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In today’s newsletter: Since Mr Bates v The Post Office aired on ITV, dozens of people affected have come forward to seek recompense for their ruined lives

Some devices ultimately turned up but CPS’ inspector general blames the mess on a flawed system for recouping devices and tracking them.

Once it was time for high school, the family moved into the city but said they lived in a poorer area to boost their kids chances of getting into selective enrollment school

Inquest opens into death of 13-year-old black boy allegedly pushed into river in Ferndale in summer 2019

Carers violently struck adults in care home for learning disabilities and mental illness

Diljan Akhtar, 51, was also sentenced for publicly shouting other racist slurs and making violent threats towards a police officer

Scotland Yard probe into man who worked with MPs – and insists on innocence – handed to prosecutors

Removal of the “school resource officers” would align with Mayor Brandon’s Johnson’s vision, but detractors say local school councils should have final say on whether cops stay.

Call by economics of happiness expert Richard Layard comes as research agency set up under David Cameron is to be axed in Whitehall cuts

From today's decision by the Texas Court of Appeals (First District) in Zoanni v. Hogan, written by Justice Veronica Rivas-Molloy and joined by Chief Justice Terry Adams and Justice Julie Countiss; the opinion is 81 pages long, so I excerpt just the quick summary of the facts and the verdict:…

While City Hall and Chicago Public Schools put roadblocks in the way of reporting for the Sun-Times and WBEZ series, people who lived near the closed schools opened up with their stories.