A Female Perspective

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Eco-protestors who smear the government as ‘genocidal’ paralysed central London for hours yesterday as they unleashed a planned month-long campaign of mayhem.Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament. Local councillors have been accused of telling 'sob-stories' about how they are struggling in the cost-of-living crisis to ensure their own pay-rises - after they rejected debating a £660,000 boost for free school meals moments before. Tories at Central Bedfordshire Council unanimously voted against debating a motion for an inflationary 10 per cent uplift to the £6.6million free school meals budget - which provides just 82p worth of food per child per day after other costs. An under-fire transgender children's charity is reportedly giving advice to 16-year-olds on how to change their names without their parents’ knowledge. The Charity Commission has confirmed they are 'assessing' concerns raised about Mermaids after they were accused of giving chest-flattening devices to young girls against their parents' wishes. A shocking video shows a man walking in front of a car honking for him to move before being knocked to the ground by an onlooker, as online viewers debated who was more in the wrong. The incident occurred in Melbourne with some people wondering whether the man was deaf, while others said his attacker had gone overboard in knocking him out of the way. Dr Anmol Arora, a researcher at Cambridge University, argued that the devices may affect child development for a number of reasons. When they ask a question they receive a ‘specific’ and ‘concise’ answer, but this goes against how children typically learn. This Morning star Phillip Schofield has reportedly been dropped as the £1million face of We Buy Any Car as the fallout from widespread claims that he and his co-host Holly Willoughby jumped the 14-hour queue to see the Queen lying in state continues.The ITV presenters are battling a huge backlash for apparently skipping the line into Westminster Hall to pay respects to Her Majesty - and have even faced calls to resign from their lucrative jobs with This Morning, with a petition demanding they quit or be sacked gaining 75,000 signatures. The family of a British travel executive found hanged in a Qatar hotel room days after he was 'tortured by secret police' said England's football team should keep his unexplained death in mind during the World Cup. Marc Bennett's family don't believe he killed himself and have called on the footballing world to take a 'hard look' at which countries get to host tournaments. When Daniel Asadi was 14, he was told by his doctor that his growing phase was all but over. 'He said I was pretty much done,' recalls Daniel today. At nearly 5 ft 7 in, Daniel was already a reasonable height - but the words were still a 'stab in the heart.' 'It's really hard for a lot of people to understand, but I couldn't handle it,' he says. 'It was this one thing I didn't have, and it was on my mind day and night.' Not any more. In May last year - 11 years on from that distressing doctor's appointment - Daniel, then 25, underwent leg-lengthening surgery to gain the height he so desperately craved