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Lawyers say nearly 2000 people across Devon and Cornwall have signed up to demand compensation from the local water company over sewage spills.

The group legal claim wants South West Water held responsible for occasions when raw sewage discharges prevented people using the sea and deterred tourists from using local businesses.

South West Water last year spilled sewage for more hours than any other English water company – more than 400,000 in total. It is also due to be sentenced after pleading guilty to repeated illegal sewage spills.

South West Water said it is aware of the legal claim and is currently investing £760m to reduce the amount of sewage it discharges.

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On Sunday, two prominent left-wing political commentators in the US — Hasan Piker and his uncle, Cenk Uygur – said they had been barred from visiting the UK.

Both men were due to appear at the SXSW London festival, but say the British government blocked them from entering the country because of their criticism of Israel.

The British government confirmed that it had denied them entry on the grounds that their presence in the UK “may not be conducive to the public good” but did not elaborate further.

Their cases have sparked renewed debate about the limits of free speech in the UK.

We speak to American political activist Shabbos Kestenbaum – who was due to debate Cenk Uygur in London – and to the legal academic and host of the BBC’s The Law Show, Joelle Grogan.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Why Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyger were banned from the UK
04:00 The man who was supposed to debate with Hasan Piker
11:29 What are the UK laws on free speech?
15:23 How many people have been blocked from the UK?
21:49 What is hate speech in the UK?

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A Russian missile and drone attack has killed at least 13 people across Ukraine, nine in Dnipro and four in the capital Kyiv, marking one of Moscow’s largest assaults in recent months.

Dozens were also injured, including several children, after the overnight air strikes hit apartment blocks, with emergency crews racing to find people feared trapped beneath rubble in Kyiv.

Air raid warnings were in place across most of Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday.

Russia’s defence ministry said the strikes had been a response to previous Ukrainian attacks, saying in a statement that the “strike objectives” had all been achieved.

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