4 h. ago Grim figures show rise in shoplifting and knife crime as Tories blamed for crisis

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals shoplifting cases hit a record high in 2024, while there were almost 55,000 knife crime incidents recorded in England and Wales

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6 h. ago Revealed: Third of country’s knife crime is happening in London with an offence every 30 minutes

Met Police recorded 16,789 offences involving a knife in 2024 – averaging around 46 a day, ONS figures show

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4 d. ago The unseen Judgement Day moments as grim attendance figure shows something must change

Judgement Day played out in front of the lowest crowd attendance the event has ever seen at the Principality Stadium

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1 week ago Teenagers in court accused of murdering Kelyan Bokassa, 14, on Woolwich bus

Kelyan Bokassa died at the scene after being stabbed on board a bus in south-east London

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1 week ago Wild West Yorkshire town where locals are terrified of knife

Huddersfield has been shaken by the murder of a teenage boy who'd fled war-torn Syria for a better life in the UK - it comes amid a background of growing fear in a town plagued by violent knife crime

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1 week ago Yvette Cooper reverses Tory failure with vow to tackle knife crime and extremism

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said schools have found it harder to get help with pupils because neighbourhood police teams were decimated under the Tories - and vowed to put that right

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2 w. ago Knifeman on the run after Berlin tram passenger seriously injured in stabbing

The victim was attacked around 2.30am on the M2 tram at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in the city's Mitte district

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2 w. ago Axing 'safer school' Met police officers will leave more pupils vulnerable to knife crime, say teachers

Pupils say they are worried ‘more knives and drugs’ will be brought in as a result of the move

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2 w. ago Teachers angry over ‘staggering’ plan to axe 370 Met safer school officers despite knife crime fears

Pupils say they are worried ‘more knives and drugs’ will be brought in as a result of the move

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2 w. ago 'Young team' play will deliver strong message about knife crime across Lanarkshire venues

When We Were Young is now in its third and final year, and is from Geez A Break Productions.

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2 w. ago US tourist arrested in quiet UK seaside town after wielding steak knife ‘for protection’

Holidaymaker, reportedly from an open-carry US state, had UK weapons laws explained to him by officers, Kent Police said

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2 w. ago Westminster Labour councillor blames 'Sadiq Khan vanity projects' for defection to Tories

Paul Fisher, who was elected a Labour councillor in the West End in 2022, said: ‘Sadiq Khan has failed London’

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3 w. ago Knifeman ran at police before they shot him dead in Milton Keynes

Thames Valley has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct

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3 w. ago Harvey Willgoose's devastated mum issues heartbreaking 'please stop' knife crime plea

The 'heartbroken' mum of a teenager who died after being stabbed at school battles tears during a break away in Turkey to deliver her latest appeal for an end to knife crime

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3 w. ago Labour voters losing faith in government to cut levels of child poverty

The research shared with The Mirror follows controversial benefit cuts and grim official figures showing the number of kids in poverty hitting a new record of 4.5million

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3 w. ago Idris Elba 'emerges as Labour’s top choice to replace Sadiq Khan as London Mayor after knife crime campaign'

The actor has won acclaim for his recent high-profile work tackling knife crime

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3 w. ago Wales' 'strictest headteacher' on weekend detentions and young people 'obsessed with being happy'

In a wide-ranging interview Caldicot High headteacher Alun Ebenezer shared his thoughts on knife crime in schools, why there is a poor mental health epidemic among young people and why he introduced weekend detentions

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3 w. ago Rainham stabbing: Victim fighting for life after latest east London knife attack

Knife attack follows incident in Elm Park - although stabbings are not thought to be linked

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3 w. ago Inside Britain's secret gang war: How Bristol is fighting knife crime 'plague' as five teenage boys die in senseless tit for tat bloodshed

A horrifying knife crime epidemic in Bristol is tearing families apart as local gangs of schoolboys armed with zombie knives and machetes leave a trail of bloodshed behind.

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3 w. ago Police arrest 12 teens after stabbings at party in east London primary school

Gang members, aged between 12 and 17, cuffed in aftermath of shocking incident

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