Two brothers who used their convenience stores to groom teenage girls with free sweets and crisps have been jailed for committing a string of sexual offences.

Parents should be banned from smacking children, according to the Children’s Commissioner for England.

JAMES BULGER’S killers were not “intrinsically evil”, Ed Balls said yesterday, as he waded into the row over trying youngsters in adult courts.

The British judge who granted lifelong anonymity to James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables said today that raising the age of criminal responsibility would be “unworkable”.

JAMES BULGER’S mother called for the British Children’s Commissioner to be sacked for “twisted and insensitive” comments about the murder of her two-year-old son.

The British government today ruled out raising the age of criminal responsibility after the Children’s Commissioner argued the killers of James Bulger were too young to have been prosecuted for murder.