Alexandra Topping
Senior Reporter at The Guardian
Senior reporter at the Guardian, currently at Paris 2024. Northerner stranded in the South. Long-suffering Evertonian. Views are mine alone.
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5 days ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Alexandra Topping
Adm Sir Ben Key at a 2024 commemoration of 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Adm Sir Ben Key at a 2024 commemoration of 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Photograph: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesThe head of the Royal Navy has been suspended pending an investigation. Adm Sir Ben Key has been asked to “step back” as first sea lord, sources at the MoD confirmed on Friday.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Alexandra Topping
A 14-year-old boy whose body was found after a large fire in Gateshead was “valued and much loved”, his headteacher said. Fourteen children have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Layton Carr, from South Tyneside. His body was found after emergency services were called to a fire in a building near Fairfield industrial park on Friday night.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Alexandra Topping
British fathers are being urged to join the world’s first “Dad strike” to protest about the UK’s statutory paternity leave, which campaigners say is the least generous in Europe. Fathers are planning to protest with their babies outside the Department for Business and Trade in London on 11 June in an effort to force the government to improve leave for dads and non-birthing partners.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Alexandra Topping
New fathers have been “betrayed” by Labour’s flagship workers’ rights bill, campaigners have said, after it emerged that a promised “day one” right to paternity leave will not include the right to statutory pay. The Guardian has learned that while the bill will give an estimated 30,000 more new dads each year statutory paternity leave, they will still need to have worked for the same employer for at least nine months before the baby is due to be eligible for statutory paternity pay.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Alexandra Topping |Mario Laghos
In the spring of 2023, subscribers to the British local lifestyle magazine Somerset Life were eagerly anticipating their April edition – a Gardens Special promising top tips for green-fingered readers and the best places to see seasonal bluebells. But when the magazine landed on readers’ doormats, a story bigger than blooming gardens of south-west England was on the cover.
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Saturday mornings on the sidelines: a brutal place to be. Some of these parents at kids’ football stories are incredible>> https://t.co/n6GOsHZgH3
RT @EvertonWomen: Games at Anfield = 5 Wins at Anfield = 5 Merseyside = blue https://t.co/x895NwR3uc
I’ve long said that better parental leave for dads/partners is crucial if we’re going to tackle maternity discrimination, the gender pay gap and - I believe - violence against women and girls. So good luck to the Dad Shift and the #DadStrike. Sign up! https://t.co/k8yWBnXTzJ
