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The news comes after confirmation on Wednesday closing Paignton Hospital was "an option" being discussed. Now the BBC has learned that the future of Ashburton, Bovey Tracey and Dartmouth community hospitals is also being looked at. Torbay and South Devon CCG said a broader statement would be issued on Friday. A spokesman said the initial announcement about Paignton had been made via Facebook after details of discussions were leaked. "We thought it was best to get the facts out there," he said. Conservative MP for Torbay, Kevin Foster, expressed his concerns about the proposals. "The Paignton Hospital itself may be an older building, but the needs it serves to the local community are very modern, and I'd be very concerned at the idea that the services will be removed from Paignton rather than replaced in Paignton." Chief clinical officer for the CCG Dr Nick Roberts, has now confirmed to the BBC that three other community hospitals were also being considered for closure.
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Proposals to close four community hospitals in Devon are being considered by health bosses, it has emerged.


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Dr Karley Kehoe, of the Centre for History in Dornoch, has told how she was disturbed by the contents of letters written by slave owners from the Highlands in the 18th Century. She said one letter recounted owners sexually abusing female slaves on plantations in the West Indies. She will help stage an exhibition on the correspondence later this year. The letters were sent by Highland owners to relatives in Inverness. Dr Kehoe said researchers at the centre, which is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, found the evidence of women being used as sex slaves. She said: "That is particularly disturbing. It is difficult to read things like that. "One particular letter that was from the 18th Century talks about this relatively graphically. "It is unusual for the 18th Century to find somebody writing so clearly about what was going on, basically saying that every plantation owner, married or not, had slaves for sexual gratification." 'Forgotten past' The exhibition, which also involves the Edinburgh Beltane organisation, will be held at Highland Council's archive centre in Inverness. The Highlands connection with slavery has previously been described by one historian as the region's "forgotten past". Dr David Alston, a Highland councillor, researched the region's links with slavery for a series of lectures in Inverness in 2007. He found Inverness's old infirmary and academy, along with Fortrose Academy, received money from the trade. Dr Alston said, during the 1700s and 1800s, Highlanders sought their fortunes in the colonies. His investigations grew from researching the historic village of Cromarty on the Black Isle. Dr Alston was intrigued when he read how Hugh Miller, a geologist and fossil collector who was born and brought up in Cromarty in the 1800s, had sat next to a black pupil in school. It led him to find there were three black pupils at Inverness Royal Academy around the same time. They were the children of men who had married slaves, or women known at the time as free coloured, while working on or running sugar plantations in the West and East Indies. War of Independence A Scottish soldier's request to take his daughter's black slave called Doll with him to war in 1782 was also highlighted by a Highland Council-run Am Baile history website in 2009. Lt Soirle MacDonald, from Skye, was a loyalist fighting for the British Army in the American War of Independence. A letter granting him permission regarding the slave is among a collection of papers in Am Baile's database. The collection of correspondence sent to MacDonald forms part of the JLM Mitchell Archive of the Gaelic Society of Inverness.
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The practice of keeping sex slaves by 18th Century plantation owners from the Highlands has been unearthed.


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Police and firefighters were pelted with bricks, bottles and fireworks by a large group in Harehills, Leeds. Residents and vehicles were also targeted in the November 2019 melee, said by one officer to be among the worst violence he had seen in 23 years. The trio previously admitted a violent disorder charge at Leeds Crown Court. Prosecutor Tom Storey said the disorder "quickly became fairly substantial" and lasted for nearly five hours. "Make-shift barricades were erected across the main Harehills Road, comprising bread crates, wheelie bins and roadwork barriers; some of these were set alight by those involved," he told the court. "In addition, fireworks were let off in considerable quantities. "Some of these were used as missiles aimed at local residents and passing vehicles; once the police began attending, they became the focal point for the discharge of fireworks, along with other missiles, such as bottles, bricks and stones." As well as the injuries to officers, he said, one resident was "clipped" on the head by a firework which then exploded in his living room, and a betting shop was also targeted. He said 13 police vehicles and four buses were damaged, with repairs costing more than £56,000. In addition, the court heard, deploying extra officers and investigating the disorder had cost West Yorkshire Police more than £160,000. 'Fear and distress' Georgia Walker and Zohaib Ahmed, both 19, and Josh Smith, 22, were sentenced on Friday. Mr Storey told the court Walker, who was 17 at the time, had been seen breaking up bricks to throw, kicking over bins and also pushed a member of the public who was trying to intervene. Ahmed, also 17 at the time, was seen firing up to six rockets at officers while Smith, then 21, was described as "one of the main contributors to the disorder" after he was was seen throwing missiles and setting fires. Passing sentence, Judge Simon Batiste said he was "horrified and sickened" by the behaviour of those involved. "This incident resulted in serious fear and distress, caused substantial cost to the public purse, extensive damage to public property and involved repeated attacks on police and other public servants," he said. Walker, of Mexborough Grove, Chapeltown, was sentenced to 18 months' in a young offenders institution. Ahmed, of St Wilfrids Drive, Harehills, was sentenced to two years. Smith, of Sutherland Road, Harehills, was sentenced to two years and three months in jail. Chf Supt Damien Miller said: "Their behaviour was completely unacceptable and my officers shouldn't have to put up with that." Three other men who had been due to be sentenced, Nikolas Gasper, 18, from Keighley, Leonard Gheorge, 19, from Leeds and Timotei Avadanei, 20, from Leeds, did not attend court and bench warrants were issued for their arrest. Follow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here. Related Internet Links HM Courts & Tribunals Service
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Three young people have been sentenced for their part in a Bonfire Night disorder which saw emergency workers attacked with a "barrage of missiles"


