BBC Part of the park was taped off after emergency services were called A 16-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in a lake in Nottinghamshire. Emergency services were called to Colwick Country Park when the boy went missing at 17:20 BST on Wednesday, Nottinghamshire Police said. A police underwater search team...
Lisa Young BBC News, South West Neil Phillips Oscar, 14, said he had tried to keep the injured man calm until help came A 14-year-old boy who rescued a seriously injured paddleboarder in a rough sea has been praised for saving the man’s life with a “textbook rescue”. Oscar paddled to the aid of a...
David Spereall BBC News, Yorkshire Family handout Harvey Willgoose died after being stabbed in the chest at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield A 15-year-old boy has admitted stabbing a student to death at a school in Sheffield. Harvey Willgoose, also 15, died after being stabbed in the chest at All Saints Catholic High...
The dad of a 14-year-old boy killed in a crash on the M6 has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Ryan Liam Morgan, from Morecambe, was killed on 20 April after the Peugeot van in which he was a passenger left the carriageway between junctions 34 and 33 southbound and crashed into a...
David Pittam BBC News, Derby BBC Elliott says he thinks fossils look “cool” A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years. Elliott, seven, moved into his new home in Matlock, Derbyshire, three months ago. During work in the front garden, he dug limestone rocks out of the ground...
China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC. Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for attacking the boy, who had been walking to a Japanese school in south-eastern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The case had sent shockwaves through...
BBC Albi’s mouth and oesophagus blister, making eating and swallowing painful. He is fed through a tube into his stomach A couple whose son has a rare genetic skin condition say it is hard to process that a cuddle could “tear his skin”. Twenty month old Albi was born with a severe form of recessive...
Police have arrested a teenage boy after a car was stolen in Exeter. Devon and Cornwall Police said the grey Lexus CT200H Sport was reported stolen on Tuesday and had last been seen entering Torquay at about 04:15 BST the same day. The force said a 16-year-old from Torquay was arrested on suspicion of burglary...
A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murder after a man was fatally stabbed in Leicester. Police said Louis Howard, 35, died at the scene after officers were called to a house in Oakdale Close, Braunstone Frith, shortly after 22:40 BST on Wednesday. A post-mortem examination confirmed Mr Howard died from a stab...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Soulja Boy scored a number one hit in 2007 with his party anthem Crank That US rapper Soulja Boy has been ordered to pay $4.25m (£3.2m) to a woman who accused him of sexual battery and abuse. The unnamed woman sued the star, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez...
Chloe Laversuch BBC News, Yorkshire West Yorkshire Police Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, died in hospital after being stabbed in Huddersfield A teenage boy who was fatally stabbed in Huddersfield had fled the war in Syria after being injured in a bombing. Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, suffered a single wound to the neck and...
A Palestinian-American teenager has been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. Omar Mohammed Saada Rabea, 14, was shot on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya on Sunday evening along with two other 14-year-old boys, one of whom was seriously wounded. The other suffered minor wounds. The Israeli military said its...
A teenager found dead after going swimming in a lake in south-east London has been named as Izaiah Smith. The body of the 15-year-old was found in Beckenham Place Park in Beckenham at about 22:40 BST on Friday following searches by specialist dive teams. The Metropolitan Police previously said his death was being treated as...
Broadway Boy is to return home after suffering a heavy fall in the Grand National. The horse, trained in Gloucestershire by Nigel Twiston-Davies, was leading the Aintree showpiece when he came down heavily at Valentine’s Brook on the second circuit. “Thank you for all the lovely messages, more importantly thanks to all the vets at...
A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in a lake in south-east London. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the 15-year-old’s body was recovered from the lake in Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham at about 22:40 BST on Friday. The police had been called at about 15:00 to reports of the boy...