Day: February 20, 2018

    Campaigners have called for urgent changes to the law to make upskirting criminalised alongside other sexual offences, as the first official figures on the craze show complainants as young as 10. Victims, politicians and equality groups have urged the Government to provide an effective criminal law for upskirting, which often sees perpetrators escape punishment for taking photographs or videos of a victim’s groin area from beneath their clothing. There is currently no law banning upskirting, with victims left to pursue voyeurism or indecency claims in a handful of cases. Campaigners say the situation echoes that of image-based sexual abuse often referred to as revenge porn which lingered in a legal grey area until a law was introduced in April 2015 following a nati...

    On Friday, the 35-year-old attended the Cantrepoint Awards at Kensington Palace, an event which is designed to celebrate the achievements of young people who have overcome homelessness. During the ceremony, the Duke of Cambridge spoke candidly about family life. He told guests Our third child is due in April, I'm getting as much sleep as I can. Raymond Stoner, head of Anston Properties, quickly suggested that the royal couple save time by having twins, to which the Duke of Cambridge joked, Twins? I think my mental health would be tested with twins. The evening marked 50 years since the charity which Princess Diana was a patron of was first established. He said, I feel immense pride in all Centrepoint has accomplished in that time, but with it, disappointment and f...

A Conservative MP has deleted a tweet making unsubstantiated claims about Jeremy Corbyn’s links to communist spies after the Labour leader threatened to sue him. Ben Bradley, a Conservative Party Vice Chair, had tweeted that Corbyn had “sold British secrets” to foreign agents following a series of tabloid allegations about meetings the Labour leader and other MPs attended in the 1980s. But a spokesperson for Corbyn said on Monday: “Jeremy has instructed solicitors to contact [Tory MP] Ben Bradley to delete his libelous tweet or face legal action.” The tweet has since been deleted, but was captured by Corbyn supporter Owen Jones - who urged the Labour MP to take legal action. The party’s youth spokesman posted: “Corbyn sold British secrets to communist spies... get some perspectiv...