A 10 year old girl has suffered 70% burns at a tanning salon as a result of a sixteen minute session unsupervised. Kelly Thompson was taken to hospital within hours of leaving the tanning salon in South Wales and would have required skin grafts had she remained on the sun bed for another two minutes. She has been warned that she will need to stay out of direct sunlight for up to ten years.

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A boy of has been killed in a hit-and-run incident in Bristol. Police have identified Hannah Saaf as the owner of the vehicle, a white Ford Focus, but have yet to identify whether she was driving the vehicle at the time and are keen to speak to her urgently to help their investigations. The victim was Sam Riddall, aged 11, who was on his way home from church when the incident occurred. According to BBC News, witnesses allege that the vehicle mounted the kerb and drove in to a group of pedestrians, with skid marks on the road giving an indication of how events unfolded. Sam became trapped underneath the vehicle when it went on to the pavement.

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A man has died after getting involved in separating a fight between two dogs in Blackpool. The victim was bitten by both animals in a house in Reads Avenue on Friday evening. The dogs, which were both German Shepherds, were owned by the person with whom the victim shared the property. Both dogs have since been destroyed under the direction of the owner.

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The Royal Family in the UK is a subject that offers an array of opinions across Britain but it is unlikely that many would think of mowing them down to voice their dissent towards them. Not so in the Netherlands, where an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix and members of her family was targeted by a Dutch driver with a strong dislike of the monarchy.

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The family of a murder victim in Sunderland have been awarded compensation at the third time of asking after Kevin Johnson, 22, was stabbed outside his house in May 2007 after he confronted three teenagers. According to the BBC website, Mr Johnson’s family were awarded £5,500 after earlier bids for compensation were turned down by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) on the grounds that Mr Johnson should have stayed inside his home.

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Air bags are now a common safety feature in vehicles. They deploy to protect passengers who are involved in a crash, cushioning the impact as the head is thrown forward and reducing the likelihood of serious head injuries occurring. However, it appears that new developments may be forthcoming to protect pedestrians involved in road traffic accidents as well as passengers.

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The fallout from the G20 meeting shows no signs of abating. A policeman has been interviewed under caution on suspicion of manslaughter in response to video footage which shows Ian Tomlinson being struck and pushed over by a police officer. Mr Tomlinson, 47, died following the incident as a result of what was at the time believed to be a heart attack. However, following a 2nd post-mortem examination in to Mr Tomlinson’s death the cause is now suspected to have been an internal bleed in his abdomen and this is perceived to be more likely to be connected to the violence suffered by Mr Tomlinson, at the hands of the police officer.

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Apple have this week hastily moved to withdraw a game for their iPhone product which involved “baby shaking”. According to the Guardian website, the game, which required users to try to soothe a crying baby by encouraging them to shake their iPhone, has been withdrawn after numerous complaints from parenting organisations.

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The parents of a baby girl who suffered brain damage during birth have been awarded a payout of £6.3 million at the High court. The incident occurred at a hospital in Hertfordshire in November 2002, where Ellie Matraves was born clinically dead after being deprived of oxygen after a failure by staff at Lister hospital.

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A total of five people were killed in a head on collision on the M1 in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident is believed to have occurred as a Polish driver turned his vehicle to head north on to the south bound carriageway just south of junction 11. Police believe that the Polish driver, who was driving a Volkswagen Passat, would have been travelling towards junction 10 where there were some road works and some road closures but that there was no reason for the vehicle to have turned round as the motorway was still open for through traffic.

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