Новости за 26.10.2018

Many medics are reluctant to prescribe cannabis as a medicine despite it being legally allowed, either because they don’t understand it properly or wrongly link it to “street skunk”, HuffPost UK has found.

Six newborn puppies stolen in an armed robbery have died, police said.

Facebook has removed dozens of accounts linked to Iran that targeted citizens in the UK and US with politically charged messages, the social network said on Friday.

I am a proud student activist, socialist and trade unionist. It is because of those reasons, not despite them, that I supported a statement – agreed by Labour Students’ National Committee – to back a People’s Vote.

Labour’s student wing has voted to back a referendum on the Brexit deal and slammed the 2016 result as being “built on lies”.

A doctor has defended her invention of “acid-proof” make-up after campaigners warned tests could see animals doused with corrosive substances.

Children’s stories have always been dark and scary. Think of Hansel and Gretel, lured to their death by an evil witch, or Cinderella forced into domestic slavery by her stepmother.

It’s safe to say that as a result of the #MeToo movement, we now live in a world that views sexual harassment, abuse and assault in a profoundly different light. The problem is that while the conversation has changed, the law has not, and this leaves the majority of victims unsupported and unable to speak out.

Turkish prosecutors have requested the extradition from Saudi Arabia of 18 suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to state media.

With the Budget coming out this Monday, let’s hope the government is willing to commit the level of funding its own strategy requires to put a stop to violence against women and girls.

Britain’s struggling high streets are to be handed a £1.5bn support package by the government. 

Fracking firm Cuadrilla has once again halted operations at its site near Blackpool after recording the 17th earth tremor since drilling re-commenced nine days ago.

A father standing trial accused of being a “fanatical” neo-Nazi terrorist has told a court he is a racist who gave his son the middle name Adolf.

A person has been arrested in connection with the series of bomb scares targeting critics of President Donald Trump.

Some people – not us, obviously – might say there is never not a good time to throw some serious shade at Piers Morgan, but it appears today is an especially great time to indulge.

Across the country, women are less likely to take regular exercise than men, but the numbers fall even lower when you look at statistics for women from BAME backgrounds or among women in lower paid jobs.

Two takeaway bosses face jail after being found guilty of the manslaughter of a 15-year-old girl who died after suffering an allergic reaction.

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is abhorrent, disgusting and appalling. It is wrong on every conceivable level. There can be no justification or mitigation for it. Nonetheless, we shouldn’t allow it to be turned into a whipping rod to attack the generalised perceptions about its perpetrators.

A former A grade student has been found guilty of the “cold and calculating” murder of a transgender woman after a sex and drugs binge.

It’s a sick political irony that at the same time as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a final call to save the world from climate catastrophe, fracking has started in England.

There is much chatter about Tories deposing Theresa May, including with unattributed quotes using violent language – disgusting at any time, but especially so since the assassination of MP Jo Cox by a far-right extremist.