31 h. ago Police crack open man's safe and make their 'biggest' discovery

Shane Shorthouse was handed a six year jail term after officers discovered an enormous stash of cocaine and ketamine

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2 d. ago Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling women runners

Surrey Police sent two officers out running at rush hour to show the scale of harassment that women are facing.

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7 d. ago Astronomers may have found the most massive black hole in universe

Gargantuan object is around 36 million times more massive than our sun

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8 d. ago Lawless London latest: As public demand police crack down on mobile phone theft epidemic, Oxford Street gets a new pavement STICKER telling people not to become victims... 

The purple sticker is an initiative by Curry's to remind people to be mindful of using their phones on theft hotspot where one phone is snatched every 15 minutes.

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1 week ago Holidaymakers urged to be ‘vigilant’ as European police crack down on speeding

The AA issued the advice as forces are carrying out more speed checks this week.

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1 week ago Family of Saudi Arabian student, 20, who was stabbed to death outside luxury Cambridge apartments say Britain 'is no longer safe' for visitors: Man, 21, is charged with murder

Mohammed Algasim, 20, was pronounced dead at Mill Park at 12.01am on Saturday following what police described as an 'unprovoked attack'.

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1 week ago BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil

Company to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuelsBusiness live – latest updatesBP has made its largest oil and gas discovery of the past 25 years off the coast of Brazil as it continues to shift its focus away from renewables and back to fossil fuels.The Santos basin oil and gas discovery, which is located in deep waters, is the company’s 10th oil discovery of the year and could be its largest since its discovery at the Shah Deniz gasfield in Azerbaijan in 1999. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BP confirms biggest oil and gas field discovery in 25 years – three times the size of Paris

The British energy firm have scaled back on renewable plans recently to refocus on fossil fuels

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4 w. ago Britain and its people are 'not safe' says former Nato general warning we are 'underprepared' for war

He told Parliament: "We simply in this country are not safe.”

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4 w. ago Gas flaring created 389m tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds

Rules to prevent ‘enormous waste’ of fuel are seen as weak and poorly enforced and firms have little incentive to stopThe fossil fuel industry pumped an extra 389m tonnes of carbon pollution into the atmosphere last year by needlessly flaring gas, a World Bank report has found, in an “enormous waste” of fuel that heats the planet by about as much as the country of France.Flaring is a way to get rid of gases such as methane that arise when pumping oil out of the ground. While it can sometimes keep workers safe by relieving buildups of pressure, the practice is routine in many countries because it is often cheaper to burn gas than to capture, transport, process and sell it. Continue reading...

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