Doreen Lawrence is to be made a Labour peer

Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered in a racist attack in 1993, is to be made a Labour peer in the House of Lords.

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Ariel Castro is accused of holding three women captive in his home for around a decade

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Local police made nearly eleven hundred visits to houses on the Cleveland block where Ariel Castro is accused of holding three women captive in his home for around a decade, it has emerged.

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