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Nicola Bulley key landmarks and search areas mapped as hunt enters third week
Nicola Bulley went missing on January 27 after dropping her children off at school. For over two weeks, police have been searching for the 45-year-old mum-of-two but have found no trace of her so far
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'Ground Zero of drugs' with zombie-like addicts as heroin and crack made legal
In the province of British Columbia, anyone today and for the next three years caught with 2.5 grams or less of hard drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth will no longer be arrested
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Teenage girl missing for more than a year found alive and pregnant in wardrobe
Police found her in the hallway wardrobe, just metres away from where two men were watching television while claiming they didn't know where she was in Port Huron, Michigan
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Tragic balcony death of rapper AKA's fiancée two years before his violent murder
South African rapper AKA, real named Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, fiancée died just two years before his own death in harrowing circumstances
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Rapper AKA gunned down and killed aged 35 in South Africa drive by
South African rap star AKA, whose real name was Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, was gunned down and killed outside a restaurant in Durban on Friday night
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Baby died 'in extreme pain during collapse' under care of murder-accused nurse
Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering the girl, referred to as Child I, at Countess of Chester Hospital in October 2015 having already made three previous attempts
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Veterans' charity boss fired as questions asked about financial irregularities
Trustees left "trying to save" veterans' charity after firing CEO for 32 "misdemeanours"
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Riot as police van on fire, missiles thrown and protesters surround hotel
Police in riot gear have arrived at a mass protest held outside a hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside, which is believed to house a number of asylum seekers
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Police hit out at 'so-called experts' commenting on missing Nicola Bulley case
Lancashire Police appeared to call out social media sleuths for their "hurtful abuse of innocent people" in relation to missing 45-year-old Nicola Bulley, saying it "must stop"
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Missing mum, 22, found buried under home she shared with young children
Neighbours had reported seeing the missing woman's two children, aged five and two, on their own at the house in Ituporanga, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, under which police later found her body
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Great Yarmouth bomb explodes as experts try to defuse WW2 device
Homes and businesses were evacuated by concerned police after the discovery of a suspected unexploded bomb in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, earlier this week
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DNA in child beauty pageant star murder did not match parents despite suspicion
JonBenet Ramsey, 6, was found murdered just hours after a ransom note was left at her family house in Boulder, Colorado, US, on Christmas Day, 1996, as her death was ruled as a homicide
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Model seized by police in Iraq crackdown on publishing 'indecent' content
Iraqi model Asal Hussam was arrested in Baghdad after being accused of 'publishing videos against public morals' on social media. She had recently posted a provocative photo of her wearing a military uniform
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US state votes against banning children from carrying guns in public
A measure on the best way to fight crime in Missouri, US, was debated with lawmakers on Wednesday which included banning kids from walking down the street with firearms
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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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Playboy model found strangled to death in bed after 'most gruesome' murder
Christina Carlin-Kraft, 36, was found covered in her blood after she was choked to death at her home in Philadelphia, US, after a night of drinking in August, 2018
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Jeremy Vine accidentally labels Nicola Bulley's case a 'murder' in on-air error
Nicola Bulley has been missing since January 27, with Lancashire Police working to the theory that the mum of two fell into the River Wyre as she walked her dog
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Five arrested over racist attack on black schoolgirl, 15, are banned from Surrey
Suspects arrested in connection with a racially-motivated attack on a black student, 15, outside Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford, Surrey, have been banned from the county
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Police cleared over contact with Epsom head's husband before family deaths
Surrey Police has been cleared by an independent conduct watchdog, over the short period of time between the force speaking to George Pattison and his family's tragic deaths at Epsom College
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Dog breeder shot dead outside KFC as he sold French bulldog with gunman on run
Lonnie Alford Ray went to sell one of his French Bulldogs when the suspects snatched the dog's leash and immediately shot him multiple times outside a KFC restaurant near Bishopville, North Carolina, US
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Nicola Bulley's partner doesn't believe she fell in river, claims dive team boss
Nicola Bulley's partner Paul Ansell was seen with underwater forensic expert Peter Faulding this week at the River Wyre as he searches for answers in her disappearance
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Man hired to scatter ashes at sea in his boat 'kept cremated remains in garage'
Galveston County Police received a tip-off Cody Christopher Kenney, 29, from Texas, US, had been hired to spread the ashes of three people at sea but kept them in his garage
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Police search under bridge 7 miles from where missing Nicola Bulley vanished
Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen walking her dog Willow after dropping her daughters off at school in the small village of St Michaels on Wyre, Lancashire on January 27
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Emotional moment woman reunites with pet pooch after vicious dog attack on walk
Mum-of-three Marie Hay broke down in tears being reunited with her pet pooch Naevia at the vets, after she was attacked by two vicious dogs on a beach in Teesside
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Huge $5million reward for violent gang leader and drug baron nicknamed El Porky
Archaga Carías, 40, is head of MS-13 who are one of the most violent criminal gangs in the world and import large amounts of cocaine into the US along with conducting murder and kidnappings