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Surge in Albanian child slaves trafficked to Britain

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Victims are involved in criminal activities, warns the children’s charity Barnardo’s

A new system to protect trafficked children indicates that there has been an alarming rise in the number of Albanian child slaves forced to work in the UK.

If the trend – being highlighted on Anti-Slavery Day – were to continue, Albanians could soon outnumber Vietnamese children as Britain’s most exploited juvenile group.

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Scientist under attack after he kills bird that took decades to find

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Case of the moustached kingfisher pits those who think ‘collecting’ can save a species against those who believe we should never kill rare animals

For Christopher Filardi of the American Museum of Natural History, there is nothing like the thrill of finding a mysterious species. Such animals live at the intersection of myth and biology – tantalising researchers with the prospect that they may be real, but eluding trustworthy documentation and closer study. Indeed, last month, Filardi waxed poetic on the hunt for the invisible beasts that none the less walk among us.

“We search for them in earnest but they are seemingly beyond detection except by proxy and story,” he wrote. “They are ghosts, until they reveal themselves in a thrilling moment of clarity and then they are gone again. Maybe for another day, maybe a year, maybe a century.”

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Senior doctors offer volunteer cover so juniors can protest – live

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Medics prepare to fill central London streets as Jeremy Hunt reiterates accusation that union is misleading members

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The march is set to start in a few minutes at Waterloo Place, here’s a map of the route.

Map of the Junior Doctors London Protest – 17/10/15 @ 2pm #ourliveyourhands #juniorcontract http://bitly.com/1ROiAVq http://pic.twitter.com/kBd0hFCzm0

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The Guardian’s health policy editor puzzles over the Health Secretary’s true agenda in pushing the junior contract:

What does Jeremy Hunt think he’s doing here? What’s his strategy for dealing with something when even the Daily Telegraph is warning that Conservative activists don’t understand why it’s become such a problem?

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Gloria Steinem: ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament’

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She’s been at the forefront of the feminist movement since the 60s. What’s changed? Gloria Steinem talks about Sheryl Sandberg, Hillary Clinton – and the new threats to women’s rights

The pope is in town the morning I visit Gloria Steinem, staying a few blocks from her on the east side of Manhattan, a fact that tickles the 81-year-old activist. She is, needless to say, unimpressed by the pontiff’s liberal window-dressing. “I’m very glad that he cares about the environment,” she says drily. “And poverty. And dogs.” He has also relaxed the language around abortion, urging “forgiveness”, as opposed to damnation. Steinem, who is the nearest thing we have to a grande dame of feminism – a mantle she abhors – laughs. “Excuse me? Are you kidding me? Forgiveness?”

It is not easy to be an old hand in a political movement the very nature of which is, to some extent, to interrogate and reject the assumptions of what came before. When Steinem came of political age, in the late 1960s and early 70s, Betty Friedan ruled the roost, urging women to shuck off their domestic duties and grab the economic reins of power, something her feminist descendants praised even while deposing her for the reactionary scope of her interests. (As Bella Abzug said at the time, Friedan’s proposals were in danger of replacing “a white, male, middle-class elite with a white, female, middle-class elite”, a caution Steinem echoed: “We wanted to transform the system, not imitate it,” she says.)

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Half of Britons believe weekend hospital admissions ‘more dangerous’

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Amid junior doctor contract row, Observer/Opinium poll shows 35% of adults have delayed seeking medical help at weekend

Half of British adults believe they would be in greater danger if they were admitted to hospital at the weekend, new research suggests.

The Observer/Opinium poll, which found significant numbers of patients had delayed trips to the doctors on a Saturday and Sunday, was published on Saturday as thousands of junior doctors protested against government proposals to reform weekend working.

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