Actor and musician Idris Elba has launched a campaign calling for the immediate banning of machetes and so-called zombie knives. The Luther star is also lobbying for more funding in
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Labour would set up 90 new youth hubs to give teenagers the “best start in life” and to “stop the knife crime that is killing our children”, Yvette Cooper has
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The Princess of Wales has praised the “really precious” work of a youth intervention charity during a visit in central London. Kate met with frontline staff and young people at
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Councils are too often leaving anti-social behaviour unchecked, a watchdog has found as it criticised a failure to tackle incidents including a neighbour’s 13-hour house party and another where a
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A charity has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about criminal gangs targeting children as young as eleven to carry drugs and money around the country. Fearless – the
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The pandemic making teenagers “more vulnerable” has led to a disproportionate increase in the killing of young people by knives, a charity said. According to a report by the Office
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Primary school-aged children running drugs for gangs has “become the norm” while young teenagers are heading up county lines operations, the former children’s commissioner has warned. Anne Longfield (pictured), who
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The Metropolitan Police has placed more patrols on the streets of London after thousands of women reported feeling unsafe walking round at night. The force said it has received 3,272
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Members of a crime gang who recruited teenage girls into a £500,000 nationwide shoplifting scam are facing jail for modern slavery offences. Ringleader Isaiah Olugosi, 38, recruited, trained and transported
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A mother and son have been jailed for killing a 17-year-old boy in a “shocking” machete attack sparked by petty gang rivalry. Levi Ernest-Morrison was chased and fatally stabbed in
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