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Four Darlington nurses, already at the centre of a high-profile employment tribunal which begins this month, are now facing professional misconduct investigations, after four complaints made by members of the public to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Simon Pearson, the Christian teacher dismissed from Preston College for expressing concerns about violent crime and two-tier policing, has today spoken publicly at a Reform UK party free speech conference.

Local residents and elected representatives have raised fresh legal and ethical concerns regarding Monmouthshire County Council’s (MCC) proposed lease of the historic Carnegie Library in Abergavenny to the Monmouthshire Muslim Community Association (MMCA) for use as a mosque and Muslim community centre.

Shadow Equalities Minister and East Surrey MP, the Rt Hon Claire Coutinho, has met with suspended Christian nurse Jennifer Melle in Parliament this week to discuss her ongoing and high-profile case.

An activist lawyer turned judge in Northern Ireland has been forced to allow an application for his own recusal after being publicly challenged over his impartiality in a landmark case involving the criminalisation of prayer outside an abortion clinic.