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BBC star questioned over death

BBC Online: BBC children's presenter Mark Speight has been released on police bail after being arrested in connection with a woman's death at a north London house. Presenter Natasha Collins, believed to be Speight's girlfriend, was reportedly found dead in the bath. Speight, who is the host of CBBC art show SMart, was arrested at the scene on Thursday.

Police said a man in his 40s had been bailed to return to a central London police station next month. Officers were called to a house in north-west London at 1320 GMT on 3 January after reports of the sudden death of a woman in her thirties. A post mortem examination will be carried out later, but the death is being treated as "unexplained", a police spokesman said. According to reports, Speight and Ms Collins shared a house in the St Johns Wood area.

Boy dies in India school shooting

BBC Online: A schoolboy has been shot dead by a fellow student at a school in India's Madhya Pradesh state, police say. The two boys, one aged 15 and the other 13, were students of a village school in Satna district. The older boy has been taken into custody, police say. He used his father's locally made crude gun in the assault, police said. Last month, a 14-year-old boy was shot dead by two classmates at a school near Delhi. Incidents of gun crime at Indian schools and colleges are rare. The two boys started fighting after an exam at their government-run school in Chorwari village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, police said. "The attacker fired at the junior student, identified as Dharmu, with a crude revolver.