20 m. ago LIVE: Police tape off Manchester park with officers at scene

A cordon is in place at Platt Fields Park

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38 m. ago Lord Brittan's widow blasts police watchdog for dropping probe into officer who pursued him over false VIP paedophile claims

The investigation into how former Met deputy assistant commissioner Steve Rodhouse handled claims of a VIP paedophile ring have been dropped, the IOPC has said.

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47 m. ago Police Scotland officers sent to Northern Ireland amid disorder in Ballymena

An undisclosed number of public order officers will leave Scotland on Thursday after days of amid anti-immigration riots.

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70 m. ago Music festival to boost retired Scots police officer's 2,500

The 'Rock to Morocco Music Festival' will be held this weekend, with all proceeds raised to be added to the sum already raised for the Eilidh Brown Respite Home.

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2 h. ago Spending review in five charts: Who are the winners and losers in Rachel Reeves’ plan?

Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses, writes Alicja Hagopian

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2 h. ago Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance

Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murderPat O’Connor’s Northern Irish movie from 1984, adapted by author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, holds up very well for its rerelease; better in fact than most of the movies and TV drama made about and during the Troubles. It has an unhurried, thoughtful and very human quality; Helen Mirren won the best actress award at Cannes for her performance here and in fact it is very well acted across the board by a blue-chip cast.Mirren plays Marcella, a woman from a Catholic background, married across the sectarian divide to a reserve police officer murdered at his parents’ farmhouse by an IRA man who had bullied a bewildered local guy into being his getaway driver; this is Cal, played by the gauntly intense John Lynch. Cal lives with his widowed father; a gentle performance by Donal McCann, who was Gabriel Conroy in John Huston’s...

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8 h. ago LA protesters charged after fireworks hurled at police, officials say

Five bad actors in the LA protests have been criminally charged for targeting police, officials say

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8 h. ago Sheku Bayoh Inquiry to consider application for recusal of chairman

The Scottish Police Federation, Pc Craig Walker and Nicole Short submitted the application.

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14 h. ago Defense rests case in second trial of Karen Read for Boston police officer boyfriend's death

The defense in the second trial of Karen Read has rested its case, saying Read was framed for the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend

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14 h. ago Spending review in five charts: Where Rachel Reeves cuts and pay boosts will land

Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses, writes Alicja Hagopian

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15 h. ago AP PHOTOS: Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

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16 h. ago Police leaders say they will struggle to fulfil Labour’s promise to recruit 13,000 officers

Projected £1.2bn police funding shortfall expected to grow after spending review outlined fall in Home Office spending powerPolice forces will struggle to fulfil Keir Starmer’s promise to recruit an additional 13,000 officers and the public will “pay the price”, police leaders have warned, after the chancellor outlined a decline in Home Office spending power on Wednesday.The National Police Chiefs’ Council said it would be incredibly difficult to deliver the prime minister’s election pledge within the lifetime of this parliament, with a projected £1.2bn shortfall in police funding expected to grow. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Murder investigation launched after boy, 4, found dead in home as woman arrested by police

Despite the effort of Thames Valley Police officers, the child was pronounced dead at the property in Maidenhead

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16 h. ago Spending review a ‘huge blow’ for police and ‘will hamper efforts to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers’

The government’s £2bn spending plans will cover ‘little more’ than basic pay increases for existing staff, police chiefs have warned

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17 h. ago Spending review in six charts: Where Rachel Reeves cuts and pay boosts will land

Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses

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18 h. ago Met Police officer who called Des O’Connor’s daughter ‘hot’ faces new misconduct hearing

Detective Chief Inspector James Mason sexually harassed mugging victim Kristina O’Connor by saying she was his ‘favourite Camden victim of crime’

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18 h. ago Police officers appealing for information following robbery in Hamilton

Around 4.20pm on Monday, June 9, a 45-year-old man was approached by two men on the footbridge near to Birdsfield Street. They threatened him with a knife, stealing his wallet and jewellery, before leaving in the direction of Glasgow Road.

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20 h. ago Sadiq Khan swipes that Rachel Reeves risks 'levelling down London' as he warns Met could see officers cut after police funding squeeze

Sadiq Khan said he was 'disappointed' that the review unveiled by the Chancellor had not committed to new infrastructure in the capital.

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20 h. ago Shocking moment police camera van officer is caught with no hands on the wheel while driving

This is the shocking moment a Northumbria Police camera van officer is filmed driving with no hands on the wheel.

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24 h. ago 'As a police officer, she knew her behaviour was unlawful, unwise and in conflict with all that is required'

Lucy Hartley has been banned from policing for life

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