After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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AS shadow secretary of state for justice, I have seen how well Carillion bosses have done out of our prisons system. Sadly, our prisons system hasn’t done too well out of Carillion. In just over two years, the Conservative government has given almost £100 million to Carillion to maintain our prisons.
Prison governors are among those who repeatedly complained about Carillion’s failures in prison maintenance.
The situation became so bad that in September 2016 even the then Conservative prisons minister Sam Gyimah commented: “I am particularly concerned about the rate of repairs in our prisons,” going on to say that “Carillion is one company that has a contract and receives public funds to perform such work, and I have not been impressed by what I have heard about its response speed.”
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