To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Extraordinary Efforts by Law Enforcement in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and Ramstein Air Base, Germany Recognized as a Part of National Missing Children's Day
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, law enforcement officials from around the country were honored for their extraordinary efforts to recover missing children and resolve child sexual exploitation cases at the 17th Annual Congressional Breakfast and National Law Enforcement Awards. Hosted by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC), the event honors exemplary efforts to protect and recover child victims. Federal, state and local officials, as well as members of Congress attended the event which was held on Capitol Hill.
Law enforcement from the District of Columbia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and Ramstein Air Base in Germany were recognized at the 17th Annual Congressional Breakfast held in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill. The event is held each year to commemorate National Missing Children's Day which is observed on May 25. It is hosted by NCMEC, in partnership with the National Fraternal Order of Police and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and will be attended by members of Congress, as well as federal, state and local officials
Actor Tim Kang, from the CBS drama "The Mentalist" attended the event this year. Also attending the event was John Walsh, host of Lifetime Television's "America's Most Wanted" and his wife Reve Walsh.
Each year in America, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing, more than 2,000 each day. "We set aside one day each year to recognize exceptional law enforcement officers who have distinguished themselves by going the extra mile to rescue children and to capture and prosecute criminals who seek to exploit them," said NCMEC president Ernie Allen. "Our greatest priority as a society is to protect the innocence of our children. The men and women who we honor each year share that goal and have made a real difference."
A list of Award Recipients Follows:
2012 National Missing Children's Award Recipients
OHIO Honorees: Sergeant Terry D. McConnell and Deputy U.S. Marshal Daniel DeVille (Columbus, OH).
Sergeant Terry D. McConnell from the Columbus, OH Division of Police and Deputy U.S. Marshal Daniel DeVille from the U.S. Marshals Service in Columbus, OH were honored for their work recovering a young girl who was abducted by her non-custodial mother and the mother's boyfriend when she was 7 years old. For two years, the abductors moved multiple times between four different states in an effort to hide the girl and avoid arrest. McConnell and DeVille led a coordinated investigation, executing numerous search warrants and serving legal process to obtain key information. They followed up on leads in Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia. McConnell and DeVille tracked the abductors by monitoring the activities of their parents. Eventually cell phone and financial records led them to Atlanta, GA where both abductors were arrested and the young girl was safely recovered.
VIRGINIA Honoree: Sheriff David Hines (Hanover, VA).
Colonel David Hines, Sheriff of Hanover County, was honored for his work to recover a severely autistic and non-verbal 8-year-old boy, who wandered away from his family during an outing to a Civil War battlefield park. Hines immediately organized a large-scale search. This task was particularly challenging because the area consisted of two miles of trails amid 80 acres of dense woods and Civil War trenches bordering a river. The park is surrounded by property belonging to a mining company with two active quarries. Hines directed a search effort that involved multiple law enforcement agencies and more than 3,500 volunteers. The young boy was safely recovered five days into the search and was in remarkably good health considering the amount of time he had spent out in the elements.
2012 National Exploited Children's Award Recipients
LOUISIANA AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Honorees: Special Agent Leslie Williams (Shreveport, LA) and Special Agent Neil O'Callaghan (Washington, DC).
Special Agent Leslie Williams from Shreveport, LA and Special Agent Neil O'Callaghan from Washington, DC, both with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, were honored for their work on "Operation Delego," one of the largest and most significant undercover child exploitation investigations of its kind. Operation Delego investigated an Internet forum known as "Dreamboard" where members were actively posting and trading hard-core child pornography involving children as young as infants. "Dreamboard" used sophisticated technology intended to evade detection by law enforcement and had an estimated 600-900 members, based in the U.S. and around the world. The team developed innovative investigative approaches to identify the forum's members and spent thousands of hours reviewing and processing evidence. To date, a total of 72 targets have been indicted as a result of Operation Delego both in the U.S. and abroad. Of the total number indicted, 53 have been arrested; 29 of those in custody have pled guilty. Thus far, 13 have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 20 to 35 years.
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE IN GERMANY Honoree: Special Agent Jess Thompson (Ramstein Air Base, Germany).
Special Agent Jess Thompson with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 13th Field Investigations Squadron at Ramstein Air Base in Germany was honored for his investigation of an Air Force staff sergeant who was engaged in child sexual exploitation and the production of child pornography. The investigation began when a 7-year-old girl reported that the staff sergeant had exposed his genitals to her twice and took pornographic images of her. When questioned by law enforcement he confessed to assaulting additional victims and a review of his computer found 137 images and 16 videos of child pornography that he had produced, along with an additional 2,846 images and 132 videos of child pornography. The thorough investigation included multiple searches, more than 100 interviews, and a total of 27 law enforcement and 18 administrative records checks in three different countries and four states. The investigation led to additional charges for two subjects, criminal intelligence being developed on two subjects, and the arrest of a fifth subject. Authorities prosecuting the fifth subject, who was caught in the act of molesting a child, are seeking life imprisonment. The staff sergeant who was the original focus of the investigation was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Remarkably, his conviction is the Air Force's second non-murder life without parole conviction since the end of World War II.
2012 Law Enforcement Excellence Award Recipients
NORTH CAROLINA AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Honorees: Special Agent Sheila Quick and Special Agent Phillip Stevens (Raleigh, NC); Detective Charles Sole, Kristy Roberts, and Alison Hutchens (Durham, NC); Officer JaShawn Logan (Washington, DC).
Special Agent Sheila Quick and Special Agent Phillip Stevens of the NC State Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh, NC; Detective Charles Sole, Kristy Roberts, and Alison Hutchens of the Durham Police Department in Durham, NC; and Officer JaShawn Logan of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC were honored for their efforts in tracking down the killers of a young woman and a 5-year-old boy. The woman was reported missing when her family was unable to get in touch with her after she moved from Washington, DC to live with a man who led a cult-like group in Durham, North Carolina. The boy and his mother also lived with the man. After a confidential informant told police that the man and his followers had killed an unidentified woman and 5-year-old boy, the team worked to determine the victims' identities. The team conducted a thorough multi-state investigation. The case had a major break when the remains of both victims were located at a house that the cult leader's mother had once rented. Autopsy results revealed that they both died from gunshot wounds and the cult leader's fingerprint was found on tape that was wrapped around the young boy's body. He was arrested and charged with murder along with six other members of his group, including the boy's mother.
UTAH Honoree: Special Agent Eric Zimmerman (Salt Lake City, UT)
Special Agent Eric Zimmerman with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Salt Lake City, UT was honored for his work on the development, deployment, and maintenance of technical tools used to combat the online sexual exploitation of children. Zimmerman has developed five peer-to-peer investigative/analytical tools, four investigative tools to assist law enforcement with online covert activity, and one on-scene triage tool. His tools help law enforcement by automatically alerting law enforcement officers to existing undercover contacts on a subject, identifying additional subjects, and providing instant email alerts to law enforcement regarding subjects' online activity. In 2011, the use of these tools led to the rescue of at least 45 children, and the execution of 330 searches and 222 arrests. The FBI and many international law enforcement agencies have adopted Zimmerman's tools as mandatory protocol for certain investigations.
About the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1984. Designated by Congress to serve as the nation's clearinghouse, the organization has operated the toll-free 24-hour national missing children's hotline which has handled more than 3,568,780 calls. It has assisted law enforcement in the recovery of more than 175,230 children. The organization's CyberTipline has handled more than 1,424,930 reports of child sexual exploitation and its Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than 68,962,840 child pornography images and videos. The organization works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. To learn more about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site at missingkids.com.SOURCE National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
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Law Of The Sea Treaty = The Rape of America - Canada Free Press
Why We Lose if LOST Wins, UN jurisdiction over U.S. territorial waters
Law Of The Sea Treaty = The Rape of America
The Obama Administration has dragged the Law of the Sea Treaty back before the US Senate this week.
The treaty, if approved by the Senate will amount to the rape of America.
Here’s what the Center for Security Policy has to say about the Law Of The Sea Treaty: “If, on the other hand, the members of the U.S. Senate trouble themselves to study, or at least read, the text of the Law of the Sea Treaty, they would immediately see it for what it really is: a diplomatic dinosaur, a throwback to a bygone era when UN negotiations were dominated by communists of the Soviet Union and their fellow-travelers in the Third World.
These adversaries’ agenda was transparent and wholly inimical to American equities. They sought to: establish control over 70% of the world’s surface; create an international governing institution that would serve as a model for bringing nation states like ours to heel; and redistribute the planet’s wealth and technology from the developed world to themselves. LOST codifies such arrangements – and would subject us to mandatory dispute resolution to enforce them via stacked-deck adjudication panels.” SOURCE.
Still, many, if not MOST, Americans have never heard of it—the Law Of The Sea Treaty.
So why is it important?
OK, let’s look at some reasons why the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is important to you as an American and to all inhabitants of the earth:
Why We Lose if LOST Wins
By asserting UN authority over seven-tenths of the Earth’s surface, LOST would be the largest territorial conquest in history.
In principle, the treaty would assert UN jurisdiction over U.S. territorial waters, and eventually over waterways within our country.
It would create a huge bureaucratic entity called the “Enterprise” which would regulate and tax all commercial uses of the high seas.
By taxing all efforts to develop the wealth of the seabed, the UN would be given a huge revenue stream, independent of national governments, to push its agenda for international socialism.
The treaty would require the redistribution of cutting-edge technology from the U.S. to all governments in the “developing world,” including extremely repressive governments.
Get the picture??? It’s that cussed “One World Government thing again! (Otherwise known as “Global Governance) You know… the “GLOBALISTS” at work.
Apparatchiks from the Obama Administration will trudge over to the US Senate this week to sing the praises of LOST. They will applaud it and explain to the Senators that it is the best thing since the US Constitution for America, indeed, for the whole world.
It will be a pack of lies.
So, where do we stand today on LOST? Not good, I’m afraid.
The National Center for Public Policy Research has a website providing educational resources on the Law of the Sea Treaty (also known by the acronyms LOST and UNCLOS).
“The Law of the Sea Treaty is a terrible deal for the U.S. It would threaten our sovereignty, place a significant portion of the world’s resources under the control of a U.N.-style body, and complicate our efforts to apprehend terrorists on the high seas by subjecting our actions to review by an international court unlikely to render decisions favorable to the U.S.,” said National Center Vice President David Ridenour.
“The Law of the Sea Treaty would help radical environmentalists achieve what they haven’t been able to achieve through legislation,” Ridenour added. “Greenpeace has said ‘the benefits of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea are substantial, including its basic duties for states to protect and preserve the marine environment and to conserve marine living species.’ The Natural Resources Defense Council challenged the Navy’s use of ‘intense active sonar,’ arguing that it violates the treaty by posing a danger to marine life. The Navy ultimately agreed to scale back use of this technology. The Law of the Sea Treaty has also been used by Australia and New Zealand in an attempt to shut down an experimental blue fin tuna fishing program and by Ireland in an attempt to shut down a plant on land in England”
The website, the United National Law of the Sea Treaty Information Center, contains a collection of research papers, commentaries and blog entries about LOST from a variety of think-tanks, scholars, opinion writers and bloggers. It can be accessed at: unlawoftheseatreaty.org.
“Although the Law of the Sea Treaty has been around for decades—the National Center for Public Policy Research first worked on it in 1982—relatively few people know much about it,” said Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. “The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty Information Center website is designed to help correct this.”
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a non-partisan, non-profit educational foundation based in Washington, D.C.
It is more important now then ever before to contact your senators and urge them to oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Look. This Law Of The Sea Treaty is serious socialist, global governance, trickery! And NOBODY IS Talking ABOUT IT! Of course, we cannot expect the so-called “Mainstream Media” in America to bring it up, being so deep in the bunker for Obama, that is. The near incestuous relationship between the MsM and Obama prevents them from actually informing their readers, listeners, and viewers, of important, pending, life-changing policy being considered in the nation’s legislature.
We urge you to educate yourself about the Law Of The Sea Treaty—and do so quickly.
In the meantime, however, we suggest that you get on the phone, or send an e-mail or fax to the offices of your US Senators and ask them to vote NO on the Law Of The Sea Treaty.
Every so often, we get a chance to use our constitutional rights for good. This is one of those times.
Source: www.canadafreepress.com
London 2012: Remaining Olympic tickets released for general sale - BBC News
About 500,000 tickets for events at the London 2012 Olympic Games have been released for general sale, organisers Locog have said.
There are some £20 tickets left for sports such as volleyball, table tennis, weightlifting, taekwondo, boxing and fencing.
But several sports have sold out, and there are only higher-priced tickets left for most medal events.
The tickets went on sale at 11:00 BST, with a 24-hour window for purchases.
Organisers Locog say there is a good number of tickets at the cost of £45 to £450 in sports including archery, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, canoe sprint, diving, handball and hockey.
A list of sports available as of 11:00 can be viewed on the 2012 ticketing website.
Only a limited number of tickets are available in race walk, mountain biking, artistic gymnastics and rowing.
Up to four tickets can be purchased per session, and up to four sessions in one transaction for all available sports apart from football - where more tickets are available to encourage groups to attend.
A London 2012 spokesman said the site had been "busy" and people were being put in a queue for tickets as they went through the process.
"The site has been working well and we are delighted that more people have been able to get Olympic tickets", he added.
'Delivered on promise'All tickets have been sold in some sports, including athletics, cycling, equestrianism, rhythmic gymnastics and swimming, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
Locog commercial director Chris Townsend said: "Our priority has been to get as many people who missed out in the sales process last year to the Games.
"We have delivered on our promise and now another 150,000 people have successfully purchased up to four tickets each."
He warned: "Wednesday's sale is a live sale, and, like other high-demand events including pop concerts, we expect the website to be very busy and customers may well be held in queues for over 30 minutes at peak times."
The online ticketing system sparked criticism last year after it crashed under high demand.
In some cases, the system reportedly informed potential buyers they had secured tickets, and then later told that they had failed.
Meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a 10,000-spectator area with a giant screen showing live events in the Olympic Park during the Games.
"Park Live" will be open from early morning until late evening for fans without tickets for the sport venues.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
London 2012: Heathrow Airport in numbers - BBC News
Heathrow in numbers - how the UK's biggest airport is getting ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Some 500,000 people will be flying into London for the Olympics and Paralympics this summer.
That includes 100,000 athletes, 20,000 members of the media and 150 heads of state. Most of them will arrive via Heathrow.
It will be the start and finish line for the bulk of visitors, giving the country's biggest airport its busiest day ever.
That day will be Monday 13 August, the day after the closing ceremony and the day 65% of visitors are planning to leave.
Some 203,000 bags will be squeezed on to the baggage system - that's 35% more than on a normal day and about 13,000 more than it is designed to handle.
Of those bags, 15,000 will be oversized - full of canoes, javelins, bikes and poles for the pole vault. There will also be more than 980 firearms to check, plus ammunition.
'Heavily-congested skies'A special temporary terminal is being built just for the "Games family" - athletes and coaches to you and me.
It will be open for three days, snuggled between terminals four and five, and will boast 31 check-in desks and seven security lanes.
Meanwhile, hundreds of extra border staff - they will not give an exact figure - will be on hand to try to keep passport queues down.
Sixteen mobile teams of 10 guards each will be available to target trouble spots if, or should that be when, the queues build up.
It is not just Heathrow of course.
Air traffic control is facing its biggest ever challenge, coping with heavily-congested skies, the threat of a terror attack and possible bad weather. Twenty-five controllers are practising in the simulator every day.
In all, 400 have been specially trained over the past four years to deal with the extra workload.
Any rogue planes should be spotted within two to three minutes, after which military controllers take over that zone and a decision is made whether or not to scramble fast jets.
Extra plane?The Paralympics is a third of the size of the main event but it is still a huge challenge.
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Heathrow will have to deal with a month's worth of wheelchair users in just a week - about 1,800 in total.
Thirteen new scissor lifts and 100 new ramps have been deployed to load and unload wheelchairs while there are six new powered stair climbers to move large electric wheelchairs.
Two-hundred extra staff will welcome the Paralympians and help with the biggest challenge of all - making sure every athlete is reunited quickly with their chair.
As one Paralympian put it, you wouldn't expect able-bodied athletes to leave the plane in someone else's trainers would you?
The Chinese team are arriving on 27 different planes and they'll probably need an extra plane at the end to carry all their medals. I made that last bit up.
Finally, 1,000 local volunteers will greet athletes off the plane, help with their luggage and welcome them to London.
Then a few weeks later, as the Olympic flame dies, those volunteers will wave them off again as they head for home.
One thousand people will be standing there waving goodbye at planes, so if you happen to be going on holiday that day, you might want to wave back.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the biggest sporting event in the UK this year. Will you be travelling to the UK to see the Games? Please send us your comments and experiences.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Law Ministry rules in favour of Health Ministry over no-smoking rules, Information and Broadcasting Ministry to follow rules - indiatoday.intoday.in
Rules restricting onscreen smoking scenes - notified by the Ministry of Health - can't be set aside by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I& B).
This has been conveyed by the Law Ministry in response to clarification sought from it, following disagreements between the Health and the Information and Broadcasting ministries over implementation of the rules, which require running of anti-tobacco messages, scrolls and spots in movies with smoking scenes.
The Health Ministry had notified the rules on October 27 under the anti-tobacco Act. Following this, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry issued directives to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to defer implementation citing "practical difficulties". The matter was then referred to the Law Ministry.
Since the notification has been issued under Section 31 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act 2003, it can only be set aside or stayed by a competent court of law and not by mere administrative instructions or direction, a note by Law Ministry said. The legislation is regarded as 'validly made' and is part of the law of the land until a court decides otherwise. Therefore, all rules are presumed to be valid.
The Health Ministry officials said the two ministries were discussing the matter to reach a solution. The ministry has written to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting asking it to implement the rules. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in Parliament said he had also written to CBFC and Advertising Standards Council of India for implementation of the rules and their monitoring.
He said the rules at present were being followed only to a limited extent. The two ministries were trying to minimise practical difficulties faced by the industry to ensure complete implementation of rules.
The two ministries have been at loggerheads over the rules. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been accused of favouring the film industry over the health of people. Earlier, a note sent to the Health Ministry by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting made it appear that the ministry was never in favour of regulating scenes showing any form of tobacco use in movies.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting states that the Health Ministry's decision to come out with a notification was taken despite the I& B ministry's advice to the contrary.
Source: indiatoday.intoday.in
London 2012: First Look At An Olympic Lane Outside London - Huffington Post
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London 2012 Olympics torch passes over Clifton Suspension Bridge - Daily Telegraph
The Grade I listed structure, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was opened in 1864 and is considered to be the symbol of the city of Bristol.
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London Mining starts the year well - stockmarketwire.com
He said: "Turning to each of our assets, at Marampa, we are pleased to say that the plant is successfully processing tailings and weathered ore to a consistent high quality and we are on track to achieve our full year target of 1.5Mtpa of iron ore concentrate. The logistics from mine to ship have been proven to work as designed and over the first quarter we produced 300,000 dry metric tonnes of iron ore and shipped over 230,000 dry metric tonnes to Europe and China.
"This was shipped in five Supramax vessels, four of which went to China and one to Europe. Since the end of the quarter, we have successfully reached an average run rate of 4,300 tonnes per day which is in line with our ramp up plans and puts us firmly on track to reach the 2012 production target.
"Expansion works at the first plant continues apace, and we have commenced works for the second plant which when combined together will ensure we continue to grow capacity at Marampa and reach our production targets of 1.5Mt in 2012, 4.2Mt in 2013 and 5Mt in 2014.
"Work on the Bankable Feasibility Study for a further expansion to 9Mtpa is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year, with completion of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments expected after that sometime in the fourth quarter.
"In Colombia, construction of the coke ovens continues although we were severely hampered by the unexpected rains caused by La Nina. None the less we produced 5,800 tonnes over the quarter. We have caught up some lost ground and we continue to aim for our target of 200,000 tonnes production capacity in the first phase. We are also exploring and undertaking feasibility studies on nearby coking coal concessions.
"Briefly turning to Isua, as we announced on 29 March, we have now completed the BFS for a 15Mtpa operation. The BFS defined a three year construction period to begin producing 70% Fe premium grade iron ore pellet feed with a payback period of 3.5 years. Since the BFS, we have commenced the permitting process.
"To realise our growth plans we know we must continue to attract and retain talented people and also ensure that the communities and countries in which we operate are able to see tangible and long-lasting benefits from our activities. We are particularly proud to provide employment and training for over 2,000 Sierra Leoneans.
"2012 is significant as we will contribute directly to the economy of Sierra Leone through payments of royalty and taxes to the Government of Sierra Leone; and indirectly through our social development royalty, local employment and local supply chain initiatives.
"As we enter a new phase of operations, construction and development we are ever more appreciative of the need to minimise the impact of our operations to the surrounding environment and communities and to keep our employees safe."
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London Welsh denied chance of promotion to the Premiership - The Guardian
London Welsh have failed to meet the minimum standards criteria for a place in the Premiership and so would not be eligible for promotion to the top flight, the Rugby Football Union has ruled. That means Newcastle, who finished bottom of the Premiership, will avoid relegation.
Welsh, who seem certain to appeal, must lodge any protest within 14 days. The Cornish Pirates did not choose to have an independent audit of their Mennaye Field ground, so with London Welsh also failing to satisfy demands it means there will be no promotion from the Championship this term.
Newcastle propped up the Premiership by a point despite winning their final game of the season against fellow strugglers Wasps earlier this month. But the Falcons have now survived and they can look forward to the 2012-13 campaign when Dean Richards will take charge as rugby director. Newcastle have already made seven new signings.
In a statement, the RFU directors said: "The Rugby Football Union's board of directors has considered the findings of the independent audit report requested by London Welsh, which determines a club's eligibility for promotion to the Aviva Premiership in line with the minimum standards criteria (MSC).
"The report … found that London Welsh has not met the MSC for the Aviva Premiership. The independent auditors identified various failures, including not having primacy of tenure at their nominated ground. This states that a club must demonstrate that they can host home fixtures at the time stipulated by Premiership Rugby and/or the host broadcaster.
"The RFU board ratified the findings and agreed, should London Welsh win the RFU Championship final following the second leg on 30 May, they would not be eligible for promotion and Newcastle Falcons would remain in the Aviva Premiership.
"Cornish Pirates did not choose to have an independent audit of the Mennaye Field and so do not fulfil the criteria for promotion should they win the final. As a result, there will be no promotion from the RFU Championship this season."
The minimum standards criteria are set by the Professional Game Board (PGB) – a joint group from the RFU, Premiership Rugby, RFU Championship clubs and the Rugby Players' Association.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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