Police investigating allegations of abuse at a former children’s home in Jersey have arrested a 68-year-old man on the island, they have confirmed.

Jersey Police said the man, who has not been named, was helping with inquiries on a number of historic rape and indecent assault allegations.

More than 100 people have claimed abuse at Haut de la Garenne since the 1960s. Two cellar rooms at the former home are being examined after bone and teeth fragments were found.

Officers have been investigating the four cellars referred to as “punishment rooms” by alleged victims. In 2006, covert investigations began following claims by former residents of sexual and physical abuse of children, dating back to the 1960s.

Earlier this month the case against the first man to be charged in connection with the abuse allegations was adjourned until 12 May.

Children are suffering an epidemic of mental health problems due to family breakdown, body image worries and too many school tests, a report warns today.

Search teams at the former children’s home Haut de la Garenne on Jersey have found two milk teeth, police said.

Experts at the site on the island believe they come from a child or children, officers added.

Forensic archaeologists investigating a hidden cellar at the centre of abuse claims also discovered bone fragments.

A States of Jersey Police spokeswoman said: “We cannot be sure at this stage if the bone is human or animal and it will be forwarded to the UK for tests.”

Officers had been led to the bone fragments following indications by sniffer dogs, the spokeswoman added.

She said: “The teeth could have come from the same child although further tests will be necessary to try and ascertain if that is the case, and how the teeth might have come to be there.”

A man accused of stabbing a social care worker to death at a Lancashire house has been remanded in custody. Robert Searle, 51, of Fulwood, near Preston, is accused of

Fewer than 3,000 English-language websites produce the bulk of child pornography images, according to the first authoritative analysis of the scale of the problem, published today.

A teenage mother whose newborn baby was taken from her by social workers has been banned from seeing her son after she threw him across the room during a fight with the boy’s father.

A 40-year-old woman who made nuisance “silent” phone calls to the nursing home where she once worked has been given a suspended prison sentence by Plymouth magistrates for the second time.

A pioneering hospital treating people with complex mental health problems is to close next week.

NHS bosses in charge of the Henderson Hospital in south west London said the closure was temporary and a public consultation will still take place.

But some staff believe it will be impossible to re-open the unit, which treats patients from across the Uk.

Only five people are there at the moment, and NHS managers are making alternative arrangements for them.

Staff at the hospital admitted the future was too uncertain for their residential treatment to continue. The hospital initially looked after soldiers with shell shock.

It evolved into offering unique treatment to people from many parts of the UK who had self-destructive tendencies, eating disorders or suicidal feelings.

An MP has called for a “full inquiry” into the death of a social worker who was killed when visiting a client.

Rates of self-harming in prisons are increasing, a charity has warned. The Howard League for Penal Reform said there were 22,459 self-harm incidents in jails in England and Wales last year, up from 16,393 in 2003.