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'Happy-slapping' video shows teenage girl being kicked in the face in playground attack

A terrifying 'happy slapping' of a teenage girl has fuelled concerns over the rise in violent 'ladette' culture. Footage of the girl, believed to be 14, shows her being kicked and kneed in the face by another girl and then left in a bloodied heap on the ground after being battered 15 times. The video film comes after national figures showed that girls aged 10 to 17 carried out more than 15,600 assaults and 1,000 muggings last year .. more | Add your view

Nigerian woman bought a baby for £150 to qualify for a council house in Britain

A housing support worker, who smuggled a baby from Nigeria in a 'callous' bid to get a free flat, was jailed for 26 months today. Peace Sandberg, 40, branded 'manipulative and a stranger to the truth' by the judge, is believed by police to have paid £150 for the three-month-old boy in her native country.. more | Add your view (3)

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Gazundering returns

An epidemic of "gazundering" is sweeping through London

Knife thug caught

Mayor Boris Johnson witnessed first-hand a knife-wielding thug being caught

Pictured in his hospital bed: Man who was left paralysed after tombstoning 'moment of madness'

A family has released a picture of their son lying in a hospital bed paralysed after a 'moment of madness' when he 'tombstoned' from a pier. The loved ones of Sonny Wells, 20, released the image in the hope it would save others from making the same mistake. Mr Wells will be paralysed from the chest down after he jumped from South Parade Pier in Southsea.. more | Add your view

Row over Boris adviser

The Mayor's new planning adviser will not be paid a salary

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Woman 'takes a bite out of the face' of her partner during drunken mid-air fight on holiday flight

A British holiday plane was diverted to France after a couple became embroiled in a 'drunken' air-rage fight at 35,000ft over the Mediterranean. Eyewitnesses said the woman passenger 'took a bite out of the face' of her boyfriend or husband .. more | Add your view

BBC director found drowned was 'stressed, under-supported and isolated' at work, inquest hears

A senior BBC director drowned after feeling 'under supported' and 'isolated' at work, an inquest heard today. Kari Boto, 53, of Ipswich, Suffolk was found in the sea at nearby Felixstowe on June 27 last year - three days before her BBC contract had been due to expire. The inquest at Ipswich Crown Court, heard Mrs Boto had suffered stress and anxiety in her role as a director with the BBC World Trust, which she took up in October 2006.. more | Add your view

Jailed for life: Youths who kicked former soldier to death

Four youths who kicked and beat a former soldier to death, three of them while on bail or serving community sentences, were jailed for life today.. more | Add your view

Revealed: Afghan plane hijacker is now working as a cleaner at Heathrow

One of the nine Afghans who won the right to live in Britain after hijacking a plane is now working at Heathrow airport as a cleaner, it emerged. Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of a group who took over an internal Afghan flight in 2000 and landed it in the UK.. more | Add your view (18)

Hero riot policeman tells of the moment he was attacked by a mob of angry Rangers fans

The police officer attacked by Glasgow Rangers fans after the team's defeat in the Uefa Cup Final said today the violence was unbelievable and frightening. Pc Mick Regan said there was a hardcore minority of "a few thousand" troublemakers among the 100,000 fans who watched Rangers' 2-0 defeat to Zenit St Petersburg in Manchester on Wednesday .. more | Add your view

'I WASN'T Cherie's lover': Judge named as Mrs Blair's ex-boyfriend in her book denies they had a relationship

A judge named in Cherie Blair's book as one of her ex-boyfriends has spoken out to say he was not the man she meant. John Higham QC was named in Mrs Blair's memoirs as a fellow Liverpudlian she went out with after meeting him at law school. She referred to him 11 times, detailing their relationship and break-up, around the time she met Tony in 1975, and saying he was one of two men she was seeing at the same time.. more | Add your view

Barclaycard tempts thousands with 'instant cash' - but forgets to mention the massive interest charges

Barclaycard has been branded 'grossly irresponsible' for urging customers to take out 'instant cash' on their credit cards. Britain's biggest credit card company is sending letters to thousands tempting them with 'instant cash'.. more | Add your view (5)

Husband arrested after body of 'missing BBC make-up artist wife is found'

The husband of a missing TV make-up artist has been arrested, just hours after human remains were found in woodland near where he worked. David Chenery-Wickens, 51, is being questioned by detectives investigating the disappearance of his wife 48-year-old Diane in January.. more

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City worker claimed she earned half as much as colleagues at Korean bank - because she wasn't Korean

A City worker who claims she suffered discrimination at an investment bank because she was not Korean is demanding £400,000 in compensation. Christine Jones said she was told 'British are used to bad service' by directors at Woori Investment and Securities International .. more | Add your view

Mother's joy after winning 24-year battle to get neighbours to cut 50ft Leylandii trees

When Christine Wright complained about her neighbour's leylandii hedge in 1984 she hoped the dispute would be settled within weeks.. more | Add your view

Father killed by train as he leapt back onboard to retrieve present for his son

A devoted father died under a train after he tried to jump back on board to retrieve some presents for his family he had left on the seat. David Davies got off the train without picking up flowers for his wife and a toy car he had bought his three-year-old son. He ran back to try to stop the train by banging on the windows but the driver did not see him. In a moment of madness, he then tried to jump from the platform on to a ledge between two carriages .. more | Add your view (11)

Blade Runner sprinter with no legs wins the right to compete in Olympics

An athlete with no legs dubbed Blade Runner has won the right to compete in the Beijing Olympics.. more | Add your view

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Pictured: Newsagent's shop wrecked after driver loses control of her car and smashes through front door

It may not look like it but this was once a thriving newsagents. But all that changed in just a few seconds when a driver lost control of her car and ploughed through the front door. The impact caused two sides of building to collapse before the first floor gave way and crashed to the ground. Amazingly no-one died in the carnage and the four people in the shop survived with only minor injuries.. more | Add your view

Under-fire Brown admits: 'I'm the best man to do the job...probably'

Gordon Brown brushed aside calls for him to step aside yesterday and warned he is the only Labour politician capable of winning the next election. He sent a clear signal to his MPs that he has no intention of being bundled out if things get worse for his Government this summer.. more | Add your view (11)

Woman beat her grandmother to death with a spade to prevent her inheritance being spent on care bills

Frail and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, 76-year-old widow Annie Garbutt desperately needed the support of her family. Instead, however, her granddaughter beat her to death with a spade when she feared the old lady's savings would all be spent on care. Joanne Hussey, 33, had already used some of Mrs Garbutt's cash to pay for cosmetic work on her teeth and hair.. more | Add your view

Brother who was lost for TEN YEARS was in care home after all

A man spent almost a decade searching for his disabled brother only to find he had been drugged and kept in a private care home for the entire time. Rod Fraser, 50, repeatedly asked police and social services for help in tracking down his brother, Ian, 57, who vanished in 1998 .. more | Add your view

Council spends £1million protecting newt colony - then discover they don't exist

Generally speaking, no great crested newts is good news for developers. It illegal to capture or kill them or disturb their habitat. But a lack of them has left Leicestershire Council crestfallen and £1million poorer. Officers spent the money to protect a suspected colony, later discovering they didn't exist.. more | Add your view (4)

Judge rules family killer Jeremy Bamber must die behind bars

Cold-hearted killer Jeremy Bamber - serving life for slaughtering five members of his family - was today told by a top judge that he must die in prison.. more | Add your view

Flexible working for 4.5m more parents will be a 'nightmare', claim business leaders

The right to demand flexible working is to be extended to an extra 4.5million parents, it was revealed yesterday. They will be able to ask to work part-time, work from home, or make a range of other variations to their hours until their children reach 16 .. more | Add your view (10)

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Tormented mother of prison overdose girl found dead near her daughter's grave

Sarah Campbell's black granite gravestone bears the poignant postscript: 'Her mother left broken hearted'. But yesterday there was no more pain for Pauline Campbell, who never got over the death of the wayward teenage daughter who killed herself in prison. Five years after she buried her little girl, Miss Campbell's body has been found lying near Sarah's grave .. more | Add your view (17)

Natascha Kampusch in court to hear her mother accused of 'masterminding' her eight-year dungeon ordeal

The mother of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch was accused in court yesterday of masterminding her abduction. Retired judge Martin Wabl said Brigitte Sirny wanted to cover up her sexual abuse of her daughter, then ten. He claimed she hatched the plot with Wolfgang Priklopil, who held Natascha in a dungeon for more than eight years and committed suicide hours after she escaped on 2006 .. more