Day: March 23, 2024
Boy, 12, arrested after teenage girl stabbed
March 23, 2024A 12-year-old boy has been arrested after a teenage girl was stabbed in Kent, police have said. Officers and paramedics were called to Adelaide Drive in Sittingbourne at 3.55pm on Friday after reports of a stabbing, according to Kent Police. They found the girl with knife wounds at the scene and rushed her to hospital […]
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Turning to non-clinical solutions to help prevent kids reaching crisis point
March 23, 2024A growing number of organisations are using social prescribing to reduce waiting lists and costs as pressure mounts on Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services. Almost one million children are waiting for mental health treatment and these non-clinical initiatives are being used to support their emotional wellbeing. It’s an approach being used by the […]
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Richard Taylor, father of schoolboy Damilola Taylor, dies
March 23, 2024Richard Taylor, who spent the past 24 years campaigning against knife crime after his son Damilola Taylor was killed at the age of 10, has died, his family have announced. The former Nigerian civil servant worked for years to improve the lives of disadvantaged children after his son’s fatal stabbing in November 2000, and set […]
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Met officer facing charges over taking money from man’s corpse
March 23, 2024Sarah HooperPublished Mar 23, 2024, 4:31pm|Updated Mar 23, 2024, 5:19pm A Metropolitan Police officer is facing criminal charges after allegedly looting a dead man’s body in north London. Italian filmmaker Claudio Gaetani, 45, collapsed from a fatal heart attack in September 2022 while cycling to meet friends in Hornsey. He had been in London to attend a theatre festival, […]
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Brazil’s soccer head says rape convictions for Alves and Robinho end ‘nefarious chapter’
March 23, 2024For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Brazil‘s soccer federation president Ednaldo Rodrigues said pn Friday that the rape convictions of former footballers Dani Alves and Robinho end “one of the most nefarious chapters” in […]
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The double cancer blow to Kate and King Charles leaves Britain’s royal family depleted and strained
March 23, 2024For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails King Charles III always wanted a slimmed-down monarchy. But not like this. The Princess of Wales’ disclosure that she has cancer has prompted an outpouring of goodwill for […]
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Death toll rises to 115 in Moscow concert hall shooting as Islamic State claim responsibility
March 23, 2024Russian authorities detained 11 people after gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow in an attack that left at least 115 people dead on Friday night. Footage circulating on social media appears to show several men in combat fatigues entering the Crocus City Hall in the west of Moscow, where popular rock band Picnic were playing. The shooters […]
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V&A scraps Margaret Thatcher ‘villain’ label after public outcry
March 23, 2024A caption next to some Punch and Judy puppets reads: ‘Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.’ Supplied The V&A has changed its description of Margaret Thatcher in an […]
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What is preventative chemotherapy? Princess Kate says she will start treatment for cancer
March 23, 2024Princess Kate announced on Friday she is set to undergo a course of “preventative chemotherapy” following a cancer diagnosis. She had spent some time in hospital earlier this year, although it was said at the time that this was for a non cancerous condition. Kensington Palace released the video on Friday after weeks of speculation […]
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‘We’ll always remember where we came from’: The rappers using their fame as a force of good
March 23, 2024The rap scene is unlike any other. Rising to popularity in the 1980s in American cities, it is a cultural melting pot of unique stories and, over the past four decades, has become one of the most popular genres in the world. However, rap has long been entrenched in vicious stereotypes, with violence, sexism, toxic […]
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