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A Broadfield schoolgirl has launched a campaign aimed at changing perceptions of people who wear a hijab. Laiba Baig, from Teasel Close, has been given $3,000 (£2,000) by Twitter to fund the project after pitching her idea at a Dragons' Den-style competition in London.

Exam pressures and physical health problems, like acne, are major contributory factors in the suicides of young people, according to research.

Exit poll exercises are still India’s infant industry. The preferences of media barons remain an impediment in the search for reality. There is no sign, as yet, that these futile exercises will give way to realistic projections. The true consolation is that truth will out. It was – with a resounding bang.  Far from heading for the political wilderness, Bengal’s feisty  Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress made a triumphant return to power with an enhanced majority in the 295 seat Assembly, the Congress party came second with 44 seats, the former governing Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM limped home a poor third with 29 seats, while the ruling BJP at the centre in Delhi , despite its thunder limped in with  3 seats.

UK, EU, US or India – where should you put your money. Brexit and Trump mean the question is more important than ever.