The breaking-up of one of Britain’s biggest dog-fighting rings was accomplished by a major investigation by the RSPCA, resulting in the jailing of three men and a woman.

At Lincoln magistrates court Claire Parker, 44 and a mother of three was jailed for 18 weeks for holding dog fights at her home in Kexby, Lincs where RSPCA investigators found a blood-stained fighting pit in her garage. Also jailed was Mohammed Nasir Farooq, for 26 weeks for attending a dog fight, and Gary Adamson and Owen Batey for 23 weeks each for keeping dogs for fighting. Continue reading →

The Prince of Wales is to open a charity in China, twelve years after referring to its leaders, privately, as “appalling old waxworks” and despite a cordial relationship with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, the country raped and repressed by the Chinese authorities.

The Prince’s Charities Foundation (China) will open on October 19 in Beijing and concentrate on promoting the combating of climate change, the arts and traditional architecture. Continue reading →

Drivers of Ford cars in the South East are most likely to throw litter from their vehicles.

This is a conclusion from a survey carried out by charity Keep Britain Tidy, which has asked Ford to include car bins in new model specifications and is campaigning to get car littering classified as a motoring offence, worth one point on a licence.

The survey was compiled from 6000 online reports of car littering filed by consumers. From these it emerged that the most likely items to be thrown from cars were, in descending order, cigarette butts, fast food packaging, sweet wrappers, metal drink Continue reading →

The Charity IT Conference 2009 takes place on Wednesday, November 11 at the QEII Centre, Westminster, London.

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