A girl’s body has been found after a car carrying five people crashed into a river in Cambridgeshire. The vehicle left the road and entered the River Nene near Wisbech at about 8.20pm on Tuesday, according to police. There were two males and three females aged between 16 and 18 in the car when the […]
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A man who raped a 14-year-old girl after offering her a lift home at an Aberdeen taxi rank has been jailed for 12 years. Victor Popa, 35, lured the drunk teenager into his vehicle during the early hours of 15 January 2023 and subjected her to the serious sexual assault in the Gordon’s Mills Place
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The US central bank has raised its forecast for inflation as the Iran war-linked surge in global energy prices threatens self-inflicted damage on the world’s largest economy. The Federal Reserve held off putting up interest rates despite the challenge to price stability posed by US President Donald Trump’s decision, along with Israel, to attack the
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Researchers have revealed how many illnesses children get in their first year of nursery – and why it makes them more resilient to bugs when they start school. It comes after experts decided to put together the first major study of the impact of illness among youngsters after noticing how frequently their own children were
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Fly-tippers in England could be forced to carry out unpaid clean-ups of streets, parks and dumping hotspots under new plans announced by the government. So-called “clean-up squads” will see fly-tippers given conditional cautions by local authorities, making them clear up waste for up to 20 hours. Currently, fly-tippers are only punished after conviction, often after
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A grieving widow has received a criminal conviction over an unpaid £35 tax bill on her husband’s car, which wasn’t paid in the weeks after his death. The 51-year-old woman was taken to court by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over the slip-up – which happened last July while she was in mourning
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An advert for an AI video editing tool which said it could “erase anything” – implying users could remove a woman’s clothing – has been banned. The advertising regulator found the YouTube ad for PixVideo – AI Video Maker, seen in January, showing “before” and “after” images of a young woman, the first with a
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Graves which are more than a century old could be reused in cemeteries across England and Wales under new proposals – but relatives will be able to object and war graves will be protected. The Law Commission has recommended modernising laws, some of which have not been altered for more than 170 years,- to tackle
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Warning: This article addresses child sexual abuse that readers may find distressing Marie and Dan say their daughter’s childhood stopped when she was just 12 years old. “Her innocence was taken away,” Dan says. Their child believed she was talking online to a 14-year-old boy from London. In fact, she was being preyed on by
Hamid Karzai has claimed that the Pakistani government wants to promote “anarchy and weakness” in Afghanistan to ensure the country is “downtrodden”. Speaking to Sky’s Yalda Hakim, the former Afghan president condemned the bombing of his country by Islamabad. Fighting began in late February when Pakistan began targeting Afghanistan with airstrikes that they claim targeted
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