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Police are pelted with missiles as they try to break up lockdown-breaching rave

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Police are pelted with missiles as they try to break up lockdown-breaching rave attended by hundreds of people at a Manchester house Revellers filmed gathered inside illegal gazebo party in Gorton, Manchester  During the party officers from Greater Manchester Police pelted with missiles Police later confirmed that a woman was slammed with a £100 penalty … Read more

Police are pelted with missiles as they try to break up lockdown-breaching rave

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Police are pelted with missiles as they try to break up lockdown-breaching rave attended by hundreds of people at a Manchester house Revellers filmed gathered inside illegal gazebo party in Gorton, Manchester  During the party officers from Greater Manchester Police pelted with missiles Police later confirmed that a woman was slammed with a £100 penalty … Read more

Social media ‘doesn’t increase mental health problems in teens’

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Spending time on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok does not increase the risk of mental health issues among teenagers, a study claims. Isolation, cyberbullying and a supposed obsession with how we’re portrayed online has led to claims that social media is fuelling a rise in depression and other psychological disorders among … Read more

Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled via social network analysis

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Friendship is everything: Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled by using social network analysis to map syndicate members’ connections, study claims Criminal networks like the Mafia are hard for law enforcement to disrupt Researchers from the UK and Italy studied data on a real-life Mafia syndicate They report a way to pick the members whose arrest would be … Read more

Schoolboy, 14, admits selling £2 ‘Donkey Kong’ ecstasy tabs to 13-year -old boy

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A schoolboy today admitted selling £2 ‘Donkey Kong’ ecstasy over Snapchat to a tragic 13-year-old boy who died in a park. The teenager, then 14, used social media to sell three cartoon character Donkey-Kong branded ecstasy pills to Carson Price, 13. The two boys arranged to meet outside a garage for Carson to pay for … Read more

People who enjoy embarrassing others are more likely to find social networks addictive,

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People who enjoy embarrassing or angering others are more likely to find social networks like Facebook and Snapchat addictive, study shows Researchers studied how much time was spent on Snapchat and Facebook  Also looked at what sort of interactions motivated people to use the sites  Found those who spent a large amount of time on … Read more

Instagram will launc rival to TikTok called Reels which will go live across the globe next month

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Instagram confirms it will launch its own rival to TikTok called Reels which will start going live across the globe next month Instagram is planning to launch a TikTok competitor called Reels broadly Reels will launch in 50 countries including the US starting next month It allows users to post short video clips set to … Read more