26 h. ago Hideous final moments of girl, 12, as woman 'raped and tortured her for revenge'

An innocent 12-year-old girl was killed in the worst way imaginable after she a female attacker allegedly abducted her from her apartment block after school and subjected her to depraved levels of violence

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42 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was the most sinister pupil I've ever seen, says his teacher

Joanne Hodson worked at The Acorns School, in Ormskirk, where Axel Rudakubana was enrolled aged 13 after being expelled from mainstream education for taking a knife into classes.

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42 h. ago Southport killer's headteacher says he was 'sinister, unpredictable and most unusual' pupil she'd ever seen

Joanne Hodson worked at The Acorns School, in Ormskirk, where Axel Rudakubana was enrolled aged 13 after being expelled from mainstream education for taking a knife into classes.

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44 h. ago Head of Southport attacker’s former school tells inquiry of ‘sense of dread’

Axel Rudakubana attended a pupil referral unit after being excluded from school for carrying knives.

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64 h. ago Southport attacker’s father called him ‘good boy’ after school knife incident

The Southport Inquiry heard from Axel Rudakubana’s former headteacher on Wednesday.

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65 h. ago Female member of staff charged after pupil ‘attacked’ at Scots school

A MEMBER of school staff accused of attacking a pupil has been charged. The alleged incident happened last month at a school in Perth and Kinross. Cops attended the campus on September 1 after the alarm was raised. There were no reported injuries and officers have charged a woman. A report will be sent to...

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3 d. ago Boris Johnson says DfE failed to plan for school closures during Covid crisis

Former PM tells inquiry that children ‘were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society’Boris Johnson laid blame on the Department for Education (DfE) over its lack of preparation for school closures at the outbreak of the pandemic, telling the Covid-19 inquiry that he assumed detailed planning was going on behind the scenes.“We were focused on trying to delay the peak of the pandemic and we thought that the closure of schools, if it had to be used at all, would be a measure of last resort,” the former prime minister said. He added: “It was my impression that the work was being done. I certainly, let me put it this way, I certainly assumed that the work was being done.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Frustrated Boris Johnson loses his cool at Covid inquiry: ‘You try!’

Boris Johnson appeared to get annoyed when giving evidence to the Covid inquiry on Tuesday (21 October), telling the panel his job “wasn’t easy”.

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1 week ago Cockapoo that was 'a bit nippy' attacked girl, three outside school

The owner fled the scene then lied to police when they tracked her down

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1 week ago Four people dead in shooting during Mississippi homecoming celebration

Sixteen people were also injured in attack that occurred after high school football game in small city of Leland Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday.The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Patients ‘justified’ to feel government failed them, Freeman tells inquiry

Jeane Freeman also said that with hindsight she would not have allowed the flagship hospital in Glasgow to have opened.

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2 w. ago Freeman tells inquiry Government was ‘naive’ in hospital oversight

The former health secretary told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry she felt NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde took a ‘nothing to see here’ approach.

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2 w. ago Scots hospital whistleblowers owed apology, medical director tells inquiry

Dr Scott Davidson has been medical director at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) since October 2024.

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2 w. ago Myanmar's military acknowledges attacking festival, accuses resistance forces of using human shields

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it attacked a Buddhist festival held on the grounds of a school earlier this week

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2 w. ago Police officer tells Southport inquiry  many young men are viewing extremist material online amid fears there could be another attack

Alice Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Stancombe, seven, were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year by Rudakubana, then aged 17.

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2 w. ago Westfalenkolleg stabbing LIVE: Paderborn school attack sparks lockdown

German special forces have rushed to the scene at Westfalenkolleg, a vocational school in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, after an attack alert

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3 w. ago 15 minute routine: How to beat anxious thoughts, according to a therapist

A knot in the pit of your stomach; a racing mind; sweaty palms; or just a looming sense of dread: However they manifest, experiencing anxious thoughts is never pleasant.

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3 w. ago Aftermath of Manchester synagogue terror attack as school closed and police cordons in place

Three people remain in hospital after the horrific terror attack on a syangogue in north Manchester yesterday, with a nearby Jewish school forced to close for the day

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3 w. ago Parents facing 'mixed messages' over mobile phone use in Scots schools as Labour calls for ban

Parents have repeatedly warned school bullies are using smartphones to film attacks on other pupils before sharing the footage on social media.

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3 w. ago Police investigate alleged attack on boy at top Welsh secondary school

The mother of an 11-year-old boy said he had been left with concussion and is too scared to return to school

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