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Vow to tackle city problem of nitrous oxide misuse
Peterborough City Council has unanimously backed a motion to address nitrous oxide misuse through public education and stronger enforcement. The move responds to concerns that discarded canisters are increasingly being found across the city, creating litter and highlighting potential illegal use of the Class C drug. Community group Peterborough Litter Wombles collected 82 canisters in…
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Lorry driver drugs arrest after motorway crash
A lorry driver has been arrested after a three-vehicle collision on the M18 near Doncaster left two people with life-threatening injuries. The incident has prompted a police investigation into suspected drug-driving and dangerous driving causing serious injury. The crash involved a DAF lorry, an MG car and a Ford Kuga on the southbound carriageway between…
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Couple suffer life-threatening injuries in M18 crash as man arrested on drug driving offences
A couple suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on the M18, while a man was arrested on suspicion of drug-driving offences. The incident has prompted a police investigation and is likely to have caused disruption on the motorway. The available article text does not provide further details about the crash, including its location, timing, vehicles…
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California mom welcomes baby in Jack in the Box parking lot after little girl couldn’t wait
A Southern California couple welcomed their daughter, Valentina Isla Campbell, in a Jack in the Box car park after labour progressed too quickly for them to reach hospital. Firefighters assisted with the delivery after Michelle Cisneros and Darren Campbell called emergency services, giving the family an unusual but successful birth story. Valentina was born healthy…
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Man who used motorhome to smuggle drugs jailed
Christopher Sale, 47, from South Elmsall near Wakefield, has been jailed for helping smuggle cannabis resin worth up to £720,000 into the UK in a motorhome. The case highlights the role of a wider organised crime group that used ferry routes from mainland Europe to bring illegal drugs into Britain. Sale and associate Russell King…
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LA real estate vet comes at Mayor Bass with receipts over damning homelessness report: ‘She doesn’t get it’
Los Angeles homelessness has risen again, according to new official figures, prompting renewed criticism of Mayor Karen Bass’s handling of the crisis. Local activist and business owner John Alle told Fox News Digital that Bass has failed to confront crime, drug use and deteriorating conditions in affected neighbourhoods, arguing that she does not understand the…
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Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump’s CDC on vaccine advice
Pediatricians, medical organisations and some state and local health officials are increasingly directing families to independent vaccine guidance rather than relying solely on the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The shift follows Trump administration changes to federal childhood vaccine recommendations and reflects concern among these groups that the revised advice may create confusion…
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From just 11, Sarah was enslaved by paedophile Muslim men who plied her with alcohol and drugs and raped her. Now, thanks to Labour’s early release scheme, they could be out in just five years…
Sarah Wilson, now 34, has spoken about being abused for five years from the age of 11 by a grooming gang of men in Rotherham, who plied her with alcohol and drugs before raping her, and has waived her anonymity to campaign for justice. She has learned that under the Government’s new Sentencing Act 2026,…
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Kevin McNicholl meets Sheffield man saved by his stem cell donation
Stephen Cutts, a retired surgical instrument maker from Sheffield who survived acute myeloid leukaemia, has met Kevin McNicholl, the stem cell donor whose transplant saved his life. Cutts was diagnosed with the aggressive blood cancer in April 2023 and received seven rounds of chemotherapy before a match was found through the Anthony Nolan register. Their…
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I saw royalty, lords and degenerates all come and go from my drugs den: Son of late restaurant critic AA Gill and ex Tory MP Amber Rudd, Alasdair Gill lost a decade to addiction. Now, six years sober, he tells his extraordinary story
Alasdair Gill, a chef and son of the late restaurant critic AA Gill and former Conservative MP Amber Rudd, has spoken about losing a decade of his life to drug and alcohol addiction while working in top London kitchens, including one with a Michelin star. He frequented a notorious Kensington property nicknamed the “Misty River…