A Ministry of Defence review commissioned after 6 male soldiers were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 17 year old female soldier has found “unacceptable” and “persistent” inappropriate sexual behaviour in the armed forces. The review sets up a new body, The Defence Authority, to deal with such behaviour and complaints about how the military police deal with reports of serious offences such as sex crimes. But the MOD’s own figures show its getting worse at investigating sexual offences. Listen to my BBC Radio 4 report.
The number of over-50s admitted to hospital for brain damage caused by the amount of alcohol they drink has more than trebled in little over a decade. There were 3,627 admissions of over-50s with alcohol-related brain damage in 2015, compared with 994 in 2002, but experts said that the condition could be twice as prevalent because it was poorly diagnosed. Read my article in the Times newspaper.
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