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1 week ago | walesonline.co.uk | Alex Hickey |Rod Minchin PA

The Welsh Government will co-operate fully with the national inquiry into grooming gangs and child abuse, the First Minister has said. Eluned Morgan said she welcomed the decision by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to hold a statutory inquiry into child abuse across England and Wales. Baroness Casey's report, published on Monday, found the ethnicity of perpetrators had been "shied away from", with data not recorded for two-thirds of offenders.

2 months ago | belfastlive.co.uk | James McCarthy |Rod Minchin PA

A ladies' pocket watch discovered among the possessions of a passenger who tragically drowned on the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage could fetch up to £50,000 at auction. Hans Christensen Givard, a 27-year-old Danish second-class passenger, was one of the 1,500 individuals who perished when the ship hit an iceberg on this day - April 15 - in 1912. Mr Givard was journeying to the US alongside two friends, who also lost their lives in the catastrophe.

2 months ago | mylondon.news | Lea Dzifa Seeberg |Rod Minchin PA

A ladies' pocket watch found among the belongings of one the passengers who drowned on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic could sell for up to £50,000 at auction. Danish second-class passenger Hans Christensen Givard, 27, was among one of the 1,500 who died when the vessel struck an iceberg in 1912. Mr Givard was travelling to the US with two of his friends who also died in the disaster.

2 months ago | mylondon.news | Will Twigger |Rod Minchin PA

A woman who killed her terminally-ill father has been allowed to walk free from court with a two-year suspended sentence by a judge who told her: "I recognise I have taken a merciful course." Dr Lisa Davenport, 55, smothered Barrie Davenport, 88, with a pillow at his home in Banbury, Oxfordshire in October 2022. Oxford Crown Court heard Mr Davenport had been suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and was in a great deal of pain during his final few hours of life.

2 months ago | walesonline.co.uk | Alex Hickey |Rod Minchin PA

An Islamic extremist who arrived in the UK on a small boat has been jailed for 45 months for supporting terror group Isis. Turkish national Hakan Barac, 28, had reached the country two years ago and was in the process of applying for asylum when he was arrested by counter-terrorism police last year. Bristol Crown Court heard Barac had been posting videos on social media sites, including Instagram and Telegram, glorifying Isis and terrorists Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.