内容摘要：Security Minister Dan Jarvis said romance fraud was a "cruel and calculated crime" which often left victims "financially and emotionally shattered".

Security Minister Dan Jarvis said romance fraud was a "cruel and calculated crime" which often left victims "financially and emotionally shattered".

Ms McLaughlin had turned 28 the month before her death and had been home in Buncrana for the celebrations.She had only been in India for two weeks when she was murdered.

The Liverpool John Moores University student had been staying in a beach hut with an Australian friend.The pair had been celebrating Holi, a Hindu festival, in a nearby village. She left the village at night and her body was found the next day by a local farmer in an isolated spot.Her case was brought to court on more than 250 occasions with several lengthy delays.

Nearly 3,000 fines have been given to motorists for continuing to ignore new traffic-free zones set up around schools in a part of Kent.For the first six months that Medway Council set up so-called 'school streets' around seven sites, drivers who broke the rules were given a warning.

The scheme, which introduces a temporary restriction on traffic in key roads around schools during set hours in the morning and afternoon, was brought into effect on 11 March.

Up until 11 September drivers received a letter reminding them of the ban, but now those who continue to drive within the zones get hit by a £70 fine, reduced to £35 if paid within 21 days."That is [the start of] Alice's classmates' final year at Churchtown and they would have that playground to play in … the legacy of Alice and Bebe," she told BBC Breakfast.

Alan Bowen, who was Alice's favourite teacher, said he could imagine how she would have enjoyed playing with the other children on the new playground's stage."It would be easy to see [her] dancing and performing, singing, twirling her hair and leading everybody else".

He said Alice loved to perform and that the stage would provide a "space where children are going to show off their flair, their sass – and Alice had sass in bucketloads".Alan will not be running the marathon due to his knees, joking "I'm of an age where I can use that as an excuse", but will be supporting those that do.