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Phone charger causes bedroom fire
Updated 9:56pm Sunday 5th July 2009
A MUM evacuated two daughters from their Colchester home following a bedroom fire.
Pupil, 7, was ‘whipped by kids with a skipping rope’
Updated 5:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A SEVEN-year-old girl was tied up by fellow pupils and whipped with her skipping rope.
More stories like this »Ignorance of strokes highlighted
Updated 12:30pm Saturday 4th July 2009
MORE needs to be done to make people aware of the dangers of strokes, NHS officials say.
More stories like this »Twigs in pensioner's flue could have killed him
Updated 7:00am Saturday 4th July 2009
A GAS engineer stunned a pensioner by telling him he was lucky to be alive – after finding the flue of his gas fire blocked by hundreds of twigs.
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