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Belfast Telegraph
10-06-2025
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
Ulster University partnership aims to revolutionise digital dispute resolution
The pilot collaboration will focus on developing artificial intelligence-based solutions to address the overwhelming backlog of claims resulting from the Agnew ruling on underpaid holiday leave. The LRA is currently dealing with more than 250,000 registered cases involving around 30,000 potential claimants, placing unprecedented pressure on existing systems. The initiative seeks to improve efficiency, reduce processing times, and deliver a more scalable approach to dispute resolution. By combining academic research, public sector leadership and private sector innovation, the project aims to deliver long-term benefits for both claimants and the legal system in Northern Ireland. John Keers BL, Director of the Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University, said the collaboration demonstrates how different sectors can come together to tackle major social and legal challenges. For the Labour Relations Agency, the partnership is a strategic step towards ensuring operational resilience and delivering services more effectively in future. Legal tech company TalkTerms will provide its 'Swift Care' platform to support the pilot, aiming to demonstrate how responsible AI solutions can improve access to justice and public service delivery. Ulster University's Centre for Legal Technology continues to position itself as a hub for innovation, committed to research that drives positive outcomes for society. John Keers BL, Director of the Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University said: 'This partnership highlights how academic expertise, public sector leadership, and entrepreneurial agility can come together to deliver real societal impact. We are passionate about solving complex challenges through innovation, and this project is a significant step towards transforming digital dispute resolution.' Mark McAllister, Chief Executive of the LRA added: 'The sheer scale of the miscalculated holiday pay claims means we must rethink our approach to case management. By working with Ulster University and TalkTerms, we are building the capabilities needed to deliver our services more effectively and sustainably into the future.' Gary Lyons, CEO of TalkTerms: 'We are honoured to partner with the Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University and the LRA to showcase how our platform can revolutionise dispute resolution. 'This initiative allows us to scale our technology responsibly, ensuring it not only meets business needs but also contributes to the greater good by streamlining access to justice, enhancing public sector services and in using our 'Swift Care' platform to harness technology for meaningful societal impact.'
Global News
02-06-2025
- Climate
- Global News
A look back at Winnipeg's flood of 1950, 75 years later
As emergency crews fight wildfires across the province this year, three-quarters of a century ago, Winnipeg and Manitoba were dealing with a much different natural disaster. It was 75 years ago this spring that Winnipeg was in crisis mode, surrounded and submerged by floodwaters. View image in full screen An aerial view of Winnipeg during the flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen A cornerstore surrounded by floodwaters. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen Annabella Street in Winnipeg underwater during the flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives The flood of 1950 marked one of the most devastating natural disasters within city limits, triggered by the melting of heavy spring snow and then heavy rainfall. The Red River peaked at 9.2 metres at James Avenue in Winnipeg in May 1950. It was the worst flood in the Red River Valley since 1861. Story continues below advertisement 'That particular April there was two times as much snow as we normally had, and it was also warm,' said Greg Agnew, the president of Heritage Winnipeg. 'It hit St. Norbert and Fort Garry first, so the University of Manitoba ended up being under water.' View image in full screen The University of Manitoba's Fort Garry campus during the flood of 1950. Credit / University of Manitoba Digital Archives Floodwaters reached up to the second storey of homes, the rush hour commute through city streets saw boats and canoes replace vehicles, and downtown Winnipeg landmarks, power stations, schools and hospitals were surrounded by rising water levels, dikes and causeways. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'It's kind of surreal to think of people just paddling around,' Agnew said. View image in full screen Winnipeg's flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen The causeway to the Rover Street station during the flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen Flooded downtown Winnipeg streets near the Manitoba legislative building. Courtesy / Province of Manitoba Archives View image in full screen People fleeing their homes via a raft. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives Those moments are carefully documented at the City of Winnipeg Archives through newspaper clippings, minutes of emergency council and committee meetings, and countless photos, many of which have been recently digitized. Story continues below advertisement 'The ones that most people are interested in are the ones that kind of show water absolutely everywhere. About one-eighth of the city was underwater during that time,' said Jarad Buckwold, a digital archivist for the City of Winnipeg. View image in full screen A man wades through a flooded greenhouse. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen A group of men work to get a fence out of the propeller of a piece of flood-fighting equipment. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen Residents get into a boat to leave their Wellington Crescent home. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives A state of emergency was declared and the Red Cross and the military were brought in to assist with evacuations. Story continues below advertisement 'The Red Cross set up in the civic auditorium on Vaughan Street and they sort of turned that into their flood relief HQ,' Buckwold said. 'Approximately 100,000 people evacuated during the flood, which was about a third of the size of Winnipeg at the time.' View image in full screen A young evacuee with a puppy in the Red Cross's evacuee headquarters during the flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives View image in full screen The Red Cross hands out packs of cigarettes to workers building dikes during Winnipeg's flood of 1950. Courtesy / City of Winnipeg Archives The flood, which lasted 51 days, destroyed approximately 10,000 homes and damaged 5,000 buildings. Four of the city's 11 bridges were also damaged beyond repair and needed to be replaced. It's estimated the flood caused about $125.5 million in damages, which would be about $1 billion today. Story continues below advertisement The flood prompted the construction of the floodway during the 1960s, then known as 'Duff's Ditch' in recognition of then-premier Duff Roblin. The province estimates that since 1968, the floodway has prevented tens of billions of dollars in flood damage. Buckwold says it's important to keep these events well-documented, as the response is something that can be learned from for decades to come. 'Flooding will happen again, it always has, it probably always will,' Buckwold said. 'And by getting a sense of how it was dealt with, it will help us in the future to better prepare and hopefully prevent any sort of disaster on that scale from happening.'
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Man charged with disinterment of a body
princeton – A Mercer County man is facing up to five years in prison after being charged with a felony count of disinterment or displacement of a dead body. Daniel Lee Agnew, 36, of Princeton has been charged with disinterment or displacement of a dead body along with a felony count of destruction of property, according to the criminal complaint at the Mercer County Magistrate Clerk's Office. The case began May 23 when Patrolman T.D. Cook with the Princeton Police Department responded around 8:13 a.m. to a home in reference to a destruction of property report, according to the criminal complaint. Cook said in the complaint that when he arrived, he spoke to the home's resident who told him that her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Agnew, had thrown her belongings into the yard and destroyed them. 'I observed a large amount of clothes, a TV, and a bed in the yard, all of which had visible mud tire tracks from an ATV where it had been run over,' Cook said. The clothing, television, bed and a laptop computer were destroyed. Cook estimated that the total loss was around $4,650. On that same day, Cook spoke to the woman again about a separate incident. She stated that she had miscarried in 2023 and had the child's remains preserved, according to the criminal complaint. 'The child was inside a biohazard container, which was sealed inside a larger, permanently sealed container,' Cook said. The woman said the she had told Agnew about the container, which was on a nightstand, and what was inside it, according to the complaint. 'While Agnew was tossing her things into the yard, the container with her baby was one of the items tossed,' Cook said. The permanent container's contents became visible after being run over with an ATV, Cook said. In the report, Cook said that woman told him that she and Agnew had broken up 'due to the fact he said that she 'smoked too much.'' 'On or around May 10 2025, the two were riding the ATV when Agnew flew into a spout of rage and purposely flipped the vehicle on its top,' he said. There was also another domestic altercation that day. A domestic violence petition was filed and Agnew came to the Princeton Police Department to be served. While there, he was placed under arrest for felony destruction of property and disinterment or displacement of a dead body, according to the criminal complaint. Agnew was arraigned before Magistrate William Holroyd and was later freed on a $10,000 cash or surety bond, according to court records. Felony destruction of property has a prison term of one to 10 years in prison. Disinterment or displacement of a dead body has a prison term of up to five years, according to the West Virginia Code. Contact Greg Jordan at gjordan@
USA Today
10-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Lions assistant GM looking for 'growth' out of rookie DL Ahmed Hassanein
Lions assistant GM looking for 'growth' out of rookie DL Ahmed Hassanein Detroit Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew held a news conference on Friday to kick off rookie minicamp and discuss some of the young players the team brought in this season. "This is one of the most exciting days for me, man," Agnew said. "Just seeing the joy on those kids' faces." One of the more popular storylines coming into this minicamp is that of 6th-round defensive lineman Ahmed Hassanein. The first-ever Egyptian to be drafted, Hassanein is the only edge rusher the Lions drafted at a position of significant need. Agnew shared his modest expectations for Hassanein ahead of Friday's camp. 'I just think some growth," Agnew said. "It will be some growing pains on this level because you've got pretty good football players on this level." Hassanein is projected to land toward the bottom of the EDGE depth chart entering the 2025 season, but given how the Lions' season went last year, there's still a chance he could end up seeing the field in a key moment by season's end. "I just see him as he gets taught more tools in his toolbelt as far as a pass rusher – using his hands better, learning when to rush with leverage, learning when you have the sweet spot and turn the corner, so just learning some nuances of the game," Agnew said. Lions rookie minicamp is scheduled to continue through Sunday.
News.com.au
04-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Grafton preview, inside mail and tips: Robert Agnew's stable starting to take shape as we head into winter
Recent Country Championship Final-participating trainer Robert Agnew will be making regular trips from Port Macquarie to Sydney this winter with his three-year-old stable pillars Pony Soprano and Show 'Em Howl. Agnew will head north on Monday with another of the barn's three-year-old brigade, Bondi Prophet, scheduled to resume at Grafton in the Hip Pocket Workwear Benchmark 58 Handicap (1030m). Bondi Prophet, a $30,000 Agnew Racing purchase at the 2023 HTBA Yearling Sale, has banked $31,575 in his eight starts so far. The only real blemish on his record came at his most recent appearance on January 11 when beating one other to the line at Coffs Harbour. 'All his runs are good, he was just at the end of his prep last time,'' Agnew said. 'He was flat. We just went to the well one too many times with him. 'He had a good racing prep which matured him. I used to take him to the races and he would just sweat and annoy you and do everything wrong but the by the end of that prep, he would stand in the stalls good and you wouldn't have to hose him in summer and all that immaturity has gone out of him now. 'The good, tough, hard prep that he had has really made a horse out of him and he's working very sharp.' Bondi Prophet has it bred into him to be every bit as tough as Agnew attests. The gelding's third dam is Tempest Morn who famously contested the AJC Oaks, SAJC Australasian Oaks, SA Oaks, Queensland Oaks and Queensland Derby in consecutive starts. For the record, the Gooree-owned filly won the Australasian Oaks and was runner-up in each of the other classics. Agnew meanwhile will use Monday's opener at Grafton to take the wrapping off his intriguing two-year-old first starter Dirty Does It which leads the field out in the Prestige Wedding 2YO Handicap (1030m). While the gelding is bred to win a Derby not a Slipper, he has shown enough natural talent at home and in his trial to suggest at least some kind of positive showing, albeit at a distance way short of his future best. 'Dirty Does It is a work in progress and is going to be a much better three-year-old,'' Agnew said. 'But he's done a good job to get to where he is. He got broken-in off a racetrack and the first time he saw a racetrack was when he came up here to get pre-trained. Then he came straight to my barn and he's got through to a trial and race (on Monday) all in his first real preparation. 'He is only going to get better in the future. 'His sire, Endless Drama, ran third behind Winx and Hartnell in the Apollo Stakes so he was very handy. 'Dirty Do It is definitely a nice horse. He can gallop. 'He might be a little too 'new' and all the rest of it but I think he'll get through the wet. 'He's just got to do everything right and he'll go for a spell straight after this and he'll come back a really nice horse.' Not only is Dirty Does It a grandson of the French Derby winner Lope De Vega, his classic credentials are underlined by the fact that his grand-dam is a sister to the internationally acclaimed racehorse and sire, High Chaparral. â– â– â– â– â– RACE 7 She's Enuff has raced here at her home track 17 times in her 39 starts. Three of her four wins have been here and she is one from two at the track and trip. She has won on heavy once, seemingly without being an absolute muddie. He's A Copy Boy handles all conditions. The Samantha McGuren-trained gelding has a win and three thirds here at Grafton and is effective indeed around the mile. Bet: She's Enuff each-way. RACE 8 Bondi Prophet eight starts for a win and two thirds. Indeed, if you can excuse the final run of the preparation last time in, you'd be a hard market to find fault with pretty much all of the remaining seven runs and that deals him in today. Snow Falcon is a last start Grafton 1106m winner on a heavy (9)and that came two starts after he split Bodhi Boy and Laizabout in a deep Class 2 at Port Macquarie. Bet: Bondi Prophet to win, Daily Double 1st Leg 10, 2nd Leg 1. Hey Daisy was $2.70 into $1.95 on debut at the Gold Coast on April 11 and ran right up to her backing; leading from barrier 10 to win by two-lengths. Well-bred filly in the astute Paul Shailer stable. Just has to take the next step - and handle the heavy track at the same time. Church Rock has a win and two thirds from six starts but perhaps of most significance is that she was once runner-up here on a heavy (8), albeit over 1400m. Bet: Hey Daisy to win. Majorelle has won eight times in her 22 starts (with six placings as well) which is a credit to her and her trainer Matthew Dunn. It's not easy to win that many from so few, especially in the Benchmark era. This daughter of Zoustar has a win and a second from three runs at Grafton, she is one for one at the track and distance and once beat Tectonic Plate on a heavy (8). Bow is third-up here having run fourth to Majorelle at her most recent outing. Drawn well again. Bet: Majorelle to win, Bow to place. â– â– â– â– â– BEST BET Makes his NSW debut off an impressive recent trial here. NEXT BEST Race 6 No. 12: Heart Of Platinum Ready to peak here out to 1735m, fourth run in. VALUE
