91 m. ago Police brace as huge Gaza protest to take place in central London

Police brace as huge Gaza protest to take place in central London  London Evening Standard

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2 h. ago Tim Dowling: I’m under an azure Croatian sky – fretting about the roof back home

This should be a blissful break, but I’m distracted by the roofer’s messages relaying our house’s ongoing problems. My wife, meanwhile, remains firmly on holidayI’m sitting on a terrace overlooking a sparkling bay. Directly in front of me fishing boats rock gently on the water and tidy white houses are piled on the hill opposite. I’m looking at my phone.The video I’m watching is narrated by Michael the roofer, who has just sliced away a section of the flat roof at the top of our house. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago I reported a man for walking into my changing room, and he was convicted: it’s proof that women need to report ‘the small things’

Olivia Petter was made to feel as if an incident with a stranger in a clothing shop’s dressing room was something she was supposed to simply brush off. But several bureaucratic roadblocks and a police investigation later, she finally felt vindicated

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3 h. ago Moment young men 'ransack' car parked on Edinburgh driveway captured on CCTV

Police have launched a probe after the incident happened on Lanark Road in the Clovenstone area in Edinburgh.

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4 h. ago Unease at slow pace of change in Nepal one month on from gen Z protests

Promised crackdown on corruption is not happening fast enough for many who saw government toppled within a day of protestsPrakash Bohora was one of the first of Nepal’s gen Z protesters to feel the sting of a police bullet. Like thousands of other young people, he had taken to the streets of the capital last month to protest against corruption and a draconian ban on social media.He had no idea on that day in Kathmandu that the demonstration would escalate into what is now described as Nepal’s gen Z revolution, which has led to the toppling of the government within a day, the dissolution of parliament and appointment of a new interim prime minister, the anti-corruption hardliner Sushila Karki, by the end of the week. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Police launch hunt for new evidence in horrific murders of family that cast a shadow over Gurnos

‘My mam and dad didn’t get to see justice but I’m hoping I will for them’

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7 h. ago Female Met police officer 'ran a spray tanning business while claiming mental health issues stopped her reporting for duty'

PC Jennifer Stowers, based within Central West Command Unit, faces a misconduct hearing after being accused of running the firm via Instagram between May 18, 2023 and April 2, 2025.

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7 h. ago This is the truth about why I tried to save Raoul Moat. I know I'm lucky to still be alive

Sitting alone in my flat in Newcastle, I realised that the breaking news on the TV blaring in the background was happening right on my doorstep.

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7 h. ago Man who threatened to kill himself with a gun is left with life

Police were called by his family on Friday morning to a home in Walthamstow, north-east London , to report that he had a gun and was making threats to harm himself, Scotland Yard said.

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8 h. ago New forensic techniques could help solve triple murder 30 years ago

Police hope advances in forensic technology could provide a long-awaited breakthrough in the case

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8 h. ago New forensic techniques could help solve triple murder after 30 years

Diane Jones, 21, and her daughters Shauna, two, and Sarah-Jane, one, died in a fire on the Gurnos Estate, Merthyr Tydfil.

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9 h. ago 'I bought cat painting for £20 in charity shop and was stunned by it's true value'

A savvy bargain hunter has shared how he was stunned when he bought a piece of artwork for just £20 - and now he's hoping to make a hefty profit from his impulse purchase

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9 h. ago Methanol poisoning kills three in Brazil as secret alcohol factory uncovered

While investigating the deaths of two people who had drunk vodka purchased at the same bar, police in Brazil uncovered a clandestine alcohol factory near São Paulo

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9 h. ago Man shot by police after ‘threatening to harm others’ during four

The man was taken to hospital with life-changing injuries.

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9 h. ago California governor signs bills to aid Los Angeles wildfire recovery and reform disaster response

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills to aid recovery from two deadly wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year

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10 h. ago Tory MP ALICIA KEARNS: 'I froze with fear when detectives told me Chinese may have bugged my hotel room on a visit to Taiwan'

Within minutes, police had dropped the extraordinary bombshell that they suspected the researcher, Chris Cash, had been passing secrets to Beijing for a year.

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10 h. ago The 'China spy' in my office, by top Tory... who fears she was secretly filmed or bugged in hotel room by Beijing

Chris Cash received high-level briefings from former MI6 spies, ambassadors and ministers, gaining extraordinary intelligence on China-related policies before he was dramatically arrested.

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10 h. ago Nineteen people feared dead after blast at Tennessee munitions plant

Police chief calls explosion near Bucksnort, south-west of Nashville, ‘devastating’ and says ‘we have some deceased’Nineteen people are missing and feared dead following a massive explosion at a military munitions plant in Tennessee on Friday morning.The powerful blast ripped through the explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, rattling homes miles away and bringing emergency services to the scene, authorities and residents said. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago A postal worker died from a massive stroke while police and jail staff ignored him for hours. Now they face a federal lawsuit

Officers reportedly watched as Kingsley Fifi Bimpong writhed around in a pool of his own urine on the floor of a jail cell until he was ‘cold to the touch’

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11 h. ago Motorcyclist jailed for injuring girl after driving at group filming TikTok

The 13-year-old victim suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident in a Southampton park.

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