All news on the topic: Children

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Vanished overnight: police search for 12-year-old Miley missing in central Bristol
Cops have launched a desperate search for a missing 12-year-old girl as her family begs her to come home.
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Horror at Edinburgh fair: ride with children derails and crashes into adjacent cabin
The heart-stopping moment a fairground ride car ’smashed about before coming off the track’ at a festival in Edinburgh was captured in footage - children on the ride were ’shaken’
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West Midlands couple to stand trial for murder of five-week-old baby
A male and a female have been charged with murder following the death of a five-week-old infant.
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Driver jailed for killing 9-year-old Alice Williams after running red light
A man who ran over and killed a 9-year-old girl when he failed to stop at a red traffic light has been jailed for eight years.
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Body of 14-year-old boy found after fire: 14 teenagers arrested in the UK on suspicion of manslaughter
Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit.
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Father of son killed in car accident charged with manslaughter due to dangerous driving
A father has been charged following a van crashing into a tree, resulting in the death of its 14-year-old passenger.
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10-year-old Leah Harrison tragically dies in mudslide during school trip
A girl was trapped in a flash mudslide during a school trip while crossing a stream, an inquest into her death has heard.
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In Aberdeen, a 12-year-old schoolgirl was taken to hospital after an attack in the cafeteria: witnesses mention a knife
After being alerted to a serious incident on the school grounds in Aberdeen, emergency services were called to the scene. A young girl has since been taken to the hospital.
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Bloody crash spree: new tragedy claims schoolboy’s life before his father’s eyes
A boy, aged 13, has passed away, and two additional individuals have been hospitalized following a collision involving three vehicles.
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Woman gives birth during Bangkok festival, leaves newborn to die to return to celebration
This is the shocking moment a woman gives birth during a street festival before leaving her baby to die so she can continue partying.
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Urgent search for missing Banbury children Elise and Elliot, 4 days missing as police appeal for help
The girl and boy have not been seen or made contact with their loved ones for four days now, and Thames Valley Police are growing increasingly concerned for their welfare
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British baby dies on first day of Caribbean holiday after fall from bed
Tommy Taylor-Mclean, seven months, died on the first day of the trip to St Lucia, when he fell out of bed and developed a bleed on the brain, East London Coroner’s Court was told today
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"They used her head like a ball": Girl brutally beaten by peers in Scotland
Katrina has recounted the moment she discovered her daughter, Hope Lyden, unconscious on a field after hearing her ’screaming’ on the phone following a horrific attack.
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Body found in Thames identified as missing 11-year-old Kaliyah Coa
The family of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared after falling in the Thames has been informed after a body was discovered this morning.
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13-year-old girl dies in Merseyside house fire, investigation underway
Tributes have poured in for a 13-year-old girl killed in a Merseyside house fire.
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First image of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared in the River Thames
Kaliyah Coa – the young girl who slipped and fell into the River Thames in London while playing with friends – has been photographed for the first time.
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In Brazil, a 4-year-old girl mistook drugs for sherbet and shared them with her friends
The children mistook the substance for sherbet and consumed the Class A drug. One of them then reported to a teacher that they had been given a package with a ’bad taste’, which led to a police call.
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Large-scale rescue mission launched after girl, 11, falls into the Thames in east London
An ’extensive search’ operation is underway for an 11-year-old girl who fell into the River Thames in East London.
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Dalton toddler found wandering alone on busy road as two arrested in police probe
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said "enquiries are ongoing into the circumstances of the incident" after the child was found walking along the road in Dalton
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RAF engineers sentenced for Paddington Bear statue destruction, condemned as ‘antithesis of everything Paddington stands for’
Destruction of statue by RAF engineers described as ‘the opposite of everything Paddington stands for’
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Police appeal to find mother after newborn baby found dead outside Notting Hill church
Police are urging a mother to come forward after a newborn baby was discovered deceased inside a bag left outside a church in Notting Hill, west London.
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Grandparents arrested for suspected murder in death of French toddler Émile Soleil
A long investigation into the mysterious death in 2023 of a French toddler took a surprise turn on Tuesday when police arrested the boy’s grandparents on suspicion of murder.
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12-year-old boy nearly loses eye after Lynx can explosion in fire
A 12-year-old boy nearly lost his eye after his friend threw a Lynx can into a fire, causing it to explode.
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Woman strangled her newborn and hid the crime for 25 years — police solved the mystery using DNA
A woman who suffocated her newborn baby left the body in the woods and kept the killing a secret from her husband for 25 years until the police arrived, a court has been told.
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Toxic glycerol: how two brothers fell ill and looked ’lifeless’ after slushie consumption
Two young brothers were left ‘looking lifeless’ after eating a slushy.