November 18, 20240 Comments

Stop Sextortion – bereaved parents’ appeal to Nigerian criminals

BBC Mark and Ros Dowey have made a direct appeal to criminals involved in sextortion The parents of a British teenager who took his own life after becoming a victim of sextortion have made a direct appeal to criminals in Nigeria to stop “terrorising” the vulnerable. Murray Dowey, from Dunblane, was only 16 when he ended his life last year. It is thought he had been tricked by criminals in

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November 8, 20240 Comments

Parents warned they are paying over the odds

Parents have been “paying over the odds” for baby milk because of a lack of competition in the formula market, a government watchdog has said. It stopped short of recommending price controls, but said they remain a possibility, adding parents have been “shouldering the costs” of price increases in the market for years. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) interim report said the baby milk industry needed a shake-up to

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