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Officials have denied claims a spelling error led to a 10-year-old Muslim boy, who wrote he lived in a "terrorist house", being spoken to by police.

The family of the pupil, who attends a Lancashire primary school, claim he meant he lived in a "terraced house".

The boy was spoken to by Lancashire Police at his home the next day.

In a statement, police and the county council said it was "untrue to suggest that this situation was brought about by a simple spelling mistake".

A Bristol teacher who shared her hotel room with a pupil after the school prom has been banned from the profession for at least two years.

Rebecca Lacey, 28, taught ICT at Downend School when she committed the "gross error of judgment" in June 2014.

A professional conduct panel was told there was no sexual motivation or sexual activity with the Year 11 pupil.

Miss Lacey said she was deeply sorry but said she had been trying to keep the "vulnerable" boy safe.

War diaries, photos and letters from a young World War One gunner have been published on his old school's website.

Harry Fox, from Somerset, was a pupil at Marlborough College, before being called up and then sent to fight in France in 1917 when he was 19.

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His son Richard Fox ,77, said he found the memoirs in a suitcase after his father's death.

Tracy Worthington, the sister of Paul Worthington, has denied he sexually abused his daughter, Poppi, before her death.

It comes after a judge said he believed the 13-month-old girl was sexually assaulted by her father shortly before her sudden death from serious injuries at her home in Barrow in December 2012.  

David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed at Prime Minister's Questions over the axing of student grants and bursaries for nurses in England.

Mr Cameron said replacing bursaries with loans would mean more nurses would be trained - and scrapping student grants would let more go to university.

He accused Mr Corbyn of wanting to "cap aspiration".

But the Labour leader said the PM was saddling students with debt and robbing the NHS of talented would-be nurses.

A delay by police in telling Network Rail of a danger on the track led to a high-speed train hitting parts of a fallen bridge near Froxfield last February, a report has found.

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A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report, external found it could have been avoided if details of a 999 call had been passed directly to Network Rail.

Thames Valley Police said call-handling procedures had been updated.

None of the 750 passengers was injured but rail services were disrupted.

London's transport authority has rejected proposals that would have severely restricted Uber and other app-focused car pick-up services.

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A £3m heritage lottery grant has been awarded to help tell the stories of thousands of men who flew bombing raids from England during the Second World War.

The money will be used for education services at the International Bomber Command Centre near Lincoln.

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A campaign is still under way to raise £3.8m to build the Chadwick Centre where the exhibits will be displayed.

The Metropolitan Police has told Lord Bramall it regrets the "distress" caused to him during its inquiry into historical child abuse allegations. 

However, Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan stopped short of apologising in a lengthy statement, saying the force had a duty to investigate.

Lord Bramall, the former head of the Army, was interviewed last April and was told last week that he would face no further action.

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The head of one of the schools targeted in the Midland bomb hoax has hit back at angry parents who claimed they were kept in the dark., external

A man has been jailed after admitting multiple charges of rape and indecency with a child.

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Ivor Bethell, 62, was handed a 15-year prison sentence and will spend another four years on licence upon his release.

A car was lifted into the air and "flipped" onto another by the crane of a moving lorry in Hampshire, an onlooker has said.

The lorry damaged three cars at Aston Road Industrial Estate in Waterlooville, Adam Parks, who works at the site, added.

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Walsall-based WP Metals Limited, which owns the lorry, said it was investigating. No-one was injured.

Tower Hamlets Council could be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter after a five-year-old girl died while playing in a park.

Alexia Walenkaki was playing on a rope swing in Mile End Park when a tree trunk holding the swing fell on her.

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The Met Police is compiling a report for the Crown Prosecution Service, a pre-inquest review at St Pancras Coroner's Court heard.

The council said such a charge was "not appropriate".

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Say hello to Indy, an 18-month-old disabled puppy starting her new life in Benfleet after being rescued from India.

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Angela Szczypka and her partner Ian fell in love with the pup, who has no use of her back legs, during a visit to a rescue centre in Goa in December 2014.

The couple spent £2,300 to get Indy back to Essex and thanks to a new set of wheels she is said to be settling in "fantastic".

A Conservative MP has told the House of Commons he is a user of the popper recreational drug and a ban on its supply would be "fantastically stupid".

Ex-minister Crispin Blunt said users of the drug were "astonished" by talk of a ban and respect for the law "would fly out of the window" if it happened.

Supplying the drug could be outlawed under the Psychoactive Substances Bill., external

A man believed to be homeless has been found dead in a burning tent in Salford.

Firefighters made the discovery after attending a fire under a railway bridge at the junction of Trinity Way and Irwell Street just before 01:30.

There's a growing campaign to erect a permanent memorial to David Bowie in south east London close to his childhood home. 

It's being welcomed by those who live on the street in Beckenham where he grew up but a lifelong friend of the artist says that's not what he would have wanted.

The boss of a bed-making firm who employed Hungarians paid as little as £10 a day has been found guilty of human trafficking.

Mohammed Rafiq employed large numbers of men as a "slave workforce" at the now defunct Kozee Sleep in West Yorkshire.

Rafiq, 60, is believed to be the first person convicted under the legislation, which came into force in July.

"Not only was his tumour gruesome and shocking - it was like something out of a horror film," RSCPA inspector Miranda Albinson said about this sick West Highland Terrier, Max.  

Its owner, Kenneth Mackenzie, from Wiltshire, has been banned from keeping animals for five years after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to a dog. 

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The nine-year-old terrier was found in a "terrible state" in Mackenzie's house.

The benign tumour has now been removed and Max has been rehomed.