It is hoped a trainee probation officer's work placement in Madeira will develop links between the islands.
Next year it will be extended to trainee doctors (see article).
It had become a cultural norm, he says, transferred from generation to generation, from father to son, and from doctor to trainee - but it is a norm that is increasingly being challenged.
It is also warning that some trainee teachers face difficulty in finding a school placement despite assurances in the agreement that every "probationer" will get one year's training.
It was written by one of the trainee detective constables, the IPCC said.
But whereas it may be easy to identify a rotten banana, it is harder to be sure which trainee will be the next Nick Leeson and which the potential George Soros.
Wherever the training takes place, it costs the business money because other people are involved and the trainee is not at work.
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It will create 75 new jobs, as well as up to 25 trainee posts.
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Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.
In her first week at medical school she collects the box of human bones she will need for her anatomy studies, taking it to the pub so she can boast to everyone that she is a real trainee doctor.
The trainee chef said he was on the same bus as her and handed her back her travel card when it fell on the floor.
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