Eager to wow her pals, Cassandra then mastered wakesurfing while hitting a tennis ball on Stave Lake in Mission, British Columbia, Canada, while another clip shows her sipping coffee while reading a magazine.

LONDON, september 2018 act date Dec 16 (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union have made "some progress" in post-Brexit trade talks but there are still significant gaps and the most likely outcome is for negotiations to end in no deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Wednesday.

However, PEN America also notes that only 4% of book bans in 2021 resulted from official challenges. The vast majority were "initiated by school administrators or board members … sometimes in response to comments from community members at board meetings."

Helen Gittos lost her newborn daughter Harriet at The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in 2014, one of the hospitals being probed as part of the independent review, set to be published this morning.

'An overriding theme, raised us with time and time again, is the failure of the trust's staff to take notice of women when they raised concerns, when they questioned their care, and when they challenged the decisions that were made about their care,' the report said.

Early this year, The New York Times reported that "parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades." The PEN America study found that a total of 1,648 individual book titles were removed from school libraries in 32 states during the last school year.

Of the 1,648 books banned last school year, 41 percent "explicitly address LGBTQ+ themes or have protagonists or prominent secondary characters who are LGBTQ+" and 40 percent "contain protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color," according to PEN America's latest report.

At eight weeks old he had to have emergency surgery because things had been missed, he wasn't gaining weight, he was dying in front of our eyes basically.' 'He ended up in special care, in resuscitation.

Although the library website still says that free cards for teens everywhere will be available "for a limited time," the CNN report notes that, due to the success of the program, the library plans to extend it indefinitely.

A new report from PEN America shows that there were more than 2,500 book bans last year from 140 school districts representing a total of almost 4 million students. Efforts to across the US picked up pace during the 2021-22 school year.

This week also marks the American Library Association's Banned Books Week -- an opportune time to learn about bans and to grab a free library card to find books that may no longer be available in your school.

Speaking ahead of the report's publication on Wednesday, Dr Kirkup said an expert panel investigating maternity care at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust heard a lot of 'harrowing accounts' from families during their work.

If the committee or ruling group decides to remove the book from school libraries, the book is considered "banned" by the school district. School districts usually have committees of librarians or other school officials who will review book challenges.

He said: 'While there have been some positive changes in leadership including your appointment as chair and the appointment of a new chief executive, there remains a cancer at the top of the organisation.

The Brooklyn Public Library has launched Books Unbanned, a website that allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to apply for a free library card that will let them download ebooks from its collection. One local library (a very big one) is taking steps to make sure that all teenagers across the US have access to books that may have been removed from their school or local libraries.

'The induction then took three days, I should have been offered an emergency C-section, but instead they gave me too much induction gel, over the Nice (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines.

'I want to say sorry and apologise unreservedly for the harm and suffering that has been experienced by the women and babies who were within our care, together with their families, as described in today's report,' she said.

She said: 'We are committed to preventing families from going through the same pain in future and are working closely with the NHS to continue improving the quality of care for mothers and babies with support teams for trusts, backed by £127 million to grow the workforce and improve neonatal care.

Speaking in Folkestone, Kent, Dr Bill Kirkup, who chaired an expert panel into the study, said he had just met with affected families who displayed 'a great deal of emotion and substantial amount of anger'.

He said: 'When I reported on Morecambe Bay maternity services in 2015, I did not imagine for one moment that I would be back in seven years' time talking about a rather similar set of circumstances and that there would have been another two large, high-profile maturity failures as well on top of that.