6 d. ago Three dead after shooting in Swedish city: Police descend on street as murder probe launched

Swedish police said on Tuesday that multiple people in the city of Uppsala were found with injuries that indicated there had been gunfire.

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7 d. ago Voices: Nigel Farage is on the brink of another election breakthrough but then what?

With voters set to desert Labour and Tories at the local elections in favour of Reform UK, will the populist protest party be able to run services and balance the books of hard-pressed city councils? Of course not, says Sean O’Grady

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1 week ago Cars wrecked in serious smash as emergency services descend on Greater Manchester street

Two people were treated by paramedics in Heywood

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1 week ago Police descend on Kilmarnock street amid reports of serious incident

Emergency services have closed down a road in the town.

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2 w. ago Shots fired on Manchester street as police tape off houses and forensics descend

A cordon is in place in William Lister Close, Newton Heath

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2 w. ago Booking.com issues statement after 60 guest house party ends in crossbow horror

Armed police descended on the Salford street after a man was seen carrying a crossbow

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2 w. ago Crossbow chaos erupts after 60 youths descend on street for party at Booking.com listing

Armed cops and a police helicopter swarmed a street in Salford after dozens of youths were thrown out of a rave held at a house listed on booking.com and Airbnb

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3 w. ago Salford incident LIVE: Huge cordon after 'gun' pointed at crowd on street as armed police descend

A huge emergency response is in attendance

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3 w. ago New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala Harris’s chancesJoe Biden plans to write a book about his presidency which ended in his historic withdrawal from the 2024 election, pushed out by senior Democrats convinced he was too old and infirm and replaced by his vice-president, Kamala Harris.Sources close to Biden told news outlets the book could be published next year, by which time Biden will be 83 and doubtless – like other US presidents’ autobiographies – it will be a self-serving narrative lauding his time in office. Continue reading...

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