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• Lessons on ‘consent’ as schools to update sex education

  14-07-2018 22:05
  Department for Education update to focus on exploitation, grooming, harassment and abuse - both online and offlineSchoolchildren will be taught about consent and peer pressure in both the real world and the virtual one in the first major revamp of sex education lessons since they began.Understanding what consent means, how to both give it and recognise it in others, as well as the laws around sexual exploitation, abuse, grooming, harassment and domestic abuse will be taught. Continue reading...
  
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• Police ‘decriminalising cannabis’ as prosecutions fall away

  14-07-2018 21:00
  Government figures sent to Norman Lamb MP reveal fall of 19% since 2015 in people prosecuted for possessionPolice forces are in effect decriminalising cannabis, campaigners say, after uncovering figures that show a substantial fall in the number of prosecutions and cautions for possessing the drug.Last year only 15,120 people in England and Wales were prosecuted for possession of cannabis, a fall of 19% since 2015. Police issued cautions to 6,524 people in 2017 – 34% fewer than two years b
  
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• Thousands of Scots take to streets as Trump plays golf

  14-07-2018 20:28
  Close to 10,000 march in Edinburgh as Scotland stands in solidarity against presidentThree generations of one family were sitting in the sunshine in Edinburgh’s Meadows park, just south of the city centre, as guitar chords floated across from the protest stage and a police helicopter whirled overhead.It had been several hours since close to 10,000 marchers streamed into the park after completing their route from the Holyrood parliament and past the US consulate, but the area was still bust
  
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• Labour opens up biggest lead over Tories since general election

  14-07-2018 19:15
  Opinium poll puts Jeremy Corbyn’s party four points ahead as Ukip revives Labour has opened up its biggest poll lead over the Conservatives since shortly after last June’s general election, as the government’s chaotic handling of Brexit appears to have triggered a dramatic fall in support for Theresa May and the Tories – and a sudden revival of Ukip.The latest Opinium poll for the Observer puts Labour on 40%, the same score as last month, but four points ahead of the Tori
  
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• Naked baby Donald Trump, we love you – cartoon

  14-07-2018 19:00
  The US president flies high – in his own estimation Continue reading...
  
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• Gerry Adams calls for meeting with people who attacked house

  14-07-2018 18:31
  Ex-Sinn Féin leader says he wants to know why explosive devices thrown at Belfast home
  The former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called on those who attacked his home to meet him and explain their actions.
  Explosive devices were thrown at the homes of Adams and another prominent republican figure, Bobby Storey, on Friday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon leads Scotland's largest ever Pride event in Glasgow

  14-07-2018 18:01
  Scotland’s first minister, a big supporter of LGBT rights, is event’s honorary grand martialNicola Sturgeon has become the only serving prime minister or first minister in the UK to have led a Pride event.The Scottish first minister led Scotland’s largest ever LGBT event in Glasgow on Saturday.Continue reading...
  
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• Airbnb lets may be unsafe, MPs warn

  14-07-2018 14:00
  Boom in unregulated short-term rentals is fuelled in part by unscrupulous businesses posing as private ownersGrowing numbers of professional holiday letting firms are hiding from regulation by using Airbnb and other sites, putting holidaymakers at risk, MPs will warn this week.While hotels and b&bs are subject to fire safety regulations and other checks, homeowners do not have to prove their properties are safe before letting them out via holiday rental sites such as Airbnb. Continue reading
  
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• From drag queens to rappers: up close with the UK's anti-Trump protesters - video

  14-07-2018 11:11
  The Guardian spends the day getting to know the people Donald Trump tried to avoid during his visit to the UK. More than 100,000 people travelled to London from around the country to protest against the US president, according to the organisers of the two marches that converged on Trafalgar SquareContinue reading...
  
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