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A school crossing patrol officer has been ordered to stop giving high fives to children due to concerns that it may distract them from learning how to cross the road safely.

For the past two years, 57-year-old Neil Cotton has greeted schoolchildren in Howden, East Yorkshire, with cheerful high fives as they crossed the road. His gesture was intended to brighten their day — but local authorities have now told him to stop, citing health and safety risks.

A doctor left paralysed after his £2,300 bicycle snapped in half during a ride has been awarded £4.5 million in damages.

Dr Daniel Gordon, 31, suffered a catastrophic spinal injury in August 2020 when the front forks of his Planet X gravel bike sheared while he was cycling at around 15mph on a grassy slope in Inverness.

The accident threw him to the ground and left him with no use of his lower body, despite undergoing spinal surgery and months of rehabilitation.

A civil servant from the Department for Work and Pensions may face imprisonment after admitting to defrauding the government of over £41,000 in unauthorised expenses, a court has heard.

Maurice Okello, 39, also confessed to submitting a forged sick note to his employer in order to claim more than £4,000 in salary while travelling abroad under the pretence of being unfit for work. During this time, he visited destinations including Tampa, Mexico City, Boston, the Greek island of Kos, and Morocco, as well as making multiple trips to Brussels and Gothenburg, Sweden, between December 2022 and September 2023.