West Midlands Police caught 151 children carrying knives in the last 12 months – including one aged just 10.

The shock figures, from a Freedom of Information request, revealed that a third of the children were caught carrying the knives on school premises.

As well as the 10-year-old there were two 11 year olds, a dozen 12 year olds and 13 children aged 13 caught between April 2016 and March of this year.

Reported by the Birmingham Mail. You can read the full story here. 

I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.