All news by author: Callum Cuddeford

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Mum terrorised by teens 'kicking down door in middle of night for TikTok trend'
The craze first went viral in the USA in 2021 when pranksters filmed themselves kicking doors to the beat of Kesha's 2012 hit 'Die Young' with a well-timed double punt
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'I've found 3 bodies and an array of items in my years of mudlarking on river'
Mudlarking expert Jason Sandy has found a Roman hairpin, medieval 'knuckle duster', and three dead bodies in his 10 years of mudlarking on the River Thames
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Boy, 12, 'depressed' after missing 7 months of school due to council error
James Yalçın, from East London, has missed the past academic year of classroom learning after an error at Waltham Forest Council over his special educational needs
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Family faces eviction for withholding rent as 'damp' home is 'falling to pieces'
Marie McManus has been living in the damp-ridden property in Brixton Hill, South London, for the past five years while Lambeth Council fix her family's other home
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Mum and two kids trapped in 'squalid' mouldy flat and 'plagued by sewage floods'
Solicitor Zineb Boulefa, 31, lives with her daughter, 7, and son, 5, at a flat in Hindle House in Hackney, London, and claims she has battled mould, damp and floods of sewage
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Man fined for illegally demolishing £800,000 home in 'flagrant and reckless' act
Mohammed Ali Khan demolished his house on Grove Road in Isleworth, West London, in January 2022, without getting permission from the council. He has now been asked to pay a fine of more than £6,000
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Man who bought £5k home on 'UK's most dangerous street' says it's now worth £1m
Hasan Rezvan, 75, bought the four-bed property in Brixton, south London in 1970 after moving to the UK from Cyprus - despite the area's bad reputation it has since skyrocketed in value
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Family's plea to find missing mum last seen two weeks ago near Buckingham Palace
Racheal McManus was last seen at a McDonald's near Buckingham Palace on January 31, with her partner saying she has no access to money and maybe suicidal
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Firefighter used selfie in front of smouldering Grenfell Tower on Tinder profile
The London Fire Brigade worker is said to have taken the picture "in the immediate aftermath" of the tragedy which killed 72 people, including 18 children, in 2017
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Police hunting owner after dog breaks elderly woman's arm in terrifying attack
The Metropolitan Police is looking for the owner of a dog that savaged a 74-year-old woman, breaking her arm, and attacked two more victims in West London last week
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'Pool of blood' in Harrods store after stabbing horror as man slashed with knife
Witnesses have described their horror after seeing "a pool of blood on the floor" in Harrods, West London, leaving them "visibly shaken" as the knifeman is still at large
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Funeral guests filmed screaming after women and children shot in drive-by horror
Chilling new footage shows the chaos inside St Aloysius Church in Camden, North London moments after a shotgun was fired from a moving car at people attending the funeral of a mother and daughter
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Model, 21, who died in flat fire was 'light in every party' as tributes pour in
Sofia Duarte, 21, was found dead in a flat on Old Kent Road in London after a horrific blaze on New Year's Day and she has been described as the "light in every party"
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