4 h. ago MPs vote to restrict protests outside animal testing labs and research centres

The ruling encompasses all 'life sciences infrastructure'

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6 h. ago Mahmood wins vote to ban animal testing lab protests – despite Labour backbench rebellion

Labour MPs rebel in vote to outlaw activists’ vigils outside laboratories and beagle-breeding facilities

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58 h. ago Dieselgate 2: Government needs to get tough on car makers that used emissions defeat devices, says RUPA HUQ MP

As 1.6m Britons await the outcome of the 'Dieselgate 2' group action, Rupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton says its now time for Government to get tough on car makers who fit defeat devices.

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2 w. ago Labour MSP 'can't rule out' taking picture at centre of sex offender row engulfing Downing Street

EXCLUSIVE: A Labour source said Pam Duncan-Glancy does not "recall" being the person who photographed ex-Downing Street comms chief Matthew Doyle campaigning for disgraced former councillor Sean Morton.

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2 w. ago British online campaigner vows to fight US deportation threat

Imran Ahmed, who leads the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and has close links to the Labour Party, has been hit by US sanctions.

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3 w. ago The Devil’s Backbone review – rich, rousing ghost story is early gothic gem from Guillermo del Toro

Executed with trademark technical flair and empathy, this part-horror, part-fairytale set in a haunted orphanage from 2001 is one of the director’s bestHe’s a household name now after The Shape of Water and his new Frankenstein, but 25 years ago Guillermo del Toro was a virtual unknown, still bruised from the Harvey Weinstein-produced Hollywood flop Mimic. But, as this overlooked follow-up attests, he was always a class act. In fact, this is one of his best: a rich, rousing ghost story shrouded in trademark gothic gloom but executed with technical flair and a good deal of empathy.As with his later breakthrough Pan’s Labyrinth, it’s part-horror, part-fairytale, with children at its centre. The setting is a middle-of-nowhere boys’ orphanage in 1930s Spain, a leftist sanctuary from Franco’s fascists during the civil war. Newcomer Carlos (Fernando Tielve) must find his feet in this semi-surreal realm, with an unexploded bomb in the middle of the courtyard, some kindly adults (one-legged...

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