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Machete-wielding clowns terrorised drivers and climbed onto a mother's car bonnet when she stopped at traffic lights with her two young daughters in the back

• Two drivers in Manchester say they were terrorised by clowns in their cars
• Kurtis Mulvaney said he stopped at traffic lights when the clowns struck
• Just half an hour earlier Alice Slattery and her children had seen the same clowns at the traffic lights,  and they jumped on her car bonnet
• Horror scene follows string of clown sightings all over the country

Clowns armed with 'machetes' terrorised drivers who had stopped at a set of traffic lights in Manchester, with one even climbing on one mother's car bonnet leaving her children screaming.

Kurtis Mulvaney, 29, was driving home around 8pm on Sunday when he stopped for lights outside Manchester Fort shopping centre.

Two clowns emerged from bushes and began running towards the cars sending one driver fleeing through a red light - while Mr Mulvaney caught a picture of the terrifying pair peering in through his window, though he believes the weapon was most likely fake.

Mum-of-two Alice Slattery claims she had pulled up at the same lights only half an hour earlier and had turned to check on kids Lily, four, and Honey, three, who were in the back seats when Lily began screaming.

Ms Slattery, 28, says she turned back to find a clown was lay across her Vauxhall Astra's bonnet, prompting her to beep her horn and begin driving, forcing the clown to jump off.

However as she sped away she spotted that a second clown 'with something in his hand' had been lurking behind her car.

Ms Slattery, from Swinton, Greater Manchester, said: 'It was like something out of a horror movie.

'I had just looked around to check the two girls were OK and Lily started suddenly screaming.

'I turned round and there was a clown lay across the bonnet. His feet were close to the driver's side wheel and he was leaning on his elbow as if he was posing, like he was showing off.

'But he didn't have a normal clown mask on - it was quite a scary one. I was shocked. I didn't know whether to laugh or scream so I beeped my horn and luckily the lights changed so I started to drive and he jumped off.

'I felt a bit sick, I was just rushing but I was more concerned about the kids. I would have just driven through the lights if they hadn't changed.

'As I drove I away I saw another had been stood behind the car in the road. He had something in his hand but I couldn't see what it was.

I decided to pick this story as my weekly news as it is an issue which has been going around the different news channels for the past week now. It covers the representation of issues as it is a way of commiting crime happening not only in one area but multiple countries such as the USA, Canada and now the UK. 

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Thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts lie vacant

I found this news story on the BBC News Webpage. It was published by Dominic Hughes and Vanessa Clarke for the ‘Health’ tag of the page.

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More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope with a shortage of qualified staff, figures reveal.

Tens of thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts are vacant.

The statistics, obtained by the BBC, show the scale of the NHS recruitment crisis.

Health unions blame poor workforce planning, but officials say the NHS has more staff than ever before.

Data from a BBC Freedom of Information request shows that on 1 December 2015, the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had more than 23,443 nursing vacancies - equivalent to 9% of the workforce.

In comparison, the average vacancy rate across the UK economy from November to January 2016 was 2.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The figures - which include 106 out of 166 trusts and health boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - also revealed:

§  Between 2013 and 2015, there has been a 50% increase in nursing vacancies, from 12,513 to 18,714.

§  For doctors, the number of vacancies went from 2,907 to 4,669 - an increase of roughly 60%.

§  In England and Wales, there were 1,265 vacancies for registered nurses in emergency departments - about 11% of the total.

§  For consultants in emergency medicine there were 243 vacancies - again 11% of the total.

§  Paediatric consultants - specialists in the care of babies, children and young people - were also hard to recruit, with 221 vacancies - about 7% of the total.