McClaren adds kick to Wilberforce goal

Steve McClaren and the TST Tigers football team add their support to the petition.

England football manager Steve McClaren has given his support to Hull’s Wilberforce petition to end modern slavery around the world.
The former Hull City midfielder made his return to Hull to officially open Hull’s brand new radio station KCFM 99.8, where the staff also signed the petition.
He said: “I spent eight great years in Hull, so it’s always a pleasure to come back and support its causes. I wish KCFM and Hull all the best!”
Steve is one of many high-profile figures to support the Wilberforce petition including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, American civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson and Hollywood film director Michael Apted.
The petition calls for an end to modern day slavery in its various guises around the world, including forced and bonded labour, and the trafficking of woman and girls to work in the sex industry.
So far more than 10,500 people from Hull and about 35,000 people nationally have signed the petition.

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Volumes of legal help

Sierra Leone will receive three tonnes of law books, with a value of more than £120,000, as part of the Wilberforce 2007 commemorations.
The books, donated by law firms across the UK, will help the east African country’s legal system recover from the ravages of civil war.
“There are hardly any legal resources left in Sierra Leone because they have either been destroyed or lost as a result of the conflict,” says Richard Skog, principal cabinet support officer at Hull City Council.
“The country’s legal system is based on our own so the books can be used there.”
Meanwhile, lawyers from England will visit Sierra Leone to train their African counterparts in using the books in a bid to fully update the country’s laws and statutes.
The books will re-stock law libraries at the Ministry of Justice, the High Court, and Fourah Bay College in Freetown – the country’s capital and Hull’s twin city. They will also stock new law libraries yet to be built in the towns of Bo and Kenema in the provinces.
The donation has been arranged in a partnership between the Freetown Society and Hull City Council, and also with the help of the College of Law in Chester and the Statutes Law Revision Society.