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At least 31 people have died and nine others hurt in a head-on collision in Morocco between a truck and a coach containing teenage athletes and officials.
Two of the wounded are in a serious condition as a result of the accident which happened near the southern city of Tan-Tan.
Many of those who died were killed in the fire that engulfed the bus after it collided with a tanker carrying hydrocarbons.
The tanker was reportedly flattened.
The coach was reportedly transporting the young people from a national sports competition in Bouznika, a beach resort in the north between the capital Rabat and Casablanca.
Report said 10km runner Hassan Issengar, a well-known Moroccan sportsman, was among the dead.
Road accident fatalities have increased in recent years as more Moroccans own cars.
Although the main cities are linked by motorways, much of the country is still limited to two-lane, poorly maintained roads.
About 4,000 people die on the roads of Morocco each year, the equivalent of about 11 people a day in a country of 34 million people.
The worst road accident happened in September 2012 when 42 people died after their bus plunged into a ravine.
It's been a food-themed week for the Prime Minister - from eating a hot dog with a knife and fork in Poole, to his haggis and square sausage breakfast in Edinburgh, and now Sconegate in Devon.
The age-old question baffling David Cameron today is what comes first - the jam or the cream?
Choosing the 'correct' answer is something that divides the South West into the jam-first Cornish and the cream-first Devonians.
But the PM got it wrong: favouring the Cornwall method in Devon.
Eek, that is a food faux pas that will tickle the local press.
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And the South West media will be getting used to seeing Mr Cameron in their patch.
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The Tory election mantra is there are only 23 more seats needed for a majority so the key to this campaign is focus - targeting the most marginal seats.
And just as voters in different parts of the country layer their jam and cream up differently, they also have varying political tastes.
In Plymouth in Devon, there is the traditional Labour v Tory fight.
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But earlier in the week when we visited North Cornwall, the Conservatives had their coalition rivals in mind.
In fact, the repeated visits to the South West are, in part, to do with a belief that here Lib Dems could be the softest targets, whose downfall could help push the Tories towards a majority.
The Prime Minister told me that he tends to go jam first when it comes to a tasty scone.
But politically speaking, he will use any technique that might work when it comes to winning seats in the South West.
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Drilling experts have demonstrated on Sky News how burglars would have broken through a two-metre-thick wall in a lucrative raid at the heart of London's diamond centre.
They said those behind the heist would have had to use specialist power tools costing thousands of pounds to get through reinforced concrete walls in the basement of the building in Hatton Garden.
But that is a tiny fraction of what the burglars are expected to make from breaking into as many as 70 boxes inside Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd.
Sky's Martin Brunt took this photo of what someone did to the centre's sign
Video of an expert using a similar drill on a large block of concrete shows just how big the scale of the operation was - after a minute, it had hardly scratched the surface.
Joel Vinsant, secretary of the Drilling and Sawing Association, told Sky News: "It would take anything from 45 minutes to an hour-and-a-half - it's two metres thick so they'd need specialist equipment."
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The thieves would also have needed a constant water supply to keep the drill cool as it powered through the thick wall, he said.
"They'd have a lot to set up in terms of getting it under way," he said.
The thieves are thought to have accessed the building on upper floors. Police believe they disabled a lift and climbed down the shaft into the basement, but there was no sign of forced entry anywhere in the building, which the safe deposit company is only part of.
Officers found a scene of chaos when the theft was discovered on Tuesday, with dust, debris and power tools strewn across the floor.
On Thursday, they said only a few people would have the skills to carry out the "sophisticated" operation over the Easter weekend.
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Former Flying Squad member John O'Connor has suggested the criminals would have needed help from someone with inside knowledge.
Victims are still being identified, but they are likely to have been left millions of pounds out of pocket.
Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said one jeweller had told him that five of his customers were victims - one had lost emeralds, diamonds and other valuables to the tune of £1m.
He said: "Other customers have told us that they use this safe deposit centre to avoid big insurance premiums, so some of the stuff here won't have been insured.
"A little while ago somebody came and stuck two letters on the sign here in front of the word 'Safe' so it read 'Unsafe' - it was there for a few minutes and reflected a pretty sombre and angry mood here."
A man has been critically injured after he was reportedly hit on the head by a Tube train as he bent down to pick up his bag.
The victim was struck by an oncoming Northern line service at Stockwell station around 9am as commuters watched in horror and were "visibly very distressed".
The south London station was closed as medics treated the man whose head was reportedly covered in blood.
The man, believed to be in his 20s, was later taken to hospital where he is in a critical condition.
Witness Chris Duncan tweeted: "Was on this train. Awful. Man hit in the head by oncoming Tube train in horrific accident."
Isabelle Zonderland told London's Evening Standard: "I was on the Tube when it happened. He got hit only metres from our carriage.
"When we were let off the Tube I saw him lying there. Someone who I believe was on the platform was checking for a pulse. His face was covered in blood."
London Underground has begun an investigation into the incident
Actor Raj Lucas told the same publication: "I was about midway on the platform and the Tube was pulling in and suddenly I heard screams from the start of the platform.
"The people closer to the incident (who saw it) were visibly very distressed."
London Underground has begun an investigation into the incident. It claimed the station had been busy but the platform was not overcrowded.
Nick Brown, the company's chief operating officer, said: "Just before 9am a passenger on a Northern line platform was struck by a train entering Stockwell station.
"Our emergency response team and the London Ambulance Service attended the scene.
"We are investigating the incident to understand exactly what happened but we have already established that while the station was busy, the platform was not overcrowded."
Last month, Londoner Nick Mann, 35, died of severe head injuries when he attempted to save his 32-year-old brother Robert from being struck by a train at Old Street Tube station.
Robert Mann remains in hospital.
On 12 March, a rush-hour passenger was dragged along Clapham South Tube station in south London after getting her coat caught in a train door.
The woman ended up falling into the gap between two carriages of the Northern line train and was taken to hospital with serious arm and head injuries.
The incident is being investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch.
A 13-year-old boy who admitted stabbing a man to death has been locked up for at least 11 years.
The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to murdering Christopher John Barry, 53, in Edmonton, north London, last December.
The youngster's mother wept in court as he was sentenced at the Old Bailey.
The court heard the child had left a 13th birthday party with a group of friends to see another boy who was heading home on to a bus.
But on the their way back to the party, they went to the wrong block of flats and came across one of its residents, Mr Barry, who was outside the building with his girlfriend.
Mr Barry - a builder who was originally from Cobh, Co Cork - refused to let the three boys into the flats, the court heard.
After some "pushing and shoving" between Mr Barry and the boys, the defendant managed to get in the building.
He followed Mr Barry into the lift, pulled out a kitchen knife from his rucksack and said: "What you saying now? What you saying now?"
The boy then stabbed Mr Barry twice, the court was told.
A short time later, he collapsed in a pool of blood and went into cardiac arrest, she said.
Mr Barry died shortly afterwards.
Sabrina Finn, the girlfriend of Mr Barry - who was known as Jack - said in a victim impact statement: "I'm back at work now and although I walk, talk and look the same as I did before, inside I'm tired and my heart is broken.
"Jack and I had four happy years together and this young man has taken that away from me."
After the attack, the boy - who had been a gang member since he was 10 - told one friend he was going to prison and texted another: "OK, if anyone asks, I wasn't there today".
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Stephen Kramer told the boy: "You are only 13 years old but shortly after 7.30pm on the evening of 14 December, 2014, you were carrying a knife in your bag.
"You wanted to get into a block of flats but you went to the wrong block with tragic consequences for everyone involved."
He took into account the boy's remorse, which his mother wrote about in a letter that was not read out in court.
The judge said the letter also detailed a "troubled background as well as positive aspects".
The boy's lawyer, Michael Turner QC, described the case as "unique" and said in all his years as a barrister it was the only time such a young defendant had pleaded guilty to murder.
A 14-year-old boy who killed a man on a street moments after wishing him a "Happy New Year" has been detained for three years.
Kyle Major, from Blackpool, followed his victim and knocked him to the ground by punching him in the back of the head from behind in an unprovoked attack.
Father-of-two Paul Walker, 52 and also from Blackpool, was believed to be unconscious before he hit the ground.
A passer-by found Mr Walker lying face down in the street in the early hours of New Year's Day this year.
His hands were still in his pockets when paramedics arrived.
He died shortly after in hospital.
Before Mr Walker was attacked, he had asked Major's friends for directions in Sutton Place, Blackpool.
He had become lost after leaving his sister's New Year's Eve party "in good spirits", the court heard.
He came across the group of youths - including Major - who told him where he was.
A girl in the group said Mr Walker seemed "lost, disorientated and affected by alcohol" but was "nice and friendly".
Major was heard to wish Mr Walker "Happy New Year".
Mr Walker's family said he was "a lovely man with a big heart"
But moments later the defendant and a male friend followed Mr Walker.
After felling him, Major ran off and later texted another friend: "I'm scared. Don't want to go to jail. Two/four years. Don't say anything."
He later claimed his friend filmed the attack on his phone, but no such footage has been found.
Major initially denied any involvement in the attack when arrested, but later pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Sentencing him at Preston Crown Court, Judge Anthony Russell QC said: "Your upbringing was unfortunate. You have been allowed to run wild.
He added: "Unprovoked violence of this kind is completely unacceptable and will be punished."
Major stared blankly ahead throughout the proceedings. He showed no emotion as he was led from the dock.
On the night of the attack, the boy had drunk six bottles of lager and a quarter of a bottle of whiskey, the court heard.
His parenting was described as "out of control" and he had seven previous convictions for non-violent offences such as burglary and theft.
The boy's lawyer, Julie Taylor, said at the time of the attack her client "was somebody at that stage in his life who perhaps did not have the parental guidance he needed at that time".
She said Major was now "extremely remorseful" and apologised to Mr Walker's family for what he had done.
Ms Taylor said Major's current foster family said he showed "a caring and kind side" when under their guidance.
One of Mr Walker's sons stormed out of the court as that comment was made.
Family members described Mr Walker as "a lovely man with a big heart", and his sister Harriet said she had not only lost a brother but "her best friend".
Judge Russell lifted reporting restrictions on naming the juvenile following an application from the media that the public interest in identifying the child outweighed his welfare.
The Metropolitan Police has come under fire after it emerged officers initially failed to go to the scene of the Hatton Garden jewel heist despite a burglar alarm going off.
A security firm had contacted the force about an intruder alert at the safe deposit company shortly after midnight on Good Friday.
But the call was graded in a way that meant officers did not consider it worthy of a response.
And it was not until Tuesday morning, following the four-day bank holiday Easter weekend, that the raid - one of Britain's biggest - was discovered.
The Met is now investigating why the force did not respond to the alarm activated as the heist in London's jewellery district was thought to be getting under way.
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Police insisted it was too early to say if the handling of the call about the alert would have had an impact on the outcome.
But the revelations have led to anger from potential victims who spoke of their shock that the police "just weren't there".
Michael Miller, from Knightsbridge, who may have lost £50,000 in uninsured jewellery, said: "I am just so shocked and disappointed to hear the police didn't answer that alarm.
"I mean before, we thought maybe the police didn't even know about that but now we know that they knew something was wrong.
"This completely changes things, the knowledge that something could have been done.
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"The police pride themselves on being somewhere in a couple of minutes, but on this occasion they just weren't there."
A store owner near the scene, who did not wish to be named, said: "It's just shocking that someone didn't answer that call that come in when the alarm went off.
"You think what on earth isn't a high priority call if it's isn't a safe deposit alarm going off in there.
"I know they're investigating but really what is the good of that when the damage is done. There are people who will have lost their livelihoods because of this."
Scotland Yard said: "The call was recorded and transferred to the police's CAD (computer aided despatch) system. A grade was applied to the call that meant that no police response was deemed to be required.
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"We are now investigating why this grade was applied to the call. This investigation is being carried out locally."
Those behind the raid disabled a communal lift shaft and climbed down to the basement before using power tools to drill through a two-metre wall into the vault.
Once inside, they ransacked a total of 72 safety deposit boxes, although five were empty at the time.
A further 11 were due to be "drilled out" due to non-payment of fees, meaning detectives are attempting to contact a total of 56 box holders.
Ed Miliband has visited Scotland for the first time in the election campaign - claiming SNP policy would cause a £7.6bn black hole that would need to be funded by cuts or tax rises.
Sharing a platform with Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and Ed Balls he attacked SNP plans for full fiscal autonomy for Scotland.
He said SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon's announcement on Wednesday that nationalist MPs at Westminster could vote for autonomy for Scotland as early as next year was "one of the most significant" events of the campaign.
Ms Sturgeon dismissed Mr Miliband's attack as "desperate" and said the only cuts facing Scottish voters are "the ones that the Tories are proposing and Labour are backing".
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Gallery: Election 2015: Sky News' Poll Of Polls
Almost half (46%) of voters would back the SNP at the General Election, according to Sky's latest poll of Scottish polls
In Sky's poll of polls on 10 April, Labour have a 2% lead over the Tories
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The projection, compiled by Sky's election analyst Michael Thrasher, would give the SNP 49 seats in the House of Commons, compared with 290 for Labour, 265 for Conservatives, 20 for Lib Dems, two for UKIP, and 24 for others
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Labour are under massive pressure north of the border thanks to soaring support for the SNP, which could cost them dozens of seats and even deprive them of a majority.
Almost half (46%) of voters would back the SNP at the General Election, according to Sky's latest poll of Scottish polls.
The projection, compiled by Sky's election analyst Michael Thrasher, would give the SNP 49 seats in the House of Commons, compared with 290 for Labour, 265 for Conservatives, 20 for Lib Dems, two for UKIP, and 24 for others.
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Scottish nationalists hope to wrestle full control over taxation and spending for Scotland if they win kingmaker position in the May 7 election.
But Mr Miliband said this would mean a "£7.6bn black hole" in Scotland's finances that "would need to be filled with more taxes on working people or more borrowing".
"This strikes to the very heart of what I believe in. I will never sell Scotland short by signing up to the SNP's plans," he said.
He challenged the SNP to say where cuts would be made to service the funding gap.
"Which services will be cut? Which taxes will be raised? And what cuts will it mean for pensioners in Scotland when they are taken out of the UK pensions system?" he said.
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"The SNP claim in this campaign to be proposing no reductions in spending, but in fact they are planning dramatic reductions in spending. They must now come clean."
Mr Miliband also attacked the Conservatives, saying their campaign is descending into "desperation and panic" after David Cameron unveiled plans to freeze commuter rail fares and offer workers three paid days off for volunteering.
He accused the Tories of deploying personal abuse and "unfunded and unbelievable promises" in their efforts to keep Mr Cameron in power.
Mr Murphy has previously been careful to put distance between himself and Labour's Westminster leadership, saying: "I'm my own man".
It was the first time the two men have shared a platform since the start of the campaign.
Mr Murphy began the speeches, saying his party are "determined to end this Tory austerity".
He said the SNP's plans for fiscal autonomy had not been thought through and were a "slogan in search of a policy".
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Earlier, Ms Sturgeon denied there are billions of pounds of cuts on the horizon under her autonomy plan.
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"This is desperation on the part of the Labour Party," she said while campaigning on the streets of Stirling.
"Instead of putting forward a positive case of their own, they are resorting to the same fears and smears that they resorted to during the referendum.
"The truth is the only cuts on the horizon for Scotland are the ones that the Tories are proposing and Labour are backing."
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who was accused of dragging politics into the gutter by saying Mr Miliband had "stabbed his own brother in the back" to lead Labour, said the SNP "are already pulling Labour's strings".
"Nicola Sturgeon makes a statement, and the Labour leader rushes to Edinburgh to respond," he said.
"If it's like this now, imagine what it would be like with the SNP propping up Ed Miliband in Downing Street. Borrowing, taxes, our defence policy - all of it would have to be signed off by the SNP."
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