Lauren Taylor: Last News

A woman turned to an unexpected hero - fizzy cola - to restore her sentimental baby bangle, which had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years. Taking to her _laurenscleaning Instagram page, 29-year-old Lauren Taylor showed just how effectively the soda can bring dull silver jewellery back to life.

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 years for a series of rapes spanning eight years. Ex-PC Adam Provan’s predatory behaviour, which dated back to the 1990s, was finally brought to light after one of his victims came forward, Wood Green Crown Court heard.

WUSA9, the office awarded the money to Defend Yourself, an organization that shares skills to help those targeted for harassment, abuse, or assault to feel more safe and confident in their ability to defend themselves.The money from the Office of LGBTQ Affairs will allow Defend Yourself to train up to 10 transgender and nonbinary residents to become “empowerment self-defense teachers,” who can then share their skills and knowledge with others. Defend Yourself claims to have trained more than 35,000 D.C.-area residents to prevent, interrupt, and heal from gender-based violence since its founding in 1997, according to the organization’s director, Lauren Taylor.“Trans people, specially trans women of color, experience some of the most severe and frequent violence, including gender-based violence, of any group in the U.S.,” Taylor told WUSA9. “In the District, 47% of trans women have been sexually assaulted, as compared with 27% of women in the general U.S.