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Pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift on Monday released a star-studded music video that scolded social media trolls and urged fans to sign a petition demanding U.S. legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people. The video for Swift's new single "You Need to Calm Down" featured a surprise cameo by former rival Katy Perry plus a host of other celebrities. Perry's appearance signalled an end to a spat between the two musicians which began in 2013 over backup singers...

Lord Alf Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport. Today he will call for Theresa May to match pre-war Britain’s humanity by allowing 10,000 refugee children to come to the UK. Lord Dubs will be joined by council chiefs prepared to take more unaccompanied refugee children in parliament square today to call on the PM and her successor to allow more unaccompanied children abandoned at the peril of traffickers to have a safe future...

The 42-year-old victim had 'unknown substance' was thrown over him this afternoon

Sacked PC Tara Woodley was dating sex offender Shaun Fox but lied to police about his whereabouts

Basildon mayor David Burton-Sampson was faced with a tirade of racist abuse while celebrating Essex pride

Giorgi Kakava, 11, starts high school in August but could be deported to Georgia, a former Soviet Union country he left as a toddler, in eight months

The owner of a craft shop, called The Fluff-a-torium, has received two "shockingly homophobic and threatening" letters since June 5 when the two rainbow knitted covers were put on display near the shop.

Members of Leam Trash Friends were shocked when they were warned against clearing rubbish from grass verges and pavements

Ancient pots from Chinese tombs reveal early use of cannabis as a drug