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“The Home Office published reports about corporal punishment in approved schools … they analysed with charts and graphs how useful lashing was to stop boys from running away. “Nobody asked why the boys were running away … This was state-approved and sanctioned child abuse and it was universally known of.”

Student members of a law society have been given a stern warning from their president after they “clicked fingers” and “waved money” at staff at their Christmas Party. According to reports made public in a Facebook post Newcastle University law students smashed glasses and mocked staff members for where they studied at the event as well as threatening to sue them and waving money and clicking at them. President of the Eldon society Tara Drew emailed members and posted on...

Leary Dalton-Byrne, 18, repeatedly knifed Dean Ward after approaching him in a park and asking for a cigarette

Jamie Patterson, 34, cut a gap-toothed figure in his mugshot after he was arrested following the "nasty and completely unwarranted assault".

Scientists at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) launched the device in 2011 to measure the world's largest ocean current.

Locals in Cheltenham., Glos, say one neighbourhood has seen 11 parking restriction signs painted over.

Customers at Fabio's Gelato, in Hitchen, Herts., are being served up to 24 "strange" and "wacky" combinations of ice-cream

Jesus Luke Ripley, 27, smashed the windows of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church during an overnight bout of violence.

Maheraj Ahmed, 15, will rub shoulders with the elite when he takes his place in the sleepy hallowed halls of Britain’s most famous school on a £76,000 scholarship.