1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.

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Two 10-year-old boys have been charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. The toddler went missing from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle last Friday and his body was found on a railway embankment less than three miles away two days later, on 14 February.

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Sunday, January 31, 1999 Published at 06:07 GMT UK Lockerbie pair 'could have survived' Wreckage: 259 on board and 11 on the ground died New research has suggested that two victims of the Lockerbie airliner bombing could have survived the six-mile fall to earth only to die of exposure later, a newspaper has reported.

28 Jan 2003 · It triggered a wide ranging inquiry headed by Lord Laming, who described it as the worst case of neglect he had ever heard of. His year-long public inquiry identified social services departments at four London boroughs, two police forces, two hospitals, and a specialist children's unit who all failed to act when presented with evidence of abuse.