Schools were issued with more than 200 pieces of official guidance in three months in an “ avalanche ” of confusing government advice, a study has found. Headteachers often received phone calls from parents demanding to know about policies in schools before the head had even read the new guidance online, according to researchers. Academics from the University of Cambridge and University College London asked 300 teachers in England about their experiences of government communications during the f

Hospital electrician David Fuller, who sexually abused the bodies of at least 102 women and girls, has been sentenced to life in jail.... Fuller was given two whole life sentences for the two murders and twelve years for his abuse of women and girls in hospital mortuaries.... She continued: “ You will spend every day of the rest of your life in prison.” Fuller was caught 33 years after the 1987 murders following a DNA breakthrough....

BRITAIN’S most senior cop says red tape in the criminal justice system must be slashed to free up police to do their job. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said it takes five times more work to bring a case to court than 20 years ago.... 1 Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has called for police administration to be cut Credit: Alamy He said the requirement for disclosure of evidence and redaction of personal data from files hampered officers from carrying out front-line duties. Rowley said forces

A small seaside town has won a battle against its local council’s plans to use luxury retirement homes to house asylum seekers. Kent County Council( KCC) had plans to use a care home in Minster on Sea on the Isle of Sheppey for 50 unaccompanied children seeking asylum.... It would have been one of nine such facilities in the county. Privately owned Ocean Heights is a multi-million-pound facility with sea views that is sat empty.... But the rumoured bill of ￡4million to renovate it for use spar

The victims were bound, blindfolded and then bludgeoned with a clawhammer in a country lane in Chillenden. Bellfield claimed he had intended to attack only Lin Russell, but changed his mind after she began screaming.... The bootlace may be significant because lawyers for Stone have said it was lost among the evidence and rediscovered recently and was due to be tested for DNA. The veracity of Bellfield’s statement will come under scrutiny.... But sources close to the retired detective suggested

A former hospital electrician, who admitted murdering two women 34-years ago, sexually assaulted at least 100 corpses in mortuaries where he worked, it can now be revealed. David Fuller, 67, a three-times married father of four from Heathfield, East Sussex, pleaded guilty mid trial on Thursday to the sexually motivated murders of Wendy Knell, 20, and 25-year-old Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells in 1987. The pensioner was eventually snared in December last year, when a cold case review using cu

3, 1983: Ontario premier Bill Davis smokes his pipe at a news conference in Toronto.... Davis, reporting that he was bland and boring, but he charmed voters out of the trees.... “ The only time a politician gets in trouble is when he opens his mouth.” He was renowned for his ability to appear prosperous, calm and confident, to say little, and to lead the province through dramatic, potentially unpopular changes.Mr....