Most mornings, Greg Brooks wakes up and heads to a 7-Eleven for a meat stick. He’s promptly bombarded with choices, from the classic Slim Jim to a proliferation of options promising to be ...

You might have thought sticks had gone away. Oh boy, no. The game of Kubb? Throwing sticks. Conducting? Waving a stick around. Harry Potter merch. Fetch. Drumming. There’s even a stick ...

The family of a child who was attacked by Axel Rudakubana with a hockey stick have been forced to involve the authorities after receiving threats blaming their son for the Southport attacks.

Following his exclusion, the teenager was seen to return to the school in December, where he assaulted the pupil with a hockey stick. During the incident, Rudakubana was reportedly disarmed after ...