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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 14 February
In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Peterborough Roman Catholic primary gets green light <[link removed]>
A council has approved the first state-funded Catholic school to be built in England for more than a decade.
BBC
* Church of England education leaders are urged to work together with ‘honesty and prayer’ <[link removed]>
Educational leaders should "work together with honesty and prayer", the archbishop of Canterbury has said, as the C of E launched a new resource at its national education conference.
Church Times
* New food minister has previously challenged non-stun slaughter <[link removed]>
Environment secretary George Eustice has suggested there should be improvements to the kosher method of animal slaughter.
The Jewish Chronicle
* A look at the new 1,400 place Hindu free school planned in Leicester <[link removed]>
A new 1,372-pupil Hindu faith school could be built in Leicester.
Leicester Mercury
* Catholic monk who abused three boys jailed for 20 years <[link removed]>
A former monk at a Catholic boarding school who admitted abusing three boys has been jailed for more than 20 years.
Metro
* Privacy groups warn of threat to free speech from online harms regulation <[link removed]>
Privacy campaigners have labelled the government's planned online harms regulation a threat to free speech.
Evening Express
* Campaigner urging council to stop using faith-based organisation to provide youth services <[link removed]>
Youth services in Woodley in Reading could be overhauled for the first time in almost 20 years, with one councillor urging the town council to stop using a Christian faith-based organisation to provide services.
Reading Chronicle
* MP calls for tougher controls on Muslim schools and security checks on imams <[link removed]>
The number of extremists known to the security forces is only "the tip of the iceberg", Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood has warned.
Birmingham Live
* ‘Secular Israelis on buses strike a blow for religious freedom’ <[link removed]>
Transport on the Jewish sabbath could have implications for Israel's election.
The Economist
** Latest from the NSS
* NSS urges council to reduce funding for transport to faith schools <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged Telford & Wrekin Council to end discretionary funding for transport to faith schools in response to a consultation.
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