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    Couple 'dropped bag' hours before street cleaners found dead baby 'next to bin'

    Channel: UK UK 1 hour ago By John Dunne
  2. Girl, 12, raped by more than a dozen boys who filmed vile attacks
  3. RAF engineers 'went against everything Paddington stands for' breaking statue in half
  4. Brit, 28, is 'beaten to death by bouncers' after he was turned away from bar
  5. Major twist in case of missing boy, 2, who was later found dead

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This photo taken on September 29, 2024 shows Iwao Hakamada (C)

World's longest death row inmate given 3p for every minute he spent in prison

Channel: World World 1 hour ago By Gergana Krasteva
The Metropolitan Police deploying the use of live facial recognition technology in Croydon, south London. The Met use the technology to tackle crime and identify offenders, helping officers to target those wanted for causing serious violence. Picture date: Friday February 9, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE FacialRecognition. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

First permanent facial recognition cameras to go up in London despite 'dystopian' warning

Channel: UK UK 2 hours ago By Brooke Davies
Entrance of the Vienna's Regional court room are pictured in Vienna, Austria, on February 1, 2023. - The verdict of the trial of the six men who helped a gunman carry out Austria's first deadly jihadist attack is expected on February 1, 2023. Convicted Islamic State group sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai went on a shooting rampage on November 2, 2020 in downtown Vienna, killing four and wounding 23 others before police shot him dead. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Girl, 12, raped by more than a dozen boys who filmed vile attacks

Channel: World World 13 hours ago By Sarah Hooper
Self-confessed 'psycho' who stabbed neighbour 39 times in 39 seconds locked up

Self-confessed 'psycho' stabbed neighbour 39 times in 39 seconds with a sword

Channel: UK UK 16 hours ago By Sam Corbishley
Woman killed in hit-and-run yards from schools by driver fleeing police

Woman killed in hit-and-run yards from school by driver fleeing police

Channel: UK UK 14 hours ago By Sam Corbishley
Play Video Couple 'dropped bag' hours before street cleaners found dead baby in bin, witnesses claim

Couple 'dropped bag' hours before street cleaners found dead baby 'next to bin'

Channel: UK UK 1 hour ago By John Dunne
Play Video Former footballer Joey Barton arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, central London, where he is charged with assaulting his wife, Georgia Barton. Picture date: Tuesday March 25, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Barton. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire

Ex-Premier League footballer Joey Barton found guilty of assaulting his wife at home

Channel: UK UK 17 hours ago By Katie Boyden

Ex-Argos worker burst into warehouse and stabbed five former colleagues

Channel: UK UK 20 hours ago By Sarah Hooper
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Brit, 28, is 'beaten to death by bouncers' after he was turned away from bar

Channel: World World 20 hours ago By Luke Alsford
Laurence Fox points at audience as he speaks

Laurence Fox charged with sex offence after 'sharing upskirting picture'

Channel: TV TV 20 hours ago By Danni Scott
young attractive man use mobile phone late at night in a dark room

The 'sadistic' online gangs of teenage boys targeting other children for abuse

Channel: Tech Tech 21 hours ago By Jen Mills
Barry and Mavis Lovelock say they were just finishing their breakfast on Saturday morning when they noticed a load of officers outside their home / Leicestershire Police said officers were acting on "information received that related to the production of cannabis", but after no plants were found, the force confirmed it had apologised to the pair. / Source: ( Permission given to Andy Dolan) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vzgnn3560o

Pensioners turned the heating up so much police thought it was a cannabis farm

Channel: UK UK 19 hours ago By Luke Alsford
Play Video Paddington Bear statue pleads guilty Hyde News & Pictures/PA

RAF engineers 'went against everything Paddington stands for' breaking statue in half

Channel: UK UK 2 hours ago By Katie Boyden

Major twist in case of missing boy, 2, who was later found dead

Channel: World World 23 hours ago By Danny Rigg
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Headteacher of primary school stormed by knife gang during party reveals her shock

Channel: UK UK 21 hours ago By Brooke Davies
In silhouette of woman sad depression in bedroom.

More manslaughter charges promised after rise in domestic abuse-related suicides

Channel: UK UK 1 day ago By Craig Munro

Toddler dies after babysitter 'left him in unattended in car for hours'

Channel: US US 1 day ago By Jessica Kwong

Drug dealer caught 'pink-handed' when photo showing just his fingers exposed him

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Sam Courtney-Guy

Two missing French bulldogs discovered dead inside crab pots

Channel: US US 2 days ago By Jessica Kwong
Picture supplied by Bav Media 07976 880732. Picture dated March 24th shows the injured alpaca called Pheobe at the farm in East Hatley,Cambs.Four other alpacas were killed at the weekend. Four ALPACAS have been SHOT in the HEAD ???like an execution??? and killed in a field in a small village in South Cambridgeshire which was left looking like a ???murder scene.??? Owner Dawn French said their six-acre field in East Hatley, near Gamlingay, looked like ???a massacre??? after the animals were found scattered around early yesterday (Sun) morning after they were shot with a ???.22 or higher rifle.??? A ewe was also ???massacred by dogs??? and a fifth alpaca received a gunshot wound to its face, but survived, in the ???horrific??? incident, which happened between 6pm on Saturday (March 22) and 8.30am yesterday (Sun). See copy catchline Four alpacas SHOT in HEAD ???murder scene??? small Cambs village

Four alpacas 'executed' and ewe 'massacred' with manhunt launched for gunman

Channel: UK UK 1 day ago By Sarah Hooper

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