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Can @PFEW_HQ reform itself into an effective organisation representing the interests of Police Officers nationally?
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130 votes • Final results Richard Horton retweeted
JANET MURGATROYD PRESTON RIVER RIBBLE MURDER REWARD APPEAL
In 2026, Lancashire Police launched a renewed appeal on the 30th anniversary of the murder of 20-year-old Janet Murgatroyd.
Janet was killed as she walked home from Preston city centre towards Penwortham in the early hours of Sunday 16 June 1996, with her body discovered in the River Ribble.
Independent charity Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for anonymous information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer.
Key Case Details:
Last seen walking along Fishergate Hill and across Penwortham Bridge
Witnesses reported a female cry and a man crouched by the riverbank near Holme Road car park
Major Crime Review Team utilising modern DNA testing on existing forensic evidence
Police Contact Details:
Call Lancashire Police: 101
Online: Lancashire Police Major Incident Public Portal
Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111
Image - Victim Appeal Photograph
Richard Horton retweeted
AI was meant to make MPs' offices more efficient. Instead staff are drowning in casework.
The people behind every reply to a constituent deserve pay and resources that match the job. IPSA must #restorethefloor
MPs' offices are buried in AI-generated casework and constituents wait longer.
Our members are absorbing it. Where offices keep figures, casework has at least doubled.
Staff need the resources to do the job properly.
@lisagillmore in @guardian.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
Suited and booted for church and then a walk up to our village Memorial Garden.
Respects paid to my Grandfather.
Mid upper gunner. Lancaster Bomber. 50 Sqn
Buried with the rest of his crew in Belgium.
Richard Horton retweeted
MPs' offices are buried in AI-generated casework and constituents wait longer.
Our members are absorbing it. Where offices keep figures, casework has at least doubled.
Staff need the resources to do the job properly.
@lisagillmore in @guardian.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
Richard Horton retweeted
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The pips have squeaked.
If you were going to do this sort of police reform it should have been done when there was time, money and less urgency. What we are getting now is doomed.
Policing has little left to offer up in efficiencies.
All you will get for less now is less.
"Other senior police sources say it is clear the Treasury will provide no more money for law enforcement"
Who will fund the reported £2bn transition costs of the proposed force mergers?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Richard Horton retweeted
Victims need confidence that the justice process is fair and based on evidence, not myths and false assumptions about trauma.
I am calling for the Courts and Tribunals Bill to require judges to address rape myths when directing juries in every rape trial theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Policing collaborations / mergers should not be about "efficiency" because we know that really means the "more for less" agenda that has wounded policing for over a decade.
If the mergers do not deliver more effective policing, they are not worth doing .
Richard Horton retweeted
650 offices. 650 employers. One broken system.
Staff leaving Parliament within their first year is up 59% on 2023-24.
Our President @lisagillmore sets out in @politicshome why Parliament needs a single employer 👇
politicshome.com/members/art…
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78% of constituency staff have had threatening calls or messages. Half of MPs’ staff now meet the threshold for psychological distress.
No one is responsible for their safety across Parliament. One Parliament, One Employer would change that. #1P1E
labourlist.org/2026/11/mps-s…
Richard Horton retweeted
A safer Parliament for women is a positive step forward.
White Ribbon accreditation, vetting before passes and bystander training can give staff real confidence.
We’ll keep pushing so staff in Westminster and constituencies feel the benefit.
theguardian.com/society/2026…
Richard Horton retweeted
83% of MPs' staff have felt unsafe at work. Nobody should face that alone.
Over 1,500 staff from every party are organising together in GMB Union for safer, fairer workplaces in Parliament.
Work for an MP or Peer? Join us: gmb.org.uk/join-gmb
New @GMB_MPs_Staff report out today: the number of MPs’ staff quitting in their first year is up 59% in two years, and half of those who quit now leave within ten months.
I wrote about Parliament’s staff crisis for
@NewStatesman in June 👇
newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
Richard Horton retweeted
"Other senior police sources say it is clear the Treasury will provide no more money for law enforcement"
Who will fund the reported £2bn transition costs of the proposed force mergers?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Richard Horton retweeted
If you have never policed a riot and to be fair not many police officers have thankfully. May I invite you to listen to retired Police Officer Steve Martin QGM, who was part of serial 502 who were deployed to the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985. It was a riot in which his friend and colleague PC Keith Blakelock QGM was murdered. The podcast contains some graphic detail so listener discretion is advised.
audioboom.com/posts/8973543-…
