.

Someone else wrote that Frank looked amazing.

Frank’s experience came after the King’s Guard melted hearts by making a rare break in protocol so a boy with Down’s Syndrome could have a photograph taken with him.

A video of Mike van Erp, 50, better known by his YouTube name CyclingMikey, and the youngster posing for a photograph at Buckingham Palace induced a stir after being shared on YouTube, thanks to the touching way the situation was handled by everyone.

Footage shows how a kind-hearted member of the Guard moved nearer to Mike and the boy who was attempting to get a photograph to remember their trip to Horse Guards Parade, but of course, some of these servicemen will probably have children the same age, so I’m delighted that they acknowledged him, must have made his day, and something he can treasure forever.

Credit and respect to the Guardsman for making the little boy’s day, and bless this soldier for being so sweet to this young man, who incidentally, looked the part and gave an amazing salute. You never know, in another twenty years he may be one of them and good luck to him.

The world is full of crud news these days, so this was a lovely article, that made my day.

It also seems that King Charles is a considerate gentleman, and perhaps a trend has been formed. Let’s face it King Charles is a father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

Honestly, you just couldn’t walk past this little boy all dressed up and not show some display of emotion, regardless of protocol. I think that the soldiers handled it well.

I think this is a wonderful gesture. No lives were put at risk and perhaps it should be a regular feature that if children show respect and keep their distance and salute, they should be acknowledged, after all, they could be our guards of the future.

A Terrorist Judged A ‘Danger To The Public’ Three Months Ago Will Be Released From Prison In Days

A British Islamic State terrorist will have to be released in days despite still being deemed a possible threat to the public.

Mohammed Uddin, then 30, was imprisoned in 2016 for seven years after pleading guilty to attempting to join ISIS in Syria.

The former security guard, from Barking in Essex, now aged 37, travelled through Turkey to join his terror icons in Syria but then attempted to creep back into Britain when he became disillusioned with jihadi life and was captured.

He was subsequently released from prison on licence in December 2019 but recalled to jail in February 2023 for having two secret phones and a tablet.

Police who went to his home with a search warrant said that he was found in possession of two smartphones and an electronic tablet, breaching his Parole Board release licence.

Under Parole Board rules, the decision must be examined to determine whether it was legitimate or whether it should be overturned.

The Parole Board conducted a paper review of Mr Uddin’s case, looking at his prison file and documented reports from prison officials and psychiatrists before making a decision on the 10th of May 2023.

The summary of the Parole Board’s review, seen by a newspaper outlet, states that Mr Uddin had these, the phone and tablet and was in breach of his licence. It was also discovered that he’d not been honest with probation about events in his life.

They said that Mr Uddine did not dispute his recall and the panel was satisfied that the decision to recall him to custody at this time had been appropriate and that if not released by the panel, Mr Uddin would otherwise be released at the end of his sentence in August 2023.

The report concluded that after evaluating the circumstances of his offending, his time on licence and the evidence presented in the dossier, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public.

A spokesperson for the Parole Board said that they could confirm that a panel of the Parole Board refused the release of Mohammed Uddin following a paper review.

The spokesperson said that Parole Board decisions were solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk was manageable in the community.

The citizens of the United Kingdom have the right to feel safe, and the sentence was far too short at the time of the conviction, and it appears that these judges will never learn.

This is a total farce, there appear to be more terrorists running around on the loose than being locked up.

All terrorists should be incarcerated for life because a jail sentence doesn’t alter their perspective, and as soon as they’re released they do the same thing, or worse. The problem is we don’t have enough space in our prisons to accommodate.

Perhaps we should do what was done years ago, send these people to a remote, empty island somewhere and leave them there.

Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, about 7,000 arrived in 1833 alone. The convicts were transported as punishment for crimes committed.

There are ten notable uninhabited islands across the globe that could be used just for this purpose alone.

It’s not so much that we have weak and soft laws, it’s because we just don’t have the space to put them or build new prisons.

A Teenager Was Caught Speeding At 102mph On A Dual Carriageway

A teenage boy was caught speeding at 102mph on a dual carriageway, just four hours after he passed his driving test.

He was stopped by the Norfolk Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team (NSRAPT) at 2 pm on August 2, while driving on the A47 at Swaffham.

A traffic offence report was then issued by police for excessive speeding.

NSRAPT shared a photo of their speed meter reading on Twitter, showing the 102mph printout after stopping the teenager.

They reported that a driver was stopped at 2 pm (2 August) during speed checks conducted by PC Writer on the A47 in Swaffham.

It was reported that he was clocked doing 102mph, having only passed his driving test four hours earlier.

Responding to the post, one person commented on Twitter that it must be the fastest driving licence removed ever.

Another wrote that the driver didn’t lose any time with his newfound freedumb.

A third said, that’s it, pass your test and then think you’re the best driver in the world.

Someone else commented: ‘That speed for a new learner was insane, insane for anyone.

According to DVLA rules, new drivers are subject to a probationary period of two years from the date they pass their test, meaning they will forfeit their licence if they gain six or more points in that time.

This guy’s probably done us all a big favour, at least now he won’t be on our roads for a while.

Just because one has passed their driving test, they still have a lot of learning to do. Passing your driving test is just the basics.

When a person learns to drive, the driving instructor is there to teach them to pass their test. You actually learn to drive properly after you pass your test.

The problem is that idiots like this come from the video game world, but in real life, there’s no game reset, and now for this lad his licence ended faster than it began. The roads are dangerous enough at the best of times without having idiots who are still wet behind the ears using it as a playground.

How Prefabs Came To Be

During the Second World War and the bombing of towns and cities, there became a despairing demand for housing.

Over 200,000 homes were destroyed by aerial bombing attacks. So, it was decided that prefabricated houses, later known as prefabs would be the temporary answer until the country could return to constructing permanent homes with traditional materials.

They were intended to last no more than a decade, but in fact, they survived a lot longer than that, and what’s more the people that lived in them didn’t want to move, they’d made it their home. Had families there and it was a great gathering of people that lived on these estates.

And their progressive designs and modern appliances frequently offered their residents an improved standard of living, resulting in long-lasting affection.

Early interim prefabs were built using a wood structure and asbestos cladding or cement, while some later buildings used aluminium.

However, these buildings were only meant as a temporary fix, but many prefabricated homes lasted far longer than originally intended, and now there are very few of them left because they’ve been bulldozed to make way for more contemporary buildings.

These houses were perfect after the war. They were quick to erect and people who were homeless could move into them quickly.

Not only that, the people that did move into them made these homes their own, and many of them had the most stunning gardens because they were proud of what they’d put into their homes to make them their homes.

It was one big community with street parties and all sorts going on and many of the neighbours all knew each other. It was a community, something we don’t have anymore. Barely anyone knows their neighbours these days. We just live in these rabbit boxes that they’re building, and some of them are extremely colourful on the outside, but so small on the inside you couldn’t swing a cat about in them.

There was simply no reason to pull these prefabs down. They could have all been brought up to spec, and the tenants could have remained in them, and what with the housing crisis that’s going on now, these would have been simply perfect for people having to wait on the housing list for years and years with no light at the end of the tunnel.

After the war we had a housing problem, people had nowhere to live and now 78 years later we are much in the same dilemma. The only difference there’s been no war, but after Margaret Thatcher sold off our social housing we have now nowhere to house people, so more than ever prefabricated housing would be a fantastic solution. Hey, I’d live in one. They were bigger than the rubbish they build these days and yes, they might have been a tad nippy in the winter months, but technology has improved since the war and companies could mass produce these prefabs in warehouses and then erect them on site very cheaply.

According to the Prefab Museum, about 8,000 are left in the United Kingdom, with about 30 of them being listed, and yes, people still live in them today, and if it’s good enough for them, then it’s good enough for people desperately needing housing.

In 1944, the Temporary Accommodation Act of 1944 came into effect. This was an act of Parliament that still stands today, so there’s no reason why our Government can’t again enact this to build prefab housing.

Of course, we don’t have any bomb sites to build these houses on, which is a major issue because we don’t have enough green space to build on. It might just be a case of golf courses that are in great demand having to relinquish their recreational pursuit and allow for homes to be built. Imagine how many prefab houses could be built on this green land, add all that and it would be immense.

Homeware Chain Wilko On The Verge Of Collapse

UK homeware retailer Wiko has warned that it’s on the verge of collapse, putting some 12,000 jobs at risk.

The privately owned company said it had filed a “notice of intention” to appoint administrators after failing to find enough emergency investment.

Chief executive Mark Jackson said it would continue to talk with interested parties about options for the business.

He said the company was left with no choice but to take this action, but hopes to find a solution as quickly as possible to preserve the business.

Wilko did not confirm in the announcement whether or not any jobs would be affected.

Andy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB union, said that this was extremely concerning but that they remained hopeful that a buyer could be found.

He said that Wilko’s staff deserved reassurance that their jobs were safe and that they hoped this was the number one priority going forward.

Wilko added that it had received significant interest from investors and some offers, but none of them would have provided enough cash within the time needed.

Increasing interest rates, increased energy costs and squeezed consumer spending have all been weighing on retailers.

Shops including furniture retailer Made.com and clothing group Joules collapsed into administration last year, although both were offered rescue deals by High Street colossus Next.

But Wilko’s boss said that the company, which has an annual turnover of about £1.2 billion, had a ‘robust turnaround plan’ in place.

The discount chain has been struggling for months and had been considering a company voluntary arrangement, under which some of its landlords would have received no rent for three years.

After Mr Jackson joined the retailer late last year, the retailer announced that it would cut 400 jobs in an endeavour to cut costs.

At the time, the GMB union said the company was in a fight for survival.

Catherine Shuttleworth, founder of retail analysis firm Savvy Marketing, told the BBC that the announcement marked a sad day for a stalwart of the UK High Street.

She said that it should have been Wilko’s time to shine, but the Cost of Living Crisis going on and shoppers looking for a bargain, but she added that customers had been going to rivals such as Home Bargains, B&M and the Range as they looked for discounted food, household goods and garden items.

Longer-term problems at Wilko have been exposed, she said, with a lack of investment over time and issues with stock in recent months.

It would be such a shame to lose Wilko, but it’s not the only retail shop that’s had to close its doors since the COVID pandemic and the Cost of Living crisis.

If Wilko does close its doors, it will hit a lot of smaller towns extremely hard.

Shops just cannot compete with greedy councils stinging them with monstrous rates, and now shopping centres are being deserted, including shopping malls.

This would be a tragedy for local high streets. It’s a brilliant shop and people go there regularly, and there is something terribly wrong with the fundamental economics of retail, and now all businesses are being cut like a cutthroat razor.

Wilko is going the same way as Woolworths. However, we will see numerous shops close their doors soon.

Brexit is taking numerous prisoners, what a fiasco that has been.

High street shops are being lost and that’s because there’s been a shift in how people shop. Online shopping has become extremely popular with people buying what they want online because it’s easier and quicker and gets delivered directly to their door, so in effect, we have all had a hand in shutting down our high street shops, and of course, the Government are rubbing their hands together because this is what they wanted all along.

COW Falls From A Lorry Into Traffic In Terrifying Moment

This is the horrifying moment a cow fell off the back of a moving lorry and into live traffic on a busy motorway.

The animal fell onto the inside lane near junction nine in the northwest of England, nearly colliding with oncoming cars travelling at 70mph, just before 10 am yesterday.

Police say another cow also broke free two miles away, and the motorway was closed for about 90 minutes between junctions seven and 10.

The Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said on Twitter the cows were injured, although the extent of the injuries was unclear.

Dashcam footage of the incident shows the cow falling onto the road and skidding towards oncoming traffic, forcing motorists to take evasive action and ultimately causing one lorry to stop in the middle of the motorway.

Kevin Rogers, 52, who documented the footage from his vehicle, was on his way to an auction when the bizarre incident unfolded in front of him.

He said that the cow fell out the bottom of the lorry, the lorry next to it moved and he moved out of the way.

He said he was the first car coming head-on to it and he managed to miss it.

He said that there was definitely only one cow that fell out of the lorry but reports read that there were two cows and that he thought the floor gave way on the bottom and when the lorry pulled over another cow came out.

He said that you don’t see that every day and that his first thought was not to hit it and that he didn’t see it fall out of the lorry so the first he saw was the cow sprawling on the road, and that thankfully he could swerve onto the hard shoulder to get around it.

The CMPG said on Twitter initially: ‘CLOSED. M6 junction 10 to junction 7 was closed. Further updates will follow. Please avoid the area where possible.

They said that they had two injured cows on the carriageway two miles apart that had fallen from a lorry.

A follow-up tweet then said: ‘Big thank you to the lorry drivers who stopped to help contain the cows as well as @HighwaysWMIDS @Trafficwmp @firearmsWMP’.

‘Big thank you to Whitewell Logistics Ltd who was in the trapped traffic and offered to help move the cows off the carriageway.

However, it’s extremely heartbreaking for the poor animals.

It broke my heart, not only was this animal subjected to a terrifying ordeal, no doubt experiencing pain as a consequence, it was also likely on the way to the slaughterhouse.

This is cruelty to animals that were clearly being transported in an inadequate vehicle which sounds as though it shouldn’t have been on the road, and the company should at least be fined.

This incident could have been much worse, particularly if that stretch of motorway didn’t have a hard shoulder. Hitting an animal this size at 60mph would have been like hitting a brick wall, which would have inevitably caused a multiple pile-up and no doubt human casualties.

This was so wrong on many different levels. The sheer terror and pain the poor animals would have felt whilst falling out of the moving lorry at that speed, and whoever was responsible for this needs prosecuting. No doubt people will just read this and not think twice about it because it happened to a cow, but it is a big deal, and it makes me sad and furious that animals’ lives are worth so little. But, of course, this is just my opinion.

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