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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 02:07:13 JST Mrs Cloudy

   I was surprised to read that the age you can marry in the UK has recently been raised to 18.
   That doesn't seem to be true.
   https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/family/living-together-marriage-and-civil-partnership-s/getting-married-s/

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 02:18:35 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs Is this another case of someone stating UK instead of Eng & Wales?

     Got a link?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 02:30:38 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Radio Jammor

     @radiojammor it was within a Guardian article. I then Googled it and found lots of links that state the legal age of marriage in the UK as 18. Most have "UK" in the headline and England and Wales in the text. Some like this one, stick with UK in the text and have a one liner about Scotland being different hidden in the middle.
     
     https://www.rocketlawyer.com/gb/en/newsroom/legal-news/the-new-legal-age-for-marriage-in-the-uk

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     Peter Brown (peterbrown@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 04:59:50 JST Peter Brown

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     • Radio Jammor

     @CloudyMrs @radiojammor utterly disrespectful and ignorant, but sadly completely predictable to conflate England with UK

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 16:18:34 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Radio Jammor
     • Peter Brown

     @peterbrown @radiojammor The bit I don't understand is why they say they want Scotland to be part of the UK when they clearly don't even know what the UK is.