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A police force has been conducting raids to target the “thriving” mail-order drugs business. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the acquisition of drugs in online forums has opened up significantly over the last year. “We’re seeing everything from Class A across Class B drugs in addition to other illicit items, …

Lynette and Damian Corfield said they hoped no other family would go through the same as them. BBC News

Raducanu shot to worldwide fame when she won the US Open as an 18-year-old in 2021. She has previously been the victim of a stalker, with another man given a five-year restraining order in 2022 after he walked 23 miles to her home. The Englishwoman had increased security with her …

Corporate manslaughter charges are now being considered by police investigating the Post Office Horizon scandal. The criminal investigation into the scandal, in which hundreds of postmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting via the Horizon software, has also been expanded to include more “persons of interest” and an …

Mandy McAuleyand Stephen Dempster,BBC Spotlight NI BBC Ian Elliott advised the PCI in 2023, as part of a previous review panel The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) did not keep records of a child sex abuse case that was reported to ministers years before the church’s current crisis, a safeguarding …

A “trusted” member of a city’s Nepalese community who a judge said put his “own sexual desires first” has been jailed for abusing seven girls and a woman. Pramod Dhakal’s position of authority in the close-knit Peterborough community “allowed him trusted access to a number of young females”, Cambridge Crown …

Police officers investigating the Post Office Horizon IT scandal are now considering corporate manslaughter charges. In an update, shared with victims in the past few days, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said the investigation was currently focused on eight suspects, with five interviews conducted under caution. It said there …

Gemma SherlockNorth East and Cumbria The ballad of Lucy Sands Facebook Lucy Sands was just 16 years old when she was murdered in 1881 A memorial tree is being planted on an estate where a murdered teenage girl was found 144 years ago. Lucy Sands went missing on her way …

A man who was found in a critical condition and later died from his injuries has been described as being someone who lived with “purpose, passion and heart”. Vijay Kumar, 30, suffered serious injuries on Barbourne Road, Worcester, at about 04:15 GMT on 25 November. West Mercia Police has confirmed …

Alexander Lawrie Former nuns Eileen McElhinney and Carol Buirds were found guilty of abuse at children’s homes Two former nuns have been found guilty of carrying out campaigns of abuse against vulnerable youngsters at children’s homes in Scotland more than 40 years ago. Carol Buirds, 75, and Eileen McElhinney, 78, …

Police handout Kirk Marsden was hit outside the pub in Blackburn and died the following day A driver who deliberately tried to mow down a man outside a Lancashire pub on Christmas Day before reversing over him in an “atrocious act of violence” has been found guilty of manslaughter. Kirk …

Noor NanjiCulture reporter Getty Images Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year. It is a term that describes manipulative tactics …

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the shooting of a teenage boy who remains critically ill. The 16-year-old was found injured on London Road, Sheffield, at about 17:15 GMT on Monday and was taken to hospital. South Yorkshire Police said a 26-year-old man had been …

Reuters At least 146 people are known to have died in a devastating fire that tore through multiple high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. Police announced the death toll in a news conference on Sunday, cautioning that they “cannot rule out the possibility of further fatalities”. A further 79 are injured …

The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong apartment complex has risen. Investigators are searching for bodies in the residential towers of Wang Fuk Court, where the blaze erupted on Wednesday. Authorities say 146 bodies have now been found, rising from a previous reported total of …

At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting at a child’s birthday party in California. Ten others were injured in the shooting at a restaurant on Saturday evening, in the state’s northern city of Stockton. A suspect is still on the loose and police say they believe …

Children are among the fatalities in a mass shooting at a child’s birthday party in California. Police said four people had died and 10 were wounded in the incident in Stockton, about 60 miles east of San Francisco. Officers were called to a banquet hall just before 6pm local time …

The death toll from floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka has risen to 159, with more than 200 people missing, as the country grapples with one of its worst weather disasters in years. More than 20,000 homes have been destroyed, sending 108,000 people to state-run temporary shelters, the Disaster Management …

Jonny HumphriesAt Liverpool Crown Court Police released footage of Bates’ arrest and the 999 call where he admitted ‘I done the crime’ The family of a man who was killed by his sister’s boyfriend at their mother’s 70th birthday party has described how a night of joy turned to “unimaginable …

Matthew RichardsBBC Wales North Wales Police Thomas Iverson was jailed for 9 years for killing Craig Richardson A man has been jailed for nine years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old father from Wrexham. Thomas Iveson, 30, of Burton, near Wrexham, denied murdering Craig Richardson at his home in the …