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South Gate has more balance and was toughened up playing in the Eastern League.

The bipartisan bill toughened background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, barred a larger group of domestic violence offenders from having guns, and assisted states in carrying out red flag laws.

A woman whose endometriosis went undiagnosed for more than two decades says a school's toughened stance on period pain is "just another slap in the face" for women and girls.

Reacting to today's figures, the prime minister's spokesman said rules around migrant sponsorship would be toughened "to ensure employers guilty of flouting employment laws are banned from hiring from abroad".

When the rules were then toughened up earlier this year, they proved even more divisive.