Daily roundup 5 September: Cyberbullying, public sector pay, and double shooting

More than eight in 10 young people think social media companies should do more to tackle cyberbullying on their platforms, a poll conducted by charities YoungMinds and The Children's Society has found. The survey of more than 1,000 young people aged between 11 and 25 also revealed that 46 per cent said they had experienced threatening, intimidating or nasty messages via social media, email or text and 14 per cent had experienced online bullying in the last month.


Theresa May will lift the public sector pay cap later this month as the Tories seek to respond to concerns that the public are "tired with austerity". The Telegraph reports that pay increases in the public sector have been frozen and then capped at 1 per cent for seven years. But the Prime Minister is planning to announce the end of the cap with pay to increase in line with the rate of inflation or above.


A 14-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital and a 17-year-old has suffered "life-changing" injuries in a double shooting in east London. The BBC reports that police were called on Monday afternoon to Moore Walk, Forest Gate, and found the two teenagers with gunshot wounds. The Metropolitan Police said there were "serious concerns" of retaliation and has put extra officers on the streets.


MSPs will quiz football association bosses on progress to improve child protection in the sport when they return to the Scottish parliament today. The Scotsman reports that representatives from the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Youth Football Association will appear before the health and sport committee. The committee has been looking into child protection in sport in the wake of allegations of historical child sexual abuse in football.


A young dad "snapped" before murdering his baby son who was crying and teething, a court has heard. The Manchester Evening News reports that eight-month-old Leyton Dawick sustained a series of injuries, including what experts think were stamps and kicks to his head and groin. It is alleged the injuries were delivered deliberately by his father Craig Dawick, 25, who is on trial accused of murder. He denies the charge.