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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has insisted local inquiries into grooming gangs in five towns are still going ahead despite claims the plans have been watered down.

A law named in honour of victims of the Hillsborough disaster and aimed at preventing cover-ups must be "all or nothing", campaigners have said, after concerns the bill might be watered down.

It would be hugely reluctant to comply with another US ask: to water down its much-trumpeted digital regulations, aimed at limiting monopolies and placing restrictions on speech and content in the EU.

Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back.

Since President Trump retook office, entertainment and media companies have quickly moved to water down efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion both internally and in the content they produce.