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End pointless hearings in magistrates courts | Letter

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Janet Carter says defendants charged with ‘indictable offences’ should appear directly in crown court to avoid delays and duplication of resources

I agree with Anthony Rogers, the chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service, that one answer to dealing with the crown court backlog is to consider whether more cases can be dealt with in the magistrates court ( Crown court backlog in England and Wales ‘could hit 100,000 without radical overhaul’, 1 November ). On the other side of the coin, there are consistently between 5,000 and 6,000 cases a quarter that the law currently demands are listed in the magistrates court even though there is no power to deal with trials or sentences. These are the most serious offences known as “indictable only” offences, such as rape and robbery.

Inevitably, there is no progress on first listing and the case is adjourned on to the crown court a few weeks later. Delays and duplications of resources right across the board are inevitable with these cases.

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Leaf feud is mulch ado about nothing | Brief letters

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Fallen leaves | Hot-water bottles | Male incontinence | Crocodile infestations

Jenny and Ed ( You be the judge: should my son apologise to our neighbour for piling leaves in front of her house?, 8 November ) would not have had a problem with their neighbour if they had decided to use their piles of leaves to make leaf mulch instead of leaving them piled up outside her house. You gather them in a container like a sack or wire frame, and a year later you have the most fabulous, nutritious mulch for the garden. It’s a great use of all the leaves everywhere at the moment.
Penny de Ruyter
Sheffield

• The Guardian always has something new to teach me, but even so, I was astonished to learn that I can date a hot-water bottle by a flower at its neck, with petals and dots for months and weeks ( How to check a hot-water bottle’s age, and other ways to stay safe and warm, 9 November ). Who knew? I shall use this dating system from now on.
Lynne Scrimshaw
London

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Amsterdam police charge four after attack on Israeli football fans

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

City’s police chief says ‘incidents on both sides’ led to violent unrest as ‘around 40’ fined and released

Authorities have released details of the 62 people charged after violent attacks took place around the football match between Amsterdam’s Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night.

Violence after the game – described by the Amsterdam mayor, Femke Halsema, as “hit and run attacks” on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters by “boys on scooters” – provoked international horror.

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Nicola Jennings on the prospects for Ukraine after Trump’s victory – cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

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Szmodics and Delap stun Spurs as Ipswich end long wait for first win

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Ipswich had waited 22 and a half years for this, and how their vibrant support celebrated after nine seemingly interminable minutes of added time. It said plenty that their first Premier League win since April 2002 was entirely deserved, a clever first half performance seeing them pull clear through goals from Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap before they passed a test of resilience in the second.

Rodrigo Bentancur’s header was all Spurs, disjointed throughout and never quite managing a late siege, could manage and the outcome was yet another feather in the cap for Kieran McKenna. The Ipswich manager began as an academy coach at Tottenham and his side’s performance was a credit to him here.

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Bruno Fernandes sparks Manchester United to easy victory over Leicester

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Eleven days after Manchester United routed Leicester under Ruud van Nistelrooy in the Carabao Cup here, the interim manager signed off with another easy-street win over the Foxes and so ends his four-game term unbeaten.

In all the Dutchman has three victories, and for this one he thanks Bruno Fernandes, who graced a 250th United appearance by scoring the first goal and causing enough trouble for the hapless Victor Kristiansen to bundle past his goalkeeper, Mads Hermansen, for the second.

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Harvey Barnes wraps up Newcastle’s comeback win at Nottingham Forest

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Nottingham Forest are fishing in the waters Newcastle aspire to swim in. Two years ago, it was Eddie Howe’s team breaking up the metropolitan elite. This season, Nuno Espírito Santo’s team have been the provincial outfit punching above their weight but Newcastle, now just a point behind Forest, showed they have the capability to join the throng.

A second-half comeback, courtesy of three lovely finishes, the first a piece of striking opportunism from Alexander Isak, the second an arrowing, long-range beauty from Joelinton showed their stomach for the fight. The third, scored by Harvey Barnes, after an assist by the influential Sandro Tonali, sent Forest fans barreling for the exits.

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Remembrance and an Indonesian eruption: the weekend in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Cop29: what are carbon credits and why are they so controversial?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November 2024

Once heavily scorned because of fraud and poor outcomes, carbon trading is likely to be high on the agenda in Baku

For the next two weeks, countries will gather on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss how to increase finance for climate crisis adaptation and mitigation. A global agreement on carbon markets will be high on the agenda as countries try to find ways of generating the trillions they need to decarbonise in order to limit heating to below 2C above preindustrial levels.

Here is what you need to know.