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Italy: Gallery removes exhibition of gay couples kissing in churches ...  - An art gallery in Rome has covered up an exhibition of photographs showing same-sex couples kissing in churches, following a legal threat by the Vatican.

80000 UK children suffer with depression  - 80,000 UK children suffer with depression ... Dr Phil Ferreira-Lay is a child psychiatrist working with the Surrey and Borders Mental Health Partnership Trust.

Byte Night aims to raise £1 million for homeless young people  - Around 300 businesspeople from the Thames Valley will swap their comfy beds for sleeping bags this week when they sleep rough in Reading's Forbury  ...

Payday Loan Firms 'Exploit Fears over Food and Heating Costs'  - People are using payday loans to fund essentials such as food, gas and housing, and lenders are doing little or nothing to vet their prospective clients.

Police cautions to be scrapped for crimes of sex and violence  - The Government will announce this week the scrapping of “simple” cautions for serious violent , sexual and drug offences and a review of the whole system of  ...

Do Video Games Encourage Violence ? 61% of Brits Think So  - According to the results of a recent YouGov poll, a full 61% of people from the UK are convinced that violent games encourage similar behavior in real life.

Tom Hanks says he's against 'glamourisation of violence ' in films  - The actor told a UK publication that he isn't interested in the trend films took from early westerns into more modern movies which turned violence into a  ...

Pupils breakfasting on energy drinks  - One in 20 teenage pupils goes to school on a can of energy drink instead of a good breakfast, a survey suggests. A third of UK teenagers eat unhealthy  ...

Thousands of schoolchildren affected as teachers strike over pay  - NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: "No teacher takes strike action lightly but the intransigence of this Education Sectary has left teachers with no  ...

Gove's tests and targets are 'damaging childhoods'  - Nearly 200 people, also including Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, said they are "gravely concerned" by new policies in state education and have called  ...

A new way into work needed for the young  - 32 per cent of young people in the UK choose work-based routes compared with ... of young people entering Higher Education in Scotland and the wider UK .

A positive message on tackling HIV here  - We welcome the positive role the UK is playing in helping to tackle HIV and Aids on a global level. However, we agree it is vitally important there is accurate and  ...

Kids are sent to Scotland in beds shortage  - A LACK of beds for children with mental health problems is forcing some Notts ... NHS England , the central body responsible for quality of health services,  ...

'City's mental healthcare is fraught with challenges''  - “The mental health services system in the United Kingdom owes a debt to India,” ... the UK were able to train people in backward regions of Pakistan in mental  ...

Gays 'more deadly than natural disasters': Gambian president  - CAPE TOWN – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has accused gays and lesbians of being one of the three “biggest threats to human existence”, a report says,  ...

Marriage numbers down by 3.6%  - For couples in same-sex relationships the average age is 44.3, with men at 44.7 and ... is seeing a collapse in marriage and now lags behind the US and the UK

Email Address Your preferred updates Scotland Northwest - I don't use the words gay , queer, or even homosexual . In mid-19th century England , when the novel is set, 'queer' meant odd and ' gay ' was used to describe  ...

Email Address Your preferred updates Scotland Northwest - I don't use the words gay , queer, or even homosexual . In mid-19th century England , when the novel is set, 'queer' meant odd and ' gay ' was used to describe  ...

US Olympic skier Bode Miller slams Russia's anti- gay laws as ...  - US Olympic skier Bode Miller has slammed Russia's anti- gay laws as being “absolutely embarrassing”. On Monday, the five-time Olympic medal winner said: ”I  ...

Drunken Oompa Loompas Admit Street Fight After Calling A Man Gay  - Two men have been sentenced after admitting their part in a street brawl while dressed as peace-loving Oompa Loompas. Louis Gelinas and Matthew Wright  ...

British TV Shows Couples Having Sex in a Box  - Three couples, including a gay couple, will have sex in a box in front of a studio audience as part of a new series on Britain's Channel 4.

Football fans ejected after anti- gay chants in Brighton V Ipswich match  - Three Brighton and Hove Albion football fans were ejected from Ipswich's Portman Road stadium at the weekend after trouble flared over homophobic taunts by  ...

Happiest country to be old is Sweden, survey finds  - Germany does so much better than the UK though it is not that much richer as a country. If Britons have a place to move to when they get older it should be  ...

Ministers eye solutions for crisis in housing for elderly  - Planning minister Nick Boles told a fringe event at the Conservative party conference in Manchester that he attended a meeting with housing minister Mark Prisk,  ...

Hunt: GPs must improve elderly care  - Jeremy Hunt has called on GPs to “rediscover family doctoring”, and again said he wants to make changes to their contracts to encourage them to “take better  ...

" UK Government policies hit Wales poorest"  - At at an event in Llandrindod Wells later today he will outline the Welsh Government's concerns about how the changes to welfare will have profound  ...

Youth homelessness exacerbated by benefit reform, say housing ...  - HOUSING workers in a North-East town have said recent welfare reforms are exacerbating the problem of youth homelessness . More young people could be left  ...

Adoption and why different families decide to adopt  - Julie Ward knows exactly what people are thinking when she tells them her two children are adopted. Sometimes they even say it out loud. "The assumption is  ...

Tracking and stopping British child sex offenders abroad  - We don't know how many convicted child sex offenders there are in the UK , but estimates suggest there could be as many as 65,000 – and many of them are  ...

Anti- gay group brands TV series 'dangerous' for featuring gay ...  - An anti- gay group in the US has said that hit television series Modern Family, which last week featured a gay couple getting engaged, is “dangerous”, because it  ...

Survey: Average age to enter a civil partnership in Ireland is 44  - The average age of gay couples entering civil partnerships in Ireland was more than a decade older than the average age of heterosexual couples marrying,  ...

John Paul II who described same-sex marriage as 'evil' to become ...  - Pope John Paul II, who famously described gay rights advances such as same- sex marriage as a “new ideology of evil”, will be declared a saint on 27 April 2014  ...

Daniel Radcliffe says gay sex scene in Kill Your Darlings isn't graphic  - The 'Harry Potter' star, who is seen in one scene having gay sex, said that it was a "beautiful and tender" moment, Metro.co. uk reported. Radcliffe told Total Film  ...