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Friday, 30 January 2026

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Home schooling

Intrusive and administratively burdensome measures under Government plans for a register of children not in school have been significantly cut back.

 
 

Our church was banned from freshers’ fairs

 
 

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Baroness Fox

Baroness Fox of Buckley has commended The Christian Institute’s legal action against the Civil Service’s taxpayer-funded participation in Pride marches.

 
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Same-sex marriage in the US should be overturned to protect children, a new coalition has declared.

 
Stormont, Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)

Stormont has been told by the Institute that a smacking ban could backfire and endanger children.

 
Man looking at computer

Pornhub is set to block new UK users rather than continuing to comply with age verification rules.

 
Baby scan

A staunch supporter of ‘abortion access’ has spoken out against decriminalisation on the grounds that it poses a risk to women’s health.

 
 
Senedd Cymru | Welsh Parliament

More than 250 health care professionals have called on MSs to deny legislative consent to Westminster’s assisted suicide Bill.

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Drug seller guilty of assisting suicides gets 14 years

 
Man on computer

Stormont’s newly formed parliamentary group on human trafficking has launched an inquiry into ‘pimping websites’.

 
 
Sad teenager

Parents have called for more rehab facilities to be made available for under-18s amid a surge in drug use.

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Huge rise in drug-driving reoffending

 
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Tens of thousands joined the annual US March for Life, declaring ‘life is a gift’.

 
Aimee and baby Jessica

A mother, whose baby was born at just 24 weeks has returned to thank hospital staff for saving their lives.

 
 

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