3 d. ago Cult music vid saved 21 children from streets – but there was a dark side with serial killers

Soul Asylum's power ballad Runaway Train and the accompanying video was a runaway success, bringing dozens of missing and runaway children home, but some kids had tragic endings

Events

5 d. ago Celebrity photographer Rankin takes school day portraits for ill children at Great Ormond Street

Rankin has given seriously ill children a sense of normality after taking traditional school day photos

Culture

7 d. ago ‘It’s lawless’: Parents fear for children’s safety as vandals target Hackney school streets

The damage is largely concentrated around primary schools in the borough’s Springfield and Cazenove wards

Society

1 week ago Wes Streeting orders immediate ban on NHS changing children's gender on medical records

A review into the 'corruption' of official statistics by extreme gender ideology found there is currently no minimum age at which the record of a child's sex can be changed.

Politics

1 week ago 'Gloating' criminals put their faces and name of their drug line on birthday cake

The gang recruited vulnerable children to work as street drug dealers

Events

1 week ago Tony Blair's son tells Sir Keir Starmer's children how to survive life at Downing Street

Tony Blair's eldest son has offered advice to Keir Starmer's children on how to survive life when growing up in the most well-known house in the country.

Society

2 w. ago Chilling moment man pulls out 'gun' on street as children scream in terror

Mark Griffiths brandished the imitation firearm in the direction of Clive Jones and his mother Jane Brownley as witnesses including children watched in fear

Events

3 w. ago Wes Streeting calls for urgent action from retailers after Boots sold weight

A 16-year-old girl was twice able to buy Wegovy at Boots as part of an undercover probe after giving a fake date of birth which was not challenged.

Politics

3 w. ago Fury as high street stores including Boots have been selling weight

A 16-year-old girl was twice able to buy Wegovy at Boots as part of an undercover probe after giving a fake date of birth which was not challenged.

Politics

3 w. ago Revealed: Romanian thugs launched terrifying street brawl as they punched, kicked and attacked police with pieces of wood 'because social workers tried to take two children from a home'

EXCLUSIVE: Violent clashes which saw police 'ambushed' and brutally attacked are believed to have erupted when social services 'tried to take two children from a home'. 

Events

4 w. ago ‘The boy jumped at just the right moment’: Pradiptamoy Paul’s best phone picture

The India-based street and documentary photographer captures a group of children in a moment of joyUniversity student Pradiptamoy Paul currently lives in Siliguri, West Bengal, but he still regularly visits his home town of Mathabhanga, a few hours’ drive away. On the day he took this photograph, back in 2023, he had done some work in the morning and was taking a walk by the Mansai riverside, hoping to capture something special.“It’s a residential area and there are no industrial sites nearby, so the water here is clean,” Paul says. “In this photo there is so much going on and so many characters. The boy at the front was taking a rest, someone else was splashing in the water, another boy was jumping from the concrete. And the boy jumping from the top corner happened spontaneously, at just the right moment! It’s impossible to say who the actual hero of this photograph is. They’re children immersed in a&nb...

Politics