5 h. ago Police officer fighting for life with two men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

Police said the incident was ‘another stark reminder of the dangers that our police and emergency service colleagues face on a daily basis’

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10 h. ago Police officer fights for life as two men are arrested for attempted murder after road crash

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident in Stoke Poges on Thursday evening.

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11 h. ago Stoke Poges policeman fighting for life with two arrested on attempted murder charge

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11 h. ago Police officer fights for life as pair arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

The officer was seriously injured in a road collision in Buckinghamshire on Thursday night.

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39 h. ago A life saved and what Erin Patterson allegedly confided to friends: week four of the mushroom lunch trial

Sole surviving lunch guest watches on as Victorian supreme court hears how hospital staff ‘thought he was going to die’ from death cap mushroom poisoningWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson sat in the Victorian supreme court, only metres from the woman accused of trying to murder him, as one of the men who helped save his life gave evidence.Prof Stephen Warrillow, the director of intensive care at Austin Health, had already spoken about the deaths of three people from death cap mushroom poisoning and the particular characteristics of their illnesses; “rapidly progressive deterioration”, the organ failure and of it being “non-survivable”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Drunk thug who broke every bone in pensioner's face because he was upset girlfriend dumped him is jailed for 15 years for murder

Thug Jake Saunders, 19, has been jailed for life for the murder of 75-year-old Anthony Jacobs in Weymouth, Dorset, in a savage street attack.

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5 d. ago ‘I was watching osprey for five hours a day’: how the world fell in love with nature live streams

More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleepIn 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, who lived on Dunrovin ranch in Montana.The pair were nesting ospreys, being streamed live as they incubated their clutch of eggs. The eggs never hatched, but the ospreys sat on them for months before finally kicking them out of the nest. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Foreign inmates could be deported after serving only 12 per cent of their sentence to free up space in our jails, under proposed new 'early removal scheme'

The 'early removal scheme' allowing foreign national offenders (pictured, file photo) to be deported after 50 per cent of their sentence should be changed to 30 per cent, it will recommend.

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6 d. ago This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness

During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s oursIn 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo-grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born – the ninth of 11 children to hardy Norwegian homesteaders.The child fell in love with the ecosystem he was born into. It was a landscape as awe-inspiring and expansive as the ocean, with hawks riding sage-scented winds by day and the Milky Way glowing at night. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Hairy Biker Si King’s Honest Playlist: ‘Led Zeppelin is perfect for when you’re speeding along’

The chef, author and presenter wants to be John Bonham and might be found busting out Baker Street at karaoke, but which song reminds him of lost love?The first single I bought I Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats from Sounds Nice on Birtley High Street, when I was in my teens. I know it was about a school shooting, but at the time, I thought: I have a visceral reaction to Mondays as well.The first song I fell in love with Still in Love With You from Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous album. I was learning to play drums and Brian Downey, Thin Lizzy’s drummer, used to do this wonderful shuffle beat because it’s a relatively slow track, and his playing is beautiful. I still play the drums. I’ve never stopped being a musician. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Fiance who rebuilt his life after sweetheart's murder was blamed on cleared 'Beast of Birkenhead'... and his anguish at knowing real killer is still out there

David Beattie is a man who will be forever haunted by 'what ifs'...

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9 d. ago Burglar, 27, who murdered pensioner in his own home two days after release from prison in drug

Burglar Owen Blades, 27, has been jailed for life at Lincoln Crown Court for the murder of John Connolly, 69, in his own home just two days after his release from prison,

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9 d. ago Siblings jailed for life for ‘truly sickening’ cannabis row knife murder

Bank worker Mya Marsh and her brother Isaiah were told the killing of drug-dealer Minister Enfrence was ferocious, terrifying and unprovoked.

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9 d. ago Brother and sister jailed for life over frenzied murder with victim stabbed 20 times

Minister Enfrence died after being stabbed at least 20 times in a Birmingham street with a kitchen knife Mya Marsh was carrying and passed to her brother Isaiah

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1 week ago Disturbing footage shows murderer’s movements before he pounced on homeless man

Joshua Carroll, 30, was jailed for life for the murder of Headley 'Barry' Thomas

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1 week ago Killer jailed for life over 'ferocious' murder on homeless man in park

Joshua Carroll left Headley Thomas with serious head injuries, which he later died from.

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1 week ago Menendez brothers' reduced murder sentence offers chance at parole after decades in prison

The Menendez brothers have been resentenced to 50 years to life for the 1989 murder of their parents, after a judge ruled they were eligible for the possibility of parole

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1 week ago Rapper Tory Lanez's alleged prison attacker is man with previous conviction for assault on inmate

Authorities say a man who attacked rapper Tory Lanez in a California prison is an inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder who was previously convicted for an in-prison assault with a deadly weapon

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1 week ago Prison officer had cupboard fling with inmate she 'proper fell in love with'

Morgan Farr Varney, from Doncaster, was jailed after she was found to have been in a 'physical and romantic relationship' with a prisoner

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1 week ago Female prison officer had cupboard fling with inmate she 'proper fell in love with'

Morgan Farr Varney, from Doncaster, began a 'physical and romantic relationship' with an inmate at HMP Lindholme - and was caught on CCTV sneaking into a cupboard with him

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