Two men to appear in Manchester crown court charged with murder of 67-year-old Stuart Everett
Seventeen-year-old girl due to face court after incident near Newcastle with police saying death is ‘hard to imagine’
Detectives say 17-year-old girl arrested at home after ‘hard to imagine’ death of younger sibling
Police claim 24-year-old slashed another man across neck before being wrestled to ground by crowd at Hebersham
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Thomas O’Halloran, 87, was stabbed in west London in 2022 by Lee Byer, 45, who had paranoid schizophrenia
Video footage shows two hooded figures entering the front yard of a house in Fairfield West before a fire erupts
Emergency services called to incident at home in Boolaroo, about 20km west of Newcastle
Police ‘very confident’ body parts in Salford belong to a man in his 60s whose torso was found on 4 April
Two people still in hospital after major incident across Westward Ho!, Bideford and Barnstaple
Eight others taken to hospital and four arrested on suspicion of supply of controlled substance, say police
Teenager remanded in youth custody for trial in May after playground stabbing in Carmarthenshire
Fiona Beal, 50, changes her plea mid-trial over the fatal stabbing of Nicholas Billingham, 42, in 2021
The group’s facility near Manchester, where three women died in 2022, ‘should be prosecuted’, says Richard Caseby
Suspects, aged 42 and 68, held on suspicion of murder after discovery of plastic-wrapped lower back, buttocks and thigh
The families of thousands of people who have gone missing in Balochistan province spend their lives in sit-ins and rallies
Michael McDaid charged with murder after Rachel McDaid found dead at her home in Eastwood
Coroner opens and closes inquest into workplace death of reality TV star, pending outcome of criminal investigation
Tributes paid to Jitendranath Karuturi and Chanhakya Bolisetti, who are believed to have slipped while taking selfies
Bishop was injured in alleged incident in Wakeley with the teenager expected to appear at a bedside court hearing on Friday
Dani Mansour, 19, charged after allegedly filming himself damaging two police vehicles amid anger over stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel
Teenager charged with riot, affray and damage to property and will appear at Blacktown local court on Thursday
The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals.
The use of hair-straightening products containing glyoxylic acid is associated with a risk for acute kidney failure because of the accumulation of calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.
Although the health care system has done much to reduce the incidence of ingestion of such alkalis as drain and oven cleaners, in recent years we have seen an overwhelming increase in the incidence of hair relaxer ingestion.
Through policy change and education, this collective aims to create a future without hair discrimination in the UK.
So many of us strived for this unrealistic, unattainable beauty standard.
We’re setting boundaries and being kind to ourselves, just because.
In light of studies showing the link between long-term lye use in hair products and breast cancer in Black women, Level Up wants big beauty brands to take these harmful items off shelves.
Hair discrimination… let’s talk about it!
Chemical hair straighteners allegedly raise serious health risks.
Female activists also asked the company to invest in research on the long-term use of chemical relaxers, which make hair easier to straighten
Studies show the products may double the risk of uterine cancer, but tradition, societal pressure and personal taste create obstacles to change
Campaign groups are concerned about ingredients in hair relaxers – but the science isn’t conclusive on the issue
Consumer group urges maker of Dark & Lovely and other hair relaxers to make its products safer for use or remove them from the market entirely
Organized by UK feminist group Level Up, the letter was prompted by an NIH study that linked hair relaxers to an increased risk of cancer.
Level Up’s Campaign Raises Concerns Over Chemical Hair Straighteners Containing Sodium Hydroxide, Found to Cause Cervical and Breast Cancer According to Studies by US National Institutes of Health and Oxford University”
Campaign group Level Up are urging for research into lye-based products affect Black women’s health
A study found that women who used hair relaxers several times a year were almost twice as likely to develop uterine cancer.
Exclusive: Major study into impact of products containing lye, a harsh chemical used in drain unblockers.
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Project Embrace creates positive visual media representation of Afro textured hair and challenges the lack of and mis-representation of black women and their natural hair in the media, workplace and society at large. We are here to champion a more diverse beauty representation.
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Police believe 40-year-old Queensland man suffered from mental health problems and had only moved to Sydney a month ago
Prosecution says Marten has told ‘big, fat lies’ in manslaughter trial and couple were ‘selfish and arrogant’