In the headlines
A riot broke out in Cardiff last night, with cars set alight and fireworks launched at police. As many as 150 youths took to the streets, after false rumours swirled on social media that officers had been involved in a traffic accident that killed two teenagers. Vapes confiscated from pupils contain high levels of lead, nickel and chromium, according to a BBC News investigation. E-cigarettes seized at a Kidderminster school show children could be inhaling more than nine times the safe amount of toxic metals, which have been shown to damage the central nervous system and hinder brain development. Seagulls are getting high by swooping down and stealing stashes of the street-drug spice, says the Daily Star. The “beaky bandits” don’t mix well with narcotics, according to one former user. “It turns them into psycho gulls.”