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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jon Brady |Andrew Chamberlain
Residents living in some of Britain's holiday hotspots are bracing themselves for a summer of traffic hell - as millions descend on the country's national parks and tourist traps. From the Lake District through to the city of Bath, locals say they can't cope with the annual arrivals en masse of sunseekers and holidaymakers.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | James Tozer |Andrew Chamberlain
Two 18-year-olds appeared in court today accused of swatting – by allegedly making hoax calls to American and Canadian police. Dylan Ash, from Warrington, Cheshire, and Kieron Ellison, from St Helens, Merseyside, are both charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice in Canada and the USA between October 2022 and June 2023. They appeared in person for a ten-minute hearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court today.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Arthur Parashar |Andrew Chamberlain
Furious residents whose homes back onto a proposed 4,700 plot cemetery fear their lives will be made a 'misery' if their fields are 'replaced with dead people'. Pendle Council this month submitted designs for a controversial £4.4million burial ground to be built on fields in a residential area of Nelson, Lancashire. The cemetery was initially proposed as a Muslim burial site to meet the demands of the town's large Islam population, but it is now being described as a 'multi-faith' graveyard.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Liz Hull |Elizabeth Haigh |Andrew Chamberlain
The head of a blundering private boarding school that closed with just two days' notice has fled to Dubai – while parents frantically search for new schools for their children. Executive headteacher Jonathan Harrison and his wife, Lou, jetted off on holiday just hours after mums and dads received confirmation of the senior school's closure. Shocked parents, who paid up to £36,000-a-year to send their children to Moorland School, in Clitheroe, Lancs., have branded Mr Harrison a 'coward'.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Andrew Chamberlain |Liz Hull
A blundering private boarding school that failed to register pupils for their GCSEs is shutting for good tomorrow (Fri), it emerged today. Shocked parents were given two days' notice of the closure of £36,000-a-year Moorland School in an email on Wednesday evening.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Chamberlain |Liz Hull
A blundering private boarding school that failed to register pupils for their GCSEs is shutting for good tomorrow, it emerged today. Shocked parents were given two days' notice of the closure of £36,000-a-year Moorland School in an email on Wednesday evening.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Andrew Chamberlain |Liz Hull
A blundering boarding school that charges £36,000-a-year in fees has failed to register its Year 11 pupils for this summer's GCSE exams. Moorland School went into liquidation last year and was stripped of its licence to enter students for the qualifications. According to an insider, parents had already been asked to pay for the exams, which are not included in the school fees, in January – around the time the cock-up emerged.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Andrew Chamberlain |James Tozer
The mystery of a baby boy whose body was found in a stream nearly 14 years ago is a step closer to being solved after police identified his father. Detectives revealed today that a breakthrough in DNA technology has led them to trace the father, who is now helping them establish the mother's identity, which remains unknown. The man, who is originally from Manchester but was then living in Blackpool, was unaware he had fathered the baby, who is believed to have been born after a casual fling.
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2 months ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Paul Drury |Andrew Chamberlain |Elizabeth Haigh
The cities where people have the lowest life expectancy in the UK say they are not surprised that people die young - blaming cheap booze, drugs and a poor diet for the shocking figures. Children born in Britain are now expected to live longer than ever before, with ONS figures saying baby boys can hope for 86.7 years while girls could get a grand total of 90.
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2 months ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Folker |Andrew Chamberlain
A perfectly-pruned garden surrounding a cottage bungalow has been ripped out and replaced with grey concrete slabs. The garden of the Bradford home had been lovingly-cared for but it has now been ripped out and replaced with grey concrete slabs. It has since been placed on the market for £400k but social media users have slammed the home saying they would need to be paid to live there.
