A companion link printed inside Andrew Cope's Spy Dog series now directs children towards an adult website, including explicit content featuring children's characters. Puffin, the publisher of the ...

Andrew Cope’s popular series of children’s books, Spy Dog, is being pulled from shelves over a web link that directs children to an explicit website. A companion link, which was originally set-up by ...

A school in Derbyshire has sent parents a graphic showing some of the affected titles A series of children's books has been pulled from school library shelves after a web address printed in the back ...

Daniel Twigg was attacked by a Cane Corso while unsupervised in a pen at their home on Carr Farm in Rochdale on May 15, 2022 (Picture: Greater Manchester Police) The parents of a three-year-old boy ...

Schools and libraries have been told to pull popular children’s books from shelves after a web address printed inside was hijacked by a pornography website. The link, found inside Andrew Cope’s Spy ...

The link to the author’s official website was ‘hijacked’ by an unknown third party. File image of a child reading a book (Picture: Getty Images/Image Source) Parents have said they were left ‘shocked’ ...

The parents of a three-year-old boy who was mauled to death by two dogs have been jailed. Daniel Twigg died from injuries including bites to the neck from two large mastiff-type dogs after letting ...

A website that replaced bonus content for a children's book series with explicit material has been taken down after prompting a school alert. Parents at several schools were sent warnings after it was ...

Schools are sending urgent warnings to parents after it was discovered that several titles in a popular children's book series by Derby-born author Andrew Cope contained a link that sends readers to ...

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