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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Charlotte Hadfield

Mum slashes Next workers, girl attacked by dog and latest travel updates

These are the latest ECHO headlines this Wednesday morning.

Mum weeps after slashing Next workers who stopped her stealing baby clothes

A mum stabbed two security guards as they tried to stop her stealing children’s clothes from a Next shop in Liverpool.

Claire Newman slashed David Bailey with a Stanley knife in the chain’s New Mersey Shopping Park store, leaving him needing 20 stitches in his arm. Mr Bailey’s colleague Ian Grogan was also injured by Newman after she injured his hand with the blade.

The 34 year old wept today as a judge jailed her for the attacks on March 9 and a pair of thefts in which she stole designer handbags from the Selfridges in Manchester and assault a security guard there as well.

For the full story click here.

Girl, 3, attacked by dog outside Tesco and rushed to hospital

Merseyside Police rushed to Tesco on Hawthorne Road, Litherland following reports of a child being bitten by a dog (Twitter: @PestCtlAdvocate)

A three-year-old girl was attacked by a dog outside of a Tesco Superstore.

Merseyside Police rushed to Tesco on Hawthorne Road, Litherland, at around 4.35pm on Tuesday, May 31, following reports of a child being bitten by a dog. Once at the scene, officers found a three-year-old girl was bitten by a small black dog outside the supermarket.

The girl suffered injuries to her mouth and was rushed to a nearby hospital by the North West Ambulance Service. Her injuries are believed to be minor.

Police began investigating immediately and it became clear the dog was not a banned breed. The animal was not seized by police and an investigation is ongoing.

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TUI, easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2 latest updates ahead of Jubilee weekend

As experts warn families face a summer of further chaos if action is not taken, more queues have been reported at Manchester Airport and others across the UK this week.

Holidaymakers have reported being caught up in travel chaos in recent weeks, with flights delayed or cancelled. One family even had to spend €500 on clothes and toiletries after all their suitcases went missing when they flew to Fuerteventura from Manchester.

On Tuesday, Union Unite which represents tens of thousands of aviation workers said holidaymakers were paying the price for "chronic staff shortages" brought on following the covid pandemic.

For the full story click here.

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