MORE than 500 victims and 184 potential suspects have been identified by police investigating football's child sex abuse scandal, latest figures show.

The inquiry involves 248 football clubs, spanning all tiers of the game from the Premier League down to amateur level, said the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), which is co-ordinating the massive police investigation Operation Hydrant.

Latest figures show the total number of potential victims stands at 526, with 97% of the victims identified as male. Their ages span from 20 to four.

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British Airways cabin crew will mount picket lines at Heathrow on Thursday at the start of a three-day strike over pay.

The walkout by members of Unite in the so-called mixed fleet crew, which is made up of workers who have joined the airline since 2010, follows a 48-hour stoppage last week.

BA said it will operate all its long-haul services to and from Heathrow during the strike and cancel a small number of short-haul flights.

Unite claims the mixed fleet crew are on "poverty" pay rates, with many forced to take on second jobs or turn up for shifts if they are sick because they cannot afford to be off ill.

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British holidaymakers told of a "chaotic" scramble to get on flights out of Africa when they landed home from crisis-torn Gambia.

Around 1,000 sun seekers on Thomas Cook packages were ordered to pack their bags and head for the airport after the Foreign Office (FCO) issued an alert late on Tuesday.

Gambia faces the threat of military action by regional forces after its unseated president, Yahya Jammeh, refused to hand over power to his successor by midnight last night.

Holidaymakers described confusion before being greeted by a "nightmare" situation at the airport in the country's capital, Banjul, when they arrived to board flights alongside desperate locals on Wednesday.

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A British man who travelled to America to have sex with young boys has been jailed for 13 years in the US after admitting taking child pornography into the country.

Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, was caught after he made arrangements with undercover agents to have sex with a nine-year-old boy in California.

The pensioner from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, had attempted to meet two other boys aged 10 and 12, but he was arrested in February last year when his plan collapsed.

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