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Five boys have been released on bail after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed at a school in Birmingham.

The victim was attacked in the grounds of Moseley School on Wake Green Road just before 14:00 BST on Tuesday and police said he was taken to hospital with two slash injuries to his back, not thought to be life-threatening.

Six boys, aged 13 and 14, were arrested after the stabbing – four boys, aged 14 and a 13-year-old were released on bail while the investigation continues.

The sixth boy, aged 13, was released and will face no further action, a force spokesperson added.

West Midlands Police said they were examining CCTV footage and continuing to appeal for information over the attack while supporting the victim and his school.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of shining a laser at a police helicopter.

The crew reported a laser pen being shone at them and affecting their vision as they flew over the Grimsby area while searching for a missing person on Thursday at 21:50 BST.

A spokesperson for Humberside Police said a 23-year-old man "was swiftly identified" and remained in custody.

The helicopter was being operated by the National Police Air Service (NPAS), which responds to major and critical incidents.

In a statement, NPAS said a laser had been "directed at the crew multiple times".

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Nine people have been killed and more than 40 injured after a Russian drone hit a bus transporting workers in eastern Ukraine, officials say.

The attack occurred on Wednesday morning in the south-central city of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, across a river from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

President Volodymyr Zelensky called it "an egregiously brutal attack – and an absolutely deliberate war crime" on an "ordinary bus…clearly a civilian target."

He said most of the injured were women who worked at a mining and processing plant.

The strike came as top Trump officials pulled out of talks in London between UK, Europe and Ukraine aimed at securing a ceasefire.

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff had been due to attend, but were later announced to have pulled out. They were replaced by Trump's Ukraine envoy, Gen Keith Kellogg, who referred to Wednesday's talks as "technical meetings".

Zelensky said on Wednesday the Ukrainian delegation was continuing talks with partners.

"Ukraine has repeatedly said that it does not exclude any of the formats that can lead to a ceasefire and, subsequently, to real peace. Stopping the killings is the number one task," he said.

He shared pictures of the bus attack, which showed the vehicle with a hole punctured through its roof, doors off their hinges and glass scattered across its floor.

Russia has not commented on the attack.

There have also been drone strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city located in the country's east, for a second consecutive day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had declared a 30-hour ceasefire for Easter Sunday. Ukraine had said it would mirror Russia's actions. Each side accused the other of breaking the truce.

Last month, Moscow came up with a long list of conditions in response to a full ceasefire that had been agreed by the US and Ukraine.

The US has been holding talks with Russia and separately with Ukrainian and European officials to broker a truce.

Witkoff, a property mogul and Donald Trump's special envoy, has acted as a conduit between the White House and the Kremlin in recent months.

He is set to return to Moscow this week for another meeting with Putin. Rubio said on Wednesday he would focus on these talks in Moscow.

It comes after reports the US is considering proposing to recognise Crimea as Russian territory as a means to bring an end to fighting, which has been ruled out by Zelensky.

Crimea, internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since 2014.

US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday repeated President Donald Trump's recent assertion that the US would walk away from brokering further Russia-Ukraine talks if Moscow or Kyiv did not agree to a deal.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or injured on all sides since then.

A coroner has criticised the lack of communication between Jersey's emergency services following the death of a man.

At the inquest of Frazer Irvine, 39, who died of a heart attack on 18 March 2022 while ambulance workers and police officers were at his home, Bridget Dolan KC said it was hard to see how lessons could be learnt from his death without a relevant policy on ambulance staff calling for police assistance.

The inquest also heard from paramedic John Sutherland who said he and his colleague may have treated Mr Irvine differently if there had not been a "huge delay" in the response to their calls for police assistance.

The inquest, expected to conclude on Friday, continues.

Mr Sutherland and ambulance technician Tom Le Sauteur were previously found guilty of failing to take reasonable care of Mr Irvine the night he died.

The paramedic told the hearing there were "absolutely" things he could have done better on the night, such as putting on personal protective equipment (PPE) earlier and using equipment to monitor Mr Irvine more closely.

Mr Sutherland said that Mr Irvine was aggressive when he and Mr Le Sauteur arrived at his home but the police did not respond to their first call for help, and had to be chased up with a second call.

He said concern for his and his colleague's safety and an inability to move Mr Irvine from the top of the staircase outside his flat meant they did not provide active medical care until the police arrived.

The inquest heard that Mr Sutherland and Mr Le Sauteur told emergency call handlers they needed police back up because of Mr Irvine's aggression but did not pass on information about the urgency of the situation, including the risks to them or the patient.

Ms Dolan identified that, at the time, there was no policy requiring them to do so nor a policy requiring the emergency call handlers to ask for this information.

She said if this information was not passed on to the police, the system was not safe.

Giving evidence at the hearing, Senior Ambulance Officer James Inglis admitted there was still no appropriate policy on this issue.

Ms Dolan challenged Mr Inglis on a draft policy on calls for police assistance, written by the ambulance service in May 2025.

She said it still did not require ambulance staff requesting police back up to pass on essential information or require emergency call handlers to ask for it.

Mr Inglis told the hearing he would review the policy and deal with some of the issues within it.

'Against clinical practice'

Mr Sutherland was also questioned on why he and his colleagues stopped Mr Irvine's cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after 20 minutes, despite guidelines stating it should be continued for longer in the case of a suspected overdose.

Mr Sutherland said he and his ambulance colleagues determined it was "futile" to continue the CPR beyond 20 minutes, as they would have had to stop compressions for several minutes to get Mr Irvine down the stairs to where the ambulance was.

Mr Inglis told the hearing the decision to stop CPR after 20 minutes was not in accordance with the clinical practice or guidelines at time, adding he would have expected the crew to make an effort to get Mr Irvine to hospital.

The inquest continues.

The number of pollution incidents recorded by water companies in England is at a ten-year high, according to data obtained by campaigners.

Surfers Against Sewage said the Environment Agency data showed the number of incidents was more than double its target.

Such spills have the potential to cause damage to wildlife and illness for people making use of the country's rivers and seas.

Water UK, the industry body representing UK water and sewage companies, said companies plan to invest £12bn to reduce spills by the end of the decade.

The sister of James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, says her family only learned of the drag performer's battle with ketamine addiction after watching Drag Race UK.

In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Chanel Williams, 35, says James had kept the struggle – including being hospitalised because of the drug – a secret from the family "to protect them".

The 32-year-old died in January, with the family later announcing the cause of death as a cardiac arrest caused by taking ketamine.

Chanel says her brother had "a really long period of sobriety" before relapsing, something she says the family only discovered after James's death.

Plans have been submitted for a new 3,000-capacity ice rink and sports arena in Greater Manchester.

The TraffordCity Arena development has been proposed for a site near the Chill Factore indoor ski centre and the Trafford Centre.

As well as hosting a range of sport the arena will also convert into an event space that will host virtual reality immersive experiences, small concerts, screenings and live entertainment.

If approved, the land would be acquired from regeneration specialists Peel Waters and operated by the Planet Ice group, which operates 14 other similar venues across the UK.

The company's managing director James Whittaker said it would be a "huge leisure and retail destination".

"There is no other destination in the country that brings together everything that's available here in one place," he said.

"There's a lot of other things this arena cold be used for whether that be music events or boxing."

Peel Waters said if planning permission was granted construction would be predicted to take between 12 and 15 months.

The purpose-built facility could also provide a further boost for the Manchester Storm ice hockey team, which has confirmed it in negotiations to play at the new facility.

The new area would able to accommodate an additional 1,000 fans and spectators in comparison with their current site in Altrincham.

A week-long knife amnesty will include home visits from officers for the first time, aimed at people who cannot access police station weapon bins.

The Cambridgeshire Police amnesty offers people the chance to surrender weapons such as knives and machetes.

It also includes knuckledusters, extendable batons, curved swords and zombie weapons, which are now illegal to own.

Possession of weapons offences in Cambridgeshire have increased by 31%, from 312 between April 2023 and March 2024, to 408 between 2024-2025, police said.

A record 370 items were handed in during the last amnesty in November, the force added.

The home visits are being piloted in some areas of Peterborough, Fenland and East Cambridgeshire.

Those interested can get in touch with the force by email, and an officer will arrange a time for collection.

Supt Paul Rogerson said: "Regular amnesties continue to be part of our ongoing work to combat knife crime in the county and I am pleased we have a new option available to people this year."

Officers will also undertake school visits during the week, while extra patrols will be carried out in "hotspot" areas, targeting those believed to be carrying knives.

Supt Rogerson said: "Although our statistics show possession of weapon offences have increased, this doesn't necessarily mean knife crime has done the same.

"The rise could be due to any number of reasons, for example more pro-active work by officers to tackle the issue, more stop searches, or others having more confidence to report those who carry weapons to us."

He added that more than 160 knives were seized as a result of 215 extra stop searches last year.

The amnesty bins are in place at Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough and Parkside Police Station in Cambridge.

A weapons bin will also be available on 22 May at Sawston Police Station between 10:00 BST and 14:00 – and at Cambourne Police Station between 14:00 and 18:00.

The NHS app will become the default method of communication for millions more patients in England and save the health service £200m over the next three years, the government has said.

More test results, screening invitations and appointment reminders will be sent directly to smartphones as part of a £50m investment in the app, in a move away from traditional communication methods such as letters.

It is estimated that at least 50 million letters are sent to patients each year.

The Department of Health and Social Care said that people who cannot access app messaging – including elderly patients – will receive text messages and then a letter as a last resort, and NHS phone lines would be freed up.

The department says 270 million messages will be sent through the NHS app this financial year – an increase of 70 million on the previous year.

Push notifications will provide appointment reminders to patients to try to reduce the risk of no attendance – with around eight million missed appointments in elective care missed in 2023/24.

Work is also under way to enable users of the app to add appointments to their phone calendars and request help from their local GP surgeries.

Figures show that more than 11 million people in the UK log into the NHS app every month, while almost 20 million are opted in to receive healthcare messages from the app.

It is hoped the changes will give patients better access to manage their healthcare journey and make informed decisions about their care.

NHS app services, which were launched in December 2018, are now used in 87% of hospitals across England.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said further investment in the app would bring the NHS into the digital age so that being a patient was as "convenient as online banking or ordering a takeaway".

He added that moving away from paper communication could free up funding for front line services.

Rachel Power, chief executive of the Patient's Association, said the upgrade was a "significant step in modernising how patients receive information".

Prof Phil Banfield, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) council, said the move to a digital-first approach "must not discriminate against or alienate those many patients who cannot use or do not have access to digital technology such as tablets and smartphones".

He added: "We must guard against creating a a situation in which patients who are vulnerable, elderly and possibly without access to digital communication are forgotten and left behind – as they already are in society. "

The announcement follows measures unveiled by the government in January that it planned to allow more patients in England to book treatments and appointments through the app.

And last month, NHS England announced millions of patients would be able to get "Amazon-style" tracking updates on their prescriptions through the app, to check if their medicines are ready to collect or have been despatched for delivery.

A number of roads in Matlock are to close to allow water maintenance works to go ahead.

Severn Trent Water says Bank Road between Crown Square and the junction of Imperial Road will be closed for four weeks from 2 June along with a section of Lime Grove.

Water utility works will also close Dale Road from 2 June to 20 June.

Derbyshire County Council said the Dale Road closure would affect services calling at Matlock bus station and alternative stops will be announced shortly.

Severn Trent said the Bank Road closure was to allow preliminary ground investigations to see if the planned installation of a stormwater storage tank under the Lido car park was "viable".

During heavy rainfall, the firm said the capacity of its pipes had become "inundated" which sometimes caused water to spill into local water courses.

There will be a welfare unit and working area set up within the town's Lido Car Park from 27 May for approximately six weeks.

"This work is in the early design and assessment stages, with construction work not anticipated to start for several months at the earliest", a Severn Trent spokesperson said.

Kera Patch, community communications officer at Severn Trent, said: "We know that road closures can be disruptive and we only request them when absolutely necessary to help keep our team and road users safe.

"We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience and thank everyone in advance for their patience while we complete these works."