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Two parents who worked together to murder their perfect 10-month-old son have been jailed for life after what a judge called unimaginable cruelty.Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden described as monsters by a relative inflicted vicious and repeated assaults on their son, Finley Boden, in the space of just over a month in their filthy home near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Doctors could have acted sooner to try to stop the bleeding of a baby boy, murder-accused Lucy Letby has told jurors.The prosecution says Letby, 33, inflicted an injury to the infant and also injected him with air while he was under her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital.Letby denies the murders of seven babies and the attempted babies of 10 others on the neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.

The MP for Chesterfield said the death of a 10-month-old boy in his constituency was shocking but unsurprising due to failures across the system in social services and the courts.Toby Perkins spoke after new documents, released to the PA news agency, BBC and The Telegraph, showed Finley Boden was returned to his parent's full-time care despite a local authority having some concerns over their drug use and parenting ability.

A children's agency which was involved in the decision to hand Finley Boden back to his parents weeks before they murdered him has said that everyone involved thought the pair had changed.The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) also said that no-one could have predicted Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden would murder their 10-month-old son after he returned to their care.

Parents who murdered their 10-month-old son just weeks after he was returned to their care have been sentenced to life in jail for his killing.Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden must serve a minimum of 27 years and 29 years respectively after they were convicted last month of the murder of Finley Boden following a trial at Derby Crown Court.

The parents who murdered their 10-month-old son just weeks after he was returned to their care are to be sentenced for his killing.Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden were convicted in April of the murder of Finley Boden on Christmas Day 2020 after a trial at Derby Crown Court.The pair killed their son weeks after he returned to their full-time care following a Family Court order made in October that year, having previously described him as perfect and a cuddly, chunky munchkin.

Two parents who murdered their 10-month-old son just weeks after he was returned to their care are to be sentenced for his killing.Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden were convicted in April of the murder of Finley Boden on Christmas Day 2020 after a trial at Derby Crown Court.The pair killed their son weeks after he returned to their full-time care following a Family Court order made in October that year, having previously described him as perfect and a cuddly, chunky munchkin.

Your San Francisco 49ers have dropped their 2023 schedule, opening Sunday, September 10 in Pittsburgh against the Steelers.Highlight games include a Sunday Night Football game against the Cowboys (Oct.8), Monday nighters against the Vikings (Oct.23) and the Baltimore Ravens (Christmas Day), and an NFC Championship game rematch against the Eagles (Dec.

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the most diverse gardens in the world.A unique urban oasis, the garden is a living museum within Golden Gate Park, offering 55 acres of both landscaped gardens and open spaces, and showcasing over 9,000 different kinds of plants from around the world.One of the most beautiful spots is the Japanese-design inspired " Moon Viewing Garden," (pictured above) located in the Mild-Temperate Climate section in the Northwest portion of the gardens.

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the most diverse gardens in the world.A unique urban oasis, the garden is a living museum within Golden Gate Park, offering 55 acres of both landscaped gardens and open spaces, and showcasing over 9,000 different kinds of plants from around the world.One of the most beautiful spots is the Japanese-design inspired " Moon Viewing Garden," (pictured above) located in the Mild-Temperate Climate section in the Northwest portion of the gardens.

The rain has mostly cleared in San Francisco though there is still a chance of thunderstorm cells and light showers passing through and there are some road closures around the Bay due to flooding.These include a section of southbound Junipero Serra Boulevard between Serramonte Boulevard and Hickey Boulevard in South San Francisco; Highway 37 near the interchange with Highway 101 in Novato; and Highway 13 in Oakland, which had multiple trees down on it last night.

Joan Gallagher and her husband, John, used to enjoy weekend walks through Spain's Priorat wine region, driving out from their home in Sitges, Catalonia.They had moved to Spain from Ireland in 2001; two years ago they opened a hotel in the former creamery next door to where they used to stay.Their four boys were grown up and doing their own thing.

After nearly a decade training in San Diego, Saul Alvarez opted to prepare for his next bout in Guadalajara, Mexico, where it will take place.The sentimental part of Alvarez, a Guadalajara native nicknamed Canelo, welcomed the homecoming for his prizefight Saturday against John Ryder.Before he started boxing, a grade-school-aged Alvarez sold Popsicles for pocket change on the city's streets.

LONDON There is a piece of furniture so famous and so important to British history that it sits in its own chapel at Westminster Abbey, behind an iron gate so that onlookers may gawk at it but never touch it.The item, the Coronation Chair, was commissioned by King Edward I of England to accommodate the Stone of Scone, which was captured from the Scots in 1296.

Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super-tall teenager, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they had identified a small, captivating group of baby galaxies near the dawn of time.These galaxies, the scientists say, could well grow into one of the biggest conglomerations of mass in the universe, a vast cluster of thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday released video from the scene and announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a driver who killed a 24-year-old woman during an illegal street takeover on Christmas Day.Elyzza Guajaca was watching the street takeover at the intersection of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in Hyde Park around 9 a.m. with a group of about a hundred people, according to police.

In past years, Disneyland has closed its gates between Christmas and New Year's Day to prevent overcrowding.But this year, even with big crowds and long wait times for popular rides, the gates will remain open."This holiday season, Disneyland shouldn't experience the pre-pandemic need to close the gates previously seen between Christmas Day and New Year's Day thanks to the reservation system," Disneyland officials said Thursday in a prepared statement.

On the night of Dec. 18, 2021, a 20-year-old suspected drunk driver hit a car carrying a family of four, leaving two teenagers dead.A year later, the restaurant that employed the driver has lost its liquor license for providing her with alcohol.Kyoto Sushi, a restaurant in West Hills, has been listed as "permanently closed" on Google after the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control revoked its alcoholic beverage license.

A man asked to speak to a soldier outside Buckingham Palace before launching shotgun cartridges into the grounds, police have said.The suspect approached the gates of the royal residence shortly after 7pm on Tuesday evening, amid a heavy police presence in the lead-up to the King's coronation.Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan said he spoke to a police officer on guard and asked to speak to a soldier.

A selfish drunk-driver who reached 100mph before crashing and killing a woman on Christmas Day has been jailed for more than 10 years.Charlie Hilton, 25, was chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree, flipped over and burst into flames early on December 25 2021.Residents in Beeches Avenue, Carshalton, south London, grabbed fire extinguishers and rushed to help.

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.What is worth standing outside in the cold on Christmas Day?That question came up while I was having brunch with my family at Lafayette Grand Cafe & Bakery in Manhattan and noticed a line forming outside the window of the restaurant.

'Twas two days before Christmas when within the house, a soon-to-be mother began having contractions.Erica and Davon Thomas were expecting their first child on Christmas Day, but around 11 p.m. on December 23, Erica's contractions began.On Christmas Eve morning, the contractions worsened - but the Thomas' couldn't leave their home as the snow from the winter storm had piled up about halfway up the front door of their Buffalo home, Davon told SME.

Paul O'Grady is set to host a one off Easter Sunday radio show on Boom Radio, following his departure from Radio 2. The comedian and presenter left his Radio 2 Sunday afternoon slot in August last year after almost 14 years, following a schedule shake-up which saw him regularly swapping with comic Rob Beckett.

JWST captures incredible image of WR124 going supernova (Image: skyatnightmagazine.com)JWST has captured some of the best images of the cosmos ever seen- but first we need to understand just how amazing it is, which arises the question of: What is JWST?The James Webb space telescope was launched on Christmas day 2021, set to go "back to the edge of time itself" 1.5 million km away at the lagrarian point L2- a place inside Earth's orbit which allows for objects such as space telescopes to remain in a stable orbit, without any added energy, around Earth's orbit.

This past year was a momentous one in spaceflight, bringing to a close many of the most significant storylines that have dominated this industry in the last 10 to 15 years.Consider the state of play in 2010: A handful of large government space agencies dominated spaceflight activities.NASA was still flying the venerable space shuttle with no clear plan for deep space exploration.

Apple has won its first short animation Oscar for the sentimental The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.The intimate and beautifully hand-drawn animation is a reflection on life, and it couldn't be a better fit for Apple.The tech giant's mantra is 'simplicity, creativity, and humanity' and illustrator Charlie Mackesy's meditation on the meaning of it all via the meandering musings of the titular characters is a charmingly harmonious fit for Apple's first animated short Oscar.

The New York Knicks played 2.5 quarters of very good basketball Friday night.Unfortunately, that was not enough to overcome the Philadelphia 76ers, who erased a 13-point deficit and rolled late to a 11-point win.I don't mind losing to the Sixers, who have two superstar talents in Joel Embiid and James Harden.

Guns N' Roses ' "November Rain" is the first full-on rock music video to hit 2 billion views on YouTube.The milestone comes a little more than 13 years since the 1991 clip was uploaded to the streaming platform on Christmas Day of 2009.The epic ballad boasts an equally grand music video starring singer Axl Rose and his then-girlfriend, supermodel Stephanie Seymour.

A Brooklyn man has been arrested for attempted murder and other crimes after he allegedly shot a victim in Corona on Christmas Day.Kevin Aspiroz, 25, was picked up by police on Thursday, Feb. 23, two months after he allegedly shot a 45-year-old man during an attempted armed robbery on 103rd Street, between 35 th and 37 th Avenue, police said.

On Christmas morning, as kids around New York City awoke to gifts and cookies left half-eaten by Santa Claus, a man in a red suit was driving a little tug boat through the New York Harbor, dropping off small gifts and treats to the crews of dozens of barges and tug boats working along the city's waterfront.

First of all, the travelling Raptors fans flooding Little Caesars Arena were loud and made their presence known once again.At one point a Detroit "defence" chant was simply drowned out by "Let's Go Raptors" during the fourth.Pascal Siakam had a shoutout afterwards.This was the Raptors first noon game (Eastern time) since Christmas Day 2019.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the circumstances that led to two men falling from an apartment balcony after Toronto police officers broke through the door to their unit Friday.In a news release Saturday, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said officers with Toronto police's gun and gang task force, along with its emergency task force (ETF), arrived to a residential building in Liberty Village to execute a warrant at a unit on the seventh floor around 9:15 p.m. "Shortly after the ETF breached the unit door, two men went over the balcony," the SIU said.

London's mayor has announced an emergency program to provide free meals for all children attending state primary schools in the capital, adding to a string of fresh evidence that Brits are struggling to afford necessities.The cost-of-living crisis means families and children across our city are in desperate need of additional support, Sadiq Khan, who himself received free school meals as a child, said in a statement Monday.

A man caught in the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow has admitted a charge under the Treason Act of trying to harm the Queen.Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was detained on Christmas Day 2021 close to the Queen's private residence, where she and other members of the royal family were at the time.

Tua Tagovailoa won't participate in the Pro Bowl because he remains in concussion protocol more than a month after his last game.The status of Tua Tagovailoa, even weeks after the Dolphins' season ended, isn't particularly encouraging.As of conference championship weekend, Tagovailoa is still in concussion protocol and the expectation isn't for him to get out soon either, Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN reported on Friday.

Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is not hopeful for a quick return from Tua Tagovailoa entering the regular season's final week.The Miami Dolphins (8-8) are enduring one of the biggest team collapses in recent history as a critical Week 18 matchup with the New York Jets (7-9) looms.While the Dolphins can clinch a berth in the postseason with a win to end a five-game skid, the bigger story is the health of their quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa, who has dealt with concussion issues all season.

Should the Green Bay Packers bring back former offensive coordinator and recently-fired head coach of the Denver Broncos in Nathaniel Hackett.Here are the pros and cons of a reunion.Last offseason, the Green Bay Packers experienced turnover not just on the roaster, but also on Matt LaFleur's coaching staff.

The UK celebrated its final Bank Holiday of 2022 on Tuesday following the Christmas Day and Boxing Day substitute public holidays.There are no surprise holidays creeping up before the close of the year, leaving many Britons looking to the New Year for what Bank Holidays to anticipate.A year that began with Britain mired in Omicron panic brought Europe's biggest armed conflict since the Second World War to Ukraine, a dismal cost of living crisis, an alarming heatwave, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the disastrous 44-day premiership of Liz Truss.

Jeremy Clarkson has said he emailed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Christmas Day to apologise over his column in The Sun newspaper in which he said he hated Meghan.The piece, in which the 62-year-old TV presenter said he dreamed of the duchess being paraded through British towns and publicly shamed, became the Independent Press Standards Organisation's (Ipso) most complained-about article after its publication.

A father who recently lost his job has spoken about the time he cried after having to use a food bank for the first time and eating one meal a day as he feels he does not deserve to eat as much, amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.The PA news agency has been contacting those hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis, including Wayne Baker, 38, who lives in Thurrock, Essex with his partner Zoe, 32, who works part-time in childcare and his 12-year-old son Cody, and who lost his job in construction as a hod carrier (someone who carries construction materials on site) in November 2022.

NPR's Tim Mak is in Ukraine as people there celebrate their first Christmas since the invasion.ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his forces a cease fire order in Ukraine in observance of the Orthodox Christmas holiday, which is celebrated today.NPR's Tim Mak is in Dnipro, Ukraine, as residents look for solace beyond the promised pause in the war.

Ukraine has rejected an announcement by Vladimir Putin of a 36-hour ceasefire to mark Orthodox Christmas, saying there will be no truce until Russia removes its invading forces from occupied land.The Kremlin said Putin had ordered his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, to introduce a temporary ceasefire along the entire line of contact in Ukraine for Orthodox Christmas from midday on Friday to midnight on Saturday.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration of a unilateral 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas, expressing skepticism about the Kremlin's true intentions in calling for a temporary truce.I found it interesting.He was ready to bomb hospitals and nurseries and churches on the 25th and New Year's, President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday at the White House.

Scientists have been given an unprecedented glimpse into the birth of stars and the early stages of the universe, after a new image was released by the James Webb space telescope.The image shows a young cluster of stars, known as NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light years from Earth.Scientists have taken a particular interest in the cluster, which is in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), because it resembles the conditions of the early universe when star formation was at its peak.

Via Rail's president and CEO has released a statement apologizing for cancellations, delays and stranded trains around Christmas in southern Ontario and Quebec, saying the service didn't meet its own standards or rider expectations.Train service was severely disrupted in the Windsor, Ont., to Quebec City corridor from Dec. 23 to 26, and outright cancelled on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

The Los Angeles Clippers had a roller coaster 2022, with Kawhi Leonard sitting most of it out with injury before returning recently, the team overcoming a series of setbacks to reach the play-in tournament before losing to the New Orleans Pelicans and some big moves made both in and out.After a mixed start to this season, they currently sit as the sixth seed with a 21-18 record, four games back from the conference-leading Denver Nuggets.

A coroner has described shooting victim Elle Edwards as a beautiful young woman who had a bright future ahead as she opened an inquest into her death.The 26-year-old beautician was shot at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, shortly before midnight on December 24.Opening the inquest at the Gerard Majella Courthouse in Liverpool on Thursday, coroner Anita Bhardwaj said: This is such a tragic death of a beautiful young woman who clearly had a bright future ahead of her and so much to offer both in her career as well as personally.

While the Washington Capitals will be without John Carlson longterm, the defenseman is making noticeable progress in his recovery after taking a slapshot to the side of the head on December 23.Peter Laviolette revealed that Carlson attended the Tuesday, January 3 game between the Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres.

On the same day that Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette announced defenseman John Carlson would be out longterm after taking a slap shot to the head last week, we have another update on the veteran blueliner.This time it comes from John's wife Gina Carlson.Carlson posted a photo of John and his three kids on Christmas Day.

A n otherwise healthy 26-year-old is urging young people to take up the flu vaccine after he was hospitalised for a week over the festive period - amid a surge in cases across the capital.Olly Browning, from Oval in south London, who has no underlying health conditions, was left in intensive care needing oxygen after he contracted influenza and it led to pneumonia.

Police are still investigating the cause of an explosion at a block of flats nearly a month on.Ten people died as a result of the explosion in St Helier, Jersey, in the early hours of December 10.Nine died in the blast and a tenth victim, 73-year-old Kathleen McGuinness, died from her injuries in hospital on Christmas Day.

Hospitals in north London say they are facing extreme pressures in the last few months, as health officials claim demand is worse than the peak of the Covid pandemic.Recent NHS data shows that hundreds of general and acute (G&A) beds at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust which runs the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead as well as Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals were occupied on Christmas Day.

Police responded to an apparent murder-suicide in Lowell on Christmas Day.Lowell Police responded to a Beacon Street home on Sunday at about 1:38 p.m., according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office.When they arrived, officers found 60-year-old Jose Santiago and his wife, 55-year-old Rosa Santiago dead from apparent gunshot wounds.

"Can I tell you my story?"West Hills Chaminade High boys' basketball coach Bryan Cantwell was telling a flight agent about trying to get his players and fellow coaches home for Christmas after traveling to St. Louis last week for a tournament.They were stranded because of the many flight cancellations caused by the blizzard and other problems.

The Platinum Division quarterfinals of the Classic at Damien on Wednesday featured big-time high school basketball.A college coach could have sat courtside and come up with his own dream team of participating players, seal the list in a bottle, put it away on a shelf and in a couple of years probably look like a genius with selections of future college standouts.

Things are going really, really badly for the Lakers.Anthony Davis is hurt, Russell Westbrook is still bad, many of the team's role players are underperforming, and LeBron James is...deleting tweets?Rewind to last spring when LeBron James was tweeting along with the rest of us about the playoffs.And like the rest of Lakers fans, he missed being part of that level of competition and vying for the top title in the league.

Early Christmas morning, sisters Isabel, 13 and Angela, 11, saw smoke coming into their bedroom from downstairs and ran to alert their parents, who were sleeping in another room."They just had time to grab the youngest daughter and tell the others to run," said Raquel Radice, aunt to the three girls.

City officials gathered Friday to outline measures they've put in place to ensure Chicago rings in the new year safely.Meanwhile, activists and violence interrupters were planning to ride the CTA's Red Line Saturday and push for the early closing of some establishments on the city's South Side that sell liquor, steps they say will deter violence and increase public safety.

The National Hockey League has fined both the Toronto Maple Leafs organization and head coach Sheldon Keefe for their actions before and during Tuesday's game against the St. Louis Blues.Keefe was fined $25,000 for "demeaning conduct" he directed at the officials during the game at Enterprise Center, which the Maple Leafs won in overtime by a 5-4 score.

Today the NHL fined the Maple Leafs for a violation of the CBA relating to the travel rules after the Christmas break.This is not the first time the league has cracked down on teams requiring players to appear for travel or for practices before December 27.The CBA reads:

(b) December 24, Christmas Day, and December 26 shall be off-days for all purposes, including travel, and no Club may request a Player's consent to practice on such days for any reason, provided, however, if December 26 falls on a Saturday and the League has scheduled NHL Games on such date, December 23 may be substituted as an off-day for all purposes, including travel, instead of December 26.