The House of Lords has backed a ban on under-16s using social media. Peers passed an amendment to the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is currently making its way through parliament. Lords debate as it happened – politics latest The amendment says within 12 months of the act passing, social media sites must […]
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It was billed as an emergency meeting of Tory MPs after a trio of defections to Reform UK, but judging by the noise that greeted Kemi Badenoch it could have been a victory rally. When the Tory leader entered parliament’s committee room 14 for what could have been an awkward showdown with her backbenchers, the
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The death of a baby girl has prompted a warning over the use of doulas during births after one had “negatively impacted” midwives. Henry Charles, assistant coroner for Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton, issued a prevention of future deaths report after an inquest last month into the death of Matilda Pomfret-Thomas. Her parents had chosen to
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This was billed as a huge day for Prince Harry, the emotional enormity of it all immediately clear as he gave his evidence, from his visible frustration to his audible final moment of upset. Since he left the Royal Family we’ve heard a lot from him about his feelings about the press and, importantly, his
Matches at this summer’s World Cup are set to see more incidents sent for VAR reviews – but referees have been told to be quicker to stop frustrating fans with long delays. Players will also face more clampdowns on time-wasting as the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the independent global body responsible for safeguarding, compiling
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Prince Harry became emotional as he finished an intense day of evidence against the publisher of the Daily Mail – telling the High Court his wife Meghan’s life had been made an “absolute misery”. The Duke of Sussex spent about two hours being cross-examined by Associated Newspapers Limited’s lawyer, at times appearing visibly frustrated with
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A teenage girl with learning difficulties spent more than 25 years working as a “house slave” for a woman and her 10 children, a court has heard. From 1995 until 2021, the woman – now in her 40s – was trapped in the squalid home of 56-year-old Amanda Wixon in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. There she endured
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It’s a brutal crime that’s haunted the streets of Merseyside for decades. In 1986, Diane Sindall, 21, was raped and murdered by a killer dubbed the “Beast of Birkenhead”. The florist had just finished working a late shift at a pub. It was a part-time job that she had only taken on to make some
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A young man has pleaded guilty to killing a father-of-two by pushing him into the path of an ambulance. Robert Bromell, 39, was struck by the emergency vehicle in Oban, Argyll and Bute, during the early hours of 6 September 2023. Mr Bromell was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the incident at Corran
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A police officer accused of dangerous driving after killing a driver during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect broke down in tears as he was cleared of wrongdoing. Matthew Pike, 40, was accused of causing the death of Keryl Johnson by dangerous driving, as well as causing death by careless driving, in 2021. However, after
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