3 h. ago Girl, 14, 'almost dragged into car during attempted abduction' on way to school

The girl, aged 14, was on her way to school when a man is said to have tried to 'drag' her into a car at around 8.45am near Faulkners Farm Drive in Erdington, Birmingham

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6 d. ago Police investigate as cash and quadbike stolen from rural Annandale properties

The attempted theft of a car and a van are also being investigated, as are reports of a suspicious vehicle.

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7 d. ago Former Premier League star hit by truck while helping horror road crash victims

Abdeslam Ouaddou, who played for Fulham between 2001 and 2005, was struck by a pick-up truck on Sunday evening while attempting to help those hurt in a car crash

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7 d. ago Moment suspect flees undercover cops during car stop arrest attempt in North London

Witnesses shared footage of a man escaping from his car as swooped on the High Road in North Finchley at about 12noon on Tuesday.

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9 d. ago Moment stolen car’s axle is ripped off after repeated attempts to escape tire grappler

This is the moment the rear axle of a stolen car is ripped off as the driver repeatedly tries to free himself from a police tire grappler.

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1 week ago Peter Andre finally speaks out after questions arose over his 'saintly' image amid toxic feud with his embattled ex Katie Price

The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, has seen his long-running feud dragged back into the spotlight with former glamour model Katie, 47.

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2 w. ago Mother review – Noomi Rapace is a fanatical Mother Teresa full of fury

Rapace plays the canonised Kolkata nun with hard-bitten intensity in a complex, lurid story that veers between faithful telling and bouts of funThe convent is a pressure cooker in this fevered, energetic account of a pivotal week in the life of the young Mother Teresa, which jump-starts the Orizzonti sidebar at this year’s Venice film festival. Macedonian writer-director Teona Strugar Mitevska ticks down the days from seven to one and wrings a performance of flayed, hard-bitten intensity from Noomi Rapace, who marches down the corridors with a face full of fury. Rapace is a long way from her breakout role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; tonally, though, not so much. If Mother Teresa never goes so far as to set about the sisters with an axe, the sense that she might injects Mitevska’s film with a pleasing dose of danger.It is 1948, we’re in the broiling heart of Kolkata and Sister Teresa has tired of her teaching role at the Loreto Entally convent. “I’m a woman in a system run by...

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2 w. ago Man, 38, is charged with attempted murder after 'explosive substance found under car in street' forces dozens of families to evacuate their homes

A specialist army bomb squad carried out controlled explosions in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, after an object was discovered beneath a vehicle on Saturday afternoon.

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4 w. ago Moment car rams into restaurant twice after failed towing attempt

A car rammed into a restaurant shopfront after breaking loose from it’s tow strap and rolling down a hill, not once, but twice.

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