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At least two children from St Augustine’s Catholic High School were taken to A&E after they had ash crosses smudged onto their foreheads

Another has been called Obelix, the Asterix character - because of its rather rotund shape.

Police held the man on suspicion of murder - a week after the 17-year-old was stabbed to death in an east London park

Alan Powell was found collapsed neat his home in Hornchurch, east London, and died in hospital two days later

But admits Labour too slow in tackling anti-Semitism within its ranks

The 17-year-old victim was stabbing in West Kensington in the middle of the afternoon on Thursday

An imaginative garden centre has released a Grow Your Own Brexit Survival Kit - to combat food shortages in the event of a no deal Brexit. Bosses at the centre have created a pack of 12 different vegetable seeds to plant, which can provide a year-round supply of nutritious food. The full kit is £34 and provides 12 packs of easy-to-grow seeds, including carrots, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, broad beans, spinach, kale and pumpkin. Credit;swns Paul Carmichael, the retail general...

James O'Brien said "we live in a country that is utterly upside down" after a spate of Tory Islamaphobia cases went largely unreported in the media. Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended this week over Islamophobic comments made on Facebook, and last night Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party’s first female Muslim minister, called for an independent inquiry into "institutional" Islamophobia in the party. The Muslim Council of Britain previously attacked the party for being unable to deal with...

we are slowly becoming a party which the Runnymede Trust report last week showed is not a welcome place for Black Asian and Minorities people