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Wiltshire High Sheriff Sir Charles Hobhouse at Monkton Farleigh Manor, where he is hosting a fete on Saturday WILTSHIRE High Sheriff Sir Charles Hobhouse will put Swindon charities who help tackle mental health issues front and centre at a fundraising fete at his home on Saturday. STEP Swindon and Youth Adventure Trust will be among 10 grassroots charities running stalls at the annual event at Monkton Farleigh Manor, near Bradford on Avon, which he is devoting to good causes across the county this year. STEP, based at The Nythe Centre, works with hundreds of young people of all ages on the margins of education in Swindon get help with family issues, behaviour and relationships through STEP’s dedicated programmes. Its workers help them learn to express themselves, develop coping strategies and understand others’ point of view.
A new book provides a scathing look back at “all the things that went wrong” in prison history in England. Available today (April 8) Prison Governor’s Journal, by Brendan O’Friel, provides fresh insights into the workings of prisons – including examples of unusual events - and raises new and difficult “unanswered questions”. Among those questions is why pre-emptive action was not taken to prevent the riots of April 1986, in which the-then young offender establishment at Erlestoke Prison was considerably damaged. Around 40 people escaped from the facility, and 16 remained at large the following day. The riots followed a decision to take industrial action by prison officers. The Chief Inspector of Prisons said that the riots, which took place in other English prisons as well, were the “worst night of violence that the English Prison Service had ever known”.