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• Gay marriage vote: Ireland backs law change in historic referendum - Express.co.uk

  23-05-2015 22:41
  
  Express.co.uk
  Gay marriage vote: Ireland backs law change in historic referendum
  Express.co.uk
  THE Irish public has given a resounding 'yes' to a change in its constitution which will see gay marriage made legal. By Rob Virtue. PUBLISHED: 16:05, Sat, May 23, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:33, Sat, May 23, 2015. gay marriage celebration PA•REUTERS.en meer »
  
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• 3,000 children enslaved in Britain after being trafficked from Vietnam

  23-05-2015 16:10
  
  Like many Vietnamese children, Hien was brought to Britain for a life of modern slavery. He ended up in prison on cannabis offences. We report on the gangs expanding across the UK and efforts to help their victimsien was 10 when he arrived in Britain. He did not know where he was or where he had been. He knew only that he was here to work. Since he emerged from the back of a lorry after crossing from Calais seven years ago, his experience has been one of exploitation and misery. He has been a do
  
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• Tobacco companies challenge UK packaging law - Winston-Salem Journal

  23-05-2015 12:18
  The Independent
  Tobacco companies challenge UK packaging law
  Winston-Salem Journal
  Philip Morris International Inc. and British American Tobacco filed lawsuits Friday to challenge a new U.K. law that will strip cigarette packs of most branding and artwork. The tobacco companies claimed the so-called plain packaging law, which comes ...
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• James Rhodes interview: ‘It’s important to say that bad things happen – and we don’t lie about it’

  23-05-2015 09:00
  
  Pianist James Rhodes has written a personal memoir so raw and harrowing that the court of appeal – and his ex-wife – prevented him from publishing it. Now that the ban has been lifted, he explains why he refused to be silencedThe pianist James Rhodes was in Rotterdam for a concert the day after the arrival of the supreme court judgment that will change not just his life, but those of innumerable others. He is skinny, bed‑headed, painfully alive, overjoyed and comically incongruous in his a
  
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