Lizzie Dearden

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lizzie Dearden

Every year in Britain, millions of crimes go unsolved. With only 7 per cent of the offences reported to police resulting in a charge, the most likely ending for a case is the marker “investigation complete – no suspect identified”. For common crimes which affect the public directly – such as theft and vandalism – the figures are even worse, leaving victims feeling abandoned by a system that seemingly allows offenders to act without consequence.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lizzie Dearden |Ben Butcher

Newcastle's Central Snooker Club building was a vision of luxury when it opened in the 1970s. It contained a hotel, bars and a health club, all linked by walkways in the sky. But for decades it has been mostly derelict, with the sprawling multi-storey complex now completely covered in graffiti and pockmarked with burn marks and smashed windows. The only person making use of the sheltered arcade that once linked up restaurants and a nightclub is a man urinating in a shuttered doorway.

2 weeks ago | thenewstribune.com | Lizzie Dearden |Lynsey Chutel |Jacob Judah

Ambulances move bodies of people who died in the Air India plane crash outside of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday. Families of the victims of India’s deadliest aviation disaster in decades lined up at the main hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad early Friday, ready to offer DNA samples that could help identify the bodies of loved ones they had seen off less than a day before.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Suhasini Raj |Isabella Kwai |Pragati K.B |John Yoon |Mujib Mashal |Jacob Judah | +12 more

The London-bound Boeing Dreamliner went down moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India. The airline confirmed that only one of the 242 people aboard survived. The victims included students at a medical college where the plane crashed.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Lizzie Dearden |Lynsey Chutel |Jacob Judah

The flight was bound for England, where family and friends of some of the 241 victims on board, including 52 British nationals, were left searching for answers.