HERE are a few stories featured on our sister paper websites from across the country.

The Southern Daily Echo reports on how two men were just messing around during a drunken night out. Simon Gilby and Alan Turner were playfighting as the walked along a Southampton city centre street. But their shadow boxing turned to disaster when Turner punched Mr Gilby in the face. Read more here.

A grieving son has spoken of his anger after a he was sent a fine for parking at Warrington Hospital – even though he had paid the charge. Ian Spurr was visiting the hospital nearly every day when his mum was admitted on February 19 before she died a month later, but was stunned when a letter arrived from Highview Parking, which operates the car park, demanding a £40 penalty. You can read the full story on the Warrington Guardian here.

The Lancashire Telegraph reports how a 'disgusted' mum has pulled her six-year-old daughter out of a Blackburn primary school after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a boy of the same age. The girl claims she was abused by the boy in the playground and classroom - but police are powerless to act as the age of criminal responsibility in England is 10. Her mother criticised the school’s bosses for a lack of action against the boy, and making her daughter ‘feel like she was in the wrong’. Read the full story here.

And a  search is underway by Gloucestershire Police to find a man and a woman believed to have stolen a handbag from an unconscious woman. At around 9.30pm on March 2 a woman was found unconscious on Bristol Road at the junction with Stroud Road in Gloucester. While she lay unconscious in the road her blue and white handbag was stolen from the basket on the front of her bike. You can read the full story and view the CCTTV images on the Wilts and Glocestershire Standard here.