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Calls to raise UK marriage age from 16 to 18

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Sky News has been given access to call logs held by the Yorkshire-based charity Karma Nirvana as part of an investigation into child marriage.

Children in England and Wales can currently marry at the age of 16 with parental consent, but the charity says that children as young as seven are at risk.

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