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The WhatsApp group is said to have promoted self-harm, sexual violence and racism, and Northumbria Police has warned schools across Tyneside about the dangers of the messaging app

Victims have revealed they were left ’very distressed’

Emergency calls for people at risk of freezing to death have shot up by around 40% in England since 2019, according to new data released with more than half of them elderly

The state pension increased by 8.5% this month, in line with September 2023’s wage growth figures, but the latest hike could lead 400,000 people into income tax brackets

Ex-Post Office boss Alan Cook said his ’instincts’ told him cash-strapped subpostmasters were stealing from tills as they were struggling due to the recession in an email in 2009

Brit backpacker Theo Bailey, believed to be in his 30s, was sadly found lifeless in a shallow water drainage ditch the following day outside the Roctapus diving centre on Koh Tao Island

As former President Donald Trump prepared to marry his second wife, Marla Maples, OJ Simpson had some strange advice and a jab for the real estate mogul back in 1993

Ex-subpostmistress Seema Misra, who was sentenced to 15 months in 2010, said she still has nightmares about her imprisonment and that she did not accept David Smith’s apology

Priti Sthankiya told police she was "going through a difficult time" after admitting she wheeled the woman’s bag away from Terminal 2 and hid it under a carousel before removing valuables

The infamous black gloves from OJ Simpson’s 1995 double-murder trial are being kept in a lock-up long after the ex-NFL star was acquitted by a jury

A passenger onboard a BA flight described the moment the ’pothole’ was discovered

’Never underestimate a short-a**e’, Dean Hughes told Shane Maloney as he lay unconscious

Legal bills paid by the taxpayer after Science Secretary Michelle Donelan falsely accused an academic of extremism came to more than £34,000.

An adviser to Harold Wilson has revealed that the former PM had an affair with his deputy press secretary while in Downing Street. Joe Haines agreed with former adviser Bernard Donoughue to reveal Harold Wilson’s affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies due to its importance to the ‘historical record’. The bombshell was revealed on Wednesday evening during an interview with The Times newspaper – and this morning Lord Donoughue told the BBC they agreed to reveal the 50-year-old secret following Ms Hewlett-Davies’ death last October. ‘We kept it secret because we thought it would be used damagingly against him at that time,’ Lord Donoughue said. ‘There’s no reason for that now, and we waited until they had both died – Wilson some time ago and Janet just a few months ago, and so I felt as a sometime historian this was important to go in the historical record of Harold Wilson.’ Lord Donoughue said the then-prime minister had cryptically confessed the affair to him during a walk around Number 10 towards the end of his premiership. ‘He, in a very Wilsonian way, because he wasn’t a very direct person, he said he was very pleased I was a friend of Janet,’ he explained. ‘So I, knowing him, know that he would not have raised that unless he had got some interest or concern, so I knew that he was asking me: did I know about him and Janet?

The Atomic Weapons Establishment says a ’software update’ means it has lost track of who has used its highly-classified databases.

Additional measures from 30 April for imported animal and plant products could hike costs by 10% in first year, says Allianz Trade

Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consulted

A plane from Manchester was forced to divert due to an ’unruly passenger’, leading to police storming the aircraft on Tuesday night (April 10).

This unassuming home may have a deceptively modest exterior, but it’s price tag is pretty eye-watering at a cool £3.5 million.

A student who may have been killed by long-term use of laughing gas was inhaling two to three “big bottles” of the substance each day, an inquest into her death has heard.

A 17-year-old boy was pulled from the River Croal in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and pronounced dead at the scene after falling into the water while riding an inflatable canoe

Official data for first week shows 7,152 reports received though nearly half of those were made on 1 April

Tory peer James Arbuthnot, who doggedly campaigned on the scandal, told the official inquiry that he believed the Post Office was ’stringing MPs along’ to defend the faulty Horizon IT system

Stephen Kaye has Parkinson’s but couple blocked from Britain despite having paid taxes there

The Government unveils plans today to create a standalone criminal offence for assaulting a retail worker, which could see offenders sent to prison or handed an unlimited fines