Ms Brown was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women. The following year, while sitting alongside Sir Keir Starmer at a Women's Aid panel, she urged the Labour leader to make tackling domestic violence one of his "national missions".

Even when Donald Trump wasn't in the room or even the main theme, the US president kept coming up again Wednesday at the gabfest of global elites in the Swiss resort of Davos. Here's a summary of what happened on Wednesday: - Trumpeting Trump - There were more reactions to Trump's remarks and threats.

Leeds-born singer Melanie Brown appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos and calls on the Government to increase the funding for domestic abuse charities. Source: PA, World Economic Forum

SPICE Girl Melanie Brown has called for action instead of words on domestic abuse. The singer, a patron of the charity Women’s Aid — whose campaign is supported by The Sun — spoke out at the World

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Spice Girl Melanie Brown delivered an impassioned speech on domestic violence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.

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The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially began on January 21, 2025, with leaders from around the globe emphasising the urgent need for collaboration in an increasingly uncertain geopolitical and geo-economic landscape.

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