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• Crime commissioner who campaigned against domestic abuse welcomes new law - ChronicleLive

  21-12-2014 17:07
  
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  Crime commissioner who campaigned against domestic abuse welcomes new law
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  A change in the law which will make bullying and controlling your partner a criminal offence has been welcomed. Under the changes, 'coercive and controlling behaviour' in relationships is now against the law, and can carry a maximum sentence of up to ...
  
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• Apprentice finalist Bianca Miller 'accused of stealing hosiery idea from law ... - Daily Mail

  21-12-2014 15:44
  
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  Apprentice finalist Bianca Miller 'accused of stealing hosiery idea from law ...
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  However the businessman has since been urged to fire finalist Bianca Miller, after she reportedly got her tights idea from a disabled law graduate. Ella Bennett, 37, claims she came up with the proposal - to sell hosiery for different skin-tones - four ...
  The Apprentice finalist Bianca Miller STOLE tights idea from me, claims ...Mirror.co.uk
  
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• Elton John weds after new UK gay marriage law comes into force - euronews

  21-12-2014 15:38
  
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  Elton John weds after new UK gay marriage law comes into force
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  Finland became the latest European country – and the last Nordic one – to legalise gay marriage in November 2014. Other countries include Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. It was also made legal in ...
  Elton John marries partner under new lawYahoo News UK
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• Is child labour a thing of the past? | Lucy Siegle

  21-12-2014 07:00
  
  I’ve heard that child labour has pretty much been eradicated. Is this true?
  
  If you have an ethical dilemma, email Lucy at [email protected] wish I could tell you that was the case. Tragically, it’s not. The annual list of shame from the US Department of Labor, The Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, published this month, reveals that 168 million children are still at work, a drop from 215 million in 2008, but still an enormous number. Furthermore, 85 million are engaged in
  
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• Why must we tolerate police spies in our midst? | Nick Cohen

  21-12-2014 06:30
  
  There can be no such thing as free speech when the police demand to know the names of dissentersWhen you are in a radical movement, it’s wise to assume that the person arguing for the most extreme action is an agent provocateur. The question for opponents of fracking is on whose behalf are the agents provocateurs provoking.Nato and the Romanian and Lithuanian governments have alleged that Russia is urging on opponents of the new technology. Not because Putin gives a damn about global warming,
  
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• The Observer view on Mandy Rice-Davies | Observer editorial

  21-12-2014 01:05
  
  Four words she spoke under oath rocked British societyIt is not often that a phrase lives on through the decades because it captures a seismic and irreversible shift in the cultural and political mood. When it came with confidence from an 18-year-old with “a natural aversion to unhappiness”, employed as a hostess in a Soho nightclub, in the intimidating setting of the Old Bailey, it couldn’t have more clearly flagged up that the deference shown to the patricians of the upper classes was no
  
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• Family’s dismay at court setback for mining firm negligence claim

  21-12-2014 01:05
  
  Parents of woman with brain damage lose right to have case against global giant held in UKJessica Young is a pretty woman of 24 with profound learning difficulties. Understandably, her parents, Niall and Jennifer, worry about how their daughter, who has two siblings, will cope when they are not around.“Jessica will probably outlive the welfare system in its current state,” Niall said. “This is a huge risk to Jessica’s future security and quality of life. We feel that we need to provide c
  
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