The owner of one of Hong Kong’s last independent bookshops has been arrested and books including Jimmy Lai’s biography seized, local media have reported. National security police arrested Book Punch’s owner Pong Yat-ming and three female staff on Tuesday, Ming Pao News, the South China Morning Post and TVB reported. They were arrested for “knowingly […]
An XL bully mauled an 84-year-old man “as if he were its prey”, a court has heard. John McColl died from his injuries a month after the attack in Warrington, Cheshire, on 24 February last year. The dog attacked him after he wandered onto the driveway of Sean Garner’s home in Bardsley Avenue at around
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The family of a police officer who died in the line of duty after his vehicle was in a collision with another car have paid tribute. PC Bradley Corke, 27, died on Saturday, after he was critically injured in Farningham, Kent, on Thursday evening. He and a colleague, who was reported to be critically ill
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Meningitis B vaccines will be offered to year 11 pupils at schools affected by the Kent outbreak. NHS Kent and Medway said on Tuesday that 10,627 vaccines had been given out. The meningitis outbreak, which left two dead, peaked on 13 March. On Monday, 20 cases of meningitis had been confirmed, with a further three
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the Golders Green arson attack on Jewish community ambulances. The suspects – aged 47 and 45 – were arrested on Wednesday morning at addresses in the north west London and central London areas respectively. They were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and
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A price cap will be placed on pet prescriptions, the Competition and Markets Authority has announced following a three-year investigation. Pet owners will pay a maximum of £21 for their first prescription and £12.50 for any other medicines within the same consultation under the changes, after the CMA found some were being overcharged for commonly
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A former member of indie band The Zutons has spoken after being seriously injured in a racist assault, telling Sky News he could have been killed and that he wants his attackers to face justice. Boyan Chowdhury was treated in hospital following the incident, described by police as an “abhorrent” hate-related assault, which happened in
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The partner of a man killed in the Nottingham attacks has told an inquiry it felt like he had been killed twice because she was first told he died in a road accident. Caretaker Ian Coates, 65, was fatally stabbed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane more than an hour after undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace
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Transgender girls have been given until 6 September to leave the Guides. The deadline set by Girlguiding follows the organisation’s announcement in December that membership would be “restricted to girls and young women”, which it described at the time as a “difficult decision”. It was acting after last year’s Supreme Court ruling that sex meant
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A coroner has called for action after the death of baby Madison Bruce Smith, who died after he was placed in an “unsafe sleeping position” in his cot by an unregulated maternity nurse. The four-month-old grandson of football manager Steve Bruce was found unresponsive by his father, ex-Leeds United and Fulham striker Matt Smith, on
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