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THORPE PARK STOPPED A RIDE AFTER SOMEONE STUCK THEIR LEG OUT
Colossus was halted when staff spotted someone who "ignored restrictions"

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Staff at Thorpe Park stopped a rollercoaster in the middle of a ride on Sunday, after someone allegedly stuck their leg outside of their cart.

"We stopped the ride because a guest ignored our ride restrictions and put their leg outside of the cart while on board Colossus, which was spotted by our vigilant staff on CCTV," a spokesperson told The Independent. "Therefore we stopped the ride as soon as possible and evacuated all guests."

People at the amusement park shared photos of the Colussus riders stranded in mid-air, before they were brought down. The ride was soon back up and running.

Mother Dearest
ANDREA LEADSOM SUGGESTED BEING A MUM WOULD MAKE HER A BETTER PM
She then called the Times interview featuring her own words "gutter journalism"

Listen to the key part of our interview with Andrea Leadsom — The Times of London (@thetimes)July 9, 2016

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Andrea Leadsom, energy minister and Tory party leadership candidate, was criticised on Saturday for comments she made in a Times of interview, suggesting she'd be a better Prime Minister than childfree rival candidate Theresa May because Leadsom is a mother.

The Times ran a headline on the story that Leadsom deemed "gutter journalism", so later released the audio recording of her interview with one of the newspaper's political journalists. Leadsom had emphasised her role "as a mother" during ITV's Referendum Debate before the Brexit vote, so was asked about whether she considers herself a mum in politics.

"So, really carefully," Leadsom said, "because I am sure – I don't really know Theresa very well – but I am sure she will be really, really sad she doesn't have children. So I don't want this to be 'Andrea has children, Theresa hasn't,' because I think that would be really horrible? But genuinely I feel being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake."

Theresa May was reported last week as saying she and her husband were unable to have kids. Leadsom's now been told to apologise by some of her supporters, while Iain Duncan Smith has defended her logic. The campaign continues.

Damned Lies or Statistics?
TWICE AS MANY 18-24s AS WE'D THOUGHT VOTED IN THE EU REFERENDUM
A study based on post-vote polling estimated a 64 percent youth vote turnout

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Evidence analysed by LSE academics from post-vote polling found that an approximate 64 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds voted in the EU referendum, rather than the widely quoted 36 percent turnout estimate compiled by Sky Data.

"While young people voted a little bit less than average," wrote LSE political science and European politics professor Michael Bruter and his colleague Dr Sarah Harrison, in their report, "they were probably quite close to the national average (only 8 percent below according to our survey)." The national average turnout was about 72 percent.

The new figure, almost double the Sky Data number that had been based on data from last year's general election, came from a post-vote polling done by an insight agency called Opinium.

Original data, on young people voting overwhelmingly to leave – about 70 percent – is believed to still be accurate.

Shutdown London
A SERIES OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS FILLED LONDON'S STREETS
From Friday to Sunday, hundreds marched in solidarity with the US-led movement

TOGETHER WE STAND — Daniellè DASH (@DanielleDASH)July 8, 2016

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A series of marches shut down traffic and brought together hundreds of protesters in London from Friday to Sunday, under the Black Lives Matter banner. Friday's march wound from the Southbank to the US embassy, via central London's Oxford Street, with those rallied chanting "black lives matter" and "no justice, no peace." Another spontaneous rally started in Brixton, in southwest London, before a bigger, planned march started in central London on Sunday.

The marches were called in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black American men shot and killed by police officers in the same week. Sterling's death was captured on mobile phone footage, while Castile's girlfriend streamed mobile phone video to Facebook Live of the aftermath of her partner being shot during a routine traffic stop.

This week also saw the deaths of five police officers in Texas, believed to have been shot and killed by a lone gunman during a peaceful protest.