30 h. ago Is Net Zero to blame for Spain blackout chaos? Why green power may have exacerbated anarchy as 30,000 officers are deployed to the streets and panic

The country declared a state of emergency last night and said it was deploying 30,000 police officers as part of security measures to deal with the mayhem caused by the calamitous outage.

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32 h. ago State of emergency declared in blackout stricken Spain as 30,000 police are deployed to keep order, panic

Spain's Interior Ministry on Monday added the emergency status will be applied in the regions that request it.

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33 h. ago State of emergency declared as in blackout stricken Spain as 30,000 police are deployed to keep order, panic

Spain's Interior Ministry on Monday added the emergency status will be applied in the regions that request it.

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37 h. ago Metal detectorist jailed for trying to sell Anglo Saxon coins to an undercover police officer is ordered to repay £103,000

Roger Pilling, 77, was convicted with conspirator Craig Best, 48, after their attempts to sell to sell the criminal property worth £766,000 led them into the hands of an undercover police officer.

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4 d. ago Hundreds of arrests, guns, knives and £540,000 seized in rail police crackdown on county lines gangs

Youngsters are exposed to physical and sexual abuse when trafficked away from London

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4 d. ago Police issue warning ahead of car cruise event set for Ayr tonight

Previous events have attracted more than 1,000 vehicles, and police are advising that there may be some delays and congestion within the local area.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump pardons Republican politician who splurged fraud money on plastic surgery

Michele Fiore defrauded donors during her time on the Las Vegas City Council and then spent some of the $70,000 (£52,000) - meant for a statue of a police officer - for personal costs

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5 d. ago Italy prepares ring of steel for Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome with Nato jets, snipers and 8,000 police

Italian authorities are preparing one of the most complex and secretive security operations in Vatican history as 200,000 people descend to pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of his funeral.

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5 d. ago Police seize cannabis plants worth £43,000 from Wishaw industrial unit

More than 200 healthy plants were discovered at the Excelsior Street premises, Hamilton Sheriff Court heard this week.

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6 d. ago Police smash shoplifting gang using DNA to trace 5,000 stolen items: Officers raid corner shops selling £150K worth of goods swiped on order from major supermarkets

Metropolitan Police detectives tagged 5,000 commonly stolen items such as alcohol and chocolate with SelectaDNA, a fluid only visible under ultraviolet (UV) light.

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9 d. ago The violent thugs who thought they could get away with attacking police officers

Assaults on police officers in Wales are on the increase with over 3,000 assaults committed on emergency workers between July 2023 and June 2024

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9 d. ago Enormous Easter rave with 3,000 revellers sparks desperate police call for volunteers

Sussex Police were alerted to an unlicensed event taking place in Charlton Wood, Chichester, in the early hours of this morning.

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1 week ago Police find cannabis plants worth £46,000 following raid on property

Kaine Harrison, 31, Joshua Williams, 34, and Shaneil Athay, 27, were all involved in an enterprise which involved the cultivation and supply of cannabis at properties in Newport

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1 week ago Sheep rustlers turn beautiful UK national park into ‘Wild West’

As more than 1,000 reported sheep thefts are investigated, Devon and Cornwall Police suspect farming industry insiders are involved

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann probe budget is CUT: Met Police team tasked with finding missing toddler has £84,000 slashed from investigation

They have been granted a further £108,000 to carry on the search for her - a drop of £84,000 on the amount awarded last year, MailOnline has learned.

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1 week ago Giant new ASDA store threatened by Met Police as cops demand mega cash boost

A development of 1,600 homes and a massive 60,000 square ft Asda store has been met with opposition from the Metropolitan Police which claims the extra 4,000 residents will add 'unacceptable pressure'

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2 w. ago The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 yearsNobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of 4 September 1990, but everyone remembers the girl. Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Portbou, was visible to anyone looking up from the beach or across from the opposite hillside. She was barefoot, with grey-blue eyes and thick chestnut-brown hair. She wore blue dungarees over a turquoise green shirt.Portbou, squeezed into a cauldron-like Mediterranean cove, had only 2,000 inhabitants but plenty of police officers. In these years before the Schengen agreement, guards were stationed on the French border but these officers were experts in immigration and smuggling, not violent deaths. Instead, Enrique Gómez, a 35-year-old investigator from the Guardia Civil police force was called i...

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2 w. ago Police find more than £50,000 when they stopped car near Larkhall

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard the cash was in two packages labelled ‘Jock 25,000’.

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2 w. ago 'Gangster Grandad' caught in £350m Millennium Dome diamond heist has only one regret

Lee Wenham and his gang decided to pull off the heist of the century and nab the 203-carat de Beers diamond from the Millennium Dome, but little did they know their plan was doomed...

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2 w. ago Police find £60,000 worth of cannabis in bag for life after stopping Mercedes on M6

Officers said there was a "strong smell" coming from the car

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