14 h. ago Kate Middleton is left delighted by sweet gift for her children George, Charlotte and Louis during RAF Coningsby visit

Kate, 43, yesterday made a solo visit to the Lincolnshire base , where she met personnel, showed off her skills on a flight simulator and was even given the opportunity to look inside a Typhoon.

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16 h. ago Prince William hints at 'changes' when he's king in interview with Eugene Levy

The heir to the throne candidly described how his wife’s cancer battle left him overwhelmed and revealed his children do not have mobile phones

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57 h. ago Princess Anne leaves poignant tribute at memorial for child victims of Ukraine war

Princess Anne left a poignant tribute at a memorial for fallen children during a visit to Ukraine.

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3 d. ago Covid exercise messaging left children stuck indoors, UK inquiry hears

Children not allowed out partly because their exercise – playing – looked too much ‘like fun’, says campaignerChildren were stopped from playing outside during Covid partly because it looked “like fun” and did not fit with the seriousness of the restrictions, the UK’s inquiry has heard.Alice Ferguson, the founding director of Playing Out, which campaigns for children’s freedom to play outside, told the inquiry that play was fundamental for children’s health and wellbeing, especially play outside with other children. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘It’s hard to know what day it is’: families tell of grim Ice detention in Texas

Anxiety high as parents and children tell of lack of clean water, inadequate medical care and poor food in ‘prison-like’ conditionsAt the South Texas Family Residential Center, guards allegedly refer to detained immigrant families as “inmates”, spouses aren’t allowed to hold hands, and children don’t know where they can kick around a ball without getting in trouble, according to a stark court filing.Yet those are minor indignities compared with accounts given to outside monitors of a lack of clean drinking water, sleep, healthy food, privacy, hygiene supplies and appropriate healthcare. Alongside government admissions of what attorneys called “prolonged unexplained detention” at the facility in the remote town of Dilley, Texas anxiety levels for detainees are high. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege

Legal experts speak of ‘cruel’ and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facilityChildren, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families. At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a “prison-like environment” where the guards reportedly call them “inmates” despite them not being criminals, and said they live in “cell-like trailers”.prolonged, vaguely exp...

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7 d. ago Starmer says government will introduce digital IDs to ensure Britain’s ‘borders are more secure’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says the UK is facing a choice between patriotic renewal and toxic divideDeputy prime minister David Lammy has called the conflict in Gaza “inhumane” and “utterly unjustifiable”.Addressing the United Nations general assembly in New York, Lammy said:What is happening in Gaza is indefensible, it is inhumane, it is utterly unjustifiable and it must end now.Better than the horrific acts by Hamas on 7 October that left children without their parents and parents without their children.Better than the torment of families waiting desperately for the return of their loved ones from the most barbaric captivity. Better than the fanatical rule by Hamas, a vile, pitiless terrorist organisation that must have no future in Gaza. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer says digital ID cards are an ‘enormous opportunity’ and will make it tougher to work illegally

Prime minister says plans for a new digital ID held on people’s phones will become mandatory to prove the right to workDeputy prime minister David Lammy has called the conflict in Gaza “inhumane” and “utterly unjustifiable”.Addressing the United Nations general assembly in New York, Lammy said:What is happening in Gaza is indefensible, it is inhumane, it is utterly unjustifiable and it must end now.Better than the horrific acts by Hamas on 7 October that left children without their parents and parents without their children.Better than the torment of families waiting desperately for the return of their loved ones from the most barbaric captivity. Better than the fanatical rule by Hamas, a vile, pitiless terrorist organisation that must have no future in Gaza. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Tangled love life leaves relatives fighting for huge sum in wealthy man’s will

RELATIVES of a man who left a £2.7million fortune but had no children or will are fighting for his riches. And the battle for McDonald Noel’s huge estate centres on his father’s tangled love life. Unmarried McDonald, who died in 2018 aged 84, emigrated from Trinidad to London in 1960. He made his £2.7million fortune...

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9 d. ago Comedian sparks outrage after mocking people for buying one item in Asda

Recently an Edinburgh Fringe comedian was shopping in her local Asda and said 'what's going on?' as she spotted one product that left her questioning how some customers have partners and children

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1 week ago Pub landlord bans children after tsunami of complaints about rampaging youngsters 'running around left to their own devices'

The New Inn in Bacup, Lancashire, announced the move on Sunday evening, with the new rules taking effect yesterday.

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1 week ago Mum who killed kids and hid corpses in suitcases for years caught due to storage fees

Hakyung Lee, 45, murdered her children and left their bodies in suitcases for years - and was only caught when she forgot to pay storage rental fees. She has been found guilty of murder

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1 week ago Monster mum murdered her children and left their bodies in suitcases for YEARS

Hakyung Lee fled from New Zealand to South Korea after murdering Minu Jo, six, and eight-year-old Yuna Jo, whose bodies she discarded in luggage in an abandoned storage unit

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1 week ago New Zealand mother of two children found dead in suitcases is found guilty of murder

A New Zealand mother who was accused of killing her two children and putting their bodies in suitcases left inside a storage unit for four years has been found guilty. 

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1 week ago Cowboy builder who left family with two disabled children £36k out of pocket and with leaking roof before flashing their cash at nightclub is jailed

Rogue tradesman Jason Brice had been employed by mother-of-two Jaime Fagan to build a loft conversion for her two teenage sons with special needs.

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1 week ago Fire rips through north London flat block as three children rushed to hospital

70 firefighters tackle blaze in Enfield which left at least three children needing hospital treatment

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2 w. ago ‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo

Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians entering the USMariam Sabbah had been fast asleep, huddled under a blanket with her siblings, when an Israeli missile tore through her home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in the early hours of 1 March.The missile narrowly missed the sleeping children but as the terrified nine-year-old ran to her parents, a second one hit. “I saw her coming towards me but suddenly there was another explosion and she vanished into the smoke,” says her mother, Fatma Salman. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mum of four allegedly listened to the dying screams of her children on CCTV as their home burned down

A drug addled mum who allegedly left her children to die in a house fire had ignored their screams while watching the house on CCTV as she drove away, a court has heard. 

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2 w. ago Mum infuriated as plane passenger's 'disrespectful' act ruins flight for kids

A mum was left fuming after a recent flight with her two children, as the behaviour of the passenger sitting in front of her completely ruined the experience for her kids

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2 w. ago Four kids die in horror house fire after mum 'leaves them unsupervised at home'

Four young girls have died in a house fire after their mum allegedly left them unsupervised - the children, aged 2, 4, 6 and 7, were left in the care of an 11-year-old, it's reported

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