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Police are hunting the driver of a stolen car which killed keen jogger David Francis, 63.

David Francis, nicknamed the Litherland Running Man, died at the scene of the crash in Netherton, Merseyside, on Thursday evening after being struck by an Audi. The driver ran off and is still being hunted by police

Tributes have been paid to David who was known as the "Litherland running man"

Robert Maudsley has spent a total of 16,4000 days living in solitary confinement inside a glass cell after killing four men in the 1970s.

Serial killer Robert Maudsley, now 69, has been locked away in a glass prison cell since 1979 after he was sent down for murder

Robert Maudsley murdered other inmates in horrific and brutal ways and was deemed unsafe to keep around other prisoners so has been locked in a cell deep below Wakefield Prison ever since

A number of defendants have been before the courts during the month of August

Average costs of 191.5p a litre for petrol and 199.0p for diesel are having a serious impact, especially in poorly connected areas

Campaigners welcomed on doorstep in Labour stronghold South Shields as internal polls predict party will make large gains across the country

Tribal and local authorities and volunteers from a Minnesota-based missing persons foundation will search the Yurok Reservation in Northern California over three days for Emmilee Risling, a 33-year-old Native woman who went missing last October