A recent incident in the UK serves as a warning of the dangers that Britain’s censorious state poses to the right to free speech.Isabel-Vaughan-Spruce, a charity volunteer, was arrested and charged for a silent prayer “thought crime” near an abortion facility Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released a video on Thursday showing police confronting Spruce, who was arrested for violating a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) after she was seen praying silently near an abortion facility four times in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Spruce, a longtime charity worker for vulnerable women and children, was praying in silence when police officers approached her…
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Members of a Birmingham county lines drug gang who pushed heroin and crack cocaine into Stratford-upon-Avon have been jailed. Giovanni Cooper-Clarke and Kyden Williams-Parchment ran the Birmingham-based Rico Line which had established a “significant foothold” in the historic tourist town. Detectives infiltrated the line and gathered evidence of marketing messages sent out from the line to customers offering Class A drugs for sale. The Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) said those behind the chain had now been jailed for a combined 38 years. According to detectives – who worked alongside Warwickshire Police to identify the line – Cooper-Clarke and Williams-Parchment…
A sex offender discovered by police with a young girl in a hotel room after a tip-off from a member of the public has been jailed for nine years. Tahmid Majid, 24, was caught after he and another man were seen talking to the girl in a passageway near Grantham train station on June 26, 2022 and were trying to persuade her to go with them on a train to Manchester.A conversation about how the girl could earn large sums of money and would be given a house to live in was overheard and the witness called Lincolnshire Police. Officers…
Three years into our marriage, my husband travelled to Canada in search of greener pastures. It was a happy day for our family. Our children were very young then but I was thankful to God for paving a way for the head of our family. I believed it was the kind of breakthrough we needed to turn our lives around. We knew that it was not going to be easy to have him live miles across the ocean but we were determined to make the marriage work. We promised each other that the distance would not kill our love or…
The British royal family has been the talk of the town for decades. There has never been a dull moment with the members of this family. Recently, the main focus has been the tension between Harry and Meghan and their choice to remove themselves from the life of royalty. With their departure as senior royals, Harry and Meghan haven’t been joining the royal family for any festivities because their leaving has caused some major backlash. Entertainment Tonight met with Katie Nicholl, the author of The New Royals, and talked with her about the royal family’s holiday plans. Katie explains that…
Like most families, Christmastime reminds me of so many things that took place when I was growing up. I remember sitting at home on my mother’s couch unwrapping presents on Christmas morning. I remember my mom in the kitchen cooking (and not letting anyone touch anything) and all the smells and sounds of the holidays. There are so many wonderful memories that happened during this time of year Even though now all of my grandparents are passed on, and in recent years Christmas has changed in many ways, now that I’m a mom, there are some traditions I just can’t…
We dated for seven months. me and Adelaide. We were always fighting. It could be about anything. Anything that adults could sit, talk and resolve it. We didn’t have the time to do that. If she called and I didn’t pick up and I called back later, she would snap and it would turn into a huge fight. If I called her at night and there was someone else on the line and I asked who it was, she would give me cheeky answers like, “Are you the only person I’m allowed to talk to at night?” I would get…
Brittany Wright headed off to a work conference in Seattle, never thinking she was about to meet her future husband. After all, she was already married. Brittany met Tyler at the event, and after striking up a friendship, they discovered a commonality: They were both struggling in their marriages but trying their best to make it work. The pair started off as good friends who turned to each other for support during a difficult time, but say they had no intention of developing a romance with one another.Instead, Brittany and Tyler expected to return home to their spouses — until…
Bekah King, Abi Roberts, and Morgan Tabor were brought together by a guy who didn’t respect them or himself. It all started when Morgan suspected her boyfriend was cheating. The 21-year-old ended up finding a profile on the photo-sharing app VSCO that showed her boyfriend in multiple pictures with another woman “I thought I was going to marry this guy. We had talked about houses and what our marriage would be like. My world came crumbling down,” Morgan told Inside Edition.”I had to mourn the loss of this future we were building up together. It was soul crushing. Morgan reached…
This story should be made into a movie! Back in 1961, Denny and Karen Vinar were teenagers in the midst of falling in love. But when Karen got pregnant at 15 years old, everything changed.Karen was placed at a home for unwed mothers by her disapproving family. After the young couple from Minneapolis had their baby girl, Karen and Denny held their daughter for an hour before the baby was placed for adoption. Karen and Denny were forced apart from her … and from each other.Denny went on to join the military as Karen went off to college. They never…