Dear Diana, I have some exciting news for you: thanks to the support of some generous donors, Lady Freethinker has just become a Meta shareholder to strengthen our call to end animal cruelty on their platforms. As a shareholder, Lady Freethinker will be able to submit a proposal to end animal abuse and torture on Facebook and we cannot be ignored. Even as the Lady Freethinker team continues to track animal torture on Facebook and report it directly with Meta contacts, sickening videos and images of baby monkeys, puppies, kittens, and other helpless animals being brutally harmed continue to be posted daily on the platform.   Enough is enough. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the generous supporters who have made this effort possible. Lady Freethinker will keep doing all we can to stop this horrific content until it is a thing of the past. Thank you for joining us in the fight to stop animal cruelty on social media.

Rishi Sunak is working towards an autumn general election on 10 October, The Independent has been told.

The prime minister on Thursday ruled out a snap election on 2 May amid mounting speculation in Westminster that he wanted to coincide with the local elections.

Mr Sunak did not indicate when the election would be called, but Downing Street sources told The Independent that the date has been pencilled in for the second Thursday in October.

Lots of issues to fight for !

Regards Mark