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• Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years

  30-03-2019 23:54
  Expert in heraldry and genealogy wasn’t stripped of title until three years after court recognised him as a paedophileLawyers have called for an overhaul of the honours forfeiture system after it emerged that a sex abuser retained an honour bestowed for services to the Queen some three years after a court recognised him as a paedophile.The system is too slow to acknowledge an offender’s offences, say lawyers specialising in abuse claims, and, in the case of those who have died, canno
  
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• Revealed: Vietnamese children vanish from Dutch shelters to be trafficked into Britain

  30-03-2019 14:59
  Investigation highlights failings of Dutch and UK authorities to care properly for unaccompanied minorsOn a crisp winter day in a small village in the north of the Netherlands, a pile of leaves swirls around in the wind outside a brick house, an ordinary scene except for the CCTV cameras outside the front door and the occupants inside – child victims of trafficking. Many of the children are from Vietnam. They live in this protected shelter to keep them safe from gangs who want to smuggle t
  
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• Lincolnshire’s oldest resident celebrates her 111th birthday!

  30-03-2019 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Much loved resident Violet Davies-Evans celebrates her 111th birthday at Ashwood Nursing & Care Home on Saturday 30th March in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Violet, Lincolnshire’s oldest resident and seventh oldest person in the UK celebrated with her family and staff at the care home. Staff and residents at the nursing home celebrated the milestone birthday with […]
  
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