Emergency services attended the scene in Sunderland where the boy had sustained serious injuries consistent with being caused by a bladed article.

Speed checks conducted on the A12 between Chelmsford and Witham on Friday resulted in officers detecting 180 offences in the space of one hour.

Russian attacks targeting the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others, officials said. The first wave on Ukraine’s second-largest city ...