Orlando Clarke, a beekeeper, plans to start a program where troubled youth ages 16-19 learn beekeeping. This will include maintaining hives and harvesting honey. He believes that working with nature can help reform offenders' behavior by teaching them discipline. The project also aims to help the declining honeybee population by placing 2,000 hives in London by 2012. Clarke hopes local boroughs will provide land for the hives, with the first location being in Peckham Rye next March.

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Beekeeper takes sting out of youth crime
daisy dumas involved in a positive project, may to help the honeybee population,
help reform offenders’ behaviour. which has suffered a sharp decline
A beekeeper is to tackle youth “Nature is self-limiting, it sets the in recent years. Mr Clarke, from
crime with the help of his craft. boundaries, you have to work Nunhead, appeared in the bbC
Orlando Clarke’s initiative will within strict limits documentary Who killed
teach troubled 16 to 19-year-olds where the rules are The Honeybee? this summer,
how to maintain hives and harvest imposed,” he said. which investigated the
honey. He is in talks with youth “Young people have plight of the species.
offending programmes and ideas that aggression Mr Clarke, whose firm is
intends to place 2,000 hives across equals strength. bees called bees For Cities, is
London by 2012. give us an awareness hoping boroughs will
Mr Clarke, 40, has kept bees for of our movements and provide land for hives.
nine years and owns hives near our physical and The first will be in peckham
king’s Cross and in peckham. He emotional strength.” rye for the start of the
believes that nature, and getting The project also aims honey season next March.
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It is estimated that 20 million items* have been
delayed or lost in the post during the recent
Prison chiefs
postal strikes and they are set to continue.
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At npower we’re keen to ensure our customers
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Five managers in the prison service are responsible for the swaps were “deplor-
facing disciplinary action over a “deplor- able” and accused them of a “dereliction
management where you can able” scam in which difficult inmates
were transferred ahead of inspections.
of their duty of care”. She said Wands-
worth had been warned, after a suicide,
view and pay your bill. The swaps — which Justice Secretary about moving prisoners: “every prison
Jack Straw today called “disgraceful” — knows prisoners are particularly vulner-
involved moving inmates between able to suicide in the days immediately
Wandsworth and Pentonville prisons to after they move to a new prison.”
try to improve the jails’ ratings. Five prisoners were moved from
One Wandsworth inmate took an over- Wandsworth and six from Pentonville
Pay by Direct Debit dose of prescription drugs and needed
hospital treatment, and another cut
himself and tied a ligature around his
during inspections in May and June.
Relax and pay by Dire neck. Both will be able to sue for com- ‘The transfer of prisoners
ct Debit pensation. in an attempt to undermine
and you’ll even get an A third, Christopher Wardally, 25, who
annual was taken to Pentonville after a court the inspection process
discount of up to £100
, which is appearance and returned in a van with was disgraceful’
a good idea even when the other prisoners, killed himself a
the post week after the inspection. Jack Straw, Justice Secretary
is running smoothly. His death is being investigated, and
although he is not thought to have been inspectors went back after being tipped
part of the swaps, an internal inquiry off about the transfers. Dame Anne’s
found that the inspections may have led report tells how the two highly dis-
to delays in returning him to his cell. tressed Wandsworth inmates were
Today, as the Chief inspector of Pris- moved despite self-harming. One was
Visit npower.com ons, Dame Anne Owers, published a
scathing report about the practice, the
dragged from a cell “bloody, handcuffed
and dressed only in underwear”.
Ministry of Justice confirmed that the Mr Wardally hanged himself on 12
former governors and three other mem- June. He was serving a four-year sen-
bers of staff at the prisons were facing tence for armed robbery.
disciplinary action, which could range Mr Straw will publish a parliamentary
from a warning to dismissal. statement on the transfers today. He said
it is thought the five include the former there would be a wider inquiry into the
Direct Debit discount: After you’ve been with npower and paid by monthly Direct Debit without a break for 12 months, you’ll receive a discount off your energy bill. Wandsworth governor ian Mulholland, practice of moving inmates, which has
Stay with us and continue to pay in this way and you’ll get a £100 annual discount if you buy both electricity and gas, or £20 if you buy just one fuel. You’ll receive £40
d now head of custody in Wales, and also occurred at Brixton. “The transfer
annual discount for paying each quarterly bill in full by variable Direct Debit and taking both fuels or £10 for single fuel. Your discount will be credited to your account
d former Pentonville governor Nick of prisoners in an attempt to undermine
after 12 months and after each year you continue to pay this way. Monthly payments will be based on current credit or debit ba
thly balance and estimated future consumption
at current prices. Subject to change. *Source Daily Mail 23rd September
Leader, who is in charge of a prison in the inspection process was disgraceful,”
Cambridgeshire. The other three are he said.