8 h. ago 'I watched as my toddler's fingertip was sliced off when play centre worker slammed door'

Little Luca Pritchard endured a gruelling three-hour operation at hospital to reattach the top of his left ring finger after a heavy fire door slammed shut on his hand

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10 h. ago Toddler's finger is chopped off when 'oblivious' play centre staff shut fire door on his hand

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two-year-old Luca Pritchard was rushed to hospital in Torquay, Devon, for emergency surgery after his left ring finger was severed by a heavy fire door.

Events

62 h. ago Inside Southport's soft play area for dogs with huge ball pit and obstacle course

We go inside a unique new soft play centre for dogs - where your pups can dive into a huge ball pit, run down a slide and go barking mad in the obstacle course.

Politics

64 h. ago Barry Ferguson right in Rangers permanent manager hunt as Rodgers told where Celtic went wrong

It was a pulsating Parkhead derby as Scotland now take centre stage with a huge Nations League play off

Politics

3 d. ago Inside Southport's soft play area for dogs with huge ball pit and obstacle course (cloned)

We go inside a unique new soft play centre for dogs - where your pups can dive into a huge ball pit, run down a slide and go barking mad in the obstacle course.

Politics

4 d. ago ‘I like to do normal things’: Virgil van Dijk maintains sense of perspective

Liverpool captain watched his daughter star in the school play before taking centre stage in the Carabao Cup finalVirgil van Dijk’s attention was not on football on Thursday night or checking on the state of contract negotiations. Instead he was watching a school production of Fantastic Mr Fox. His daughter Jadi, like her father on the pitch, had a starring role: she was Mrs Fox, while Wataru Endo’s son was a rat. It was the perfect antidote to going out of the Champions League on Tuesday to Paris Saint-Germain and waiting for Sunday’sCarabao Cup final against Newcastle.“I’m also a normal father, husband, man, and I like to do normal things,” Van Dijk says. “And when you’ve been seen as normal as well, and it’s difficult, but going to school is a nice thing. Some of the kids are looking up, thinking: ‘What are you doing here?’ The most important thing in life is my kids and my wife’s life. These things are definitely important, but they fully understand as well when it’s time to ful...

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9 d. ago Ollie Lawrence: England star confirms his season is over after Six Nations injury blow

Centre will not play again for club or country this term with his British & Irish Lions hopes also now ended

Events

9 d. ago Soft play centre criticises 'shocking and selfish' parents over secret 'chickenpox party' plan

Jane Coulson said she received a tip-off from a concerned mother about the event due to take place at Play World in Gainsborough, Lincolnshir

Society

2 w. ago Children's play centre buzzing with miniature bus in Bee Network livery

Playkidds in Swinton knocks £1 off price of entry for families who come via public transport

Society

2 w. ago Arsenal 'enter talks over Joshua Kimmich free signing' as Bayern withdraw contract offer

The versatile midfielder can also play at right-back and centre-back

Sport

3 w. ago Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law

Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals What makes sex so natural a subject for fiction isn’t simply prurience, but rather the drama built into the evergreen question of how private desire finds expression, not least when the law’s looking. Two new novels, both set in Asia and centred on the coming of age of gay men, play out against the legacy of section 377, the Victorian penal code criminalising homosexuality in British colonies – repealed in 2018 in India, where Santanu Bhattacharya’s Deviants unfolds, and still applicable in Malaysia, the setting of Tash Aw’s The South, the first of a planned quartet from the two-time Booker longlistee.Deviants, Bhattacharya’s second novel, hops with buttonholing vim around three gay men across three generations over the past half-century to draw surprising contrasts and continuities of experience amid l...

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3 w. ago 16 brilliant soft play centres in Wales to beat the half term rain

From those with drop slides, to those with great cafes, there's a soft play for everyone in Wales including Fun HQ, Moody Calf play barn and Nova

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4 w. ago Horrifying video shows unhinged Minnesota daycare worker slamming helpless toddler into a chair

A daycare teacher in Minnesota was seen slamming a helpless toddler into a chair are Lil' Explorers Childcare Center in Plymouth on February 6.

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