14 h. ago Search for missing driver after car crashed into River Nairn

Emergency crews rushed to Howford Bridge at around 9.15am this morning after a car plunged into the River Nairn.

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43 h. ago M90 incident: Search for driver after gas canister falls from vehicle on busy motorway near Bridge of Earn

The motorway was shut for over an hour while police dealt with the item.

Transport

45 h. ago ‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids

Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’Anaís Robles didn’t expect to get teargassed. The co-owner of Colibrí Cafe, the coffee shop that opened this year in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood, saw commotion outside in mid October and ran to see what happened.Robles saw federal agents donning masks and decided to step back, she was half a block away when the tear gas canisters hit. “People were just in the streets, so to clear out the area, they teargas all of us, and like, multiple teargas [cannisters],” she said. Continue reading...

Politics

55 h. ago M20 traffic live: Van and car crash closes busy motorway in early hours

The M20 is closed in both directions

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66 h. ago A crossbow, 13 baseball bats and 291 canisters of laughing gas

Officers made a series of discoveries in a town centre unit

Politics

3 d. ago Glasgow motorway crash: Man, 62, dies after early morning crash on busy M74

Emergency services attended the scene.

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4 d. ago Moment fire breaks out at working men's club after gas canister was ignited by a regular

Philip Antony Townsend, 70, who went by the name Tony T, and John James McCartney, 60, known as Johnny, both died in the blaze at Gordon Working Men's Club in Morecambe on October 9, 2019.

Society

7 d. ago Honda recalls over 400,000 of its most popular vehicles due to possible fault causing wheels to fall off

Honda Civics from 2016 to 2021 are affected by the recall

Politics

9 d. ago France attack driver 'tries to set fire to car with gas canisters' after driving into crowd

A suspect has been arrested after a driver ploughed into pedestrians and cyclists on the France holiday island of Saint Pierre d´Oléron, before 'trying to set his vehicle on fire with gas canisters'

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9 d. ago Driver screaming 'Allahu Akbar' ploughs in to pedestrians and cyclists on French holiday island injuring 10 as gas canisters are found in his car

It took place at around 8.45 a.m. on Wednesday between the villages of Dolus-d'Oléron and Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron in the Charente-Maritime region.

Sport

1 week ago M90 incident: Major motorway closed at Bridge of Earn following reports of a 'multi vehicle collision'

Drivers could face delays.

Politics

1 week ago M40 closed after lorry crashes through barrier into two cars as drivers warned over hefty delays

A MAJOR UK motorway has been closed after a heavy goods vehicle barrelled across the central reservation and collided with two cars. The M40 in Warwickshire remains closed after the horror crash yesterday evening, with emergency services racing to scrambling to the scene. Traffic on the busy motorway has ground to a halt between J15...

Events

1 week ago Moment dangerous lorry driver smashes into traffic at 50mph on busy motorway

Police have released footage of a HGV driver ploughing into several cars at 50mph on the A27.

Transport

1 week ago Mini Cooper slips into sinkhole but officials can't remove it

The car became trapped when the ground underneath it gave way on Saturday afternoon outside Berrymans Bakery in Redruth, Cornwall.

Politics

2 w. ago PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a children’s play cafe.

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2 w. ago M8 motorway to close overnight for TWO WEEKS for cleaning works

DRIVERS have been warned that a busy section of the M8 motorway will close overnight for two weeks. A major section of the busy motorway will be shut over the next fortnight to allow "essential" cleaning works to be carried out. A major section of the busy motorway will be shut over the next fortnight...

Politics

3 w. ago Traffic hell as major motorway and busy road both closed as delays cause chaos

A series of National Highways diversions are in place thanks to two major road closures causing chaos, although one closure is far more fixable than the other . . .

Transport

4 w. ago Police fire tear gas at thousands of mourners at former Kenyan PM Raila Odinga's public viewing

Police in Kenya have fired tear gas canisters at thousands of mourners who had turned out for a public viewing of the body of influential African politician and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, one day after he died in India

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