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Aletha Adu
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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The EU referendum has divided people in every section of society, including local government, where the vote could have a dramatic impact on local services.
Journalism is notorious for its lack of diversity, and recent figures have shown that progress on increasing the number of black and minority ethnic journalists continues to be far too slow. At the same time, women are still under-represented in senior positions, and the Guardian's recent and ongoing series The Web We Want highlighted some of the abuse facing black contributors and women contributors.
When Stoke Gifford parish council decided to start charging people taking part in parkrun, a weekly fun run in Little Stoke park, it received widespread condemnation. Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling on the council to revoke the charge, and even Paula Radcliffe waded in to criticise the move.
Three bodies have been found in the hunt for the missing former EastEnders actor Sian Blake and her two children, and police are now treating the case as a murder inquiry. The bodies were found in the garden of Blake's home in Erith, south-east London, and have not been formally identified.
Former News International chief executive Tom Mockridge has said that the company undermined the "principles of journalism" by handing over details of confidential sources to the police. In an interview with the Financial Times Mockridge, currently chief executive of Virgin Media, said News Corporation's actions were "disturbing".
The Journalism Diversity Fund has sponsored 200 minority trainee journalists since its launch in 2005. The fund has provided four more students, who lack the means to pay for an NTCJ-accredited course and are socially or ethnically diverse, with a bursary that pays for their course fees and supplies a subsistence allowance for the year.
After releasing 19, 21 and 25 Adele hints that next album could be seven years away ADELE has warned fans that her fourth album might take seven years to make - and be called 32. The singer, who has broken sales records with her new album 25, worries that her next one could take a while.
Having collected many music awards in his day, Morrissey moves onto the sex category Former Smiths frontman Morrissey has been awarded the Bad Sex in Fiction prize for his debut book. The singer's novel List of the Lost picked up the dubious honour for his terrible phrases including 'bulbous salutation'.
According to Liquid Nightclub in Windsor, if your night out does not end with you semi-naked and unconscious, you're doing it wrong One of the most popular nightclub chains has been slammed for using a half-naked woman passed out to advertise a club night.
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The Frontline Club is a gathering place for journalists, photographers and other likeminded people interested in international affairs and independent journalism. Our restaurant, events and training are open to the public. Our members are drawn from a wide community of journalists, other media professionals and people committed to press freedom, including photographers, writers, filmmakers, artists, diplomats and aid workers.
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