50 h. ago LIVE updates on Liverpool incident as 'people hit by car' in city centre

Pictures show a large number of emergency services vehicles at the scene

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3 d. ago Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne is sent into lockdown after brawl broke out between rival gangs armed with machetes

Men reportedly fighting with knives has sent a Melbourne shopping centre into lockdown.

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3 d. ago Northland Shopping Centre UPDATES as knife battle prompts lockdown

A teenager has been left with serious injuries after a 10-person brawl at Northland Shopping Centre, Preston, in the north of Melbourne, with the place put in lockdown

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5 d. ago LIVE updates as huge plumes of smoke seen near Trafford Centre

Police and firefighters are at the scene

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1 week ago Major update on project aimed at transforming Port Talbot town centre

The project which is aimed at regenerating the town centre and improving key facilities

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2 w. ago Exceptionally low river flows forecast across UK as drought threat grows

Predicted dry, warm weather likely to increase pressure on rivers, whose flows are already far below normalExceptionally low river flows are predicted across the UK this summer as a drought becomes more likely, scientists have said.An update from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) says dry, warm weather is expected over the next three months, putting pressure on water resources. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Busy Edinburgh city centre street reopens after major blaze as Police Scotland issue update

Police Scotland said the Cowgate had now reopened following the fire on Monday.

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2 w. ago Poland to close Russian consulate in Kraków over Warsaw fire

Ministers say investigation proves Russian intelligence services were behind shopping centre blaze last yearEurope live – latest updatesPoland has said it will close down the Russian consulate in Kraków, after authorities in Warsaw announced they had found evidence proving Russia’s intelligence services were behind a huge fire that destroyed a shopping centre in the Polish capital last year.The Polish foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, wrote on X: “Due to evidence that the Russian special services committed a reprehensible act of sabotage against the shopping centre on Marywilska Street, I have decided to withdraw my consent to the operation of the consulate of the Russian Federation in Kraków.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Police update on mystery bone found at a Welsh recycling centre

Police launched a probe last year after a bone was found at the Gwynedd Skip and Plant Hire site on Cibyn Industrial Estate in Caernarfon

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3 w. ago New York’s serene Central Park makeover fixes years of neglect: in pictures

Officials have unveiled dramatic changes to the northern edge of Central Park. The $160m project is the park’s most expansive update in years and part of an effort to rectify decades of disregard Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The surprising English counties battling a knife crime surge: Why two of the UK's most desirable places to live are plagued by Britain's epidemic of knife violence

EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of police figures shows other English and Welsh counties that saw the highest rise in knife offences from 2015/16 to 2023/24 are largely rural in character.

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3 w. ago Australia’s mushroom murders trial: who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures?

As the trial over the deadly 2023 beef wellington lunch continues in the Victorian supreme court, here’s what you need to know about the people involvedErin Patterson trial – live updatesA fatal family lunch in regional Victoria is at the centre of a high-profile murder trial that is under way in the state’s supreme court.Erin Patterson is accused of murdering her estranged husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister and Simon’s aunt, Heather Wilkinson, by feeding them a meal of beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms in July 2023. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Metrolink issues update after electrical fault brings city centre trams to standstill

An electrical failures halted city centre trams entirely

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