49 h. ago Huge change in number of crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads in Wales

Police forces in Wales reported 3,993 casualties from road incidents overall in 2024 - the lowest number apart from during the Covid lockdown in 2020

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7 d. ago Nicola Sturgeon trolled by Rangers stars she panned over Covid breaches as Jordan Jones takes aim

Former Ibrox stars Jones and George Edmundson were both hit with seven-game bans after attending a house party in breach of Covid-19 protocols when the UK was in lockdown in 2020

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9 d. ago The Guardian view on abortion prosecutions: decriminalisation can’t wait | Editorial

The trial of Nicola Packer shows why MPs should seize the opportunity to change the law and safeguard vulnerable women nowThe Crown Prosecution Service has yet to explain why it thought that pursuing a case against Nicola Packer was in the public interest. Thankfully, jurors last week cleared the 45-year-old of illegally terminating her pregnancy. But more than four years of police and criminal proceedings have had a lasting impact on a woman already traumatised by discovering that she was 26 weeks pregnant, not about 10, when she acted. The trial dragged her private life – even her sexual preferences – into the public eye. Understandably, she called it “humiliating”. But it is prosecutors who should feel shame.Ms Packer was prescribed abortion pills in a remote consultation, due to a Covid lockdown. Prosecutors alleged that she deliberately breached the abortion time limit. Jurors believed Ms Packer, who said that she was horrified to realise how advanced her pregnancy was whe...

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1 week ago Moment £1.5m mansion is destroyed by huge fire after 'solar panels cause it to erupt into flames'

The huge blaze erupted at a house in Ferndown, Dorset, after a neighbour noticed the inferno at around 12.30pm yesterday, sparking a massive response from fire crews.

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1 week ago Parents found keeping kids in permanent Covid lockdown after neighbour noticed one thing

Silvia Gomez Nason began keeping a meticulous diary after she spotted something odd at her neighbour's house - where officers allegedly found three children being kept in filthy conditions

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2 w. ago "We are suffering": Businesses struck by 'eerie' high street compared to the Covid lockdown after collapse on Bury New Road

A collapse revealed an underground 'void' across the full width of the carriageway

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2 w. ago Parents' fury over shock closure of nursery found 'failing to keep children safe' by Ofsted

Parents say they have been left stuck without childcare

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2 w. ago School in lockdown over ‘threatening email’ with pupils urged to stay home

Parents have been told to keep their children away from Astor Secondary School in Dover

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann's parents' heartbreaking tradition to keep hope alive

Heartbroken parents Gerry and Kate McCann last saw their daughter Madeliene 18 years ago, but have made sure they keep up the same tradition every year in honour of her

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3 w. ago UK woman accused of illegal abortion says she told medics she had miscarried

Nicola Packer tells court she had feared hospital staff ‘wouldn’t help me’ if they knew she had taken abortion pillsA woman on trial accused of having an illegal abortion has said she told hospital staff she had miscarried as she feared them knowing the truth would affect the level of care she received.Nicola Packer, 45, took abortion medicine during the Covid lockdown in November 2020, after being prescribed the pills in a remote consultation with a registered provider, a jury at Isleworth crown court heard. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 12 best baby carriers and slings to keep them close, reviewed by parents

Bonding while on the move? These baby carriers make it happen

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3 w. ago Incredible moment children 'see sunlight for the first time in four years' after being rescued from House of Horrors where US mother and German father kept them in self

Police in the northern city of Oviedo found three young boys between the ages of eight and ten in the house on Wednesday, having apparently been there since 2021.

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4 w. ago EastEnders star Glynis Barber names 'closest thing' to an 'anti

The actress, who is turning 70 this year, said her exercise regime changed during the Covid-19 lockdown and it's now 'so much better' for her

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4 w. ago Brits set to sizzle next week with hottest day in April since Covid lockdown year

The nation can rejoice as swelteringly sunny weather is set to return next week with the highs of 24C forecast in London in what is being dubbed a 'mini-heatwave'

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4 w. ago Woman accused of illegal abortion ‘brought foetus to hospital’

Nicola Packer denies charge and claims she believed she was within legal limit

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