13 h. ago Police attend park following reports of 'shooting' as they seal off children's play area

Emergency services have been called to a playing field following reports of loud bangs and shouting

Events

15 h. ago 'Shots fired' at children's play park as youths seen fleeing and cops swarm scene

Police were called to a playing field after reports of 'shots fired' and shouting heard in the area.

Events

67 h. ago Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python

An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World WarTerry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this newspaper, beginning one piece in 2011 like this: “In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare.” He even used to write jokes for Cliff Richard.It would be tempting in view of all this to call him a renaissance man, except that Jones rather despised the highfalutin Renaissance, preferring the earthiness of medieval times: his first published book was a scholarly reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, arguing that the hero’s fighting and pillaging was being presented satirically by the poet as something deplorable. Later he raided the Norse ...

Politics

4 d. ago Villagers who complained about 'noisy' football games at a children's play park are awarded £130,000

The games area in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire first opened in 2010 after a community fundraising campaign. The council started bulldozing it last month after losing a legal battle.

Society

6 d. ago Former vet laced sweets with drugs to sexually assault boys at summer camp

Jon Ruben asked the children to play a ‘sweet game’ before drugging them

Events

1 week ago Mum finds out what really happens at son's nursery after listening to song

Alana found out her son's nursery were trying what she described as 'psych experiments' on the children after asking her Google device to play Mr Blue Sky

Politics

3 w. ago PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a children’s play cafe.

Events

4 w. ago Residents 'ripped off' as they pay £2,370 for children's play area that's 'just a log'

Residents in Swanscombe, Kent, have been paying more than £2,000 towards the maintenance of a children's play area

Economics

4 w. ago Furious residents forced to pay £2,000 maintaining children's play area that is just a single log

Homeowners in Cresswell Road in Swanscombe, Kent, have been paying property management company FirstPort to maintain play equipment that they say doesn't exist.

Economics