Family court records reveal that in 2013 some 2,018 babies were taken into care at birth or soon afterwards, up from 802 in 2008. Between 2007 and 2014 a total of 13,248 babies were removed by the authorities. It included one mother who had 16 babies taken away from her. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said more needed to be done to prevent the 'cycle of failure'.
- Mother has SIXTEEN babies taken away from her: Shocking case revealed as number of newborns removed at birth and put into care soars by 150% in five years
- Egypt says it has found NO evidence the Russian plane was downed by 'any illegal or terrorist action' in preliminary crash report
- Blitz on failing social services: Experts to seize control of departments if children are at risk
- Marine A 'had mental illness' when he shot dead injured Taliban fighter as evidence from two psychiatrists boosts case for appeal
- 'Tell us where they're buried': Murder victims' mothers plea for change in the law so the killers cannot be released until they reveal the location of children's bodies
- St John Ambulance is linked to 'predatory fundraising': Firm used by the charity targeted elderly for money and pocketed 45p out of every £1 donated
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- Inside Britain's Sharia courts: There are now EIGHTY-FIVE Islamic courts dispensing 'justice' across the UK. This special investigation into what really goes on behind their doors will shock you to the core
- Now back bid to quit EU, PM told: Eurosceptics' plea as he retreats from curbs on migrant benefits
- Outcry as Tories abandon plans to crack down on bank chiefs: Ministers accused of going soft after dropping laws weeks before they were due to be implemented
- Shelved - the bid to reign in the junk food giants: Government's flagship policy is 'paused' after they were forced to defend it for five years
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- Will Ferrell stays serious for a second on SNL to attack Trump's ban on Muslims: Star reprises his W. Bush impression to call the Donald a 'knucklehead with a big, fat orange Oompa Loompa face'
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- Homeland Security deployed hi-tech spy plane which scoops up tens of thousands of phone calls at one time above San Bernardino for days after massacre
- One dead and three wounded in party shoot-out at Los Angeles celebrity hangout The Standard Hotel
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Inside Britain's Sharia courts: There are now EIGHTY-FIVE Islamic courts dispensing 'justice' across the UK. This special investigation into what really goes on behind their doors will shock you to the core
A forthcoming book by Machteld Zee offers an unprecedented insight into the secret world of Britain's so-called Sharia courts after she was allowed access to them over three days in 2013. The 31-year-old academic, who describes herself as an atheist, was permitted to observe hearings at the Islamic Sharia Council (ISC), the country's busiest Sharia court, based in a converted corner shop in Leyton, East London. The experience - one of the most detailed academic studies of Sharia courts ever printed - led her to conclude they are condemning Muslim women to 'marital captivity' and failing to properly protect victims of domestic violence.
Disgraced bar brawl thug Eric Joyce to wed for the third time: Former MP set to marry newspaper columnist after six-year relationship
Teacher at French kindergarten is stabbed in the neck by hooded man shouting 'This is Daesh. This is a warning'
A kindergarten teacher has been stabbed in the neck at a school in Paris by a man claiming to be acting in the name of ISIS. The 45-year-old teacher was preparing for one of his classes when he was attacked by a masked man armed with a box cutter and scissors. The attacker claimed he was acting in the name of the brutal jihadi group ISIS before fleeing the scene in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Thug made pregnant woman put her boyfriend on speakerphone so he could listen to her screams as he repeatedly stabbed her in the stomach
Nathaniel Robinson (inset) stabbed his victim (left) nine times during a three-minute frenzied attack when she told him she was expecting a baby. The 25-year-old victim, who would not be named, grappled with her attacker and almost bled to death at the scene. She and unborn child both survived but she is still haunted by the motiveless attack, which has left her with visible scars (right). Robinson struck at the victim's at her home in Bournville, West Midlands, in May. Police were called to the scene by a neighbour who heard her screams. Officers then forced their way into the property using a crowbar. The victim had lost so much blood that, when a 999 operator urged her to apply pressure to the wound, she replied: 'Which one?' Robinson, 25, of Bartley Green, admitted inflicting GBH with intent and possession of a bladed article. He is due to be sentenced later this week.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
The real life Pinocchio: Toddler is born with his brain growing into his NOSE due to his skull not forming properly
Ollie Trezise, from Maesteg, Wales, was born with a rare condition which caused his brain to grow through a crack in his skull into his nose (left). At 21 months, he has already had several operations to correct the problem (right). An MRI scan later confirmed that the lump was an encephalocele, which is a defect that causes the brain to grow through a hole in the skull, creating a protruding sac. His mother, Amy Poole, 22, said he had been subjected to cruel taunts from strangers. She said: 'It's absolutely heart-breaking. Once, a woman told me I should never have given birth to him. I nearly burst into tears.'
Show some steel, Dave: After Heathrow debacle, PM is accused of retreating on migrant benefits, greedy bankers and junk food firms
Ahead of summit talks this week, Downing Street says Prime Minister David Cameron is prepared to accept alternative proposals from European leaders on several key pledges But Eurosceptics say he should now accept his strategy is failing and instead back the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. Mr Cameron, who was furiously criticised last week for delaying a decision on a third runway at Heathrow, is accused of watering down a new law to rein in reckless bankers - following intense lobbying from the financial sector. And the Government has quietly shelved a campaign to combat obesity under which junk food firms were supposed to police themselves. On Europe, the PM has bowed to pressure from EU leaders and Brussels and will accept an alternative plan for cutting migrant benefits - as long as it reduces the flow of arrivals.
Bin Laden's house? I could have been there: Shaker Aamer says he may have gone to seek safety during US bombing - but stresses he never met the Al-Qaeda leader
Shaker Aamer today says he could have been 'in Osama Bin Laden's house' in Afghanistan (bottom left). He also says he could have been at the Battle of Tora Bora (top left), the scene of a dramatic mountain showdown between the terror mastermind's acolytes and US-led forces in December 2001. And he adds that he met hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza (bottom right) in London and that he used to 'sit and talk' with Abu Qatada, the preacher of hate thrown out of Britain in 2013. But he insists there are innocent explanations for all of these things, and denies ever being a terrorist. Mr Aamer (pictured today) was detained in Afghanistan by bounty hunters in December 2001 and sold to US forces as a potential Al Qaeda suspect, before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Allegations were dropped against him in 2007 - eight years before he was released.
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How much more depraved can ISIS get? Group's Sharia judges order children with Down's syndrome and other disabilities to be killed in chilling echo of the Nazis
Sharia judges have apparently ruled that ISIS militants are authorised to 'kill newborn babies with Down's Syndrome or congenital deformities' in Syria and Iraq in their latest sickening act. More than 38 children born with deformities and Down's syndrome, aged between one week and three months, have already been killed by lethal injection or suffocation, according to Iraqi activist group Mosul Eye, who released footage of children who risk being killed under the ruling.
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