Search results for ‘Jackie Long’
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Andrew Garfield speaks on challenges of fame and pain of grief
He’s perhaps best known for his role as the life saving superhero Spiderman but in his new film, Tick Tick… Boom, Andrew Garfield plays a struggling composer tortured by the fact he can’t prevent his friends dying one after the other.
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Children sexually exploited by organised gangs across England and Wales, report says
Children are being sexually exploited by organised networks in all parts of England and Wales in the “most degrading and destructive ways”, a damning report has found.
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Batley and Spen: Keir Starmer declares ‘Labour is back’ after narrow by-election win
Under attack from the left in the shape of an abrasive George Galloway, even Labour loyalists predicted the party would lose in Brexit-backing Batley and Spen.
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Sexual harassment in schools: are our children safe?
Girls being constantly sent nude images, sexist name-calling, harassment, rape, a climate of fear, an over-sexualised culture that has become the normality in schools across the country.
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Knife crime: how do we stop the bleeding?
Croydon, one of the boroughs worst hit by this type of violence, is now taking a different approach, one that favours communication and community policing. But is it enough to stop the bleeding?
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Revealed: Over 6,000 sex offences reported in and around schools in three years
More than 6,300 allegations of sexual assault and harassment in and around schools across England and Wales were reported to police in three years, the equivalent of at least five offences every day, Channel 4 News can reveal. Some 633 of these reports were rapes or attempted rapes.
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‘We’ve so rarely seen birth on screen, it’s the one common experience we all have’ – actor Vanessa Kirby
‘Pieces of a Woman’ has been widely acclaimed for its portrayal of stillbirth and a mother’s grief.
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Anil Kapoor on rivalry and ego clashes inside Bollywood
Now – rivalry and the clash of egos inside Bollywood is the theme behind AK v AK – starring legendary actor Anil Kapoor and director Anurag Kashyap, who play fictionalised versions of themselves. In the moc-doc thriller the director kidnaps the Bollywood star’s daughter – then films the desperate search for his next blockbuster. Jackie…
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Majority of UK modern slavery victims are children, report says
Modern slavery often conjures up visions of people brought from abroad in the backs of lorries, the fastest-growing group of victims is British – the majority of them children.
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Nearly a third of people have suffered health problems during lockdown because of poor housing
Lockdown has not been easy for anyone, but for millions of people it has meant being trapped in overcrowded flats, or living in rooms plagued by damp and mould 24 hours a day.
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Two-thirds of families on universal credit pushed into debt during lockdown
New research has found that two-thirds of people on Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit have been forced into debt during lockdown.
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Lockdown piling extra pressure on poorest
There’s little question that the lockdown has exposed deep divisions – piling extra pressure on some of the poores
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UK unemployment claimants rise to 2.1m – as lockdown hits young workers
The figures for April show the biggest month-on-month jump since records began in 1971.
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Charities demand care home workers are paid a living wage
They are dying at roughly twice the rate of the general population and are struggling with a lack of protective equipment putting them in harm’s way every day they go to work.
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Coronavirus crisis: Charity fears student care leavers face isolation
With universities closed across the country, many students are now spending lockdown in the relative comfort of their family home.