All news by author: Adam Dutton

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Wetherspoon fan spends £30k on epic four-year pub crawl to all 875 locations
To end the 'longest pub crawl in history', Wetherspoon superfan David Bingham will enjoy a cold pint of beer at Gatwick Airport tomorrow - his 875th boozer in four years
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Pensioner has no idea why shop bought eggs keep turning up buried in her garden
Rose Ritchie, who lives in Studley, Warwickshire, says the shop-bought eggs - stamped with different dates - first started popping in her garden several months ago
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England's 'most contaminated site' sees villagers complain of falling ill
Villagers claim they have been struck down with mystery illnesses since the bulldozers moved in to Somercotes, Derbyshire, where over 600 new home are being built
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Mum who ate six meals a day and hid behind her kids in photos loses seven stone
Clare Skyvington, 39, used to eat up to six meals a day, including takeaways and sugary drinks. But after changing her lifestyle, she has lost seven stone and feels much happier
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Social media users begged thug to stop as he filmed himself beating man to death
Declan O'Donnell, 24, repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on Paul Cox, 63, during a "grotesque" two-hour rampage at a flat in Nottingham city centre, while social media users begged him to stop
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'We live next to UK's darkest car park with drug dealing and doggers having sex'
Residents of an estate in Worcester have complained about antisocial behaviour in a nearby car park - and say that despite reporting the issue to the police, nothing has been done to solve it
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Boy, 9, 'constantly hungry' at school before being 'tortured to death by mum'
Teachers were worried for Alfie Steele in the months before the youngster, from Droitwich, Worcestershire, was found dead in the bath, and social services were called
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Family's £900k home 'worthless' after flooding with sewage twice in three years
Helen and Ashley Northway bought a 17th century farmhouse in Raunds, Northamptonshire, that they hoped to pass on to their kids , but twice in the past three years the property's flooded with raw sewage
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Boy, 9, died after being 'held in cold bath and whipped by mum and boyfriend'
Alfie Steele was allegedly beaten and whipped by his own mum Carla Scott and her fiancé Dirk Howell at their home in Droitwich, and held in a cold bath
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Abandoned mortuary with original embalming room to be made into spooky Airbnb
The old mortuary – which was last used to tend the dead 20 years ago – went under the hammer on Thursday and sparked a bidding war until it sold for £137,000 - £82,000 more than expected
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Cops slammed for 'ridiculous' letter threatening kids playing football in street
Cops trying to clamp down on anti-social behaviour sent an "aggressive" letter out in Warndon Villages, Worcester, saying ball games in the street will not be tolerated.
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Police shocked to find stolen motorcycle parked inside someone's bathroom
Comical pictures show the stolen vehicle blocking off access to the toilet, shower and basin with little room for the homeowner to manoeuvre in the property on Tower Street, Dudley
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Driver cleared of refusing to give breath sample as he was too drunk to do it
Jonathan Smith, 44, was pulled over in the early hours of the morning after cops spotted him driving without his lights on and taken to a police station where he failed to blow into a breathalyser
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Dad with one year to live now nearly cancer-free after taking cannabis oil
Luke Goodwin feels as “right as rain” when he takes the oils alongside his chemotherapy treatment for stage 4 leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that grows in the smooth muscles of the body's organs
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Body of teenager missing for nearly two months found in flooded quarry
Toby Burwell, 17, went missing on February 20 when he went swimming in a flooded quarry near his home in Rugby, Warwickshire. Yesterday, his body was found by Warwickshire Police
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Schoolboy, 13, sexually assaulted 7 women and tried to rape two while in uniform
A 13-year-old schoolboy sexually assaulted and tried to rape a number of women in Telford, Shropshire, after school in a horrific spate of attacks that took place between December and January
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Mum-of-three who killed a suspected thief in a revenge road rage attack jailed
Thomas Maguire, 30, was killed after being mown down by Kerry Fair, 39, after being suspected of stealing a motorbike
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PCSO engaged in sex acts with girls online and filmed children in changing rooms
Nottinghamshire Police PCSO Matthew Shaw, 38, pleaded guilty to 21 charges of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and three of voyeurism and was jailed for 14 years
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Couple transform home into public swimming pool due to lack of local facilities
Bhavika Kane, 43, and her husband Mark, 47, faced a 50-minute round-trip to take their kids swimming when they moved to rural Lincolnshire and so spent thousands building one in their garden
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Gran devastated after council destroys garden she spent 17 years working on
Gillian Davies, 86, was in tears as workers smashed up her garden after South Kesteven District Council told her she didn't have permission to spruce up the space
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Grammar school headteacher leaves after parents sent list of teachers on strike
Charlotte Jordan left King Edward VI Five Ways Grammar school in Birmingham after parents received a list of teachers going on strike and a data breach investigation was launched
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UK's biggest doughnut packed with 170,000 calories weighs as much as a small cow
The UK's biggest doughnut has now been added to Derbyshire-based bakery Project D's menu - but if you scoff it all in one day, you'll have eaten two months worth of calories!
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Puppy rushed to vet with odd signs of ovulation after licking owner's HRT cream
Vets were stunned when they examined 12-week-old sausage dog Lilly who was in season, which is very unusual for such a young puppy.
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Family of man 'in river' say cops did 'nothing' compared to missing mum search
Mark Bishop, 64, disappeared without a trace after he was last seen near an Aldi supermarket in Newark, Notts., on January 7 this year
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Little girl's sweet idea for 'post boxes to heaven' gets rolled out across UK
Matilda Handy, nine, came up with the heartwarming idea to install a 'post box to heaven' so she could send letters to her late grandparents - now they're being rolled out across the country