10 h. ago Angela Rayner to put 'BANTER POLICE' in your office: Watch what you say by the water cooler! Workers' rights Bill pressures firms to spy on 'inappropriate' conversations

Under new laws drawn up, firms will be pressured into bankrolling 'diversity officers', whose jobs would include protecting staff from the content of overheard conversations.

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11 h. ago Woman drags police officer down road with Porsche after being pulled over

Lorna Thompson, 58, had been driving the luxury vehicle when it was flagged down by a police patrol last year.

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16 h. ago Cancer doctor blames pressure of life on Covid frontline after he was caught downloading explicit images of girls as young as four

Consultant urologist Paul Sturch, 41, was identified by police after chatting online with an undercover officer about his interest in girls as young as four.

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33 h. ago Urgent plea for taxi driver who stopped at the scene of horror crash that killed two sisters, 68 and 70, on a morning walk

Officers from Thames Valley Police rushed to the scene in Caversham, a village outside of Reading, in Berkshire.

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36 h. ago Hellish explosion in Rome leaves 40 injured including 11 police officers after 'truck hit pipeline at petrol station'

The explosion was heard across the Italian capital shortly after 8am on Friday and sent up a huge cloud of dark smoke and fire that was visible from several areas of the city.

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36 h. ago Moment John Belfield arrested after being dragged back to UK over torturing love rival to death

After being on the run for seven months, John Belfield was deported back to the UK, and police officers handcuffed him as he exited a plane at Manchester Airport

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36 h. ago Bird brains! Moment man is surrounded by police and arrested after feeding pigeons in town centre

The incredible footage includes the man, wearing a beanie, being handcuffed and being pushed against a police car door as three officers surround him.

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40 h. ago Met Police funding shortfall puts Barking and Dagenham units at risk, officer warns

Superintendant Biju Premnath said “frontline” services would be protected but other units were “at risk”

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40 h. ago Oldham disorder involving car chase and machetes prompts police to extend powers

Greater Manchester Police granted officers extended stop and search powers ‘following a number of incidents overnight involving weapons’.

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42 h. ago Tragedy as two teenagers killed on railway line as police launch probe

A major police incident was declared after officers were called to Poynton Station in Cheshire shortly before 10.30pm on Thursday following reports of a 'casualty' on the tracks

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44 h. ago Brothers used 'high level of violence' in airport arrest, court told

A police woman was left with a broken nose when officers tried to arrest the defendants

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44 h. ago Two brothers used 'high level of violence' to assault police officers at Manchester Airport, court hears

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are alleged to have struck out at police in the Terminal 2 building on July 23 last year.

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46 h. ago Moment Rome petrol station explodes in a huge fireball causing multiple injuries

Among the injured were eight police officers and one firefighter

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46 h. ago Rome petrol station blast: At least nine injured in huge fireball explosion in Italian capital

Among the injured were eight police officers and one firefighter

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47 h. ago Moment police arrest county lines 'gang member' during dawn raid as they shut down 100 drugs networks in a week

This is the moment dozens of police officers smashed their way into the east London home of a suspected county lines criminal as they crackdown on 100 drug networks in a single week. 

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49 h. ago Hundreds of town centres to see more police patrols in crime ‘blitz’

More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office’s safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30

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53 h. ago Former senior police officer who was found with child abuse on her phone is SUING the Met after 'witch hunt destroyed her'

Ex Superintendent Novlett Williams is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of racial and sexual discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.

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55 h. ago Police officer, 38, who died suddenly on duty is pictured for first time as tributes pour in

Pc Ian Minett, aged 38, died last month while on duty with Gloucestershire Police, and has been described as a 'massive loss' by his colleagues as tributes pour in

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60 h. ago Pair of Met Police officers are sacked after one broke wind in colleague's face and another took photos of his genitals on her phone

PC Wayne Sansom tilted his leg at a 45-degree angle before breaking wind just 10-15cm from the horrified woman's face at Wembley Police Station in northwest London back in November 2021.

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60 h. ago easyJet flight met by police after 'abusive' passenger urinates in aisle

Police officers stormed the plane on arrival in Tenerife on Wednesday morning.

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