37 h. ago Boxing Day fire's 'anguish and trauma' laid bare as dad grieves for wife and kids killed in blaze

Tom Shearman attempted to rescue his wife and two children from the fire but was beaten back by the severity of the flames

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69 h. ago Fundraiser for police officer who lost family in Boxing Day fire tops £250k

Tom Shearman attempted to rescue his wife and children but was beaten back by the severity of the fire that destroyed his home near Stroud.

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3 d. ago Fundraising appeal for police officer who lost family in fire nears £200,000

Tom Shearman attempted to rescue his wife and children but was beaten back by the severity of the fire that destroyed his home near Stroud.

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3 d. ago Two children rescued after group 'disorientated' in dunes at Scot beauty spot

The RNLI, coastguard and police helped rescue an adult and two children from Gullane Bay on Monday evening after they became disoriented in thick gorse.

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4 d. ago Pictured: Mother who died in Boxing Day fire with her two children after father tried to rescue them

Fionnghuala Shearman, known to friends as Nu, perished alongside daughter Eve, seven, and son Ohner, four, as flames swept through their home on Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud.

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4 d. ago Father's desperate attempts to rescue children and wife from burning home

A mother and her two young children were tragically killed in the fire that engulfed the house just hours after Christmas Day

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4 d. ago Police confirm mum and two children dead in Boxing Day blaze after dad's desperate rescue attempt

The children's father - a service police officer - desperately tried to save his family but was overcome by the blaze

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1 week ago Dozens of missing children, some as young as just one year old, rescued from sex traffickers in massive sting

'This was the most successful missing child operation ever conducted in Northern Florida,' Greg Leljedal, acting US Marshal for the Northern District of Florida, said.

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2 w. ago ‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

Though once so despairing she thought of giving up the law for art, Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by the invadersAt only 28, the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska has become the public face of Ukraine’s campaign to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia. She knows this means she is being watched.The past two years have seen the Ukrainian addressing the UN security council, the US Senate and writing submissions to the international criminal court (ICC), which then issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Children rescued seconds before school wall collapses on top of them as flash floods slam Iraq

More than 30 students were rescued in the Chamchamal district of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, after heavy rain brought flooding that caused a school wall to collapse, according to surveillance footage and local authorities, on Tuesday (9 December).

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not going to be some miraculous recovery’: film charts healing of Ukrainian children rescued from Russia

Director of After the Rain, set in animal therapy retreat, says she aimed to portray ‘children as children, not as a statistic’Sasha Mezhevoy was five years old when she, her older brother and sister were sent to an orphanage in Moscow. They were told they were going to be adopted by a Russian family. But they were not orphans. They were Ukrainian children who had been forcibly removed from their father.Sasha grew up in Mariupol, the port city that endured more than 80 days of bombardment in one of the bloodiest and most destructive chapters of the early months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Continue reading...

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