A school near Manchester has banned its pupils from any physical contact with each other whatsoever, including hugging and play fighting. Mossley Hollins High School brought in the ‘no contact’ rule stating that ‘no student should ever be touching another student’. This includes a ban on ‘carrying of other students, cuddling, or play fighting’, including during their breaktime and lunch... 

Two older men were beaten by a mob of ‘laughing youths’ who look like Arabs or Pakistanis who threw one of their victims onto train tracks after they were asked to stop vaping on a tram in England, according to reports. The shocking incident unfolded on Saturday evening in Rochdale, a town in Greater Manchester. Video footage purportedly shot at the scene shows a white-haired man on his... 

Supermarket chain Asda has announced that it will stop selling single kitchen knives by the end of April as the UK finds itself in the midst of a knife-crime epidemic, particularly involving young people. It’s already illegal to sell the blades to under-18s but the deadly weapons are one of the most frequently shoplifted items from British stores. The announcement comes in the aftermath of several... 

Recorded machete attacks in the UK have shot up by nearly five times in just three years, with the majority in the capital, London. The huge number of crimes committed with the deadly, sword-like weapons means there is an average of 15 a day in the UK, or one every 90 minutes. Figures uncovered using freedom of information requests by the Daily Mail show that police dealt with 928 crimes involving... 

A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 was forced to work as a sex slave. This picture is posed by model A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 and forced to work as a sex slave was yesterday praised for giving evidence which saw her abusers jailed. The privately-educated teenager was picked up and plied with vodka and drugs, passed around groups of older men for sex and then forced to work as... 

Rabbi Baruch Chalomish faced drug charges in Manchester Crown Court yesterday A wealthy rabbi financed a drug dealing operation in which girls were given cocaine in exchange for sexual services, a court heard yesterday. Baruch Chalomish, 54, turned a city centre flat into a base for a ‘ commercial cocaine supply operation’ after abusing the drug himself, it was claimed. He was arrested... 

A woman collapsed and died from a blood clot just three months after she started taking a new contraceptive pill. Helen Schofield was not told of the risk of deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, when her GP prescribed Dianette for her heavy periods. Because the drug also works as a contraceptive, the 33-year-old stopped taking her existing pill, Celeste. But three months later, Miss Schofield collapsed as...