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After nearly four decades on our screens and radio stations, BBC presenter Louise Priest has announced she is to step down from her role. The 62 year old, who currently hosts the morning and lunchtime headlines on BBC Look East, has released a statement saying she feels like "the time was right" to leave after almost 40 years working at the broadcaster.

A decision by the Parole Board on whether to release one of the killers of toddler James Bulger from jail has been delayed by two weeks, it was revealed tonight.

A parole hearing for one of the two killers a who brutally murdered two-year-old James Bulger thirty years ago is set to take place over the next two days.

Denise Fergus is happy. You can hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes and feel it in the easy, loving banter between her and husband Stuart. Little wonder, given that the pair have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a renewal of their vows in the same church they got married in, followed afterwards by a big party for family and friends.

Denise Fergus is happy. You can hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes and feel it in the easy, loving banter between her and husband Stuart. Little wonder, given that the pair have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a renewal of their vows in the same church they got married in, followed afterwards by a big party for family and friends.

Maxine, which has been released on Netflix.School caretaker Ian Huntley was sentenced to life in prison in December 2003 for the murders of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who attended the same school in Soham, Cambridgeshire.His girlfriend at the time, Maxine Carr, who was the girls’ teaching assistant, received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for perverting the course of justice after providing Huntley with a false alibi. She only served half her sentence, and was given anonymity for life upon her release from Foston Hall prison in May 2004.In the TV drama, the last scene of Carr shows her on a beach as she’s approached by someone off screen who recognises her.

Child killer Jon Venables has been granted a parole hearing, the Parole Board has confirmed. Venables, who killed James Bulger alongside Robert Thompson in Feburary 1993, has been granted a hearing later this year.

A man who discovered James Bulger's body when he was a teenager has died in police custody. James Riley, 44, found the murdered toddler's body with brother Terence Riley on a railway line in Liverpool in 1993, when he was just 14, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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As she spent yet another heartbreaking Christmas without her son, Denise Fergus took comfort from a government plan that Jon Venables would never be free – and from the words of a police forensic psychologist.

Emmy Awards? Save your breath. They and other ratings successes failed to make a dent in nominations for Monday's ceremony. Instead, the haul went to shows that are critical darlings or possess a higher degree of cool, “Stranger Things" and “Squid Game” among them.

James Bulger's grave has been ransacked by shameless thieves for a second time in a month.Despicable yobs have stolen the stone cherub again from the tragic two-year-old toddler's resting place, reports The Mirror.The actions have left James' mum Denise Fergus devastated, exacerbating the grief she will always carry after her little boy was abducted from a Liverpool shopping centre and then murdered in 1993. READ MORE: Ghost village where locals are terrified to leave homes over burglary fearsDenise, 53, said: "To see this happen once more is heartbreaking. I’m furious that someone would stoop this low.

Today marks twenty years since schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished on their way to buy sweets.

thieves have stolen a sleeping angel statue from above the grave of James Bulger, the toddler who was murdered in 1993.Taking to Facebook, his mum Denise Fergus explained that her husband Stuart went to the grave to clean it and lay some flowers yesterday morning (June 22).That's when he realised the statue was missing.Denise, 53, said: "Stuart went and cleaned James' resting place and put down some new flowers."He has come back and told me that this sleeping statue has been taken.READ MORE: Jon Venables 'will kill again when he's let out of prison', warns James Bulger's dad"It's made of concrete and has a bit of weight to it so it hasn't blown off anywhere."How low do some people have to be to actually take from a baby's grave."She also shared images of the grave, one with the statue on top and others with it clearly missing.People were quick to vent their fury and offer Denise support in the comments section.One person said: "They are the lowest of the low, low life scum. Thoughts with you all xx."Another wrote: "Omg absolutely disgusting how can anyone be so cruel as to rob off a dead child’s grave.""Oh scum bags they are, hope karma gets them," said a third.

Murdered toddler James Bulger's devastated dad is determined to tell his son's killer that he should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Jon Venables is making a fresh attempt to be released before law changes come into effect that could see his bid for freedom being blocked by ministers. Jon Venables, who at the age of 10 was one of two boys who murdered two-year-old Jamie Bulger, is applying for parole ahead of new legislation that could give ministers the power to block the release of dangerous criminals for public safety reasons.Venables, along with his accomplice Robert Thompson, was released in 2001 and given a new identity to enable him to live a normal life free from reprisals.But he was jailed again in 2017 after he was found to be in possession of child abuse images.

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Seeing the pain in his mother's eyes has made the brother of James Bulger more protective of his own children, he has said.

Daily Star reveals the child killers who claim the ghosts of the innocent have lingered around them, serving as a reminder of what they've done years after the act.Jon Venables was just 10 when he and Robert Thompson abducted and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.

James Bulger.The recording was aired in the new documentary Lost Boy: The Killing of James Bulger, on Channel 5 on March 11 and Thompson explained how he and Jon Venables kidnapped the toddler on February 12, 1993.In the interview, detective sergeant Phil Roberts asks him about how James was acting when the boys, both aged 10 at the time of the murder, abducted him from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside."Was he able to talk?" asks the detective."Yeah," replies Thompson."What did he say to you?"At this point, Thompson puts on a frightened child-like voice to mimic James and says: "I want my mum."Looking back at it years later for the documentary, Phil said: "That's actually quite cold, quite eery, the fact that he actually