School tea party horror

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( July 07, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 /[End-of-term celebrations turn to nightmare as car ploughs into school, killing girl, 8]( A day that started in celebration quickly descend into horror as a Land Rover ploughed through a [primary school]( fence and into a tea party, [killing a girl, 8, and injuring 15 others](. Sitting around picnic tables in the grounds of The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon [pupils]( and staff were caught unaware when the [powerful 4x4 smashed into the garden](, inflicting catastrophic injuries on those in its path. Horrific aerial pictures show the car was finally brought to a halt when it [rammed into a wall of the building](, surrounded by benches where the victims had been enjoying a celebration to mark the last day of term at the southwest London school before the summer holidays. Discarded cups and food could be seen strewn across the ground, as firefighters and paramedics stood near a gap in the fencing at the entrance of the site to assess the damage. Emergency services were called at 9.54am and quickly realised the severity of the situation, with the London Air Ambulance, the London Fire Brigade and paramedics scrambled to the scene. A command centre was set up at the local golf club. Some 16 people were treated at the scene in the immediate aftermath, while 10 were rushed to local hospitals. An unspecified number remain there, with their conditions unknown. Detective Chief Superintendent Clair Kelland fought back tears at a press conference at the scene, her voice breaking as she confirmed: “Very sadly, one of the children, an eight-year-old girl, died at the scene.”   2 / [Sunak government loses court battle to keep Boris’ Covid WhatsApps secret]( ‘Humiliating defeat’ for government, as High Court rules in favour of Covid inquiry chair 3 /[‘Unacceptably low’ number of crimes solved, watchdog says as only 11% of offences see justice]( Police closing cases without proper investigations, leaving criminals at large and putting the public at risk 4 /[Skin cancer reaches record high driven by 1960s cheap holiday packages]( Cancer Resarch UK warns skin cancer cases could ‘soar over the coming years’ 5 /[Gunman guilty of killing beautician outside pub on Christmas Eve in gang feud]( Elle Edwards suffered two fatal bullet wounds after Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun THE BIG QUESTION [What is the worst thing you can do if you spot a great white shark?]( The seas of the UK are home to more shark species than most Brits realise. There are 21 species that reside here, such as the giant but harmless basking shark, the glorious blue and the menacing looking (but shy) porbeagle. However there are also other species recorded as unusual or “vagrant” visitors. In the vaults of the Natural History museum, I’ve been lucky enough to see the remains of the scalloped hammerhead washed up on a beach in the 1800s, and a pickled 300-year-old Greenland shark found in Northumberland. The species that is missing is the great white. In records going back centuries, none have ever been caught in our waters. Either by hooks, nets or cameras. That is not to say they have never been here. 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