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Texas governor says rape and incest victims have six weeks to get termination as Mexico rules abortion isn’t a crime
The decision comes one week after a Texas law took effect prohibiting abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity in the foetus.
#FreeBritney: Father files to finally end singer’s conservatorship
Jamie Spears said his daughter had made it clear she wanted to be freed from the arrangement.
‘Your proposal is whack’: Council unwittingly rejects planning applications
A junior staff member thought they were making dummy rulings, but actually made real, legally binding planning decisions.
‘More deaths, longer lockdowns and lower wages’: The north of England’s pandemic
Regional health inequalities before Covid have resulted in an unequal pandemic, with higher rates of ill health, death and despair in the North.
‘Badger blame game:’ Culling zones to be extended in England
“The Government has wasted an estimated £70 million of public funds shooting badgers across England from Cornwall to Cumbria but have produced no reliable evidence to show that this mass destruction of a protected species is having any impact on lowering bovine TB in cattle in or around the cull zones."
UK now has DOUBLE the amount of confirmed COVID cases per capita than the worst EU nation
"This government is a deadly, unrelenting disgrace," Britain For All wrote.
‘Highest taxes since the war’: Papers report on PM’s broken manifesto pledges
Social care leaders have warned the plan will not be enough to end the crisis, according to The Independent and Daily Mirror.
BBC’s Nick Robinson threatens to cut interview with evasive Tory minister
“People are entitled to an answer on a very simple question: Why do Conservatives now believe they have to put taxes up?”
Dawn Butler calls on public to back motion that would stop ministers lying to Parliament
"The prime minister can commit a crime of lying and then the prime minister is judge and jury. It makes no sense. It’s not fair and it’s not right," Dawn Butler said.