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Boy, 15, charged with attempted murder after Norfolk school stabbing

A teenage boy has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a school near Norwich. Police were called to Thorpe St Andrew School on Laundry Lane at 10.24am on Wednesday following reports that a teenage girl had been stabbed. Pupils were put into lockdown in their classrooms after the incident. The victim was […]

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Investigate miscarriage of justice and quash Post Office Capture convictions, MPs say

The government has been called on by an influential committee of MPs to quash convictions obtained with data from the Post Office’s Capture software, the predecessor to the faulty Horizon IT programme. As well as creating “urgent” legislation to have these earlier convictions quashed, a new report from the Business and Trade Committee (BTC) also

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Lab-grown foie gras and chicken get safety checks for British dinner tables

Lab-grown foie gras and chicken are being tested by scientists to ensure they are safe for humans to eat, and could hit British restaurants and dinner tables in the next five years. It is the closest any such “cultivated meat” product has yet come to approval for human consumption in the UK, the Food Standards

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Dunblane school shooting: 30 years on, Scottish shooting outrage ‘still haunts many’

Thirty years after the Dunblane school massacre, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said the tragedy “haunts many of us still to this day”. On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in central Scotland, before shooting himself. Mr Alexander said he has “deep admiration” for parents

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Drugs, guns, gold bars and teeth – Sky News joins police on county lines crackdown

Across the country last week, hundreds of criminals woke to the sound of their front doors splintering. A metal battering ram known as “the big red key” was the first thing to enter their premises, followed by the scream of “Police!”, and officers with helmets and shields. This was a punch into the organised distribution

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Ukrainians who ran ‘premium’ migrant smuggling service to UK jailed

Two Ukrainian men who ran a “premium bespoke taxi service” smuggling migrants across the channel in a yacht have been jailed. Vladyslav Cherniavskyi, 38, was jailed for six years and Oleksandr Yavtushenko, 43, for five having previously pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Crown Court to three charges of assisting unlawful immigration. The pair were arrested after

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