Alex Homer
Senior Journalist at BBC
Award-winning Senior Journalist at the BBC Shared Data Unit, formerly a producer for network news in the Midlands. Cricket & WBA fan. My views. Likes=bookmarks.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
msn.com | Alex Homer
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Mar 6, 2025 |
bbc.com | Alex Homer
Police unit dubbed 'authoritarian censor'Alex HomerJordan Pettitt/PA WireThe team advised forces not to confirm or deny if they used a facial recognition siteA national policing unit has been criticised for telling local forces to block the release of information under laws designed to safeguard the public's right to know.
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Oct 28, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Alex Homer |Navtej Johal
Super-strength drugs linked to hundreds of deaths have been found in samples of fake medicines bought across the UK, the BBC can reveal. We found more than 100 examples of people trying to buy prescription medicines such as diazepam - commonly used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms and seizures - and instead receiving products containing nitazenes. The synthetic opioid drugs have been connected to 278 deaths across the country in a year, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).
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Mar 19, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Alex Homer |Navtej Johal
The UK government is behind the curve in tracking the spread of new super-strength drugs, a doctor who has treated patients has said. More than 100 deaths have now been linked to synthetic opioids called nitazenes since the summer, according to the National Crime Agency. Dr Mark Pucci says flawed data collection methods mean the numbers are a significant underestimate. On Wednesday, fifteen synthetic opioids became Class A drugs.
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Mar 19, 2024 |
pressnewsagency.org | Alex Homer |Navtej Johal
By Alex Homer & Navtej JohalBBC Shared Knowledge Unit & BBC Information20 March 2024, 06:36 GMTUp to date 43 minutes in the pastPicture supply, Getty PhotographsThe UK authorities is behind the curve in monitoring the unfold of latest super-strength medicine, a health care provider who has handled sufferers has mentioned. Greater than 100 deaths have now been linked to artificial opioids referred to as nitazenes for the reason that summer time, in response to the Nationwide Crime Company.
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Thousands of prosecutions collapsed due to missing or lost police evidence https://t.co/A56yE0DpkP latest #ddj from the #BBCSharedDataUnit via @Paul_SDU & @sima_kotecha #foi
9 takeaways from the #BBCSharedDataUnit conference #ddjuk25 we hosted alongside @BCUEvents via @paulbradshaw https://t.co/xmqVPvs4Cb #ddj #foi #journalism
A national policing unit which I revealed in March, advised local police forces to block the release of info under #FOI also told PSNI to "neither confirm nor deny" holding any info on tech it used to hack a journalist’s phone, even though it was in the news and on its website.
PSNI told by national policing unit to withhold any information on tech used to hack journalist Barry McCaffrey's phone https://t.co/HGCbn0JYZA