Police commissioner candidate Martin Schmierer argues for drug consumption rooms in Norwich.
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Suggestions for a new approach to tackling drug use in Norwich have been welcomed by a council flat resident after a decade of issues.
Martin Schmierer, the Green Party candidate for Norfolk’s police and crime commissioner has called for a rethink on the way drug issues are combated, arguing the war on drugs in Britain has failed like alcohol prohibition in 1920s America. The war on drugs isn t being won and we cannot arrest our way out of the problem,” Mr Schmierer said.
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A PLANT operator driving home from work in Carlisle came to the aid of a key worker during a chance meeting. Cameron Peel was driving from work in Carlisle to Hexham in the early hours of one day last week. As the 28-year-old approached the Brampton roundabout on the A69, Cameron was flagged down by a man in a high visibility jacket. It was a driver on his way to Gateshead from Glasgow, where he’d made a delivery to a Covid testing laboratory. “He’d ran out of petrol,” said Cameron. “I could see he was in a hire van he had the name of who he represented on his high-vis jacket.
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The book festival will take place in the Hexham Abbey Grounds. ONE of Hexham’s much-loved annual events is looking ahead to a bumper return this summer. Hexham Book Festival has announced plans for a 10-day extravaganza between Friday, July 2, and Sunday, July, 11, in a spiegeltent within the Hexham Abbey Grounds. Organisers have said that many of the authors due to appear in 2020 have pledged their support for the event this year. They include Jim Naughtie, Jung Chang, Gavin Esler, Luke Jennings and Hollie McNish. The spiegeltent, a large travelling tent from the Netherlands, will be in place for the festival.