17 h. ago Heartbreaking video mum wants everyone to see after son's silly mistake cost him his life

Carly Calland's 14-year-old son Jacob died after he was involved in a collision while riding an e-scooter - now she's calling for a ban on the vehicles for under 18s

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55 h. ago UPenn to ban transgender athletes, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas

Penn settles Title IX case over Lia Thomas’ winsSchool will ban trans women from female sportsFeds call it a victory for women and girls’ rightsThe University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.The US Education Department announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Iceland to call for EBU to ban Israel at London meeting in July

Iceland to call for EBU to ban Israel at London meeting in July  The Jerusalem Post

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5 d. ago Tens of thousands defy Hungary’s ban on Pride in protest against Orbán

Crackdown on Pride is part of effort to curb democratic freedoms ahead of a hotly-contested election next yearTens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Budapest in defiance of the Hungarian government’s ban on Pride, heeding a call by the city’s mayor to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and equal rights”.Jubilant crowds packed into the city’s streets on Saturday, waving Pride flags and signs that mocked the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, as their peaceful procession inched forward at a snail’s pace. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago RFK’s vaccine panel to spend days discussing and voting on an ingredient we barely use anymore

The vaccine advisory panel will vote on whether to ban a preservative called thimerosal

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1 week ago Cheapskate holidaymakers jetting from Stansted Airport are parking on our road and clogging it up for WEEKS... the council won't do a thing

Residents on North Road in Takeley, Essex, just eight minutes from the airport are calling for a ban on non-residential vehicles after 10 years of parking turf wars.

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2 w. ago Writer of Adolescence backs call by mother of murdered trans teen for ban on smartphones in schools

Jack Thorne, writer of Netflix's Adolescence, has backed Esther Ghey's call for a ban on smartphones in schools and social media for under 16's.

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2 w. ago Patients putting themselves and others at risk with filming trend

Staff are calling for a ban to protect everyone involved

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2 w. ago Patients angering NHS staff by secretly filming consultations for TikTok and Instagram

The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is calling on health officials to introduce national guidelines that ban covert recording in hospitals and clinics.

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2 w. ago Giving children phones is the same as giving them cigarettes

Renewing her call for ministers to ban phones in schools, she said they were just as inappropriate for pupils as tobacco.

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2 w. ago Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot

The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom?I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point.David Attenborough’s Ocean film, made for National Geographic, is the one I’ve been waiting for all my working life. An epoch ago, when I worked in the BBC’s Natural History Unit in the mid-1980s, some of us lobbied repeatedly for films like this, without success. Since then, even programmes that purport to discuss marine destruction have carefully avoided the principal cause: the fishing industry. The BBC’s Blue Planet II and Blue Planet Live series exemplified the organisation’s perennial ...

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch to call for end to energy windfall tax and oil licence ban

The Conservative leader will accuse Labour of “killing” the oil and gas industry

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3 w. ago Badenoch to call for end to oil and gas windfall tax and ban on new licences

She will speak at her first Scottish Conservative conference since taking over as Tory leader.

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3 w. ago Calls for UK drivers to face new ban over 'threat to children's safety'

Campaigners want lawmakers to introduce a cap on bonnet height

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3 w. ago White supremacist Nick Fuentes boasts the ‘groypers have won’ after MAGA influencers call to ‘ban third world immigration’

‘I've never seen the right wing so angry and so explicitly against mass migration, so close to expressing their disdain in racial terms,’ Nick Fuentes said this week.

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3 w. ago Once again, British politicians want to ‘ban the burqa’. But this time, I’ve never felt so afraid | Nadeine Asbali

Since the riots last summer British Muslims have felt a deep unease in our own countryHere we are again, debating the right of Muslim women to wear what they want. Last week, the Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin asked the prime minister, Keir Starmer, if he planned to follow other European countries and prohibit burqas.Then the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, called for bosses to be able to ban the burqa in the workplace. Following the example of the former Labour minister Jack Straw, who in 2006 sparked the first burqa debate by asking constituents at his surgeries to remove their face coverings, she stated that she does not see constituents at her surgeries if they have their faces covered, “whether it’s a burqa or a balaclava”.Nadeine Asbali is a secondary school teacher in London and the author of Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Love Island fans call for 'ban' over same complaint as 2025 series debuts with major twist

The ITV2 dating show was back on screens for its 10th anniversary run and saw the new singletons heading to the famous villa

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3 w. ago ITV Love Island fans 'sick of it' as they beg bosses to 'ban' show tradition

Love Island fans were left irritated by a particular moment on Monday's launch show and raced to Twitter to share their anger, as they called for producers to 'ban' the show tradition

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3 w. ago 'Neither Reform nor the Tories give a damn about us Muslim females. They are just using the burka to incite hatred'

Zia Yusuf left Reform last week over calls to ban the burkha, but is now back in the Farage fold, but those who pick on minorities should not be trusted. Ever - writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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3 w. ago Trump’s travel ban could cement racism as his most dangerous legacy

From his so-called ‘Muslim ban’ to slashing DEI measures, the US president has turned taboo behaviour into normsThis month marks exactly 10 years since Donald Trump coasted down an escalator at Trump Tower, declared his run for US president and accused Mexico of sending drugs, criminals and rapists into the homeland. The past decade has been exercise in normalising.When Trump threatened to terminate Elon Musk’s government contracts, and Musk linked Trump to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, all because of a petty clash of egos, people were riveted but unsurprised. Likewise, when Trump ordered a travel ban on a dozen countries, many reacted with a collective shrug: well, of course he did. Continue reading...

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