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The family of a murder victim in Sunderland have been awarded compensation at the third time of asking after Kevin Johnson, 22, was stabbed outside his house in May 2007 after he confronted three teenagers. According to the BBC website, Mr Johnson’s family were awarded £5,500 after earlier bids for compensation were turned down by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) on the grounds that Mr Johnson should have stayed inside his home.

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Air bags are now a common safety feature in vehicles. They deploy to protect passengers who are involved in a crash, cushioning the impact as the head is thrown forward and reducing the likelihood of serious head injuries occurring. However, it appears that new developments may be forthcoming to protect pedestrians involved in road traffic accidents as well as passengers.

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The fallout from the G20 meeting shows no signs of abating. A policeman has been interviewed under caution on suspicion of manslaughter in response to video footage which shows Ian Tomlinson being struck and pushed over by a police officer. Mr Tomlinson, 47, died following the incident as a result of what was at the time believed to be a heart attack. However, following a 2nd post-mortem examination in to Mr Tomlinson’s death the cause is now suspected to have been an internal bleed in his abdomen and this is perceived to be more likely to be connected to the violence suffered by Mr Tomlinson, at the hands of the police officer.

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Apple have this week hastily moved to withdraw a game for their iPhone product which involved “baby shaking”. According to the Guardian website, the game, which required users to try to soothe a crying baby by encouraging them to shake their iPhone, has been withdrawn after numerous complaints from parenting organisations.

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The parents of a baby girl who suffered brain damage during birth have been awarded a payout of £6.3 million at the High court. The incident occurred at a hospital in Hertfordshire in November 2002, where Ellie Matraves was born clinically dead after being deprived of oxygen after a failure by staff at Lister hospital.

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A total of five people were killed in a head on collision on the M1 in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident is believed to have occurred as a Polish driver turned his vehicle to head north on to the south bound carriageway just south of junction 11. Police believe that the Polish driver, who was driving a Volkswagen Passat, would have been travelling towards junction 10 where there were some road works and some road closures but that there was no reason for the vehicle to have turned round as the motorway was still open for through traffic.

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Recent statistics from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have announced that it believes only four of England’s ten Strategic Health Authorities will reach its target of one midwife for every 28 births. According to the BBC news website, the RCM believes that the government needs to employ an extra 5,000 midwives by 2012 to ensure that the level of care labouring women receive is both of a safe standard and of high quality.

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Yesterday marked the 20th Anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, where 96 football fans were crushed to their deaths during an FA Cup semi-final clash between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Two minutes silences were held outside Liverpool’s Anfield stadium and also in Sheffield and Nottingham respectively.

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Almost 50 people have been affected by a chlorine leak in a swimming pool near Wolverhampton. According to the BBC website, emergency services were called to the swimming baths to treat the individuals involved who suffered symptoms such as difficulty breathing, nose and throat irritation, watering eyes and panic attacks.

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The online dictionary defines whiplash as ‘an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)’. What a lot of people don’t realise is that a whiplash injury isn’t necessarily something that affects you immediately after an accident. It could well be that you feel perfectly fine in the aftermath of a crash only to later discover several hours later that you have sustained an injury.

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