5 d. ago UK could hit 30 degrees Celsius at earliest recorded point in a year

The U.K. is set for its hottest day of the year so far, and forecasters say temperatures could hit 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) at the earliest recorded point in the calendar

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5 d. ago Body of boy, 16, found in lake amid warnings of ‘hidden dangers’ in open water

Police said the teenager got into difficulty while swimming in a lake in Colwick Country Park in Nottingham on Wednesday.

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6 d. ago Met Police: Officer who shot Chris Kaba dead faces watchdog probe

Met Police: Officer who shot Chris Kaba dead faces watchdog probe  BBC

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6 d. ago Met Police officer who shot Chris Kaba to face gross misconduct proceedings

Sgt Martyn Blake was cleared of murdering Chris Kaba, 24, by a jury at the Old Bailey in October last year

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6 d. ago Five Met Police officers facing sack after petrol bombs thrown and car torched at Kent riot training base

PC James Duthoit and four others accused of breaching standards of professional behaviour

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1 week ago London crime hotspots revealed as capital faces ‘tidal wave’ of offending with 1,700 Met police officers and staff axed

Around 957,481 crimes were recorded across the capital in the year to December 2024

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1 week ago 'Glaring gap in law closed': Met Police hail new rules as officers who fail vetting to be automatically sacked

Police chiefs will be able to sack officers deemed unfit to serve from next month under rules announced by Home Office

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2 w. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman stabbed to death in Enfield over Easter weekend

Officers from Met Police were called to an address at Ayley Croft, Enfield at around 7pm on Saturday

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3 w. ago Met Police officer is sacked after sharing Instagram post of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu morphing into Adolf Hitler

Detective Constable Ibrahim Khan posted the screenshot in October, 2023, which was already captioned: 'The irony of becoming what you once hated. Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud.'

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3 w. ago Met Police officers dress up as Batman and Robin in ‘creative tactic’ to catch street scammers

Metropolitan Police officers apprehended scammers on Westminster Bridge dressed as Batman and Robin in February, after having to hatch "creative plans" to "deliver vengeance."

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3 w. ago Moment Met Police officers go undercover dressed as Batman and Robin to catch Westminster Bridge con artists

The inventive ploy saw two officers burst into a crowd of tens of people disguised as the superheroes before grabbing the scammers. Two men have since been convicted at Croydon Magistrates Court.

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3 w. ago Former Met Police officer found guilty of assault but acquitted of rape

Jorden Brown resigned from the force before he was convicted of assaulting victim

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3 w. ago Axing 'safer school' Met police officers will leave more pupils vulnerable to knife crime, say teachers

Pupils say they are worried ‘more knives and drugs’ will be brought in as a result of the move

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4 w. ago Serving Met Police officer, 32, is charged with four counts of rape and sexual assaults

Pc Dion Arnold, 32, was charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault on March 31, the force said.

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4 w. ago Serving Met Police officer is charged with four counts of rape and sexual assaults

Pc Dion Arnold was charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault on March 31, the force said.

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4 w. ago Police warn over swimming dangers as temperatures expected to hit 22C

It comes after Izaiah Smith, 15, died after getting “into difficulty” in a park lake in south-east London last week.

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