YouTube is launching a new campaign to tackle internet safety and issues around fake news, the video streaming site has announced. The BBC reports that the company said it will put on workshops aimed at 13- to 18-year-olds in cities across the UK.
Hospitals will be banned from selling sugary drinks and high-calorie snacks next year unless action is taken to drastically cut their sales, health officials have said. The Telegraph reports that under a national plan, retailers including Marks & Spencer, WH Smiths and Subway have agreed to cut sales of sweet drinks to a maximum of 10 per cent of their drinks output.
Labour has said children are being crammed "like sardines" into "super-sized" school classes, as it focuses its general election campaign on education. The BBC reports that party leader Jeremy Corbyn said 40,000 primary age children were taught in classes of 36 or more in England in 2016, blaming "broken promises" by the government.
Teenage hackers are motivated by idealism and impressing their friends rather than money, according to a study by the National Crime Agency. The Telegraph reports that the law enforcement organisation interviewed teenagers and children as young as 12 who had been arrested or cautioned for computer-based crimes. It found that those interviewed, who had an average age of 17, were unlikely to be involved in theft, fraud or harassment, instead seeing hacking as a "moral crusade".
Smokers are being asked to keep their second-hand smoke away from children's play areas in a new voluntary ban in effect across Oxford. The Oxford Times reports that stickers have been put up by Oxford City Council in all of its 87 play areas asking parents and carers who smoke to avoid doing so for as long as they are there.
