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Famed explorer’s Endurance ship gets extra protection

4 days ago By Jonathan Amos, @BBCAmos, Science correspondent FMHT/National Geographic Endurance rests on the seafloor at a depth of 3,000m A protection perimeter drawn around Endurance, one of the world’s greatest shipwrecks, is being widened from a radius of 500m to 1,500m. The extended zone will further limit activities close to the vessel, which sank in 1915 […]

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Teenager appears in court after Gurdwara attack

9 hours ago By Daniel Sexton & PA Media, BBC News, South East BBC/Phil Harrison Kent Police said nobody was seriously injured during the incident on Thursday A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with multiple offences after a disturbance at a Gurdwara in Kent. Officers were called to the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in […]

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Mum held in police cell after birthmark mistake

3 days ago By Sophia Seth, BBC News BBC Laxmi Thapa was held in police custody before medical checks showed she had not harmed her baby The mother of a six-month-old baby said she was treated “like a criminal” after her son’s birthmarks were mistaken for bruising. Laxmi Thapa’s son was born with blue spot – blue-grey […]

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Narcissists mellow with age, study suggests

Narcissistic people get more empathetic, generous and agreeable with age, according to new research into the personality trait. But although their unreasonably high sense of self-importance may mellow, they do not fully grow out of it, the study involving more than 37,000 people suggests. Those who were more narcissistic than their peers as children tended […]

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countryside offenders’ convictions still ‘woeful’

1 day ago By Malcolm Prior, @NewsMPrior, BBC News, rural affairs correspondent Kerry McClay Kerry McClay says more female police officers are needed in the countryside to deal with domestic abuse Victims of domestic abuse in the countryside are still being let down by a “woeful” number of convictions five years after a report criticised the work of […]

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