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The stars making reality TV more intelligent - Feminism, mental health and positive body image are some of the big ... and bring down the suicide rate in men across the UK , Hughes tells the BBC.

Two thirds of UK employees have taken a day off work in the last year as a result of stress ... - Events company Wildgoose surveyed employees at 250 businesses across the UK and found there remains a stigma surrounding mental health at ...

Scotland aims to end child poverty with new “historic” bill - Scotland is to become the only part of the UK with statutory targets to tackle child poverty after unanimously passing new legislation in Scottish ...

How Britain's welfare system is actually plunging people further into poverty - According to the Trussell Trust, the UK's largest food-bank organization, those resorting to food banks in the areas where the scheme has already

How the other half live: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett are richer than half the US ... - in the US are worth a combined $2.68trillion - around the same as the gross domestic product of the UK . ... Poverty is the problem - not inequality.

Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt promoted to International Development Secretary -  that cause poverty and disease resonates with the British public and our 500,000 members, many of them our own dedicated youth ambassadors.

More than a quarter of Londoners live in poverty - Housing costs in London are more than double the average outside the capital, one of the main reasons poverty in the UK's largest city is higher than ...

Why are UK women working for free for the rest of the year? - We know that women often end up in low-paid part-time work, but they are more likely than men to stay there for longer, trapped in poverty wages by a ...

FIFA urged to step up fight against homophobia - In the late 80s, the English midfielder was at the receiving end of racist abuse ... Argentine fans chanted anti- gay slurs at the visiting Peruvian team in a ...

Scottish adults and children to be allowed to change their legal gender to neither male nor female - The document also recognised that the UK Government would have to ... LGBTI organisations the Scottish Trans Alliance, Equality Network, LGBT  ...

Homophobic Senate candidate who wants gays jailed 'sexually abused 14-year-old' - Anti- LGBT Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of initiating a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old. The disgraced former ...

Sam Smith's surprise wedding performance moves fans to tears - Smith, 25, surprised the newly-weds at their reception and performed a moving rendition of his ballad Latch, and later told Cotton it was the first LGBT  ...

Where hackers haven't directly influenced polls, they've undermined our faith in democracy - Not to be outdone, the UK may, finally, be asking some of the same questions. A petition politely asking the UK government to “investigate covert foreign ... of trolls attempting to distort the results of the government's first LGBT survey.

Britain's old age industry gears up for 'baby boomers' - A study of 2,200 British over 65's by estate agency Strutt & Parker said ... acute problem for LGBT people, who fear entering old-age homes will force ...

There are more LGBT+ characters on TV than ever before, GLAAD reports - Of the 901 regular characters expected to appear on broadcast scripted primetime programming this season, 58 (6.4%) were identified as gay , lesbian  ...

Premier League links up with Stonewall to boost LGBT involvement in game - The Premier League has announced a three-year partnership with LGBT rights group Stonewall that aims to boost equality in football. The agreement ...

6 things we learned about British Vogue's new direction from Edward Enninful's debut cover - Last night, the world got its first taste of NewVogue as Edward Enninful's debut cover as editor - the first black, gay man to hold the position - was ...

First openly gay US male soccer player Robbie Rogers announces retirement - Rogers, also the first openly gay professional footballer since Justin ... also spent a short spell with Leeds United and Stevenage in English football.

Attitude's Masculinity survey reveals 75% of gay men are turned off by effeminate guys - As we explore the relationship between gay men and masculinity in our landmark new issue – available to download and in shops today – an ...

Homophobic preacher who said gay people should be shot in the head and women belong in the ... - Homophobic preacher who said gay people should be shot in the head and women belong in the kitchen moves to Australia to set up a new church.

Teenager stripped naked and brutally beaten by gang - Police are searching for a gang of people who stripped a gay teenager naked and brutally beat him on video. The attack took place in Muskegon ...

Hollyoaks' Ste and Ryan for steamy romance in biggest relationship twist yet? - And years before he got together with Amy, she was with Ste Haye (Kieron Richardson) – before he came out as gay . In tonight's episode, Ryan and ...

Campus preachers return to UK , students gather in response - He said they chose UK because it is a big, public university with many .... gay students on campus who had to hear what he considered hate speech.

The femme-shaming of gay men proves that masculinity remains toxic - Phrases like these are commonplace on gay hook-up apps like Grindr and Hornet. They hint at an aversion to femininity that, as a camp man myself, ...