1 hour ago Fancy a poached egg? A third of Brits admit stealing Easter treats from their children

A third of people admit cracking into their kids’ treat stash with age no barrier to chocolate cravings, according to new research.

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19 h. ago Brits facing conscription reel off 'snowflake' excuses but admit WW3 grub is tempting

EXCLUSIVE: After retired Sergeant Matthew Baldwin said Gen Z would be rubbish in the army, the Daily Star asked their Millennial peers to see if they'd fare any better in the trenches...

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68 h. ago Brits admit stealing Easter treats from children – as average egg haul revealed

And it’s not just children with more than a quarter of people admitting poaching one from their partner as Tesco unveil egg-tasting eggtravaganza 'Hatch'

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2 d. ago Third of Brits admit 'stealing Easter treats' from their children

Brits consume an estimated 205m Easter eggs each year - around three for every person in the country, according to new research. But people love to steal them from family members

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3 d. ago There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. What can the future hold for them?

Tens of thousands of children have been wounded in Gaza. Even those evacuated for treatment face an impossible pathWhen I entered the home in north-east Philadelphia, Elias, a lively four-year-old boy, grabbed the pack of KitKats I had brought with me and began swinging it over his head. He whirled around in circles, hollering something unintelligible. In a familiar scene – I have small children of my own – his mother tried to impose order, but yielded to the greater force of a kid on sugar kept indoors by a cold snap.Elias, his five-year-old sister Taline and nine-year-old brother Khaled were in the US because Elias and Taline needed urgent medical care. They had sustained staggering injuries when an Israeli pilot or drone operator shot a missile at the house they were taking refuge in. The explosion cleaved Elias’s right leg off below the knee. Taline’s injuries were also severe; she arrived in the US with external fixators – pins and steel in her legs – as she battled infection. ...

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5 d. ago Half of Brits admit to eating food that had been dropped on the floor

A new poll has found Brits are happy to embrace the 'five second rule' when it comes to eating food that has dropped on the floor - and the reason might surprise you

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7 d. ago Children as young as 11 are being treated for vaping addictions

A dedicated clinic has been set up at Alder Hey Children's Hospital

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7 d. ago Vaping sees children as young as 11 treated as hospital patients

Prof Rachel Isba who runs a newly created clinic for vaping addiction at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital on Merseyside, said that they are treating kids as young as 11

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1 week ago Evil White couple treated adopted Black children as 'slaves' and locked some in shed

Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz have been convicted of the mistreatment of their adopted children, and Whitefeather was also found guilty of civil rights violations based on race

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1 week ago Brit ISIS fighter dubbed 'Hungry Hamza' who fled to Syria then moaned about missing fast food admits he is 'bearing the brunt' of his mistakes as he languishes in tuberculosis

Hamza Parvez, from London , was the first Briton to publicly admit his allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014

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1 week ago UK expects more than 30 countries to join Ukrainian ceasefire coalition

Not all will be willing to put troops on the ground, British officials admit 

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2 w. ago 'I found a UK hotel where children are treated like royalty with milk butlers and kids' spa'

New Park Manor in Hampshire's New Forest has just been named the 'best family-friendly hotel' to stay in 2025 – and, as we discovered, it's not hard to see why

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2 w. ago MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70sThe historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for physically and mentally disabled pupils must be addressed with a public inquiry, an MP has said.Kim Johnson, the Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, is calling on Keir Starmer to bring justice to survivors and to also expose the long-term effects it has had in the education system. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘We wish we could have taken more’: 29 children evacuated from Gaza to Jordan for treatment

Wounded and sick children in need of urgent treatment crossed through Israel to reach King Hussein hospital in Amman A slow convoy of a dozen ambulances and buses brought 25 wounded and sick Palestinian children from Gaza and across Israel on Tuesday, past the heavily armed forces that bombarded the territory for 15 months, and that may be about to start again.The patients were among the 4,500 people in Gaza believed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be in urgent need of evacuation, and they were transferred to Jordan by a joint operation by the Jordanian army, the country’s health ministry and the WHO. Continue reading...

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