All news on the topic: Teenagers

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16-year-old boy stabbed to death at Seaford railway station in East Sussex: another teen arrested on suspicion of murder
A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death at an East Sussex railway station.
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Children as young as 11 arrested weekly in UK terror plots as extremists recruit via TikTok and Snapchat
Young children are being arrested at a rate of nearly one a week for terrorism offences and plotting attacks on British soil, an LBC investigation has discovered.
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Ex-Facebook chief Nick Clegg S says Meta ‘could do more’ on online safety
The Former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats became Facebook’s head of global affairs after his frontline political career ended.
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Experts warn of rising risk as young people access illegal content online
“I needed to watch this stuff. And over time you... get desensitized... and a lot of the time it gets worse until people start accessing illegal content.”
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UK to open five defence colleges to train teenagers in cyber warfare and engineering
Teenagers will be able to learn about cyber warfare in sixth form as part of a £182 million government funding package to boost defence recruitment.
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Actor John Alford convicted of sex offences against 14- and 15-tear-olds
John Alford, star of London’s Burning and Grange HIll, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two girls aged 14 and 15.
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New ban prohibits under-16s from buying Red Bull and Monster
Under-16s in England will be prohibited from purchasing energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster because they contribute to obesity, cause sleep issues, and hinder concentration.
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Teenagers arrested after young man fatally injured in Luton altercation
After 6pm on Sunday, police were called to reports of an altercation involving two men and a woman on Humberstone Road.
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Police arrest teenager after 12-year-old dies in playground incident
A teenage boy has been arrested after another boy was killed when he was thrown from a roundabout at a park in Cheshire.
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British teen jailed for smuggling 14kg of cannabis from Thailand
A British teenager who was caught at Heathrow Airport with a large stash of cannabis smuggled into Britain from Thailand has been jailed.
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Six teenagers arrested in Battersea police raids targeting phone snatching gang
A targeted Met Police operation in southwest London has led to the arrest of six teenagers linked to an organized phone snatching gang, with robbery and theft in hotspot areas falling by up to 84 percent in just three months.
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Teen girl and young dad die after Belfast Emerge festival
Two people, a 17-year-old girl and a father-of-one, have died after attending the same festival.
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Chaos in Switzerland: Teenager killed during police chase sparks 48 hours of rioting in Lausanne
Switzerland – considered to be one of Europe’s most peaceful countries – has been engulfed by 48 hours of riots after a teenager was killed during a police chase.
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London’s Burningand Grange Hill star John Alford ‘engaged in sexual activity with a teen girl and sexually assaulted another’
A former star of London’s Burning engaged in sexual activity with an underage girl in a toilet and sexually assaulted another, a court was told.
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Ilford restaurant blaze: teenager and man held on suspicion of arson
A 15-year-old boy and a 54-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of arson with the intent to endanger life following a fire at a restaurant in Ilford.
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Mum jailed for 10 years after killing two teens in 96mph lager-fuelled crash
A mother who killed two teenagers in a high-speed crash cried ‘I’m so sorry’ in court as she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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Boy, 16, detained for ‘rape and murder’ after girl, 13, found dead in Huddersfield
A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.
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38-year-old man charged with raping 17-year-old boy in Brighton
The man is accused of having approached the teenager while he was seated on a bench in Brighton and asked for his help before later sexually assaulting him.
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Court refuses to change sentence of teenager who beat 80-year-old man to death from ‘manslaughter’ to ‘murder’
A teenage boy who beat an elderly dog walker to death won’t have his manslaughter sentence upgraded to murder after a hearing at the Court of Appeal.
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Three teenagers arrested in Leysdown-on-Sea on suspicion of murdering man
Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his forties was found dead in Leysdown-on-Sea.
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Targeted attack in Bury: 19-year-old murdered, three teens in custody
Greater Manchester Police stated it was a "targeted attack" and there is no broader threat to the public following the stabbing on Friday.
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Brit teen who fell to his death in Ibiza identified as rising ice hockey star Gary Kelly
Talented hockey player Gary Kelly, who tragically died while on holiday in Ibiza, was described by his team as ’a young man full of heart, passion, and dedication’
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First picture of ‘kind’ boy, 16, found dead on railway alongside another teenager
The heartbroken parents of a boy found dead on a rural railway track have spoken of how ‘he had no idea how loved he was’.
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15-year-old boy detained as suspect following death of another teen at amusement park in Wales
15-year-old arrested as suspect in murder of another teen at Barry Island Pleasure Park
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Teenagers staged a stabbing attack in Amsterdam, leaving several injured
Police searching for a group of around 15 youths who fled the scene after attack