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MP recounts her experience of domestic abuse

The Labour MP Rosie Duffield has made a powerful and emotional speech about her experience of domestic abuse.

Speaking during the first Commons debate on the Domestic Abuse Bill, she said abuse had "many faces" and sometimes there were no bruises.

The legislation provides - for the first time - a legal definition of domestic abuse. Kristiina Cooper reports.

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