Water-based sports across the UK are uniting to call on the government to take urgent action to address pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters. BBC Sport can reveal that…
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Image source, Getty Images Transgender women should not be put on single-sex female NHS wards, the government is proposing. The measure is part of a raft of changes to the…
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