The week according to Caroline Farrow Saturday 3rd July 2021

Caroline from CitizenGO joins us to discuss the week's big stories.
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Links to news stories discussed

Covid

Bishop of Manchester says he's more concerned about Hancock breaking social distancing than 'a middle-aged man having a fling'
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/bishop-of-manchester-says-he-s-more-concerned-about-hancock-s-social-distancing-than-a-middle-aged-man-having-a-fling

Teenager behind lemon juice Covid test TikTok hack says he wasn’t faking positive, he was just ‘bored’
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/fake-a-positive-covid-test-result-tiktok-lemon-juice-1084390

Ollie Robinson cleared to play cricket immediately after disciplinary hearing
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/07/03/ollie-robinson-cleared-play-cricket-immediately-disciplinary/

Health chiefs' Covid winter plan could mean masks and social distancing for next 5 years
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/health-chiefs-covid-winter-plan-24440330

Abortion

Northern Ireland’s abortion service on ‘brink of collapse’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/northern-irelands-abortion-service-on-brink-of-collapse-vrvm9f793

Act now to stop abortion up to birth
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42540

Sex

Methodist church to allow same-sex marriage after ‘historic’ vote
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/30/methodist-church-allows-same-sex-marriage-after-vote

High Court rules transgender women CAN go into female prisons: Judges rule government's policy is lawful despite claims from inmate it raised risk of sex attacks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9750105/High-Court-rules-transgender-women-female-prisons.html

Dozens of files about Ghislaine Maxwell’s personal affairs that could include ‘links to the Clintons’ to be unsealed
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15466488/dozens-files-ghislaine-maxwell-links-clintons-unsealed/

Rochdale grooming gang members to fight deportation from UK by invoking their human rights
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/rochdale-grooming-gang-members-fight-20945051