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The level crossing wars
BBC News
The crossing was the scene of a fatal accident in 2007 when two local teenagers were killed when a car they were travelling in hit a train. The car's driver was jailed for five years after admitting causing their deaths. "It will be like a Berlin wall ...

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International Business Times UK
Hitler Worshippers, Cannibals, Apostles: Five of the Cruellest African Warlords
International Business Times UK
"Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them," he said in one interview. Blahyi is ...

North-east police officer killed in M8 accident
Inverurie Herald
The accident, involving a Leyland DAF truck, occurred on the carriageway near junction two. The father of two young daughters, whose wife Laura is also from Ellon and is expecting their third child, was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but died from ...

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Parents, schools raise awareness of abuse
Jakarta Post
Social media users have been sharing links containing tips on how to teach children about “good touches and bad touches” like the Council of Europe's educational kit about the Underwear Rule (underwearrule.org) and tips from the US-based Committee for ...

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Live updates: '280 missing' and seven dead after South Korean ferry capsizes
Scottish Daily Record
Earlier, in a statement read out to local media, a company official offered an apology over the accident but declined to comment further. ... BREAKING NEWS: The father of one of the schoolchildren trapped on the capsized ferry claims his child is still ...

I'll never forgive the husband who sliced my finger off with a Flymo
Daily Mail
While he maintains it was a freak accident and that his wife, an optician, had fallen in the path of the lawnmower after 'deliberately standing on the lead', she claims he deliberately swung the Flymo at her. After their fourth counselling session, she ...

Daily Mail
I'll never forgive the husband who sliced my finger off with a Flymo
Daily Mail
While he maintains it was a freak accident and that his wife, an optician, had fallen in the path of the lawnmower after 'deliberately standing on the lead', she claims he deliberately swung the Flymo at her. After their fourth counselling session, she ...

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Express.co.uk
'I busked for 11000 miles to heal my broken heart'
Express.co.uk
After Catrina Davies was abandoned by the love of her life and lost her best friend in a road accident she wanted to run away from it all. However ... Catrina learned the cello as a child but gave it up in her late teens as she didn't like playing in ...

Foundation course given thumbs up

PACTS report calls for closer working between road safety, sustainable transport and public health