17 h. ago World Book Day 2025: easy costume ideas, when is it – cheap characters outfits for boys and girls

You can still keep things affordable if you’re a parent feeling the pressure on World Book Day 😰

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31 h. ago Boy, 14, 'repeatedly stabbed girl, 13, with fearsome sword' during Halloween camping trip

The 13-year-old girl had been camping with friends on Halloween 2023 near the Humber Bridge in south Yorkshire when she was stabbed several times with a large sword

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34 h. ago Camping horror as teen boy, 14, 'repeatedly stabbed' girl, 13, with 'fearsome' sword

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT The 13-year-old girl was left with 'dreadful' injuries after she was stabbed 10 times with a 'fearsome' sword during a camping trip near a wooded area

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37 h. ago Childhood obesity to rise by more than half by 2050 – research

One in three children and adolescents will be overweight or obese in 25 years’ time

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37 h. ago Special projects to help Dumfries and Galloway celebrate World Book Day 2025

Scotmid customers can use special Book Banks while schoolkids will have the chance to meet author Mike Nicholson.

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40 h. ago 'Besotted' girlfriend who holed up with murderer boyfriend and hung up on police asking where he was weeps in court as she is jailed for two years

Samantha Reader was the on-off girlfriend of Joey Matthews who was convicted of mowing down Carl Eland as he cycled in Middlesbrough in 2021.

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64 h. ago 33 easy World Book Day costume ideas you can pull together at the last minute

Get set for the big day with these simple DIY and homemade costumes and characters

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65 h. ago World Book Day ideas and activities 2025: How to celebrate your favourite characters and novels this year

From passing on your favourite story to starting a book group 

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4 d. ago Donald Trump 'pardon bid' for jailed British socialite and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Maxwell got 20 years in June 2022 for grooming and trafficking underage girls for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein – who was also a friend of Donald Trump.

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4 d. ago Five teens are arrested as boy, 17, is stabbed and girl, 16, and a second 16

Emergency services were called to an address around the historic street of Hounds Gate, Nottingham (pictured), shortly after 11.40pm on Friday.

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4 d. ago Revealed: The two cities with the lowest life expectancy for men and women

Children born in Britain are now expected to live longer than ever before, with ONS figures saying baby boys can hope for 86.7 years while girls could get a total of 90.

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6 d. ago When is World Book Day 2025? Date, £1 books, and fun ways to celebrate 30 years

Discover when World Book Day 2025 is happening and get inspired with creative costume ideas for the kids

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6 d. ago How boy slaves are being dressed as girls and forced to dance for leering Taliban men... before being raped: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals horrifying tribal custom flourishing in Afghanistan

Young boys gyrate awkwardly to the music. Their faces are impassive, drained of feeling.

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6 d. ago Teenage boys are asking teachers how to CHOKE girls during sex

Writing for MailOnline, Baroness Bertin says she believes in free speech but that a line has to be drawn.

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6 d. ago Running Point review – you’ll be desperate for Kate Hudson’s basketball comedy to end

This tale of a girlboss battling the sporting world’s patriarchy is a real grind. Perhaps it’d be funny if you care deeply about the sport but shouldn’t a comedy be able to make you laugh regardless?Are you in the mood for a basketball comedy that has some leaden jokes and some even more leaden things to say about sexism and prejudice in the US industrial sports complex? Of course you’re not. Nobody is. But it’s here, it stars Kate Hudson and it’s called Running Point so let’s deal with it.Hudson plays Isla Gordon, one of four siblings whose father owned the Los Angeles Waves basketball team. Despite being the only one of Daddy Gordon’s children who is knowledgable about the game, she has been overlooked all her life. Why? Because she is a girl and the rest of them are boys! Cue a cutesy flashback in which a child actor delivers a Sorkinesque monologue about the team’s chances and her recommended player trades while trotting beside her father down a corridor of power, before having ...

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7 d. ago Michelle Trachtenberg's boyfriend speaks out after Gossip Girl star found dead in New York at 39

Gossip Girl star Michelle Trachtenberg's boyfriend Jay Cohen has broken his silence after the actress was found dead at her New York apartment on Wednesday

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7 d. ago Michelle Trachtenberg's boyfriend breaks silence as Gossip Girl star dies aged 39

Michelle Trachtenberg's heartbroken boyfriend has spoken out just hours after it was announced that the Gossip Girl and Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress had died

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7 d. ago Horrifying moment young girl is snatched while praying at a mosque and sexually assaulted

This is the horrific moment a teenage boy snatches a young girl as she worships in a mosque and then sexually assault her behind closed doors.

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7 d. ago Murder trial shown CCTV of children running from park after pensioner attacked

A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl are on trial accused of killing 80-year-old Bhim Kohli in a park near Leicester in September last year.

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8 d. ago Pensioner killed in park attack 'slapped with shoe by masked child in act of pure violence'

Bhim Kohli, 80, died after being assaulted in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, near Leicester, on September 1 last year as a boy, 15, and girl, 12, face trial for murder and manslaughter

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