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Tragedy as baby’s body discovered in a Salford field, prompting police response
The body of a young baby has been found in a field in Salford.
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Boy, 11, dies after being struck by car outside school as police appeal for dashcam footage
Police have asked anyone with dashcam footage to come forward after the 11-year-old boy was struck by a car outside a school in Cheshire - he later died in hospital
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Sara Sharif’s father admits to beating her on the head with a phone months before her death but denies intent to kill her
Sara Sharif’s father told jurors he "did not intend to kill" his daughter, despite admitting he repeatedly hit Sara over the head with a mobile phone in the run-up to her death.
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Girl, 12, arrested after allegedly attacking school staff member with scissors
A 12-year-old girl was arrested after a staff member at a school was allegedly attacked with a pair of scissors.
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Child in Surrey dies after being hit by a falling tree branch
The incident happened in Banstead and was attended by police, the fire brigade and the London ambulance service
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Boy dies nine years after his father left him unable to walk or talk
A boy who was attacked by his own father when he was a baby has died nine years later.
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A 10-year-old girl has died following an attack by her family’s dog at home
A 10-year-old girl has died after being mauled by her family’s dog.
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Toddler dies after being struck by a car while wandering into the road
A toddler has been killed by a driver after he wandered onto the road.
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British girl, 14, with peanut allergy collapses and dies following family pizza dinner in Rome
Skyler, 14, was visiting the Italian capital with her family when she tragically died after eating pizza and dessert at a restaurant on the first evening of their holiday
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Scheme to enhance French school trips to Britain ’at risk’ due to new UK entry regulations
Trade body for France’s travel industry reportedly writes to UK home secretary over concerns for programme’s future
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UK’s most prolific catfisher, who pushed 12-year-old girl to suicide, sentenced to prison
Online predator Alexander McCartney who drove one of his catfish victims to take her own life, has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
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Investigation launched after death of four-month-old baby boy under ‘unexplained’ circumstances
The death of a four-month-old baby in a village is being treated as ‘unexplained.’
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Schoolboy sentenced to life for attacking sleeping pupils and teacher with hammers
A public schoolboy who attacked two sleeping students and a teacher with hammers after becoming ‘obsessed with killing children’ has been jailed for life.
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Seven-year-old boy killed in a ‘devastating explosion’ in Newcastle
Explosion and fire in residential Benwell and Elswick area destroyed house with six people also taken to hospital
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Boy, 7, sustains ’life-changing injuries’ in Manchester bus crash
A seven-year-old boy is in hospital with ‘life-changing injuries’ after being hit by a bus in Manchester.
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A 4-year-old girl has tragically died after being hit by a minibus in the town centre
A girl aged four died after being struck by a minibus during the morning rush hour.
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Boy, 8, who died after being shot in the face Cumbrian farm identified
An eight-year-old boy who was shot and killed near a farm in Cumbria has been identified as Jay Cartmell.
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Boy, 8, shot in the face while ’hunting rabbits’ on a nearby farm
An eight-year-old boy shot and killed near a farm in Cumbria was allegedly hunting for rabbits at the time of the shooting.
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Four young boys died in a fire ’surrounded by excrement after their mother went to Sainsbury’s’
Deveca Rose is accused of the manslaughter of her four sons, twins Kyson and Bryson, four, and three-year-old twins Leyton and Logan after a devastating a house fire in December 2021
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Lucy Letby described as ’the elephant in the room’ at hospital with spike in baby deaths, inquiry reveals
The Thirlwall Inquiry heard that doctors did not discuss neonatal mortality or concerns raised about Letby until the new year following a pivotal board meeting in 2016
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Boy, 15, dies after struggling in water at beauty spot
A 15-year-old boy has died after being pulled from the water at a beauty spot in Greater Manchester.
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721 children were treated by a ‘rogue surgeon’ at Great Ormond Street Hospital
The hospital has launched an investigation into the surgeon, who no longer works there (Picture: AFP)
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‘Two killed and four wounded’ in high school shooting
At least two people have been reportedly killed and four others injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
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Toddler falls from second-floor window with man and woman arrested
Two people have been arrested after a toddler fell from the second-floor window of his home in Derbyshire.
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Surrey: Bodies of three children and a man found at a house in Staines
Surrey Police say an investigation is under way to establish the circumstances of their deaths. It is believed to be an isolated incident with no third-party involvement.
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