9 h. ago More than 2,200 NHS Forth Valley staff members violently attacked in just five years

NHS Forth Valley says "all incidences of verbal or physical abuse are completely unacceptable" as new figure show the scale of violent assaults on Scotland's healthcare workforce.

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25 h. ago Former Bachelor star Sean Lowe rushed to the ER after being violently attacked by his dog

‘I honestly just felt like I am fighting for my life here against a dog,’ Lowe recalled

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3 d. ago Foreign Office issues 'violent attack' warning to UK tourists travelling to popular spot

Officials issued a new alert after a string of violent attacks on travellers and 'muggings'

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7 d. ago Feral gang bludgeoned police officer with rocks and glass bottles in violent attack

Stuart Rochford was punched, kicked, hit with glass bottles and bludgeoned with rocks in the vile attack last March.

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7 d. ago Terrifying Buckfast bottle attack leaves woman with broken jaw

Paula Clark-McCallum was left in covered in her own blood after the violent attack.

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9 d. ago How relearning the tango taught me the steps to recover from trauma

After suffering a violent attack in Buenos Aires, the writer rediscovered her love of danceDance can be life-changing – it’s a lesson we learn every year on Strictly Come Dancing, but it bears repeating. Last year’s winner, comedian Chris McCausland, the show’s first blind celebrity, defied expectations and changed people’s attitude to his disability, while 80-year-old presenter Angela Rippon demonstrated in 2023 that age is no barrier to dancing.Over my two decades as a dance writer, I’ve tried a little of everything – ballet, ballroom, even breaking, but nothing has moved me like the Argentine tango. And I’m not talking about the version you see on Strictly – that’s the choreographed stage tango, with dancers kicking up their legs in performative tricks; few of us ever get to do that – but rather, the social dance style. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kyle Clifford's final act of cruelty towards ex after brutally murdering her

Kyle Clifford carried out a violent attack on ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, 25, her sister, Hannah Hunt, 28, and their mother Carol Hunt, 61 on July, 9 2024.

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1 week ago Sadistic son of man who 'inspired' Trainspotting's Begbie found dead in prison

Dean MacLeod, who was found dead in his jail cell days after a violent attack on an officer, carried out horrendous crimes with his dad, Ian MacLeod, who was a notorious gang leader

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1 week ago Mum of schoolboy bludgeoned to death with candlestick dreamt of violent attack before learning news

Alex Morgan – who studied at King Charles’ former boarding school in Moray – was brutally killed with a candle by art gallery owner Bennet von Vertes at a Swiss villa in 2014.

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2 w. ago Crossbow triple killer Kyle Clifford 'texted BBC racing commentator John Hunt from his daughter's phone to ask what time he would be home' before murdering her, court hears

Clifford is accused of raping ex-girlfriend Louise in a 'violent, sexual act of spite' during an attack which saw him murder her, her sister and their mother in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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2 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'. 

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2 w. ago Inside Britain's answer to Hell's Angels: The deadly biker gangs responsible for violent brawls, pipe bombs and van attacks on the UK's streets

The construction worker from Merseyside has been a member of a notorious biker club for the last decade, and has served out a raft of prison sentences for violence.

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3 w. ago Man, 32, who told woman he would be able to get her and her friends into a nightclub before strangling and raping her in a violent attack is jailed for 20 years

Fabrice Kapena (pictured) had approached his victim at a bar in Manchester's city centre and told her he could get her group into another venue.

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3 w. ago Iconic actress Susan Hampshire, 87, loses phone and purse in sickening mugging

Susan Hampshire, whose acting career has spanned more than seven decades, was attacked on the London Underground amid a spate of violent crime on the transport network

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4 w. ago Horror moment predator, 33, follows lone woman on London's DLR before attacking her... then asking for her number in the first of his violent robberies: Man jailed for eight years

Edward Ampeh, 33, hit a woman on the head at the top of a staircase before asking where she lived and demanding to know the contents of her handbag at Greenwich Station in east London.

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