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15-year-old arrested after schoolboy murdered in busy shopping centre in broad daylight
Police named the knife murder victim on Friday as schoolboy Baptista Adjei, from North Woolwich.
School funding allocations revealed
Some schools are due to get budget increases of more than 10% while others will get the minimum increase.
Americans stockpile Parmesan cheese ahead of US trade war that will hit British jumpers and Scotch whisky too
In the US - EU trade war, the US has slapped 25% tariffs on European Union goods including single-malt Scotch whisky, French wine and Italian cheese.
ISIS terrorists break out of Kurdish jails after Trump abandons Kurd allies to Turkish offensive
IS is plotting a mass prison breakout to free 70,000 or more IS supporters while Turkey invades Northern Syria.
Commonwealth war graves knocked over and daubed with swastikas
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it was ‘dismayed’ by the vandalism.
Husband of woman jailed in Iran says family caught up in ’gun fight’
Richard Ratcliffe said it is ‘lovely’ to have his daughter, Gabriella, back home.
Vulnerable eight-year-old boy forced to sleep on a police station floor
Whistleblower revealed social services were unable to find him a bed for the night after police took the boy in for his protection
Extinction Rebellion activists block BBC London HQ as week of protests continues
Staff reported being unable to enter the building as demonstrators called on the broadcaster to end its ‘silence’ on climate change.
Two teenagers stabbed to death in London in just five hours
A 15-year-old lad was fatally stabbed outside a McDonald's in Stratford while an 18-year-old youth was fatally knifed on an estate in Camberwell