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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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