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Originally Posted by Omah
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Not any more than any other year I doubt tbh. It's hitting the news headlines most likely because there isn't a great deal of other news. This time last year, such stories were lost in amongst the Joanna Yeates murder - due to the amount of publicity that received. A few years back it was the Boxing day tsunami.
I doubt the figures are really rising dramatically - it's all just relative to whether there is 'bigger news' happening.