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Your support makes all the difference.Man arrested after mum-to-be’s death
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a pregnant woman fell to her death from the third-floor balcony of a building in west London, police said. The woman, named locally as Georgina China, 30, is thought to have been six months pregnant. Police said emergency services were called just after 3am on Sunday and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Exports of food and drink grow to £19bn
British food and drink exports have grown to nearly £19bn, Farming minister George Eustice is set to claim. In a speech to the National Farmers’ Union Conference in Birmingham today, he will point out that 112 new export markets opened up last year.
Campaign to save newborn babies
The charity Save the Children is calling on politicians and healthcare providers to work together to help save the lives of newborn babies. A report from the charity reveals that around one million children around the world die within a day of being born. MORE
Rise in dangerous driving convictions
The number of motorists imprisoned for drink-driving has risen by nearly 40 per cent in the past year, new figures suggest. The Office for National Statistics has revealed that 226 drivers were convicted for the offence in the year ending September 2013, the RAC said.
Vote over plan to extend CAR mission
The French parliament is set to vote tomorrow on extending the country’s mission in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic where it sent troops to help quell months of violence. The troops were only supposed to be in the country for a short period. MORE
Crystal amaze: stone is world’s oldest
Scientists have confirmed that a tiny 4.4-billion-year-old crystal is the oldest fragment of Earth’s crust. The zircon was found in sandstone in the Jack Hills region of Western Australia.
Women prisoners ‘coerced into sex’
Women prisoners have been coerced into sex with staff in return for cigarettes or alcohol, campaigners claim. Assaults known as “decrotching”, where a woman prisoner forcibly retrieves drugs from another’s vagina, are also thought to have occurred in jails, the Howard League for Penal Reform said.
Possible life term for gay sex ‘crimes’
Uganda’s president has signed a bill that punishes gay sex with up to a life sentence, a measure likely to send Uganda’s beleaguered gay community further underground. President Yoweri Museveni said the bill was needed because the West is promoting homosexuality in Africa. MORE
Bridge ‘not a sport’, tribunal declares
The English Bridge Union has lost a legal challenge against HM Revenue and Customs with a tribunal ruling that bridge is a game and not a sport. The group had argued that its members should not have to pay VAT on competition fees because bridge is recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee.
Ghostbusters star Harold Ramis dies
The actor and director Harold Ramis, best known for the films Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, has died aged 69. He died of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels. His other credits include Caddyshack and National Lampoon’s Animal House. MORE
T-Mobile to launch new message app
Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of mobile carrier T-Mobile, is to launch a cloud-based app for smartphones that will use a unique code to encrypt voice and text messages.
Email preferred to face-face chats
Communicating verbally is being overtaken by the use of electronic methods, a new YouGov survey has found. More than 2,200 respondents were asked to select their three preferred methods of communication. Following email (60 per cent), the second most popular was face-to-face communication (55 per cent).
A different sort of programming
Comedian Dara O Briain has voiced disapproval at a BBC ban on all-male line-ups for comedy shows. O Briain said: “I wish a tenth of the energy put into the women-on-panel-shows debate was put into women in coding, in which there are hundreds of thousands of jobs in Europe, and 11 per cent are done by women.” MORE
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