10 h. ago BMW driver smashes into front of takeaway on first day of opening as police swarm area

The car mounted the pavement and struck the wall outside the fast food restaurant

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14 h. ago Worker trying to repair roof at retirement community dies after attack by a swarm of killer bees

A beekeeper was scheduled to remove a hive the following day, police said

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16 h. ago Caught in the act! Undercover police lorry snaps over 100 reckless motorists in one day using their phones, rolling cigarettes and not wearing seatbelts while driving

Undercover police have caught over 100 reckless drivers in one day. The operation uncovered motorists using mobile phones, failing to wear seatbelts, and even rolling cigarettes while driving.

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39 h. ago Emmanuel Macron to address parliament following meeting with king – UK politics live

The French president has spent time with King Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the first day of his state visit to the UKFrench police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the right tactic, Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has said. Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker have the story.Boris Johnson, the former Tory PM, has issued this tribute to Norman Tebbit.Norman Tebbit was a hero of modern Conservatism. In the early 1980s he liberated the British workforce from the socialist tyranny of the closed shop. He tamed the union bosses, and in so doing he helped pave the way for this country’s revival in the 1980s and 1990s.At a time when the Labour government is now disastrously reversing those crucial reforms we need to remember what he did and why. In his single most famous phrase he once said that in the 1930s his unemployed father had got on his bike and looked for work. That wasn’t a heartless thing to say - as the Labour Party claimed. It...

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43 h. ago Voices: It’s time football clubs paid the price of policing matches

The head of the Met is is right that taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the than £70m-a-year cost of match-day policing, says Chris Blackhurst – the filthy-rich Premiership clubs and their billionaire owners should be footing the bill

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46 h. ago Man attacked on Scots street in broad daylight while walking his dog

Officers are checking local CCTV and carrying out door to door enquiries.

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6 d. ago 'Alright, alright, you got me man!' Moment police arrest cannabis gang advertising 'same day delivery service'

Chaotic bodycam footage show officers storming the 'Smoke Shack' gang's drugs den in Bristol.

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8 d. ago Pictured: 'Beautiful and vibrant' mother, 56, who died after she was 'murdered by BMW driver'

Nila Patel died after allegedly being attacked by Michael Chuwuemeka, 23, following a traffic accident in Leicester on June 24. She was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead 48 hours later.

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9 d. ago Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers review – finally, Netflix makes a great, serious documentary

Twenty years on, this heart-racing four-part series reconstructs the terror attacks and the vast investigation that followed, without losing sight of the survivors. The detail about the bathtub is astonishingNetflix is not always known for its restraint in the documentary genre, but with its outstanding recent film Grenfell: Uncovered, and now Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, it appears to be finding a new maturity and seriousness in the field. There have been plenty of recent documentaries on the subject of the attacks and the sprawling investigation that followed – no surprise, given that it is the 20th anniversary this week – but there is still real depth to be found here.Over four parts, this thorough series unravels the initial attacks on the London transport system, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, then follows that febrile month into the failed bombings of 21 July, and then the police shooting of the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes, a day later. Th...

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9 d. ago Revealed: BBC boss Tim Davie was at Glastonbury on day hate chants were broadcast live... as police launch criminal probe

In a Commons debate, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said there was clearly 'a problem' with the BBC's leadership because it has had 'several' editorial failures in recent months.

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1 week ago Lesotho activist arrested after video on unemployment rates angers prime minister

Tšolo Thakeli had long campaigned on youth joblessness, but a post questioning Sam Maketane’s promises on work creation landed him in prisonIt took a single video complaining about Lesotho’s unemployment rate to turn Tšolo Thakeli into the prime minister’s enemy. Within a day of posting there were armed police at his door.It was Father’s Day, and the 31-year-old father of two was in his pyjamas when they arrived. He had no idea his post would land him in trouble; after all, he had campaigned for a long time, under different governments, for action on jobs for young people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman dies after driver 'flips car before running down road and attacking her'

A woman in her 50s has sadly died after a BMW driver hopped out of his car and suddenly beat her to death. Leicestershire Police said a 23-year-old man was arrested at the scene

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1 week ago Woman in her 50s dies after being 'attacked by BMW driver who flipped his car'

Emergency services were called to Aylestone Road, near Leicester city centre, at around 5.30pm on Tuesday after a white BMW 1 Series overturned.

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2 w. ago Woman fighting for life after 'BMW driver flipped car and attacked her' in Leicester

A 23-year-old man has been arrested following an incident where a woman in her 50s was reportedly attacked in the street by a BMW driver as she walked down the street

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2 w. ago Woman is fighting for her life after 'BMW driver flipped car and then attacked her' as she walked down the street

A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the horror assault which happened at around 5.30pm on Tuesday in Leicester.

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2 w. ago 'I was drinking four bottles of wine a day until moment police were called'

Amy Deards relied on booze for comfort and confidence after her fiancé of six years told her on New Year's Eve that he no longer loved her. Her addiction spiralled into her passing out whilst at work

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3 w. ago LA archbishop slams Trump’s ‘cruel and arbitrary’ immigration agenda

Archbishop José Gomez accused the administration of having ‘no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day’

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3 w. ago Minnesota shootings: Suspect Vance Boelter’s religious life in focus as investigators probe motive

Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then leading police on a two-day chase in Minnesota

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3 w. ago Tragic update in case of human remains that washed up near Taylor Swift's £10m mansion

Police have issued an update almost a month to the day after human remains were found near Taylor Swift's home in Westerly, Rhode Island

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3 w. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Suspect Vance Boelter’s religious life in focus as investigators probe motive

Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then leading police on a two-day chase in Minnesota

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