9 d. ago Putin's soldiers drag Ukrainian prisoner to death behind motorbike in sick video

Ukrainian officials have condemned the disturbing footage as a blatant war crime by Russia, demanding action from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross

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1 week ago Teaching assistant mistook tragic schoolboy's allergic reaction for stomach bug because he was 'sick quite often'

Benedict Blythe, 5, vomited twice and collapsed at Barnack Primary School in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on December 1, 2021.

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1 week ago Teaching assistant thought allergic boy had sickness bug, inquest hears

Benedict Blythe, aged five, had been off from school the day before he had an allergic reaction and died in hospital.

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2 w. ago Pervert teaching assistant cries 'no' as he's arrested over sick videos of schoolgirls

Keiron Pickett, 24, had six videos stored on his iPhone, along with a collection of indecent images and disturbing notes about his students.

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3 w. ago Teaching assistant wails 'no' as he's arrested over sick videos of Year 7 girls

Keiron Pickett, 24, wailed as officers arrived at his home to arrest him when they caught him secretly recording up the skirts of Year 7 girls - and storing a collection of indecent images of children

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3 w. ago Married deputy headteacher, 51, befriended schoolgirl and had sex with her before being caught because she told a pal, court hears

John Harvey, 51, who was an assistant head teacher at Penryn College, is said to have formed a relationship with the girl while she was still a student.

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3 w. ago ‘I didn’t sleep for 45 days’: the people who raffle off their homes

It’s an eccentric and work-intensive way to sell your house, but people are now raffling off even the most modest properties. Is it a good idea?When Natalie Rowcroft decided to raffle off her house in Salford, everybody – including her husband, Bradley Rowcroft – thought she “had lost the plot”. It was July 2020; people were doing stranger things with their first pandemic summer. But given that she had read a newspaper article about a couple who’d raffled their house in the morning, and had put her own up for sale by the evening, the scepticism was well-founded. “At first, I wanted nothing to do with it,” says Bradley, a 38-year-old carpenter. It didn’t help that she had also chucked the family car in the draw for good measure.Still, Natalie, 38, a teaching assistant, persevered. She printed out leaflets and put them up all over Salford and Manchester, set up social media accounts to promote the draw and bought a big poster to hang in the couple’s driveway. Continue reading...

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