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New £40m NHS plan for pregnant women
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New £40m NHS plan for pregnant women

    All expectant mothers are to be given the same midwife throughout their pregnancy in a £40 million NHS promise. Maternity deaths are expected to fall by 50 per cent after thousands more expectant mothers will be offered a named midwife to guide them through pregnancy. To coincide with International Day of the Midwife 2019 on Sunday, the NHS has said that funding to transform maternity services will be doubled this year to £40 million. A key element of this support will be to give women access to the same midwife or small team of midwives during pregnancy, the birth of their child and post birth. Currently it is not uncommon for a woman to see a different midwife at all nine or ten of her antenatal consultations, and then a further new member of staff at the birth....
New Zealand PM on her proposal
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New Zealand PM on her proposal

    Jacinda Ardern has revealed more details about her romantic surprise proposal and why she doesn't wear her engagement ring on the correct finger. The New Zealand prime minister confirmed last week that long time partner Clarke Gayford popped the question over the Easter break after she was spotted wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring on her left hand. A coy Ms Ardern was unable to dodge reporters questions about her recent proposal during a post-cabinet press conference in Wellington on Monday, where she was reluctant to spill too many intimate details. There are some things I don't mind keeping for ourselves, Ms Ardern told reporters. This is a very public job and I'm quite happy to put quite a bit of ourselves out there. But there are some things I wou...
Royal baby: Likeliest names for the Sussex’s first child
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Royal baby: Likeliest names for the Sussex’s first child

    Ever since Kensington Palace announced the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were expecting their first child, speculation surrounding the baby’s arrival has been rife. From the exact date the child will be born and its baby’s gender to whether it will receive a royal title and what its surname will be, there’s a lot we don’t know about the royal baby. But, the one topic that’s really got people talking, and gambling, is the child’s name. Despite the royal couple choosing to keep the baby’s gender a secret until the day of its birth Markle reportedly said she didn’t know what the sex of her baby was to a young fan at the Endeavour Fund Awards bookmakers have been placing bets on the name the couple are most likely to choose for their first child for months. Potential mon...
PM Urges Corbyn to agree on Brexit
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PM Urges Corbyn to agree on Brexit

    Jeremy Corbyn has been urged to work with the Government to agree a compromise deal to break the Brexit deadlock. Prime Minister Theresa May urged the Labour leader to put his differences aside, while International Development Secretary Rory Stewart said the ball was in Mr Corbyn’s court. Mr Stewart told Sky News Sophy Ridge On Sunday: I think a deal can be done, a lot of this rests on, to be honest, one man: whether Jeremy Corbyn really wants to deliver a Brexit deal. But I think if he wants to do it it will be actually surprisingly easy to do because our positions are very, very close. The newly-appointed Cabinet minister also said his party was keen to get a good Brexit deal done as soon as possible, and conceded that the Government’s handling of Britain’s exit...
Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1,300 councillors
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Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1,300 councillors

    Media captionTheresa May on local election results: Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit The Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to get on with Brexit. Labour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains. But the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received a vote for stopping Brexit. The Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats. All 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results. While the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these ...
Brits unwilling to cut back to fight climate change
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Brits unwilling to cut back to fight climate change

    The majority of Britons are unwilling to significantly reduce the amount they drive, fly and eat meat in order to combat climate change, a Sky Data poll reveals. Just over half 53% say they would be unwilling even in principle to significantly reduce the amount they fly, while 28% say they would be willing to give up travelling by plane or reduce the amount they do so significantly (19% say they never fly anyway). People responding to polls often overclaim their willingness to change their behaviour in ways considered socially desirable but despite this some 52% say they would be unwilling to reduce the amount of meat they eat much (31%) or at all (21%) to help reduce global warming. Four in ten say they would be willing to either reduce their meat consumption sign...
IS bride Shamima to be hanged if she enter to Bangladesh: BD Foreign Minister says to ITV News
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IS bride Shamima to be hanged if she enter to Bangladesh: BD Foreign Minister says to ITV News

    Bangladesh's Foreign Minister has told ITV News that Shamima Begum is not his country's problem. Abdul Momen said if she did go to Bangladesh after being stripped of her British citizenship she could be hanged for terrorism. Shamima Begum was one of three schoolgirls to leave Bethnal Green to join the terror cult in 2015 and resurfaced at a Syrian refugee camp in March. Now 19, Ms Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in February by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. The government's official reason for depriving Ms Begum of her British passport has never been made public, but it is believed that the fact her father was from Bangladesh meant she could be made a Bangladeshi citizen. The comments from Bangladesh's chief diplomat on Thursday is the firs...
Why millennials are having less sex
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Why millennials are having less sex

    An economic concept has been applied to millennials as a method of explaining why young people are having less sex. According to Allison Schrager, an economist and author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, the decreasing rate of young people having sex can be defined through the study of risk. The basis of the decline, according to Schrager, has to do with a concept called risk-free asset, which makes up the foundation of the decisions people make. For millennials, who have been generalised as being more risk-averse than previous generations, the ultimate risk-free return is not leaving the house, Schrager suggests, which has ultimately led to a decrease in sex. Describing how people no longer need to leave the ho...
Assange fights extradition to US
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Assange fights extradition to US

    Julian Assange has declined a chance to consent to his extradition to the US at a court hearing in London where the American government started pressing its case to take him across the Atlantic. Appearing by videolink from Belmarsh prison, Assange said: “I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many, many people.” Ben Brandon, counsel for the US government, presented details of the US case against Assange at Westminster magistrates court. He said that the charges related to one of the largest compromises of information in the history of the US. They were connected to the downloading of a “vast amount of classified documents” by Chelsea Manning, the US intelligence analyst who subsequently se...
Calls for criminal probe into leak
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Calls for criminal probe into leak

    There is certainly an argument for a criminal investigation into the leaking of information from the National Security Council, a former attorney general has told Sky News. Dominic Grieve said the disclosure to a newspaper of an NSC discussion about Chinese telecoms giant Huawei's potential involvement in the development of the UK's 5G mobile network was corrosive and undesirable. Prime Minister Theresa May sacked Gavin Williamson as defence secretary after an inquiry found there was compelling evidence he was responsible. Mr Williamson has denied being the culprit, telling Sky News he swore on his children's lives that neither he, nor any of his staff, were behind it. © PA Gavin Williamson told Sky News he swore on his children's lives that he did not leak the inf...