‘Gun’ pointing from nursing home window may have been Zimmer frame
Police responding to a seven-year-old’s report of seeing someone pointing a gun from a window attended a nursing home and now believe what the child saw was a Zimmer frame.
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Council accused of victim blaming with ‘thunderingly offensive’ anti-drinking campaign
The councillor behind a campaign about the dangers of young women drinking has hit back at claims it is “thunderingly offensive” and that it takes Britain back 60 years. Sunderland
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Historic rape case solved after attacker urinated in neighbour’s plant pot
A rapist who attacked two women in the 1980s was caught more than 30 years later because he urinated in a neighbour’s plant pot, police said. Eric McKenna, 60, has
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Locum surgeon’s failings directly contributed to baby’s death, says coroner
A series of failings by a locum surgeon directly contributed to the death of a two-day-old baby who underwent emergency surgery for a stomach defect which could have waited, a
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Report: Newcastle Safeguarding Adult & Children Board’s – Joint Serious Case Review (Sexual Exploitation)
The Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board (NSAB) and the Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) have published a Joint Serious Case review to consider and learn from sexual exploitation involving children and
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Grooming gangs abused 700 girls and vulnerable women ‘with arrogant persistence’
Grooming gangs that preyed on 700 girls and vulnerable young women in the North East carried out their abuse with “arrogant persistence” before a major operation was launched to stop
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Paedophile who blackmailed young into abusing others gets four years on sentence
A man who tricked children across the world into sending him nude selfies then blackmailed them into sexually abusing young relatives on camera has had four years added to his
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Seven summonsed over detention centre ‘abuse’ with others under investigation
The detective leading one of the country’s biggest inquiries into historical sexual and physical abuse was “very confident” more former staff members of a detention centre will be prosecuted for
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Lack of suitable services in England sees troubled teen placed in specialist school in Scotland
Social workers in Northumberland have placed a troubled teenage boy in a specialist residential school in Scotland after struggling to find a suitable unit in England. An English High Court
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Judge criticises council over placing baby girl at ‘risk of significant harm’
A family court judge has decided not to name a council she criticised over its handling of a case involving a baby girl now placed for adoption. Recorder Carly Henley
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