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** Friday, 9 August 2019
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** ‘Christians should be free to practise faith’, counter-terror chief says
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Conservative religious believers, including Christians, should not be ‘condemned’ for practising their faith, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officer has said.
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** Doctors told: Don’t give out cannabis-based drugs for chronic pain
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Cannabis-based drugs should not be prescribed to manage chronic pain, draft official guidance says.
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** Youngest lottery winner: My big win went sour fast
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A woman who won nearly £2 million on the National Lottery aged just 16 says she’s happier now the money has gone.
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** Guide leader axed over trans views begins legal case
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A Girlguiding leader who was expelled for saying she believed boys could not become girls is starting legal proceedings against the organisation.
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** Scottish census U-turn over sex question
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Scottish citizens will be asked if they are male or female – and not if they are “non-binary” – in the next census, following an official about-turn.
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** Planned Parenthood sacked chief for trying to reduce emphasis on abortion
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US abortion giant Planned Parenthood sacked its president after she attempted to prioritise activities other than aborting unborn babies.
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** Christian classic tops survey of most-read books
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C S Lewis’s classic Narnia story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has topped a new survey of the most-read fiction books in Britain.
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** FEATURE: The subjective nature of ‘hate crime’
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The BBC recently published an article emblazoned with the headline: “Transgender hate crimes recorded by police go up 81%”. That’s clear enough. The police record crimes. Some of those are hate crimes against transgender people. And they’ve gone up by 81 per cent. Right? Wrong.
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