Updates on Wednesday 20 January
Vets are concerned this simple pastime could cause pets "horrific injuries" ranging from tongue splinters to the piercing of vital organs.
In fact, dog owners have been told to stop throwing sticks for their four-legged friends following a warning from the president of the British Veterinary Association.
Image source, alamySean Wensley insists throwing sticks could be "potentially life-threatening".
Residents posting pictures of suspected thieves on Facebook have been told by police they face arrest themselves if they take the law into their own hands.
Image source, Getty ImagesSome images showing suspects allegedly stealing bikes and vandalising cars were recorded in Clifton, Nottingham, on residents' own CCTV cameras.
An independent cinema is to give fans a taste of Groundhog Day - by screening the film 12 times in 24 hours.
The 1993 comedy, starring Bill Murray, sees a weatherman sent to report on a portentous groundhog having to relive the same day over and over again.
Image source, Getty ImagesLiverpool's Small Cinema hopes a "hardcore" will try the challenge on 2 February, the day depicted in the film.
A head teacher has used her weekly letter to tell off parents who allow their children to arrive at school in a "dirty and unkempt" state.
Judith Barrett, principal of St Michael's Academy in Yeovil, said "an increasing number of children" come to school "in a pretty shocking state".
Image source, GoogleThe letter goes on to say some pupils "obviously haven't had a shower in readiness for Monday morning".
Women's rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst is to be the first woman to get a statue in Manchester for more than 100 years following a public vote.
The leader of the suffragette movement, who was born in the city, gained over half the votes in the WoManchester Statue Project poll.
Image source, PAMrs Pankhurst, who was born in 1858, was instrumental in the movement for women to get the vote and founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
BBC London warns people to prepare for travel disruption next week.
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Responding to an urgent question in the House of Commons from Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald, Home Office minister James Brokenshire has said an audit of asylum seeker accommodation in the North East will be undertaken.
The front doors of asylum seekers in the area are to be repainted after complaints they were targeted because nearly all of the doors were red.
Image source, PAAsylum seekers in Middlesbrough told The Times, external eggs and stones had been thrown at their houses because the doors made them easy to identify.
Two American yachtsmen, who were towed into harbour by the St Ives lifeboat, have admitted it was the seventh time they have been rescued since their voyage began in Norway last July.
Bob Weise, a 71 year old ex-US Army helicopter pilot, and author Steve Shapiro, also 71, have called out lifeboats in Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall.
Bomb hoax calls to schools in Bristol are being investigated to see if there are links to similar calls made in the West Midlands.
Image source, Google MapsThree schools in the Sandwell area were evacuated and lessons halted at a school in Halesowen after the hoax calls were made yesterday.
Calls were made to four schools in the Bristol area during the same morning, Avon and Somerset Police said.
A re-enactment of the Spitfire's maiden flight to mark the warplane's 80th anniversary has been called off after Southampton Airport refused organisers the use of its runway.
Image source, PAOrganised by Solent Sky Museum, the event would have seen the Southampton-built fighters take off from the airport and fly over the city.
An airport spokeswoman said: "We are not able to support the plans."
Independent school Brighton College has scrapped its traditional uniform rules to accommodate transgender pupils.
The school is introducing a "trouser uniform" and a "skirt uniform" that can be worn by pupils up to age 16, regardless of their biological gender.
Image source, Brighton CollegeAt least one person with gender dysphoria has taken up the option, according to the college.
A private school has been ordered to pay more than £140,000 after a 13-year-old girl was permanently paralysed when a swing collapsed.
St Albans Crown Court ordered Queenswood School in Brookman's Park, Hertfordshire, to pay a £50,000 fine and £90,693 in costs after the pupil was hit on the head and neck by a heavy wooden cross beam in September 2011, leaving her with spinal injuries.
Quote MessageThis tragic accident could have been avoided had the school implemented the findings of its own risk assessment."
Alison Ashworth, HSE Inspector
A relative of a 10-year-old Muslim boy whose family says he mistakenly wrote he lived in a "terrorist house" instead of a "terraced house", says the schoolboy could not sleep or eat because of the incident.
Latest Government figures show the jobless total has fallen by 5,000 in the North East, external to 104,000 - but the region is still top of the pile.
Poetry to pass the time on the Tube marks its 30th birthday.
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The number of cars on England's roads has risen by almost 600,000 in one year.
The largest rise has been in south-east England, with 373,200 more cars over five years.
A man posing as a police officer has targeted schoolgirls in north London in a series of incidents the Met is treating as attempted abductions.
Three girls aged 11 to 14 said they were approached in Hornsey by a black man in his 20s who tried to convince them he was a policeman on 18 January.
A fourth girl was approached in a second incident the following day.
The Met said they had spoken to the girls and schools had been informed.
Parts of Derby city centre remain sealed off while a police forensic team searches for evidence, external following the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old man last night.
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Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England.
Today's picture is from Alex Petty of "a frosty River Pang" near Reading in Berkshire.
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Despite national and international inquiries, West Mercia Police say they're still unable to identify a man found wandering in Hereford two months ago.
The man with memory loss, who for now West Mercia Police are calling "Roger", shows signs of dementia, doctors say.
He's saying very little but speaks with either an American or Canadian accent, a spokesman said.
