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• Blindly obeying every rule strips us of our humane and caring instincts | Nicci Gerrard

  13-12-2020 09:30
  
  Coronavirus restrictions are there to protect us, but we must look to our hearts before enacting every single one of them Several years ago, a charity shop worker in Hampshire had an epileptic seizure and fell into a shallow lake. Firefighters called to rescue him said they could not enter water higher than ankle deep because of health and safety rules. The man lay face down, drowning, while the firefighters measured the depth of the water with a pole.He died, and everyone was aghast because it
  
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• UK ‘reneges on vow to reunite child refugees with families’

  13-12-2020 09:00
  
  Home Office accused of making ‘no arrangements’ for transfers of unaccompanied minors after EU rules expire at end of yearUnaccompanied children in France are being told by the French authorities that they should give up hope of being reunited with family in the UK after the Home Office failed to offer the help it had promised.With the deadline to enter the UK legally and safely under the EU’s family reunification rules due to expire at the end of the year, the Home Office is a
  
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