11 h. ago A6 live updates as police and paramedics descend on major Greater Manchester road following crash

The road is partially closed

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11 h. ago Police and paramedics descend on major Greater Manchester road following crash

The road was partially closed

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6 d. ago Armed police descend on street after man armed with knife makes 'threats to kill'

One man has been arrested in connection with the incident in Merthyr Tydfil

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7 d. ago LIVE: Air ambulance lands in Manchester park as police descend on street

Emergency services have been busy in the area

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9 d. ago Horror moment jewellery shop thieves tie up young woman and threaten to kill her

Ints Dombrovskis and Hugo Ignats have been jailed after stealing £50,000 worth of goods from a jewellery shop in Lincolnshire where they threatened the female employee with an axe

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1 week ago Moment armed police descend on pair of armed robbers who tied up young woman and stole £50k of jewellery

Ints Dombroskis, 45, and Hugo Ignats, 42, were arrested by officers along the A1 following a horrifying robbery in Holbeach, Lincolnshire on May 30.

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1 week ago Adorable moment boy dressed in British Army costume has chance run

At just six years old, Frank Gates, from Egremont, Cumbria, has amassed millions of views worldwide for his heartwarming videos dressed as a miniature soldier.

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2 w. ago Police descend on Edinburgh's Dublin Street as incident sees road closed and forensics tent put up

A city centre street in Edinburgh has been closed by police due to an ongoing incident which has seen a forensics tent erected on the pavement.

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2 w. ago Driver in stolen car smashes into armed police van during 100mph chase

This is the moment a driver in a stolen car crashes into an armed police van during a 100mph chase through country roads.

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2 w. ago Armed police descend on town amid reports of man 'with a knife' in park

A man, aged 30, has been detained and taken to hospital for assessment

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2 w. ago Moment driver in stolen car crashes into armed police van during 100mph police chase

Marlon Henriques, 30, of Tidworth, Wiltshire, drove at speeds of over 85mph on 30mph roads while dangerously weaving in and out his lane while overtaking.

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2 w. ago Woman says 'I do' on exact same date ancestors tied the knot at Scotland's marriage mecca

Amber Chappel and Benny de Garis got married at Gretna Green on August 12 – following in the footsteps of Amber’s great grandparents Archibald and Isabella Bone.

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2 w. ago The moment armed police storm Jamie Rothwell's Spanish apartment in dawn raid

Rothwell had been hiding out in Barcelona

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3 w. ago Horror moment immigration cops handcuff disabled boy sitting in car with his nan

Gut wrenching images show the moment US immigration officers armed with guns handcuff a disabled teenager outside a school as Trump's ICE officers continue their rampage

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3 w. ago Police descend on Greater Manchester street after man found dead

A neighbour first contacted officers

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3 w. ago Horror as woman's body found tied underwater by concrete dumbbells at Thai tourist spot

The body of a woman has been found floating in the water near a popular fishing spot in Thailand, with a heavy chain wrapped around her neck and tied to two concrete dumbbells

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3 w. ago As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold warNuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the demolition of a key pillar of global arms control. It will accelerate an already frantic nuclear arms race in Europe and Asia at a moment when US and Russian leaders are taunting each other like schoolboys.Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has repeatedly threatened the west with nuclear weapons during his war in Ukraine. Last November, Russian forces fired their new Oreshnik hypersonic, nuclear-capable intermediate-range missile at Dnipro. It travels “like a meteorite” at 10 times the speed of sound and can reach...

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3 w. ago Body of woman found tied underwater by concrete dumbbells at Thai tourist spot

A murder probe has been launched in the Phang Nga area of Thailand after a woman’s body was found chained by the neck and weighed down with dumbbells

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3 w. ago Body of woman found chained 'by the neck' and tied underwater by two dumbbells

The corpse was discovered floating near the Ban Tha Yai pier in Phang Nga on August 8 - sparking grisly murder investigation.

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3 w. ago Migrant hotel protests descend into chaos as protesters clash with police officers ahead of weekend of anarchy

Swarms of anti-migrant protesters descended upon migrant hotels across the country this evening and have already begun clashing with police.

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