内容摘要：Recent meetings between Peebles Rovers and league officials have not resulted in any leeway being provided over criteria timescales.

Recent meetings between Peebles Rovers and league officials have not resulted in any leeway being provided over criteria timescales.

He says prisons are still in a state of "crisis", with fewer than 1,000 spare places and more than 88,000 people in custody in England and Wales."We recently opened HMP Millsike," he says, describing the

, with capacity for up to 1,500 inmates. "We've got more cells opening across the country. We need to keep building prison places because the population is going up.", in Durham, after they were attacked with makeshift weapons and hot oil by one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. Hashem Abedi was being held in a separation centre - used to house a small number of the most dangerous and extremist inmates - at the category A, maximum security jail."What happened in Frankland is absolutely shocking," Lord Timpson says. "The level of violence in prisons is far too high - and it is increasing.

"Our prison staff did an incredible job. I don't want them to turn up to work thinking that there's going to be violence. I want them to turn up to work helping people turn their lives around."However, the number of assaults on staff in prison is the highest in a decade, with 10,605 recorded in 2024.

Lord Timpson refutes claims that gangs are in charge of some of Britain's biggest jails, but acknowledges that serious organised crime is the one thing that "keeps me awake at night".

"Serious organised crime brings drugs in and creates violence and intimidation in prisons," he says. "This has been a long-term problem in prisons, but it is even more of a problem when the capacity is as full as it is.With Iohannis out of office now, attention will refocus on the re-run of the election in May.

Georgescu, the radical outsider, is the strong favourite to win. Ioannis's resignation looks set to further empower his electorate, and analysts and Georgescu's supporters have called it a boost for the far-right.Ioannis's departure has also been welcomed by Georgescu's liberal rival, Elena Lasconi.

Lasconi said Iohannis's resignation had come "far too late to be considered honourable", adding that she was glad parliamentary pressure "woke Iohannis from his slumber".Hundreds of anti-Iohannis protesters had gathered in the capital Bucharest on Monday calling for his resignation.