safety
Over the past five years, there have been a total of 9549 rape complaints made to Northumbria Police in the North East. In 2025 alone, there were 2137 complaints, a 29% increase from 2021, when there were 1653. During this podcast, we discuss the numbers with a Regional Executive at the Ministry of Justice and […]
Safety concerns surrounding e-scooters in Newcastle has disability campaigner questioning the need for the scooters altogether. Newcastle City Council has been trialling the Neuron rentable e-scooters since February 2021, a trial that has now been extended to May 2024. Blindness campaigner Sarah Gayton visited Newcastle in February 2023 she was “shocked” by the conditions the […]
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