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- Bullied teen made YouTube video call for help before suicideon Oct 13, 2012 in Latest News amanda amanda-todd drinking-bleach facebook memory news physical-attack social-networking summer vancouver videoA video made by 15-year-old Amanda Todd one month before she is believed to have committed suicide following a vicious campaign of online and physical bullying has received hundreds of thousands of hits. The video was posted on September 7, one month...
- Gunman takes shot at Barack Obama campaign office in DenverA gunshot was fired into a downtown office used by campaign staff of US president Barack Obama in Denver, shattering a window but failing to hit anyone inside. Police say that nobody was hurt in the shooting (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Daniel Petty) P...
- BBC could rename Peel Wing after claims of affair with 15-year-old girlA decision to name a wing of the BBC's headquarters after the late DJ John Peel may be reconsidered after claims he had an affair with a 15-year-old girl. Earlier this year, the corporation announced it intended to honour the broadcaster by changing...
- April Jones: Police say hope remains two weeks after disappearancePolice searching for April Jones say that they will not scale back their search for the five-year-old and have insisted that there is still a 'realistic prospect' of finding her. Abducted: April Jones (Picture: Getty) Dyfed Powys police have 18 speci...
- MP Andrew Mitchell urged to resign by police after ‘plebs’ rowWest Midlands Police Federation believes that MP Andrew Mitchell has 'no option but to resign' following an incident in which he allegedly referred to Downing Street police officers as 'plebs'. Tory whip Andrew Mitchell is facing growing pressure as...
- Hillsborough police chief Sir Norman Bettison ‘should be suspended’on Oct 13, 2012 in Latest News allegations bbc decisions disaster liverpool norman norman-bettison once-the-chief supporters-lost suspended-whileSir Norman Bettison should be suspended while an investigation into the Hillsborough disaster is carried out, an MP has claimed. Merseyside politician Maria Eagle said she cannot understand how Sir Norman, whose conduct at the April 1989 tragedy is b...
- Pollution from third Heathrow runway ‘could lead to more early deaths’New research from US university MIT claims that 50 people a year die early due to pollution from Heathrow Airport and that this figure could rise to 150 should a third runway be built. Heathrow Airport' struggle with capacity is behind calls for a th...
- British tourists ‘don’t want to make new friends on holiday’Only eight per cent of British tourists say they made new friends on their last trip overseas, with over 50 per cent saying that they were not interested to meet people at all while on holiday, a survey has found. Over 50 per cent of tourists prefer...
- Car bomb in crowded Pakistan market kills at least 17 and injures 40A car bomb has killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more in a crowded market in the north west Pakistani town of Darra Adam Khel, close to an office used by anti-Taliban tribal elders. A man stands near a damaged vehicle at the site of a suic...
- Eric Clapton pockets £21.3m for record sale of Richter paintingA Gerhard Richter painting belonging to Eric Clapton has been sold for a world record price of £21.3million at Sotheby's in London. The bidding for Abstraktes Bild (809-4) lasted just five minutes, but that was long enough for the value to be pushed...
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