4 h. ago Edinburgh boarding school 'protected abusers for six decades'

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith has published her findings on the provision of residential care at Merchiston Castle School.

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5 h. ago Edinburgh boarding school for boys ‘protected abusers’ for six decades, inquiry finds

Lady Smith said there was a ‘more or less continuous line of indecency’ from two named perpetrators at Edinburgh school.

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5 h. ago Boarding school ‘protected abusers’ for six decades, inquiry concludes

Lady Smith said there was a ‘more or less continuous line of indecency’ from two named perpetrators at Merchiston Castle School.

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5 d. ago Boarding school gave me PTSD but I locked it away until my daughter started to board. Then it triggered a breakdown that saw me sectioned: DR CATHY WIELD

I had just dropped my daughter off at the Royal Ballet School, where she was to be a boarder. But the trauma of my own boarding experience brought the dread and horror flooding back to me.

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6 d. ago Monk who brought shame on Catholic boarding school jailed for abusing pupils

Michael James Callaghan, known as Father James, has been jailed for seven years for preying on the vulnerable teenage boys at Ampleforth College.

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6 d. ago Carlos Alcaraz makes sad admission as British tennis star goes public

Katie Boulter has been a victim of online abuse throughout her career and has called for better protection for players after widespread threats against her and her family

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8 d. ago I was trapped in an abusive relationship at 16, now I’m demanding schools protect teenagers better

Faustine Petron’s Make It Mandatory campaign has received support from MPs, charities and over 100,000 signatures

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9 d. ago The victims of grooming gangs deserve justice – at long last, they may get it

Editorial: The government’s decision to launch a full statutory inquiry into historic grooming cases is long overdue. Thousands of girls were failed not only by their abusers but by the very institutions and individuals meant to protect them. At last, a national reckoning is underway

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9 d. ago DAN HODGES: Starmer has known about the appalling abuse for a decade. Yet he opposed a national rape inquiry because he knew it would damage Labour

The Prime Minister had no need to wait for Baroness Casey's findings. He already knew the truth about the rape gangs. And now - to Sir Keir's eternal shame - so does the country...

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1 week ago ‘It’s not a genuine apology’: Spanish women reject Catholic attempt to redress Franco incarceration

Many survivors believe organisation’s request for forgiveness over abuse in Women’s Protection Board centres does not go far enoughAs the members of the Catholic organisation wrapped up their speech with an appeal for forgiveness, the auditorium in Madrid exploded in rage. For decades, many in the audience had grappled with the scars left by their time in Catholic-run institutions; now they were on their feet chanting: “Truth, justice and reparations” and – laying bare their rejection of any apology – “Neither forget, nor forgive”.It was an unprecedented response to an unprecedented moment in Spain, hinting at the deep fissures that linger over one of the longest-running and least-known institutions of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship: the Catholic-run centres that incarcerated thousands of women and girls as young as eight, subjecting them to barbaric punishments, forced labour and religious indoctrination. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Boarding school mass sex attack horror: How a mob of boys raped 71 girls in night of depravity with 19 victims killed in a stampede as they tried to escape their dormitory

Twilight was receding into night on July 13, 1991 when St. Kizito, a mixed boarding school in the Kenyan town of Meru, was plunged into darkness

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1 week ago Air India crash LIVE: First feared victims of London Gatwick

Over 290 people are believed to have died in disaster, including a students at a medical school, with 53 British passengers on board the flight

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2 w. ago Emergency workers to get greater protection from racial abuse in house calls

It is illegal to racially or religiously abuse anyone in public, but this does not extend to within a private home under the Public Order Act.

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2 w. ago Scots beauty queen who witnessed pals' abusive relationships fights to protect women

Grace McCabe, whose work for women's safety was recognised by the United Nations, will compete for the crown of Miss Great Britain Glasgow.

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2 w. ago Candlestick killer 'posing on dating apps' after release from prison for murder of schoolboy

Art gallery owner Bennet von Vertes brutally killed Alex Morgan, who had a Scots father and once studied at King Charles’ former boarding school in Moray, with a candlestick in a Swiss villa in 2014.

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2 w. ago Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer 'frustrated at pace of probe into claims he was abused at boarding school in the 1970s'

Grandmother Sally Jane Carr was arrested almost a year ago after a Mail on Sunday probe identified her as the matron Earl Spencer alleges he and other boys were molested by in the 1970s.

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2 w. ago Pope meets with child protection advisory board amid survivor calls for zero tolerance on abuse

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Catholic Church

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3 w. ago Sweden urged to ban international adoption after damning inquiry findings

Inquiry head accuses Swedish state of human rights violations, citing child-trafficking cases across four decadesSweden should ban international adoption and apologise after thousands of children were illegally and unethically taken from their home countries including South Korea, Colombia, China and Sri Lanka over several decades, a government inquiry has found.Presenting the damning findings of the almost four-year investigation, the head of the inquiry, Anna Singer, accused the Swedish state of “violations of human rights”, citing child-trafficking cases spanning from the 1970s to the 2000s. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Business leader brings global expertise to prestigious Scottish school

Seasoned CEO appointed Chair of Board at Scotland’s only boys’ school

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3 w. ago Formula One's humble hero: How McLaren star Oscar Piastri credits staying down to earth to his childhood sweetheart Lily Zneimer after pair met at boarding school

Since its conception, Formula 1 has been a hotbed for playboys, where daring racers dice with death and their latest model girlfriends look on from the sidelines.

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