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Top stories in the latest issue:

STOP THE ROT
Data obtained by the Eye reveals the number of police officers arrested for, and charged with, sexual misconduct has doubled since the death of Sarah Everard.

UP IN THE AIR
Two of Wales’s four air ambulance bases are earmarked for closure, prompting fears of critically longer waits for the sick or injured.

SKY-HIGH COSTS
Police forces are spending millions on brand new helicopters, even though drone technology is quicker, more flexible and vastly cheaper.

CORE VALUES
The government has decided to un-learn one of its most important lessons: the need for fiercely independent safety regulation of nuclear power.

CASH FLOW
Thames Water has been massaging murky figures to push its dubious drought resilience scheme at Teddington in south-west London.

LEAP YEAR
Industry group Salmon Scotland is celebrating bumper sales of “the UK’s favourite fish” – but how much of the salmon we eat is actually from Scotland?

SICK OF WAITING
More than 40 years after Private Eye reported on inadequate safety at British-run asbestos mines in Zimbabwe, workers have still not received a penny.

SCHOOL’S OUT
A new £31m school in Exeter will be demolished without ever opening to pupils, because of construction issues.

TARNISHED GOLDSMITHS
Academic staff at Goldsmiths, University of London are on strike over 100 percent pay deductions imposed on those who took part in a marking boycott.

KIRSTY WORK
IOC president Kirsty Coventry says Russia will be allowed to send teams to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

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Police reform efforts since Sarah Everard

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Gathering storm
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