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COPS have launched an urgent search for a missing schoolboy as authorities are concerned for his welfare. Mason, 13, was last seen at around 11pm on Friday, April 3. The teenager was last spotted near Camelot Close, Andover. The 13-year-old is described as white, slim build, with mousey brown/red curly hair.   Hampshire and Isle...

CHILDREN as young as seven have been caught taking knives into school, shock figures show. There have been 748 incidents of threats, ­possession and attacks with blades recorded in classrooms in a year. Thirty-three suspects in knife incidents in schools were under the age of ten, The Independent found. West Mercia Police recorded a seven-year-old...

THE number of people with blue badges is at a record high — sparking calls for a crackdown on cheats chasing perks. Some 3.07million in England now hold the permit — 5.2 per cent of the population — Department for Transport data shows. The figure is up eight per cent in a year — with...

THREE canoeists who planned to camp on a lake island have been rescued after getting into trouble in the water. A major rescue operation was launched on Saturday, April 4, when the trio's inflatable canoe capsized in a lake during Storm Dave. Police, fire, ambulance, mountain rescue, the coastguard and a helicopter all attended the...

A TEENAGER has been arrested after a schoolboy was discovered with a head injury following an alleged attack. Cops were called to reports of a 12-year-old boy with a "laceration to his head" at around 7.15pm on Saturday, April 4. The boy was treated at the scene on Shakespeare Street, Coventry and taken to hospital....

AN 18-YEAR-old man has been charged after allegedly ramming his car into a packed pub following a row with a bouncer. Cops were called to The Dolphin bar in Broadstairs, Kent, in the early hours of Saturday morning after a black Seat Ibiza ploughed into the boozer. A man in his 30s, understood to be...

LITTER louts face being fined in the thousands under plans to crackdown on filthy streets. The current maximum penalty for dropping the likes of crisps and cigarette packets on the street is £500 - far less harsh than the five-year prison sentence a judge can hand down for fly-tipping. But ministers want to more than...

THINK of psychopaths and you picture people like deranged cult leader Charles Manson and serial killer Ted Bundy. But research suggests a large number of them walk among us — and you could even be a psychopath yourself. People with clinical levels of ­psychopathy make up just one per cent of the population. But these...

A CAPYBARA which is on the run from a zoo is feared to have fled from the area. An expert animal tracker brought in by The Sun could find no trace of missing Samba. The giant rodent escaped nearly three weeks ago. Search teams mapped out a three square mile zone on the River Itchen...

AN INMATE sneaked a KFC meal into his cell at a high-security prison — then boasted about it on TikTok. His video shows a six-piece fried chicken bucket and then pans through a window for a view of a large fence. It is captioned “KFC in HMP” and shows the lag with a sticker identifying...

A HOTEL dubbed Britain's worst has gone up in flames for the second time in a matter of days. The Sherwood Palm hotel in Torquay, Devon - a former three-star establishment - was first hit by a fire on Friday, April 3, and then again today. Today people were advised to shut their windows due...

AN ILLEGAL rave that attracted a 2,000 person crowd near a quiet rural village sparked a huge police response after "ruining" Easter Sunday. The event in picturesque Purbeck, Dorset, began at 11:45 last night and carried on well into the early hours of this morning. Locals claim the noise from the Bank Holiday rave could...

A WAITROSE employee was sacked after he stopped a suspected shoplifter from stealing a bag of Easter eggs. Walker Smith - an employee of 17 years - was fired after he "grabbed the bag" from a shoplifter at a Waitrose branch in Clapham Junction. The shoplifter had ransacked a display and filled a bag full...

A 47-YEAR-old man has been arrested after allegedly trying to kiss a teenage girl under a bridge. The incident is alleged to have happened last Sunday as a woman in her late teens walked through the Graffiti Bridge in Didcot, Oxfordshire. A man reportedly approached her before stopping to speak to her and trying to...

A MAN in his 20s was has died shortly after leaving a nightclub in Manchester city centre. Cops say the man was found unconscious in the street after being helped to leave a nightclub after telling staff he felt ill. Despite checking on him a short while later, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene...

THE "devastated" family of a 13-year-old boy who died in a horror hit-and-run has paid tribute as a man and a woman are charged. Emergency services were scrambled to the scene in Flitwick, Bedfordshire, on Friday after receiving reports a car had ploughed into three teen boys. Two of the boys had been riding a...

AN abandoned housing estate project branded an "eyesore" by fed up locals is being terrorised by "yobs". Construction had barely started on the proposed 220 riverside homes in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire before workers put down their tools. Artist impressions of a modern development beside the scenic river Trent are a far cry from the bleak reality...

A SHOPPER allegedly defecated on a shelf in a The Range store as police release CCTV footage of a woman they are seeking. The individual defecated in the shop in Banbury on March 25 at 1.40pm and then fled the scene. Thames Valley Police have released footage of an individual they wish to speak to...

PEPSI has pulled its sponsorship of Wireless Festival after controversial rapper Kanye West was booked to headline all three nights. The drinks giant ditched its “Pepsi presents Wireless” branding following a furious backlash over the star’s past antisemitic outbursts and sick praise for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. West, who now goes by Ye, has sparked...

A WOMAN has allegedly been raped after being led into an alleyway by a unknown man who had followed her into a taxi. Cops have arrested an 18-year-old man after the victim was reportedly attacked in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in the early hours of this morning. Suffolk Police said the alleged attack occurred near Arnold Street...