5 h. ago Giant new ASDA store threatened by Met Police as cops demand mega cash boost

A development of 1,600 homes and a massive 60,000 square ft Asda store has been met with opposition from the Metropolitan Police which claims the extra 4,000 residents will add 'unacceptable pressure'

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24 h. ago Thief guilty of killing man who tried to stop his car being stolen

Errol Woodger inflicted fatal injuries on Marc Allen with his own car

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35 h. ago The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 yearsNobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of 4 September 1990, but everyone remembers the girl. Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Portbou, was visible to anyone looking up from the beach or across from the opposite hillside. She was barefoot, with grey-blue eyes and thick chestnut-brown hair. She wore blue dungarees over a turquoise green shirt.Portbou, squeezed into a cauldron-like Mediterranean cove, had only 2,000 inhabitants but plenty of police officers. In these years before the Schengen agreement, guards were stationed on the French border but these officers were experts in immigration and smuggling, not violent deaths. Instead, Enrique Gómez, a 35-year-old investigator from the Guardia Civil police force was called i...

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38 h. ago Residents of 'Britain's Beverly Hills' traveller ordeal: How group 'rampaging' through town caused chaos for locals

Stephanie Reed, 40, lives in Guilford, Surrey, with her husband and two sons, and has warned that the influx of 'scary and aggressive' travellers could see locals flee the area in fear.

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46 h. ago Stricken Sevilla turn once again to Caparrós as owners keep up circus act | Sid Lowe

Fourth spell begins for club’s eighth head coach in less than three seasons, in wake of fourth defeat in a rowJust before two o’clock on Palm Sunday, as Holy Week began and religious brotherhoods started their slow, swaying progress through the streets of Seville, first La Paz, then La Hiniesta, then the rest, a man entered the city at Santa Justa. Aged 69, diagnosed with leukaemia five years ago, wearing a grey cardigan, blue jacket and a slightly manic smile, he’s thinner than before but couldn’t be more familiar. Joaquín Caparrós has coached Sevilla more times than anyone, across three spells, the first a quarter of a century ago; now he was returning for a fourth. “My face is a reflection; it says it all,” he said, leaving the station and stopping on the corner, searching for the car coming for him.Caparrós arrived on a train, alone and as their saviour. As somebody’s saviour, anyway: someone to get behind, someone to hide behind too, for a little while. Two days earlier Sevilla...

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49 h. ago Police find more than £50,000 when they stopped car near Larkhall

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard the cash was in two packages labelled ‘Jock 25,000’.

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5 d. ago Police find £60,000 worth of cannabis in bag for life after stopping Mercedes on M6

Officers said there was a "strong smell" coming from the car

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer pledges 3,000 new neighbourhood police officers by start of 2026

The promise is part of a wider guarantee of 13,000 new neighbourhood officers by 2029.

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer confirms when first 3,000 new police officers will be recruited

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper will announce a huge boost to neighbourhood policing teams across the 43 forces in England and Wales after they were 'decimated' under the Tories

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6 d. ago 13,000 more police officers coming in street crime crackdown

Sir Keir Starmer says the Government will be putting named officers into every neighbourhood

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6 d. ago Chelsea's Moises Caicedo has '£160k Audi seized by police' after £115m star was found 'driving without valid licence'

Chelsea star Moises Caicedo has reportedly had his £160,000 Audi seized by police after he was found to have been driving without a valid licence.

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7 d. ago Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars | Arwa Mahdawi

Why would anyone want a car that’s too big for parking spaces, or that’s a menace to other road users? I have a theoryExcuse me for a moment while I clamber on top of my high horse to deliver an important public safety announcement: stop buying enormous cars! Please, for the love of God, pedestrians and my tiny chihuahua that is just trying to cross the road, stop this cycle of car-brained insanity.I write this from the US, where everything (including the presidential ego) is supersized and where going for a walk means having to constantly peer around one enormous truck to make sure you’re not going to get hit by another enormous truck. Still, at least in the US the big cars have big roads to drive down. The trend for bloated vehicles is spreading to places where they’re even more unsuitable. New research has found that more than 1m cars that are too big to fit in parking spaces are being sold in the UK each year. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago World's second largest automaker makes dramatic move as it stops all US car imports

The extraordinary move by the brand is the latest and follows big decisions by the maker of Dodge and Ram cars on the back of Trump's car tariffs.

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8 d. ago Karmelo Anthony’s online fundraiser was at $140,000; then it was taken offline

But another fundraising page has now raised more than $160,000, while local police confirm they are working with the FBI to investigate fake social media posts claiming to be from Frisco’s police chief

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9 d. ago Woman, 25, charged after police find '£180k worth of heroin' on M74 near Lockerbie

Police officers stopped a car at around 8.25pm on April 4 and found heroin with an estimated street value of £180,000.

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9 d. ago Four arrested as Met Police seize £50,000 of stolen tools in raid on east London car boot sale

Officers carried out a major search of the Willow Farm Car Boot Sale on Sunday

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1 week ago Universities review trans policies after Sussex Uni's record £585,000 fine for failing to uphold free speech as feminist academic was 'hounded out' by activists

Universities are reviewing their transgender equality policies in the wake of a record fine handed to the University of Sussex after feminist Professor Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her job.

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1 week ago F1 star destroys car in heavy crash as Japanese Grand Prix session stopped

Jack Doohan's second practice session at the Japanese Grand Prix was brought to a premature end after the Alpine driver suffered a huge high-speed crash at Suzuka

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1 week ago Grandad caught out by police yet again after £70,000 find promises 'there won't be a third time'

Paul Fleming, 60, who suffers from prostate cancer had previously been convicted as a drug courier

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1 week ago Japanese Grand Prix session stopped after F1 star destroys car in huge crash

The start of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend was disrupted on Friday when one Formula 1 star lost control of his race car and smashed into a barrier at high speed

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