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Month: January 2020
STATS FOR USE OF TASERS HAS SHOT UP IN 4 YEARS
Data obtained by The Ferret under freedom of information law shows that deployment of the device has been increasing each year, after a drop from 50 to 13 incidents between 2014-15 and 2015-16. Tasers were fired in a minority of occasions, however, with the device often drawn, aimed or not used at all.
CONCEPTION UNIT HAS 43 PER CENT SUCCESS RATE
The most recent figures available from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for 2017 show the Assisted Conception Unit has a 43 per cent success rate. The unit provides over 900 treatment cycles annually. The data is two years behind as that is the standard time frame for publication of the HFEA reports.
SCOT NICOLA BENEDETTI WINS GRAMMY AWARD
“It’s amazing – a wee girl from Scotland winning a Grammy for classical music in the US. It’s really quite an achievement,” he told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme.
K13 REMEMBERED DURING FASLANE CEREMONY
SERVING Royal Navy Submariners, veterans of the Silent Service and cadets were at Faslane Chaplaincy on Sunday, January 26, to commemorate the sinking of submarine K13.
LET’S PRESERVE CIVILITY AND MODERATION
As Friday approaches, with its 11pm deadline when the UK officially leaves the European Union, there is a temptation to retreat into bunkers of defiance (on the part of those of us who see the move as a tragic error) or triumphalism (among those who will see their plan realised).