Instagram announces that Stories drafts are coming soon 

  • Instagram has today announced that it will soon add a new option to save your Instagram Stories as drafts, to be posted at a later stage. 
  • Stories drafts have been a highly requested feature, according to Instagram, and the option will provide more flexibility in utilising Stories, while it will also be beneficial for brands that are looking to post their updates at the most relevant times for their audience. 
  • Shortly after Instagram’s announcement tweet, app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shared these images of what the Stories drafts process will look like.
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One in three spot hate speech in online videos 

  • Instagram has today announced that it will soon add a new option to save your Instagram Stories as drafts, to be posted at a later stage. 
  • Stories drafts has been a highly requested feature, according to Instagram, and the option will provide more flexibility in utilising Stories, while it will also be beneficial for brands that are looking to post their updates at the most relevant times for their audience. 
  • Shortly after Instagram’s announcement tweet, app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shared these images of what the Stories drafts process will look like.
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A man who offered a 14-year-old boy a Belfast hotel stay caught by undercover police 

  • A man who is grandad to 24 offered a ‘14-year-old boy’ a trip to McDonald’s in exchange for a hotel stay. 
  • The offender wanted to take a child for a McDonald’s and to the cinema and planned on sexually abusing him in a hotel in Belfast. 
  • The 61-year-old started speaking to ‘Mark’ on Chatiw in 2019 but didn’t realise it was actually an undercover police officer. 
  • In sickening messages, Griffiths said he wanted to ‘kiss and cuddle’ the ‘schoolboy’ before performing sex acts on each other, which he described in graphic detail. 
  • When officers went to his address they discovered child sex abuse images, which included an image of a 12-month-old baby being raped, in the offenders possession. 
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One in five students say bad A-level advice led to lack of degree choice – poll 

  • One in five students at university say they were unable to study degree subjects that interested them because they didn’t receive good advice from their school on which A-levels and GCSEs to pick, a poll shows. 
  • The students had been unable to study degrees such as medicine, dentistry, maths, economics and languages because these courses require specific qualifications. 
  • Two in five of the 27,000 first- and second-year students at UK universities, including those from overseas, polled by the University and College Admissions Service (Ucas) said they would have made different choices if they had received better careers advice. 
  • However, school leaders said that the government does not provide schools with enough support and funding to offer quality careers advice. 
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