Study finds over half of teenagers sent non-consensual sexual images via social media apps reported it Schools and parents should do more to support students who are being sexually harassed through platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, while the tech companies need to clamp down on non-consensual sexual images being […]
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Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions Middle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy to be announced by Boris Johnson’s government with a heavy focus on war-on-drugs-era punishment. So-called “lifestyle” users of class A […]
Military calls in air and ground support to force attackers to retreat after being overwhelmed by their numbers, government says At least 12 soldiers and “dozens of terrorists” have been killed in a battle in western Niger, the defence ministry says, in the conflict-wracked “three borders” zone. Another eight soldiers […]
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from over Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end”, one of […]
Attorney general to consider whether jail terms for Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are long enough The jail sentences given to the couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”, the attorney general has announced. Arthur was left with an unsurvivable […]
Crowds chanted slogans condemning government of Aleksandar Vučić, which backs planned Anglo-Australian $2.4bn mine Thousands of demonstrators blocked major roads across Serbia on Saturday as anger swelled over a government-backed plan to allow mining company Rio Tinto to extract lithium. In the capital, Belgrade, protesters swarmed a major highway and […]
Exclusive: Lord Strasburger says conduct rules need to be strengthened after no action taken against peer following complaint The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Strasburger has called for the House of Lords’ conduct rules to be strengthened after no action was taken on a complaint that the Conservative peer Michelle Mone […]
Poll reveals huge public cynicism, with just 5% of respondents believing politicians work for public good Trust in politicians to act in the national interest rather than for themselves has fallen dramatically since Boris Johnson became prime minister, according to figures contained in a disturbing new study into the state […]
Connor Gibson, 19, offers no plea in appearance at Hamilton sheriff court and is remanded in custody A teenager has been charged with murdering and sexually assaulting his sister whose body was found in a park in South Lanarkshire. Connor Gibson, 19, appeared at Hamilton sheriff court on Friday accused […]
Emma Tustin sentenced to minimum of 29 years as boy’s father is jailed for 21 years for manslaughter A woman who killed her six-year-old stepson, who had been poisoned, starved and beaten in the weeks before his death, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of […]