Children are consuming large amounts of cancerous compounds from cured meats without enough parental awareness of the health risks, research reveals today.
The study, conducted by ComRes, found that 33 per cent of youngsters eat processed meat every other day.
Most cooked ham, bacon and dry-style sausages are cured using nitrites that extend the product’s shelf life.
However, health risks arise when the digestive system converts nitrites into cancer-causing compounds.
In the survey of 2,051 parents in the UK, 53 per cent were “completely unaware of links between the chemicals and cancer”.
Gillian Creevy, chief executive of the charity Cancer Fund for Children, said: “It is worrying that so few people seem to know about these nitrites and the evidence linking them to colorectal cancer.”
Pic:22nd June 1948: The ex-troopship 'Empire Windrush' arriving at Tilbury Docks from Jamaica, with 482 Jamaicans on board, emigrating to Britain.
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Three members of the Windrush Generation who were wrongly deported to the Caribbean have died, the Home Office has said.
It confirmed the Jamaican government's reports that three people died before officials were able to contact them to help them to return the UK.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the revelation should "shame" the government and called on Prime Minister Theresa May to personally apologise to the affected families.
The Home Office apologised and said it was "inexcusable", while Kamina Johnson-Smith, the Jamaican foreign minister, described the situation as "unfortunate".
Ms Johnson-Smith told The Guardian: "We have just received the information that they are dead. We have to find the families.
"There are no mobile numbers on the national registry. You might end up in a community, asking if people know the people who live beside them. It can be quite painstaking. Our team is on it every day.
"People's lives have been impacted in a serious way. Families have been impacted and that is a terrible thing."
But Ms Johnson-Smith added the government's response to the crisis had "certainly improved" and had not destabilised Jamaica-UK relations.
She added: "We have maintained a collaborative approach. So far so good.
"We are trying to play our part in ensuring that rights are restored where they have been taken away and a sense of justice is felt by persons who have been affected, and that this is all done in a timely way.
"We want to be sure as best as possible that something like this does not happen again."
Ms Abbott blamed the "hostile environment policy" for the scandal.
She said: "The deaths of these British citizens in Jamaica shame this government and the Prime Minister, who is the architect of the hostile environment policy that saw these British citizens sent to Jamaica.
Diane Abbott said the deaths 'shame the government' (PA)
"Our fellow citizens dying thousands of miles from their homes, families and friends and our health service is the latest tragic injustice suffered by our fellow citizens as a direct result of the Tories' hostile environment.
"The Prime Minister must personally apologise to their families and loved ones."
The Home Office said in a statement on Friday: “The experiences faced by some members of the Windrush Generation are inexcusable. The home secretary and the immigration minister have said it is their priority to right the wrongs that have occurred.
“Our historical reviews into removals and detentions have identified 18 people who it is believed could have been wrongfully removed or detained. Three of the 18 people have been confirmed as having died. The home secretary will be writing to the families of the deceased as well as the other 15 people identified to offer a personal apology. We are working closely with Caribbean high commissioners and governments to do this.”
Pic-1:Prime minister Theresa May has backed the plans for a '999 day' Pic-2: Pic-2:Paramedics have been praised for their work treating revellers at the Notting Hill Carnival (London Ambulance Service )
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The Prime Minister has given her backing to a new '999 Day' to pay tribute to all the people working in the emergency services.
Emergency Services Day, also referred to as 999 Day, aims to copy the success of Armed Forces Day, and will take place for the first time on September 9, beginning at 9am, to represent the 9th hour of the 9th day of the 9th month.
The charity National Emergency Services Memorial (NESM) has won the backing of Theresa May for the event as it hopes to raise £2 million to build the first national cenotaph dedicated to the courage and sacrifice of public servants.
The monument would honour the 7,000-plus personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty and also give thanks to the more than one million people working in the sector today.
The Prime Minister said: "I'm proud to support this national memorial and the creation of an official Emergency Services Day.
"The men and women of our emergency services are there for us when we need them most.
"As a nation, we are indebted to them for their courage and their sacrifice and it is absolutely right that we should honour their incredible service in this very special way."
A special event to mark the first 999 Day will be held at Heaton Park in Manchester on September 9, to promote volunteering in the emergency services, educate the public about using the services responsibly, teach life-saving skills, and promote the work done on a daily basis.
A thanksgiving service will be held ahead at Manchester Cathedral on September 7, to be attended by police, fire and other 999 personal along with the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service, Nick Hurd.
Tom Scholes-Fogg, who founded NESM, said: "I am delighted that the charity and its aims have the support of our Prime Minister.
"The NESM, festival and 999 Day are a great opportunity for us all to honour the men, women and service animals who have given so much in the name of public duty."
An urgent review of police tactics to combat London’s wave of violence was launched by politicians today as six more people were stabbed in the capital.
The London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee said it wanted answers about why the increase in violence was happening and “why policing tactics are failing and what can be done to keep Londoners safe”.
The committee said it would examine the Mayor’s knife crime strategy, including the effectiveness of social media and advertising campaigns and the knife detection wands being offered to schools in London.
Details of the review comes after a 44 per cent surge in murders in London, with the Met revealing there were at least six more stabbings last night.
Four teenage boys were among those knifed in separate attacks across the city:
Two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, were stabbed just after 3pm in the Nightingale Estate in Hackney;
Another boy, also 16, suffered stab wounds in his arm after an altercation on The Embankment in Twickenham;
At 5pm, police were called to Beresford Square in Woolwich where an 18-year-old man was stabbed in the leg in a fight. A man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and taken to a south London police station, where he remains in custody;
A man aged 27 was stabbed outside West Croydon railway station at 6pm;
A 21-year-old man was stabbed in a doorstep burglary at his home in Greenwich at around 11.30pm;
None of those attacked are believed to be seriously injured.
Witnesses to the Hackney attack said a 16-year-old boy was dragged from a moped and set upon by up to eight youths said to be armed with machetes.
One resident said: “The boy was on a moped was going around the park and he got jumped by another group.
“They pulled him off the moped and it went from there. There were seven or eight guys around the boy on the floor. They had these long machetes.
“I came out of my flat and shouted ‘stop it’. They stood still and dropped the machetes to their sides. I think I may have saved his life.”
Police said officers found an 18-year-old man a short distance away suffering from a serious leg injury. He was also taken to hospital for treatment.
Today Tory London Assembly member Steve O’Connell, chairman of the Police and Crime Committee, said: “The Mayor and the Met need to take hold of the situation. We are determined to find out what is working and what is not.”
He added: “Enough is enough. Where is the evidence that the Mayor’s new taskforce is working? Did the Met take its eye off the ball on gun-related crime? Londoners deserve urgent answers.
“We need to unite and say this senseless killing must stop. We cannot have a summer of violence and bloodshed. The Mayor and the Met need to prove they can stop this surge.”
He questioned poster campaigns’ effectiveness, saying : “Violent criminals don’t watch adverts from the Mayor about knife crime. Many young people now live in a culture of fear and feel at risk. They want more than an ad campaign, they want to know concrete steps are being taken to protect them.”
A spokesperson for the Mayor of London said keeping Londoners safe was his top priority but said London’s police service was “overstretched and under-resourced.”
She said : “ Violent crime has been rising across the country since 2014 and the Government is failing in their basic duty to keep people safe – imposing cuts of £1 billion on the Met Police which risk sending police numbers to historically low levels. The Home Office’s own evidence shows you cannot keep cutting without consequences, and violent crime devastates communities and ruins lives.
“The Mayor is doing all he can to compensate for the failure of ministers. City Hall is investing an extra £110 million in the Met to keep police numbers as high as possible, and has also set up a new £45 million Young Londoners Fund to help tackle the causes of violent crime and support young people to turn away from criminality.
"Sadiq refuses to accept that nothing can be done to stem the appalling tide of violent killings we are seeing on our streets and together with the police, community groups, victims and their families and Londoners, will continue to work ceaselessly to tackle violent crime.”
