32 h. ago Mandelson told Epstein: ‘your friends love you’ after 2008 charges, emails show

UK’s ambassador to US urged financier to ‘fight for early release’ after charges of procuring child for prostitutionThe British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, told Jeffrey Epstein to “fight for early release” and wrote: “your friends stay with you and love you” when the disgraced financier was facing charges of procuring a child for prostitution, according to leaked emails.The emails, first published by the Sun after circulating in Washington DC, will put further pressure on Mandelson after he admitted on Tuesday that more “very embarrassing” details of his friendship with Epstein were likely to emerge but insisted he had never seen any “wrongdoing”. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago ‘Your friends love you,’ Mandelson told Epstein after 2008 charges, emails show

UK’s ambassador to US urged financier to ‘fight for early release’ after charges of procuring child for prostitutionThe British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, told Jeffrey Epstein to “fight for early release” and wrote: “Your friends stay with you and love you,” when the disgraced financier was facing charges of procuring a child for prostitution, according to leaked emails.The emails, first published by the Sun after circulating in Washington DC, will put further pressure on Lord Mandelson after he admitted on Tuesday that more “very embarrassing” details of his friendship with Epstein were likely to emerge but insisted he had never seen any “wrongdoing”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Police campaign uncovers unreported sextortion cases among school pupils as victims are heard

Sextortion is a form of online blackmail which involves criminals targeting people - often young adults and teenagers - around the world, threatening to expose intimate images of them if they do not co-operate.

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1 week ago Teenagers with period pain more likely to have chronic adult pain, study says

Research finds 76% higher risk for 15-year-olds with dysmenorrhorea than those without painful mensesTeenagers who have moderate or severe period pain are much more likely to develop chronic pain as adults, according to research.Researchers said the findings should serve as a wake-up call to improve menstrual education, reduce stigma, and ensure young people have access to effective support and treatment early on. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Teenagers with painful periods ‘more likely to suffer chronic pain as adults’

Researchers suggest the link between menstrual pain as a teenager and adult pain may be down to changes in the nervous system.

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1 week ago British 'Seagull boy', 11, who went viral for his amazing bird impression will judge screeching competition

Cooper Wallace, 11, is set to give his thoughts on competitors in both an under-12s tournament and another contest for teenagers and adults. He defended his European title in April.

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3 w. ago Fifth suspect charged over ‘murder’ of man, 21, stabbed in Walworth street fight after his arrest in Spain

Giovanny Rendon Bedoya, 21, was attacked on Hillingdon Street in Walworth

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3 w. ago Supporting freedom of expression is not wrong, Jimmy Lai’s lawyer tells court

Closing arguments made in Hong Kong media mogul’s national security trial, which has lasted more than 140 daysA lawyer for Jimmy Lai has argued that it is not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he began his final argument in the prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder’s landmark national security trial.The barrister Robert Pang is representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. Lai, 77, faces up to life in prison if convicted under a national security law imposed by Beijing after anti-government protests in 2019. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation

Stoner was a small child when they began acting professionally – and their experience included extreme pressure, dangerous diets, rehab, dashed hopes and self-doubt. Now, with a new memoir, they consider how they escaped ‘the toddler to train-wreck pipeline’When Alyson Stoner was nine, a wardrobe assistant on the set of a TV show noticed the child actor’s dark leg-hair and told Stoner it was “dirty and unladylike”, and that they couldn’t wear shorts in the show until it was removed. “I started to view my body in a detached way where it was just something to control, to fix, to manipulate for whatever standard was presented to me,” says Stoner. “In this case, the extreme beauty standards of the industry.”It was a lot for a nine-year-old to take on, but by then Stoner had been working for several years – they were a Disney regular, and appeared in films such as Cheaper By the Dozen – and were used to doing whatever adults asked. As a teenager, this would lead to an excessive exercise ...

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3 w. ago Two adults and teenager charged after group fight at Brentwood petrol station

Two adults and teenager charged after group fight at Brentwood petrol station  This Is Local London

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