2 h. ago ‘Firearm suspect’ triggering school lockdown turns out to be boy in fancy dress with toy gun

Sussex Police dispatched armed officers in response to a report of a suspected gunman in Bognor Regis on Wednesday morning

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3 h. ago Southport attacker’s father called him ‘good boy’ after school knife incident

The Southport Inquiry heard from Axel Rudakubana’s former headteacher on Wednesday.

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5 h. ago Boy, 15, who stabbed fellow pupil Harvey Willgoose to death at school detained for life

The 15-year-old killer showed no reaction as he stood in the dock

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7 h. ago Boy, 15, who stabbed Harvey Willgoose to death at school named for first time

The judge lifted the banning order after applications from a number of media organisations

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7 h. ago Southport attacker ‘should have been assessed under Mental Health Act’

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Tina Irani gave evidence to the Southport Inquiry about the treatment given to Axel Rudakubana.

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8 h. ago Boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school can be named, judge rules

Harvey was stabbed to death by Mohammed Umar Khan, 15, at All Saints Catholic High School, in Sheffield, in February.

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8 h. ago Teenage boy who killed Harvey Willgoose during school lunch break named in court

Mohammed Umar Khan stabbed Harvey Willgoose in the heart in front of horrified children

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19 h. ago Boy who stabbed Harvey Willgoose to death in school lunch break to be sentenced

Harvey was murdered by another 15-year-old boy at All Saints Catholic High School, in Sheffield, in February.

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32 h. ago Southport inquiry hears of delays in attacker’s autism diagnosis

Axel Rudakubana’s teacher contacted the autism service to say they needed help, the Southport Inquiry heard.

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51 h. ago Southport attacker’s psychiatrist had not read notes on past interest in Manchester Arena bombing

Six days before the attack, Rudakubana's risk to others was said to be "none"

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53 h. ago Cannibal schoolboy, 13, kills classmate & eats part of his body ‘out of curiosity’ before chopping him with electric saw

A TEENAGE school boy killed his classmate, sawed his body into pieces and ate parts of the victim's body "out of curiosity". The 13-year-old bludgeoned his classmate with a wooden stick, then using a power saw he cut his victim into bits small enough to fit into his school bag. The schoolboy lured his classmate...

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54 h. ago Southport Inquiry hears how attacker's psychiatrist hadn't read notes on violent past

Axel Rudakubana was discharged from CAMHS days before he carried out the attack with his risk to others described as 'minimal'

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55 h. ago Southport attacker’s psychiatrist had not read notes on past violence – inquiry

Dr Anthony Molyneux said it would have been ‘impossible’ to review Axel Rudakubana’s complete patient record.

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5 d. ago Female teacher is banned from the classroom after swapping thousands of messages with boy pupil, 15, and meeting him outside of school

It was also revealed that the teenager had sent the teacher an explicit image of himself as well as a message containing pornography.

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5 d. ago Boy, 14, 'almost dies' after vaping 'unknown substance' at school

Police have launched a probe after Zack Masters-Mazzone was rushed from Ysgol Uwchradd Bodedern school in Anglesey, Wales to hospital for treatment

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6 d. ago Police swarm city centre after 'petrified' students see horror stabbing

A massive police presence was seen in Leicester city centre after reports of a knife incident on Wednesday evening, which left the whole area locked down

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8 d. ago Widow of father who was crushed to death by falling tree branch calls for change in law to avoid repeat tragedy

Fiona Hall, 56, has been left heartbroken since her husband Chris, 48, was killed by a three-ton bough from a 134ft lime tree while he was walking their dog in August 2020.

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer dubbed 'awkward and irrelevant' after Donald Trump embarrasses him on live TV

During a very important gathering of world leaders in Egypt, Donald Trump made the UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer look like an awkard school boy after beckoning him over mid-speech

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9 d. ago Teenage boy takes his parents to court after being enrolled at Ghanian boarding school over fears he would fall into gang violence in Britain

The boy, known as S, started a family court case after his parents left him in west Africa in March 2024 over concerns he was at risk of engaging in criminal activity or being killed due to knife crime.

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9 d. ago Wife of Israeli hostage calls daughters to tell them ‘daddy is back’ after father’s release

This is the moment the wife of an Israeli hostage calls their daughters to tell them “daddy is back” after their father’s release in Gaza.

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