4 h. ago Second body pulled from the sea after incident off East Yorkshire coast

Humberside Police said it was called to attend Central Promenade in Withernsea at 3.15pm on Friday.

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14 h. ago Baby girl rushed to hospital after New Year disturbance as teenage male arrested

Police were called to the incident involving two people and discovered the injury baby.

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33 h. ago Illegal New Year's Eve ravers pelt police with makeshift missiles after they shut down Bristol music events

Around 400 people were found at an industrial site in St Phillips, Bristol, on Wednesday evening just before midnight, after police were called to the scene at around 11:15pm.

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42 h. ago Five killed and 400 arrests as New Year chaos erupts in Germany

Germany's New Year celebrations descended into chaos with over 400 arrests in Berlin as illegal fireworks were used as weapons, leaving dozens injured including a seven-year-old boy in emergency surgery

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46 h. ago Several dead and injured in explosion at Swiss ski resort town Crans

Police say explosion ripped through a bar called La Constellation in the luxury Alpine ski resort town Several people have been killed and others injured when an explosion ripped through a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, Swiss police said early on Thursday.“There has been an explosion of unknown origin,” Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesperson in Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland, told AFP. “There are several injured, and several dead.” Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted at busy shopping centre: Three men are arrested

Police were called to Seacroft in Leeds, West Yorkshire, yesterday following reports of suspicious behaviour.

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55 h. ago Teen girls sexually assaulted at popular shopping centre as three men arrested

West Yorkshire Police said officers were called to the Seacroft Green shopping centre in Leeds at about 8.45pm on December 30 following a report of suspicious behaviour involving men nearby

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57 h. ago Three men arrested after two girls 'sexually assaulted' in shopping centre

Police were called to a report of men acting suspiciously at a shopping centre last night before three men were arrested.

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57 h. ago Manhunt launched for murder suspect after man, 23, is stabbed to death in New Year's Eve attack

Police were called to the scene on Grove Street in southeast London following reports a 23-year-old man had been stabbed at around 12.35pm today.

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61 h. ago Met Police call centre staff carry out New Year's Eve strike

A Met Police spokesperson said the ‘vast majority of our staff will be working alongside their police officer colleagues’

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62 h. ago Man critical in hospital after police called to woodland over 'concern for welfare'

Police and paramedics descended on the scene

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64 h. ago Woman charged with murder after Christmas Day death of pensioner

Police were called to reports of an assault on Christmas morning at a flat in Devizes, Wiltshire

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3 d. ago Tesco 'sex attacks' probe as man charged over alleged assaults on three women

Police were called following the incident at Tesco Springburn yesterday afternoon, December 29.

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3 d. ago Ryanair flight descends into chaos and is swooped by police after items are 'stolen from trolley'

Police entered the aircraft at Edinburgh Airport on Christmas Eve following reports of the incident - allegedly items were stolen from the trolley.

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3 d. ago Man arrested after 'alleged crowbar attack' at hospital leaves five injured

A 20-year-old man has been arrested after police were called to Newton Community Hospital in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, where five people were reportedly injured

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3 d. ago What drove gen Z protests that brought down governments and called out corruption? Five activists explain

We spoke to protesters in Togo, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco about how their actions helped shape the world in 2025Mass protests in Nepal and Madagascar toppled both governments this year, even when the young people at the forefront of the demonstrations were faced with heavily armed police and the threat of arrest.Many called 2025 the year of the protest although the revolution in Bangladesh in 2024 that unseated the authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina is often credited with inspiring young people to take to the streets across parts of Asia and Africa. Although not all achieved the change they wanted, from Sri Lanka to Timor-Leste they shared a common factor: gen Z was the driving force. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Met Police calls for closure of one of London's oldest Greek restaurants

Met Police calls for closure of one of London's oldest Greek restaurants  My London

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3 d. ago Foreign Office cautioned against UK military action to overthrow Robert Mugabe

Archives reveal options considered by Tony Blair’s government for dealing with Zimbabwean dictator in 2004The Foreign Office cautioned against UK military intervention to overthrow the former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in 2004, advising it was not a “serious option”, recently released documents show.Policy papers show Tony Blair’s government weighed up options on how best to handle the “depressingly healthy” 80-year-old dictator, who refused to step down while the country descended into violence and economic chaos. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago What happened next: the man who saved the last phone box in his village

When BT earmarked the kiosk for closure in January, Derek Harris began to campaign. The fight gave him purpose at a difficult time in his life‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his villageThe caller display flashes up: “Derek in the K6” it reads. On the line is Derek Harris, ringing from the red phone box he saved for his village. When he saw, on the agenda for the parish council meeting, that BT had earmarked it for closure, Harris knew he had to fight it. “It’s fighting for what is valuable, cherished,” he told me when I went to meet him in February, sitting over coffee in a cafe near Sharrington, the Norfolk village that has been his home for more than 50 years, and the phone box for longer. It’s a K6, for Kiosk No 6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.For a few weeks, Harris, then 89, became a media star. One of the criteria for keeping a phone box in use is that at least 52 calls have to be made from it in a year (fewer than 10 had...

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4 d. ago New files reveal Tony Blair ignored warnings over infamous WI speech

Tony Blair’s infamous WI address of 10,000 members descended into chaos

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