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Was the fruit orange named after the colour or was the colour named after the fruit? Is the name the

Was the fruit orange named after the colour or was the colour named after the fruit? Is the name the same for the fruit and colour in all languages? Phil Chappell, Crowthorne, Berkshire, UK

Children now biggest perpetrators of sexual abuse against children | Child protection

Police data shows 52% of alleged offenders in England and Wales are minors a situation exacerbated by accessibility of violent porn Boys are watching violent porn on their smartphones then going on to attack girls, police have said, as new data showed children are now the biggest perpetrators of sexual abuse against other children.

Eric Allison obituary | Prisons and probation

Eric Allison, who has died aged 79, had two careers, both profitable in their own way. For 50 years he was a dedicated criminal; a fraudster, burglar and bank robber. For the last 19 years of his life, he was the Guardians prisons correspondent every bit as devoted to exposing injustice as he had

How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world

In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths and fierce activism to turn Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today

Is "bookkeeping" the only word in the English language to contain three pairs of double-letters in c

Is "bookkeeping" the only word in the English language to contain three pairs of double-letters in consecutive order? John McLeod, Rodley, England Liz Ekstein, Leeds, UK Garrick Alder, London Gish, Paris France