Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s pred 16 urami in 47 minutami Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets.The deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children under the age of 16. The images on billboards and social media make a number of stark statements related to health. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘The most important part is the vibe’: Bate Bay named Australia’s best beach pred 17 urami in 5 minutami Tourism Australia beach ambassador Brad Parker says the coastline south of Sydney airport ‘ticked pretty much every box’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Sutherland shire’s Bate Bay has been named best Australian beach for 2026. The annual list selects the top 10 beaches across the country, aiming to showcase Australia’s beauty domestically and abroad.Tourism Australia’s beach ambassador, Brad Parker, who compiled the list, described the coastline south of Sydney’s airport as “Sydney’s longest, least crowded and most beautiful stretch of sand”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage pred 17 urami in 15 minutami Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stageIt is regarded as one of the greatest British television series ever made, exploring the decline of the Labour party, sleaze, social decay, dodgy developers, injustice and how idealism can so easily turn to disillusionment and cynicism.Our Friends in the North will return this year in a new guise and will be just as relevant, its writer believes, as it was 30 years ago. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Polls open in Gordon and Denton byelection amid three-way battle between Greens, Labour and Reform pred 17 urami in 15 minutami Voters head to the polls in south-east Manchester in one of the most unpredictable byelections in recent yearsAnalysis: What a win would mean for Reform, Greens and LabourThe polls have opened in the three-way battle for Gorton and Denton in south-east Manchester in one of the most unpredictable byelections in years.The Green party leader Zack Polanski said his party was “neck and neck” with Reform UK to overturn Labour’s 13,000-vote majority, and that Labour will need to “search their conscience” if Reform UK wins.Keir Starmer’s party has targeted left-leaning voters in the Greater Manchester seat with claims that only Labour can see off Nigel Farage’s Reform, saying that a vote for the Greens was “in effect, a vote for Reform”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Minns government undermined own goal with NSW protest restrictions, constitutional challenge hears pred 17 urami in 23 minutami Lawyer for protest groups argues state needs to prove it was ‘rational to prevent all protests’ to achieve social cohesionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLawyers for three protest groups have argued a Minns government law which effectively banned marches in Sydney’s CBD made its own objective of enhancing social cohesion “worse”.On Thursday the NSW court of appeal heard the constitutional challenge against the anti-protest law, which was passed in the wake of the Bondi terror. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
