4 d. ago Fury over 'puddle' rescue as locals condemn 'drain on resources': Drivers told to pay for call outs themselves after firefighters helped woman stuck in shallow floodwater

Video footage emerged last week of firefighters being called out to save a woman who became stranded in shallow flood water in Hall Green, Birmingham.

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4 d. ago Popular Scots garden centre burns down after major blaze breaks out

A POPULAR Scottish garden centre has been destroyed after a huge blaze tore through the building. Scores of firefighters were called to Hayes Garden Land in Symington, Kilmarnock, shortly after midnight after the inferno took hold. Emergency crews raced to tackle the blaze at around 00.16am today after the alarm was raised. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed...

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5 d. ago Dozens of firefighters called to blaze in Addenbrooke's hospital car park in Cambridge

More than 30 firefighters are at the scene in Cambridge tonight

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7 d. ago Two people taken to hospital after firefighters called to blaze at flat off Grassmarket

Two people, including a firefighter, have been taken to hospital after crews battled a flat fire near Edinburgh’s Grassmarket.

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1 week ago Female police trainee, 19, died after failing to put her SEAT BELT on during police chase

Jessica Ebbighausen was killed in a car chase with a because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt. It could be enough to get the charges downgraded against Tate Rheaume, the man who crashed into her.

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2 w. ago Huge fireball erupts over Sydney as 200 firefighters battle monster inferno

More than 200 firefighters are battling an huge fire in Sydney, aerial crews called in to assist after an explosion threw a chemical tank 150 metres into the sky.

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3 w. ago Firefighter boss loses unfair dismissal case after failing to challenge sexist language

Simon Bailey, 58, was given a written warning after failing to stop colleagues using the word 'fireman' to a female firefighter.

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3 w. ago 'Old fashioned' boss failed to stop female firefighter being called 'fireman'

'Old fashioned' firefighter Simon Bailey, 58, who failed to call out his colleagues for 'belittling' a female colleague was not unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has found

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3 w. ago Holborn fire: Dozens of firefighters tackle blaze in underground tunnel in central London

Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the scene

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3 w. ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney pummels a boxing pioneer’s story into lifeless cliche

Underpowered David Michôd film fails to land the story of the groundbreaking 90s female boxing champion and the horrendous abuse she faced at home An uninspired and undirected performance from Sydney Sweeney means there’s a fatal lack of power in this movie from director and co-writer David Michôd. It manages to be unsubtle without being powerful. His subject is Christy Salters Martin, who under the grinning tutelage of Don King became the world’s most successful female boxing champion in the 90s and 00s but faced a misogynist nightmare outside the ring.The film fails to deliver the power of the traditional boxing movie, or the real importance of a story about domestic abuse and coercive control, or the sensory detail of true crime. It relies on the simple fact of a woman pioneeringly taking on what had once been solely a man’s sport and relapses into cliche. Christy, with her frizzy hair and brown contact lenses, doesn’t seem to plausibly develop as a character throughout the film,...

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3 w. ago Holborn fire LIVE: Firefighters tackle underground blaze in heart of London

Around 70 firefighters have been called to the scene on Theobolds Road

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3 w. ago UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show

Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsensWildfires have devastated more moorland, forests and fields in the UK this year than at any time since records began, putting huge pressure on the country’s fire service, figures show.The Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares (116,204 acres) in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man City boss Pep Guardiola eyes up £13.5m mansion less than 100 yards from family home he shared with estranged wife

PEP GUARDIOLA is eyeing up a luxury pad less than 100 yards from the £8.5million mansion he shared with his estranged wife. It comes as the Manchester City boss, 54, is in the process of finalising his divorce from fashion store owner Cristina Serra. The sumptuous new-build property in the exclusive Barcelona neighbourhood of Pedralbes...

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3 w. ago Shoppers watch on as car bursts into flames at Trafford Centre car park

Firefighters were called to the scene on Saturday afternoon

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3 w. ago Cruel Scots dog owner who kept two starving canines at her home tried to hide one from cops 

A CRUEL Scots woman who kept her two starving dogs at her home and tried to hide one from the cops has been fined £300. Chloe MacKenzie, from Tain in the Highlands, failed to feed or care for her female German Shepherd and Boxer properly - leaving them famished and underweight. On April 4 2024,...

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