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Busted on CCTV: carer stole cash from dementia patient and hid it in her bra
Thief Graziella Avetti was nailed when a secret camera caught her rummaging through a purse and bedside cabinet
O2 blackout: Data-reliant Brits leading “increasingly isolated” lives
O2 customers were left in a state of frenzy yesterday following a network blackout that saw them lose access to its 4G network. BBC presenter Dan Walker tweeted that he is "currently having to talk to people and look them in the face" after the outage, which he found "very disconcerting". The data glitch occurred after new research found face-to-face conversations are becoming a thing of the past as high-tech devices lead us to live 'isolated' lifestyles. A survey of...
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