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Bolton stabbing: Girl, seven, killed by stranger in parkA seven-year-old girl has died after being stabbed by a stranger in a park.The girl suffered serious injuries in the attack at Queen's Park in Bolton at about 14:30 GMT, Greater Manchester Police said.A force spokesman said despite the "best efforts of her family and medical responders, she died a short while later".A 30-year-old woman, who was not known to the family, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said officers were "working to understand the motive for this completely random and brutal attack".
Coronavirus: 24 hours to avoid complete lockdown as Boris Johnson says stay-at-home advice is being ignored
Package holiday refund rules to be suspended As the travel industry implodes because of the coronavirus crisis, rules on refunds for cancelled holidays are to be suspended.At present package holidaymakers whose trips are cancelled are entitled to all their money back within two weeks of the trip being called off.But the Package Travel Regulations 2018 were never designed for a total shutdown of international tourism. An estimated two million overseas package holidays were due to depart in the first 30 days of the government’s warning against non-essential travel, running from 17 March to 16 April 2020. They have all been cancelled – representing around £1bn that the law insists should be paid back to consumers.Many hard-pressed holidaymakers, facing uncertainty about their own incomes, are understandably anxious to get the cash that is due to them.But The Independent understands that the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, will agree to protect Britain’s beleaguered travel industry.For travel firms earning no revenue, having to hand back payments for cancelled holidays immediately could force them out of business.
Drones will monitor citizens to ensure compliance to lockdown lawsDrones and helicopters will monitor citizens to ensure they are complying to the new lockdown rules announced in Greece by the Prime Minister on Sunday.The Orwellian–like move was announced on Sunday in the joint press conference by State and Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Citizen Protection Deputy Minister Lefteris Economou, Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis and Deputy Interior Minister Theodoros Livanios.Citizen Protection Deputy Minister Lefteris Economou said that helicopters and drones would be used in Athens and Thessaloniki to ensure that regulations are observed.
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