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Police are investigating the sudden death of an 11-year-old boy at an address in Lancaster on Saturday.The death of the youngster is being treated as "unexplained", Lancashire Constabulary has said. North West Ambulance Service was called to a property in Greenset Close, Lancaster, at 12.04pm on 2 March and found the boy unresponsive.He was later pronounced dead. A coroner has been informed.A police spokesperson said: "An investigation is ongoing and […]

Young drivers with automatic-only licences face paying £760 more for car insurance than those who can also drive a manual vehicle, according to new figures.In what is described as a "concerning" rise, figures from comparison site Compare the Market show motorists under 25 with automatic licences now pay £2,803 on average. That is a year-on-year increase of £916.It is a concern for the increasing number of drivers taking automatic-only tests, […]

A Miss Universe finalist was punched in the head at least 30 times and sustained bites that turned "septic" in an attack by her ex-partner, a court has heard.Model and influencer Chloe Othen, 33, was also strangled and dragged along the floor by her hair by Ricky Lawrence, 32, the Nightingale Crown Court in Holborn, central London, was told on Tuesday.Prosecutor Sheilagh Davies said Lawrence, of Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, west […]

Instagram and Facebook are experiencing widespread problems, locking users out of their accounts and failing to load properly. Outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status reports from several sources, including users.Problems on Facebook appear to leave users unable to login, with users logged out and unable to reset […]

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to extend a 5p cut in fuel duty in his pre-election budget on Wednesday, Sky News understands.Such a move in the spring budget, which would be welcomed by motorists across the UK, would cost the Treasury around £5bn to implement. The "temporary" fuel duty cut was introduced by Rishi Sunak in 2022, and was due to expire this month.It was extended for 12 months in […]

An "incredibly vulnerable" girl held in a young offenders' institution was pinned down and forcibly stripped by "multiple" male prison guards, according to a watchdog.The teenager had been restrained and had her clothes removed on two occasions at YOI Wetherby in West Yorkshire, which holds some of the most "challenging" children in the country. The Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said he was "deeply shocked" by the findings, which […]

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a ten-year-old girl was found dead in Sandwell in the West Midlands.Police said they found the child with injuries at an address in Robin Close, Rowley Regis at around 12.10pm on Monday. She was confirmed dead at the scene.A 33-year-old woman - understood to be known to the girl - has been arrested and taken into custody for questioning.Detective Inspector […]

Jeremy Corbyn has announced he is taking the "first steps" in legal action against Nigel Farage over a "highly defamatory statement".Writing on social media, the former Labour leader - who is no longer a member of the party - said: "I have asked my lawyers to take the first steps in commencing legal proceedings against Nigel Farage, following a highly defamatory statement about me. "We are a movement for peace […]

The heartbroken family of an 11-year-old boy who died after being hit by a bin lorry in Edinburgh have described him as "the perfect son".Thomas Wong, from the city, was riding his bike when the collision occurred on Whitehouse Road at around 8.20am on Friday. Emergency services attended, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.The driver of the bin lorry was uninjured.In a statement released by Police Scotland on […]