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Big-hearted schoolgirl donates hair to raise funds for children's charity

Robyn Von Meding, 10, cut off 14-inches of her strawberry blonde locks for the Rapunzel Foundation

Dublin Live

Recitatif by Toni Morrison audiobook review – an experiment in racial bias

Actor Bahni Turpin narrates this story about the chance encounters between two girls from different races who first meet as roommates in an orphanage

The Guardian - UK

Daddy! My Daddy! Children’s authors on enduring classic The Railway Children: ‘It has an urgent truth to tell’

As the long-awaited sequel to The Railway Children hits cinemas, we ask a panel of children’s authors what they think about the original film and book

Evening Standard

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The Railway Children Return review – family classic sequel stays on track

Plot riffs on the original story include a black US serviceman on the lam in this earnest but likable homage to the beloved 1970 kids’ adventure

The Guardian - UK

Lanarkshire pensioner 'left to rot' in hospital as council unable offer home care package

Heartbroken Roberta Finlayson claims her local council said the care package could not be set up for her husband Archie, who suffers from dementia and Parkinson’s Disease, due to a shortage of carers.

Glasgow Live

Scots pensioner 'left to rot' in hospital after council axe care package

Devastated Roberta Finlayson claims to have been told by South Lanarkshire Council that there are no available carers in the area for her husband.

Daily Record

NT coroner calls for more supervision of violent offenders in inquest of woman killed by her ex-partner

Roberta tried to escape her abusive ex-partner. She called triple-zero but police said "stop calling us". Five days later, she was dead.

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Two NT police officers disciplined after failing domestic violence victim before her death, inquest hears

A coronial inquest into the death of Roberta at the hands of her partner has heard two officers were disciplined, after telling her to "stop calling us".

ABC News

NT coroner examines death of a woman at the hands of ex-partner out on a suspended sentence for assault

An inquest has begun in Darwin examining the death of a woman who was killed by her ex-partner, while he was out on a suspended sentence for a separate violent assault.

ABC News

How Fitzy crashed ScoMo's big party

Topics: Fitzy crashed the party and the memory bank.

Newcastle Herald

The most recent death notices in Wales as families remember loved ones

Our thoughts are with their families and friends

Wales Online

The most recent death notices in Cardiff as families remember loved ones

Our thoughts are with loved ones at this time

Wales Online

An elegant, timely test for readers from Toni Morrison

"Recitatif: A Story" by Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith; Alfred A. Knopf (40 pages, $16)

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