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A rider who suffered crush injuries has lost a £100,000 claim against the owner of a "naughty" horse after a judge ruled the animal may have suffered a heart attack.

 

Lisa Ford suffered multiple fractures, including a smashed pelvis and internal injuries, when the horse reared up and fell backwards on to her while she was riding on the Badminton Estate with the Beaufort Hunt in September 2018.

Tough new laws outlined by the Communities Secretary could see every statue given greater protection from "baying mobs" and road names saved from the "revisionist purge" of Labour councils.

 

Robert Jenrick is to change the law so that, without going through a formal planning process, historic statues, plaques, memorials or monuments cannot be removed. Mr Jenrick is also looking at ways to stop Left-wing councils from unilaterally replacing street names linked to the British Empire, without the approval of a clear majority of people living in the streets affected. 

Immigration minister Chris Philp announced a new law as the first step in the Government's planned reform of the UK's "broken" asylum system.

 

After Brexit migrants will be banned from making UK asylum claims at sea under a new law that paves the way for border force vessels to intercept them and return them immediately to France. 

A 16-year-old apprentice is thought to be the youngest ever employee to win an age discrimination case after being branded "immature" by his boss. 

A lady with Down's syndrome is launching a landmark legal challenge to the Government's abortion legislation claiming she is "better off dead" in the eyes of the law.

 

25-year-old Heidi Crowter, who has married since she first began legal proceedings and is now known as Mrs Carter, has called for a judicial review of current laws saying, "The current law is unfair. It makes me feel like I shouldn't exist, and that I'd be better off dead in the eyes of the law."