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Your daily media briefing - Friday 14 February

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Secularism in the media

Peterborough Roman Catholic primary gets green light

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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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