A family paid tribute to seven-year-old Leonna Ruka as “the light of their lives”, who died after a tree collapsed on her in a park. Leonna, from Dagenham in east London, was visiting Southend-on-Sea with family. Emergency services were called to Chalkwell Park shortly before 15:00 BST on Saturday, but Leonna died in hospital. A...
BBC Sophie-Leigh Gemmell admitted culpable and reckless conduct A woman allowed a girl who was under 10 years old to drive a car through a Scottish village, a court has heard. Sophie-Leigh Gemmell, 32, admitted culpable and reckless conduct after footage emerged of the incident in Crimond, Aberdeenshire. The young girl was driving the car...
A girl in China’s Guizhou province was found trapped in a drain after intense flooding in the area. The unharmed girl had been trapped there for seven hours, officials said. At least 80,000 people have been evacuated in the province after heavy rains triggered severe flooding. Footage on social media showed torrents of water sweeping...
A 12-year-old girl has died and seven other children have been taken to hospital in an outbreak of severe food poisoning centred around a northern French town. Symptoms began to emerge on 12 June in and around Saint-Quentin, south of Lille, with the children rushed to hospital over the following days. The cause of the...
BBC The roof and upper floors were completely destroyed by the blaze A man has died and several people including an eight-year-old girl have been injured in a flat fire in Perth. Police officers on patrol noticed the blaze had broken out in the top floor of the four-storey building on the corner of Scott...
It seems to be the exact reverse of what’s happening – and trying to happen – here in the States, though. In Northern Ireland, it’s the native Irish who are gathering in the streets and going on a destructive bender, now in town after town, after two 14-year-old ‘immigrant’ teenagers were charged with raping a...
A 16-year-old girl has been charged with assaulting a police officer amid disorder in Salford that saw cars set on fire and bricks being hurled. About 50 to 60 people gathered during the disturbance in the city’s Lower Broughton Road at about 13:30 BST, Greater Manchester Police said. Two men have been arrested on suspicion...
BBC Disorder broke out in Ballymena on Monday night There has been disorder in Ballymena after crowds gathered near the location of an alleged sexual assault in the town. Youths with their faces masked and wearing gloves could be seen throwing masonry. A police car had what appeared to be two of its windows smashed....
Emily Johnson BBC News, Yorkshire YappApp Firefighters were called to Russell Close, in Heckmondwike, on Sunday A nine-year-old girl and her father have died, and an 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition, following a house fire in West Yorkshire. Emergency services were called to an ongoing fire in Russell Close, Heckmondwike, shortly after 06:10...
Matt Taylor BBC News, Leicester Laura Hammond BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Bhim Kohli, 80, died the day after he was attacked at a park in Leicestershire A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl have been sentenced for killing an 80-year-old man out walking his dog in a park. Bhim Kohli died the day after...
A toddler was saved when her 11-year-old sister pulled her out of the path of a runaway electric cabin scooter in central China’s Henan town. CCTV footage obtained by Chinese state-run national broadcaster China Central Television shows the cabin scooter smashing through the glass doors of a restaurant, narrowly missing the toddler and smashing into...
Lewis Adams BBC News, Buckinghamshire Sam Read BBC News, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Police Ann Eyre died in the house fire in Bletchley, police confirmed A 15-year-old girl who died in a house fire with a 67-year-old woman has been named by police. Ann Eyre was in the property with the other woman, who has not...
A body has been found in the search for a girl missing in the River Thames in Kent. Police were called at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns were raised for two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road in Gravesend. Emergency services attended the scene, where a boy was retrieved from...
A search is under way for a girl who is missing in the River Thames in Kent, police have said. Officers were called by the Port of London Authority (PLA) at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns for for the welfare of two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road, Gravesend. Emergency...
Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Gallo Images via Getty Images A video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago in South Africa, left most people in the courtroom sobbing. It was shown during a hearing in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, ahead...