Source: The Telegraph UK
On that we can all agree. But what is less a matter of consensus is how we should respond to the scandal. When I argued on Newsnight this week that we need some calm reflection and that the whole of society should not be reorgan ...
Oct 25 2012, 1:02pm CDT
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Source: Miami Herald
LONDON -- Britain's High Court has ruled that a tweet posted by the wife of the speaker of Parliament about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous. A BBC report last year led to widespread Internet chat ...
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Source: The Telegraph UK
Yet the wave of adults now beginning to re-open long supressed memories of sexual exploitation from decades before has led charities and lawyers to advocate a dedicated 24-hour national hotline to support fully-grown victim ...
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Source: The Scotsman
The Jimmy Savile investigation has led to an increase in the reporting of cases. Picture: AFP A NEW training scheme for staff helping adult survivors of child abuse was launched today following “significantly increased” reporting of cases since the Jimmy ...
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Source: AllAfrica.com
In 1965, the BBC accepted and broadcast my short story, Strange Encounter, on the Writers' Club Programme. It was read by Tonie Tucker and discussed, with high commendation, by Edward Blishen. Little did 1 know that the warm reception ...
Full article at: AllAfrica.com
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Source: BBC News
22 May 2013 Last updated at 20:33 ET By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter The report calls for school sport spending to be focused on swimming More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Associatio ...
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Source: BBC News
22 May 2013 Last updated at 20:12 ET Glasgow-based charity Roshni said high-profile coverage of the Savile case had encouraged more victims to speak out Reporting of historic child abuse has "significantly increased" since the ...
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Source: Digital Spy
Two Newsnight journalists have taken home a top award for their shelved report on disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile. Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, alongside two other journalists, won 'Scoop of the Year' at the London Press Club Awards. ...
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Source: Patheos Blogs
In the Congo, somewhere in the vicinity of 50,000 children are being held in churches because they are believed to be witches. There are around 50,000 children being held in churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of witchcraft, a BBC ...
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones were joint winners of scoop of the year for the axed Newsnight investigation into the Jimmy Savile scandal. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, who worked on Newsnight' ...
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Source: Bartholomews Notes on Religion
BBC Three has broadcast a documentary entitled Branded a Witch, in which young British mother of Congolese heritage named Kevani Kanda visited Congo to see the consequences of child-witch accusations in the country. The statistics are gri ...
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