Smoking-style warnings on social media backed by seven out of ten adults, LBC poll finds

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Four-fold increase in the number of child sexual abuse images discovered online

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Children exposed to psychological and ‘disturbingly real’ harm on metaverse, study warns

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LBC Investigates: What a 13-Year-Old Girl Sees on TikTok

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The arrest, at 6am in Dartford, came a week after another woman was charged with similar offences in North London.

Investigators tell me it’s too soon to say if they’re linked.

The 42 year-old in Kent is said to have sat the Life in the UK test for 12 people, in disguise.

On police budgets, with forces continuing to announce huge gaps that need to be made up, the Home Secretary told LBC:

“We do need efficiency savings and we recognise of course there are cost pressures and reserves have been run down in recent years”

Yvette Cooper also confirmed LBC’s story that police will get more powers to tackle phone theft, by carrying out search warrants quicker.

She’s meeting tech bosses today.

“We need policing and tech companies working hand in hand”

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Responding to comments by the counter terror chief that social media leads to youth violence like smoking does cancer, the Home Sec said she’s ‘really worried’ and nothing can be off the table in limiting its use for children.

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As LBC also reveals the number of women caught with knives has trebled in a decade, Yvette Cooper says the figures are ‘stark’ and gave a warning that you’re more likely to become a victim.

“It's dangerous, illegal, and it will just make violence worse”

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The Home Secretary says she would support metal detecting knife arches in schools, to keep pupils safe after a stabbing in Sheffield this week.

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'My son is not evil': Mother of man who murdered police officer blames attack on 'autistic meltdown' - @lbc.co.uk

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“I didn't want my son to be an evil cop killer,” Louis de Zoysa’s mum tells LBC.

“He's not evil. He didn't mean to do this and that gives me comfort.”

Asked what her message to Matt Ratana’s family would be, she says:

“I'm deeply sorry. I'm so sorry for their loss. I think about them every day.”

Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC she’s concerned about her son - now 27 - in Belmarsh.

“He's in a wheelchair. He's paralyzed on his right side. Belmarsh just doesn't have the capability to look after him."

The prison service disputes that, saying it caters to all disabilities and prisoner needs.

Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC her son "can’t remember" why he killed Sgt Matt Ratana, while he was being detained in 2020.

She adds that she genuinely believes he had an autistic meltdown - “he’s not evil”.

A jury dismissed autism being a defence in de Zoysa's trial.

On the murder of Matt Ratana - and the antique revolver her son used - the mum of Louis de Zoysa tells LBC:

“School failed him, people bullied him and I believe he'd been intimidated by a gang. He'd always had a low level interest in guns and he bought a vintage one from an auction house."

Speaking of the last time she saw him in prison, Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC her son “had holes in his shoes, his clothes had holes, his trousers were stained. It didn't look as though he'd washed or brushed his hair for weeks.“