in the conservative leadership race. and supermodel kate moss tells the bbc that being asked to take off her bra during a photoshoot when she was 15 years old opened her eyes to the dangers of the fashion industry. i could feel there was something wrong. so i got my stuff and i ran away. i think it sharpened my instincts, i can kind of tell a wrong un a mile away. the port of dover says work has been continuing around the clock to help holidaymakers and lorries get across the channel, after they faced lengthy waits over the past two days. queues at the port are expected to be reduced to about an hour this afternoon. the port s chief executive, doug bannister, thanked travellers and residents of dover for their understanding during what he described as a challenging period . people using eurotunnel to travel to france have been warned to expect long delays at folkestone. simonjones reports. the not so great getaway continues. the port of dover is expecting another six and a
Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera is a young Cuban man with intellectual disabilities who is serving a 23-year prison sentence for peacefully protesting the communist Castro dictatorship. In an interview with Cuban American writer Justo Antonio Triana, his father Wilber Aguilar Bravo discusses his son's unjust imprisonment and his campaign to achieve his release. Via Quillette: Cuba's
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wilber aguilar is under such scrutiny from cuban state security. we had to meet on the other side of havana. his son has learning difficulties yet was sentenced to 12 years in what he calls a sham trial. translation: he was convicted of sedition. how can you imagine that a young black man from la guinera who barely graduated the ninth grade at a special school could be guilty of sedition. it s alljust a huge lie. a year on and many here feel that their young people were unfairly targeted, that the full weight of the law in cuba, indeed the full weight of the entire revolution came down on this poor, marginalised and mainly black community to make an example of it to the rest of the island. parents, especially mothers across la guinera, are going through the same thing. confused as to why their children were singled out to spend decades in jail for a collective outburst against the system. but in cuba s tightly controlled