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16- year-old Su Cangatin-Ripley falls from hotel window ‘broken by canopy’

Venice police launch inquiry after schoolgirl falls from hotel

Double tragedy as British girl, 2, drowns in Turkish pool after uncle died in lake accident

Photographing thugs 'is assault', police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviour

Madeleine inquiry could be closed

As police close Maddie case, McCanns face new agony over book by former investigation chief

Over half of young knife suspects are black, Scotland Yard figures reveal

Boy, 4, 'boiled to death' in 139F car after his mother went for manicure on her wedding day

Case closed: no leads, no suspects but, say McCanns, the hunt for Madeleine goes on

McCanns finally cleared of blame over daughter's disappearance

McCanns' fury - and despair - at Portuguese police as they are finally cleared

Mother denies killing newborn baby boy

Presumed guilty

New right to 'flexitime' for 4.5 million parents

Child knife sellers 'not jailed'

Teenage boys drown in reservoir after reeds tangled around feet as they cooled off with friends

Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy

£30 annual 'tax' for unlimited downloads to stop Net pirates

Children died after forgetful fathers left them in cars

Talk to your 11-year-old about sex

Forced to marry her cousin at 17

Father charged over girl's death on quad bike

Mystery of seven-year-old in solo car crash

Joyrider aged just SEVEN freed from flipped car wreckage after taking family VW Golf for a midnight spin

Asylum seeker and refugee destitution has doubled, says trust

Teens want to talk more about sex

'I did not deliberately kill my baby' says accused British holiday mother

Girl, 8, kicked out of tennis tournament after father gave her secret instructions through a hidden ear-piece

Disabled boy, 12, held under Terrorism Act after Channel Tunnel police accuse his mother of child-trafficking

Children's writers campaign against pre-school education targets

Student teachers' higher degrees

Authors oppose 'toddler targets'

Mother accused of killing her new-born baby faints in the dock

Toddler fighting for his life with head injuries after falling from Spanish hotel balcony

Judge pulls out KNIFE in court during teenage stabbing trial

Police offer teenagers junk food for good behaviour

Health:

More girls offered cervical cancer vaccine

International:

Gypsy girls' corpses on beach in Italy fail to put off sunbathers

The picture that shames Italy

Cellar victim Elisabeth banishes her mother as Fritzl women fall out over incest children

'Embarrassed' girl, 9, gets court protection in New Zealand to change her name from 'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'

Education:

£35bn revamp will produce generation of mediocre schools

Shops sell size 18 school uniforms as child obesity soars

500,000 children face exam resits because 'SATs system is on brink of collapse'

Cameron calls in A-levels critic to assess state of system

Ofsted says tests narrow learning

Deprived white boys inspired by ripping yarns, Ofsted says

Ed Balls: SATs? It's gas prices that could wreck Brown's autumn, warns his great ally

Morris tells Balls to reform Sats

Headteacher bans fake tans to crack down on 'orange' pupils

State schools join the revolt against 'too easy' A-levels

Politics:

Alan Smithers: Heads must roll over the SATs debacle

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