New Covid measures coming into force today are set to be in place for at least three weeks and we’re all hoping they won’t last a day longer.
We’ve been here before with restrictions.
But this time we know what we can all do to make them as short as possible.
Politicians from all sides have been calling for us to get their third jab in the form of a booster vaccine ahead of Hogmanay.
However, some have ignored the pleas.
If people are for whatever reason going to ignore our elected members of parliament, then they should definitely listen to the doctors and nurses who are on the NHS frontline.
They’re the ones dealing with the grim reality of Covid-related deaths on a daily basis.
With hospitals nearing capacity and NHS workers under severe pressure once again, it is now more important than ever that we listen to the people who are having to deal with the harsh reality of Covid every day.
At the start of the pandemic, many vital health services were cancelled in order to allow the NHS to focus on
coronavirus.
We don’t want to go back to those days when people were missing cancer screenings and planned operations were cancelled or postponed.
It will be two years in March since our world was turned upside down.
We’ve come so far since then, so it would be catastrophic to have even more restrictions imposed on us for the sake of a third jab.
Brexit red tape helps criminals
Anyone who goes on the run abroad to evade justice usually has help from organised crime figures.
Other suspects may have lived in this country using a false alias, which also makes finding them an extremely difficult task for law enforcement.
At first glance, apprehending an international fugitive – home and abroad – at a rate of slightly more than one per week seems a reasonable return.
But when you see the figure was almost double pre-Brexit, it’s not quite as impressive as the statistic suggests.
Police feared that they would be handicapped when losing the access to European Arrest Warrants (EAW) when the United Kingdom left the EU.
Criminals across the continent hoped that confusion and red tape would buy them time. It looks like they were right.
Let’s hope any new agreement on co-operation on criminal matters between the UK and EU is an effective tool helping our officers bring fugitives back to face justice.
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