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        <title>10,000 babies could be saved each year through new miscarriage scheme</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An early care scheme for women who have suffered miscarriages could save an estimated 10,000 unborn lives a year, researchers have suggested.
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        <title>Home-ed registers to be mandatory under newly passed law</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Home-educating families across England and Wales will be required to register their children with their local authority, under legislation that has now gained Royal Assent.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Warning issued to governing bodies over fairness in women’s sport</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Parkrun and nine other sporting organisations have been warned to stop men competing in women’s events or face legal action.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Five Brits per month consider assisted suicide at Swiss clinic</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Around five Brits per month enquire about ending their lives at a Swiss clinic, it has been revealed.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Report: ‘Schools still heavily influenced by gender ideology’</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Child safety and wellbeing continues to be compromised in English schools by transgender ideology, a new study has revealed.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Cohabiting couples push for marriage rights</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cohabiting couples are calling for legal rights equal to those of marriage, prompting criticism from those who say it would &#8216;diminish the importance of marriage&#8217;.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Woman commits suicide after gambling away hundreds of thousands of pounds</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A 44-year-old gambler committed suicide after losing £10,000 in the weeks before her death, an inquest has confirmed.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Lib Dems admit unlawful religious discrimination against Christian candidate</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate who was deselected by the party over his Christian views has won his legal battle.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Drug crimes rise to highest level in over a decade</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The number of drug offences in England and Wales increased by almost a fifth last year to the highest level in over a decade, new figures have shown.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Buying babies from strangers has become normalised – without thought for women&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Society must start taking the ethical questions around surrogacy seriously, a journalist has urged.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>AI-made child abuse videos see 260-fold increase</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/ai-made-child-abuse-videos-see-260-fold-increase/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The number of AI-generated sexual abuse videos rocketed by nearly 26,000 per cent in 2025, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Group sings at London Marathon in wake of Scope trans debacle</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Disability charity Scope has come under fire for dropping a community choir from its London Marathon &#8216;cheer team&#8217; due to its creator&#8217;s gender-critical views.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Healthy British woman dies at Swiss suicide clinic</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A healthy 56-year-old mother has paid £10,000 for help to kill herself at a Swiss clinic.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Legal challenge to hate crime recording rules given go-ahead</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A free speech campaigner has been granted permission to challenge Home Office rules on hate crimes.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>‘Considering a sex swap? Think again&#039;, warns detransitioner</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A detranstioner who once took male hormones and had a double mastectomy, now describes herself as “a happy, confident woman”.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Pollster: &#039;No longer a public consensus in favour of assisted suicide law&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is no longer a consensus in favour of legalislation on assisted suicide in Britain, a polling expert has said.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>UK&#039;s youngest patient to receive in-womb transfusion now a &#039;chirpy&#039; one-year-old</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An unborn baby boy who received an in-womb blood transfusion at just 16 weeks&#8217; gestation is now a healthy one year-old.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Evangelicals report confident faith amid growing social pressure</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Most Evangelical Christians in the UK feel confident in living out their faith, despite reporting concerns over increased social pressure.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Free speech protections to be enforced in UK universities</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Universities will be required to protect free speech or face fines of up to £500k, the Education Secretary has announced.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Manx assisted suicide Bill stalls over human rights concerns</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Royal Assent has been withheld for a Bill to legalise assisted suicide on the Isle of Man over concerns about safeguards.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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