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Girl, 12, took her own life after making sexual assault allegation, inquest hears
A 12-year-old girl who took her own life after making a sexual assault allegation "felt like she wasn't believed", her mother has told an inquest.
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Use of drones to fly weapons into prisons has become a ‘threat to national security’, watchdog warns
The use of drones to fly drugs and weapons into UK prisons needs to be tackled "urgently" because it has become a threat to "national security", the chief inspector of…
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‘Suspected unexploded device’ discovered near North Sea pipeline
Shell is investigating a "suspected unexploded ordnance" near a gas pipeline in the North Sea.
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Tyson Fury says he is retiring from boxing
British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury says he is retiring from the sport.
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King to attend 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation
The King will travel to Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Snapchat ‘asleep at the wheel’ when it comes to suicide and self-harm content, says children’s charity
The social media site Snapchat is "fundamentally failing to act on suicide and self-harm content", according to the Molly Rose Foundation.
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Police ‘tried to smash windscreen’ after fatal helicopter crash involving Leicester City owner
The inquest into the deaths of five people in a helicopter crash outside Leicester City's stadium has heard police officers tried to break the aircraft's windscreen after it crashed.
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Starmer says Treasury will be ‘ruthless’ in cutting spending amid market turmoil
Sir Keir Starmer has said the Treasury will be "ruthless" in cutting government spending as market turbulence continues.
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FSB urges watchdogs to heed Starmer growth edict
Britain's leading small business group has issued a clarion call to economic watchdogs to heed Sir Keir Starmer's edict to tear up regulatory barriers to growth with a fresh list…
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Heathrow reveals record year for passenger numbers – leaving climate campaigners ‘speechless’
A record number of people travelled through Heathrow last year - a trend the airport is celebrating but which others say is a cause for alarm.