56 m. ago Family pay tribute to schoolboy, 16, found dead with another lad on Manchester railway tracks

Joshua Myers, died on Thursday, June 3, after police and paramedics rushed to the tracks near Poynton station at around 10.09pm.

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88 m. ago Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in Brixton

Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in Brixton  London Evening Standard

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88 m. ago Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in south London

Met Police officers were called to Windrush Square on Thursday following reports of damage to the display

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90 m. ago Partygoer who killed man who made a pass at him is jailed for ANOTHER murder after he throttled his cell

Vitalie Tanga, 41, was given a life sentence last year for the 'senseless' killing of Alfred Mattox, who was gay, after beating him to death in his own home in 2021.

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1 hour ago I was conned out of my £67,000 life savings by a loving, hunky 'American oil rig worker' who turned out to be a Nigerian romance fraudster

A 76-year-old grandmother has spoken of her heartbreak and humiliation after being duped out of £67,000 by a romance fraudster who reeled her in with sweet words and fake photos

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3 h. ago Schoolgirl, 12, missing after vanishing from popular seaside town

Pixie was last seen in the Westbourne area of Bournemouth

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3 h. ago The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequencesThroughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met.By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emails, often littered with mistakes that were glaringly obvious to me even at such a young age. It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Bodies of two school girls discovered as 27 children still missing after Texas floods

Blair Harber, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were among those killed in the flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

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4 h. ago Major hunt for schoolgirl, 12, who vanished from popular UK seaside town

Dorset Police are "concerned" for the welfare of Pixie, who was last seen at around 12.15pm on Saturday, July 5, in the Westbourne area of Bournemouth

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6 h. ago 'Devastating and powerful' bullying film with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score now streaming in the UK

The movie was released in 2021 and follows the story of a brother and sister try and fight off bullies while at school.

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6 h. ago The incredible story of a Wimbledon finalist who became a murderer: Son of Irish baron with a 'killer' backhand saw his life spiral out of control after SW19 heartbreak

The remarkable front page of French newspaper 'Le Petit Journal' in 1907 illustrated the crime of a former Wimbledon finalist in the most graphic manner possible.

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8 h. ago 9 things you'll almost certainly remember if you went to school in the 60s or 70s

If you’re a child of the 60s or 70s, your schooldays were probably very different to those of youngsters today.

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9 h. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Jennifer Lopez continues to flaunt her new look while out in LA after releasing Ben Affleck heartbreak song

Jennifer Lopez continued to flaunt her latest look as she enjoyed a lowkey shopping trip with one of her twins Emme in Beverly Hills over the weekend.

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13 h. ago Bond Girl girl Caterina Murino, 47, reveals she is pregnant after IVF heartbreak

Former Bond girl Caterina Murino has revealed she is expecting her first child at 47, after two heartbreaking miscarriages and a gruelling IVF journey.

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14 h. ago Girls should be 'mobilised' stop boys becoming 'a waste of space', claims peer

The former Labour education secretary said schools should empower girls to 'expect more' from the boys they have relationships with.

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17 h. ago Inside Camp Mystic where Texas floods swept girls to their deaths, with toys left behind

After the Guadalupe River burst its banks, flash floods destroyed Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas - and new photos show the extend of destruction on the site

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20 h. ago Fears primary teacher exposed to asbestos while pinning kids' art to walls

Marlene Broad, who worked at the same school for 40 years, died in January last year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma.

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22 h. ago Cam Norrie shuts down senseless Emma Raducanu question as astonished star tells Wimbledon reporter 'ask her'

Norrie was asked whether he's dating Raducanu after reaching the last 16 at Wimbledon

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22 h. ago Sick perv teacher who pulled girls pants down and 'gave her a lolly' before abuse jailed

Trent James May, from South Australia, has been jailed after abusing three young girls while working in a primary school with his jail sentence was backdated to March 14

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