8 h. ago Paw patrol: Police in the Western Isles reveal their latest recruit Police Dog Viv

PD Viv has just completed training

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68 h. ago Police seize £500k worth of cannabis in operation tackling 'Western Balkan' organised crime

Over 700 plants were seized from six separate farms

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4 d. ago Europe can’t just hope for the best with Trump. Ukraine needs all the arms we can send | Frans Timmermans

Member states must stop squabbling over trivial matters – and a firmer stance against states that promote Putin’s and Trump’s agenda is needed tooFrans Timmermans is a former vice-president of the European CommissionAfter US vice-president JD Vance’s speech in Munich last month, most European leaders came to the conclusion that our world has fundamentally changed. The Pax Americana that long ensured peace, security and freedom in Europe is over. Anyone who still doubted this will hopefully now realise, after the disgraceful treatment Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy endured last Friday at the White House, that we can no longer rely on the Americans for our collective security.We must hope for the best, but hope is not a policy. We – the Netherlands, the EU, and all western countries standing with Ukraine – must prepare for the worst. The question is this: how do we keep Ukraine free and independent, and how do we protect our economy, our freedom and democracy, and our borders...

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5 d. ago Love Island stars Alex and Olivia Bowen reveal they lost one of their babies to vanishing twin syndrome

The longtime couple met on season two of ‘Love Island’ in 2016

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6 d. ago Remains of carved canoe may be most significant discovery of its kind, NZ archaeologist says

More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights about Polynesian voyagingParts of a carved and decorated traditional ocean-going canoe (waka) found in the Chatham Islands, around 800km east of New Zealand, could be the most significant discovery of its kind in Polynesia, archaeologists say.The Chatham Islands is an archipelago administered as part of New Zealand. Over the past month, archaeologists and local volunteers have unearthed more than 450 artefacts from the waka found smashed to pieces in a creek on the northern coast of the main island, known as Rēkohu to the Indigenous Moriori . Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Former train manager jailed for sexually assaulting teenager after ticket check

Nicholas McMurray, 38, approached the 18-year-old woman on a Cardiff to Swansea train in June last year, British Transport Police said.

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