4 h. ago Great Junction Street incident: Major Edinburgh street shut and traffic diverted following 'police incident'

Drivers are experiencing delays and buses have been diverted.

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6 h. ago Man charged over ‘sexual assault’ of boy at Loch Ness campsite

The incident was reported to police in July.

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22 h. ago Man with machete and violent incident sees armed police swoop on Merthyr street

Police arrested a man in connection with the incident who remains in custody

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22 h. ago Berlin police investigate after Irish activist struck by officer at protest

Ireland’s foreign office conveys ‘concern’ about incident that was captured on videos posted on social mediaBerlin police have opened an internal investigation after videos emerged showing an Irish activist at a pro-Palestinian demonstration being punched in the face twice by an officer, drawing protest from Ireland’s foreign office.Footage posted on social media showed the activist, Kitty O’Brien, being struck by a policeman and dragged away, their face bloodied, from the rally on Thursday in the Mitte district of the German capital. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Berlin police investigate after officer punches Irish activist at protest

Ireland’s foreign office conveys ‘concern’ about incident that was captured on videos posted on social mediaBerlin police have opened an internal investigation after videos emerged showing an Irish activist at a pro-Palestinian demonstration being punched in the face twice by an officer, drawing protest from Ireland’s foreign office.Footage posted on social media showed the activist, Kitty O’Brien, being struck by a male police officer and dragged away, their face bloodied, from the rally on Thursday in the Mitte district of the German capital. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Council issues statement after woman killed by falling branch in Didsbury

Police are continuing to investigate the tragic incident on Sunday

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37 h. ago Murder investigation launched after man fatally stabbed in Luton

Police said it was an ‘isolated incident’.

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45 h. ago Police release CCTV image after two stabbings at Oxford Circus tube station

Officers want to question a man after two men were injured within 24 hours over the weekend in LondonPolice have released a CCTV image of a man they want to question after two people were stabbed at Oxford Circus tube station in London within 24 hours of each other over the weekend.Emergency services were called to two incidents in the early hours over the weekend, which police said were connected. The first incident took place at 3.40am on Saturday and the second just after 1.30am on Sunday. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Boy, 12, dies after falling over in park recreational grounds

Cheshire police are calling for any potential witnesses of the incident to get in touch

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65 h. ago 'Deeply loved' young dad with 'heart of gold' stabbed to death as two arrested

Victim Kailem Reece Gibson, 28, died hours after being stabbed in Manchester. Two men have been arrested in connection with the tragic incident, police have said

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68 h. ago Schoolboy dies in park playground fall as police probe 'deeply tragic incident'

The child was pronounced deas at the scene with police now launching an investigation.

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3 d. ago Live updates as M56 near Manchester Airport closed due to 'police incident'

There is heavy traffic on the motorway

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3 d. ago Police urge victim to come forward after viral road rage incident

Police are also asking for anybody with information to come forward

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4 d. ago Lanark incident: Police launch murder investigation after 30

Scott Boyd was pronounced dead at the scene after police were called to a report of two men found injured on Wednesday.

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4 d. ago Travis Scott's music video set in London targeted by 'knifeman who threatened to stab crew member'

A 29-year-old man has since been arrested on suspicion of a class B drug and section 4A of the Public Order Act, the Met Police have said, following the alleged incident in Tottenham, north London.

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4 d. ago Police probe hate crime after footballer 'subjected to homophobic abuse' in match

Police Scotland have confirmed they are treating an incident of homophobic abuse against Edinburgh City goalkeeper Mark Weir as a hate crime after a supporter was ejected from Elgin City's Borough Briggs stadium

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4 d. ago Scots police probe hate crime after 'homophobic abuse' of footballer

Police Scotland described the incident has 'despicable' and they were following a positive line of enquiry.

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4 d. ago Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents

Senator Patty Murray calls Trump’s immigration policy ‘fundamentally sick’ after incident in Washington statePatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000 acre blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Man left bloodied after incident in Scots town as police launch probe

Emergency crews raced to the scene before the 21-year-old was taken to hospital.

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5 d. ago Minneapolis Catholic school shooting: two children killed and 17 injured

Suspect also dead, police confirm, and 14 of those hurt are children in shooting during mass in south MinneapolisMinneapolis shooting – latest updatesShock after shooting: ‘Kids should not be fearing for their lives’Officials said two children were killed and 17 people injured in a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday.Police responded to a shooter incident at Annunciation Catholic school in south Minneapolis early on Wednesday morning. Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, said in a press conference that two children, ages eight and 10, had been killed in church pews during a mass. Continue reading...

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