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Campaigners are celebrating a new bill passing its second reading in the House of Commons. It proposes the minimum marriage age be set to 18.

Tory Pauline Latham says outdated laws allow child marriage in the UK, which is tantamount to child abuse.

Lawyer calls for improved education on issue and says figures are likely to show ‘tip of the iceberg’

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England and Wales are set to make virginity testing a criminal offence  Unscientific procedure involves examination to assess whether hymen is intact It is based around the false but widely held belief that all women and girls' hymens are broken in the first instance of penetrative vaginal sex  Campaigners say the tests put women and girls at risk of 'honour' abuse  Hymens can be broken in other ways, remain intact, or be absent since birth There is no known examination to prove a history of vaginal intercourse Under the bill, hymenoplasty - a process which temporarily reconstructs the hym...