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45 years on, abused boys of Forde Park School horror finally receive apology
Over four decades after boys taught at a Home Office approved school taken over by Devon County Council were brutalised and abused in a horrific regime, the local authority that should have looked out for them as children has finally apologised. The apology was read out at the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) by the council’s legal representative. Last week, David Enright who represents many survivors of child sexual abuse in the inquiry chaired...
Mass extinction wiped out 90% of lifeforms & could happen again now
Global warming left animals gasping 252 million years ago and humans face the same within the next three centuries, according to new research.
A planet just 124 light years from Earth has atmosphere shaped like a balloon
The inert gas, best known for being used to blow up party balloons or make people's voice squeaky, is escaping in a cloud.
Europe’s first farmers could have been wiped out by the Black Death
The oldest strain of plague that's ever been discovered was found in a 20-year-old Stone Age woman who died 4,900 years ago in southern Sweden
BBC radio star almost died in freak accident when he was hit on head with BEER BARREL
The 57-year-old Scot suffered concussion for 12 months afterwards and was often mistaken for being drunk
Woman who stabbed naked boyfriend to death after he jumped into hot tub with two barmaids jailed
Demi Harris, 21, knifed Christopher Pearson, 39, after flying into a rage when he stripped off at a house party
Trading standards officer downloaded 152,000 indecent images of children spared jail
Robert Clark, 52, was handed a suspended prison sentence after a court heard he was an "intelligent and capable" man who was "depressed" at the end of his career
Vote Leave illegal spending “sufficient enough” to swing the result of the referendum
One of the world's leading experts in computational propaganda has concluded Vote Leave's illegal overspending was "very likely" to have been sufficient to swing the result of the referendum. Professor Philip Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, has presented exhaustive analysis of the campaign’s digital strategy to the High Court which concludes it reached “tens of millions of people” in its last crucial days after its spending limit had been breached. It is more than plausible that the reach was...
Fears growing for missing two-year-old girl
Antonia Matei, aged two, and 39-year-old father Alexandru Matei were last seen at about 1.30pm yesterday (wed)