3 d. ago Reform councillor investigated after 'handing out ice creams at polling station'

Reform councillor Joseph Boam, 22, is under police investigation over allegations that he tried to sway voters by handing out ice creams outside a polling station in North West Leicestershire

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4 d. ago Arrest as police investigate video allegedly threatening students at Welsh college

It comes as students prepare to return to colleges across Wales this week following the summer break

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4 d. ago Young man 'raped' in centre of major city as two suspects, 29 and 52, arrested

Police have launched a rape investigation after a man was allegedly attacked in Birmingham. Two suspects, aged 29 and 52, were arrested and remain in police custody

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7 d. ago BREAKING Major police operation as Brit boy believed to have been abducted by his Russian mum

A major police investigation has been launched as a Russian mum has allegedly abducted her British son, as his dad raised an alarm by reporting him as missing in Marbella

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7 d. ago Major police operation as Brit boy believed to have been abducted by his Russian mum

A major police investigation has been launched as a Russian mum has allegedly abducted her British son, as his dad raised an alarm by reporting him as missing in Marbella

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7 d. ago Brit boy, 3, believed to have been abducted in Spain and is now in Russia

A major police investigation has been launched as a Russian mum has allegedly abducted her British son, as his dad raised an alarm by reporting him as missing in Marbella

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7 d. ago 'Hijacker' arrested after 'trying to steal plane' and take it to the Middle East

Investigations are ongoing after Australian police arrested a man who had allegedly attempted to 'hijack' a passenger jet and divert it to the Middle East earlier this year

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7 d. ago Gangnam Style singer Psy faces police probe over drugs as star issues apology

South Korean musician Psy, known for his viral hit Gangnam Style, is being investigated by the police after allegedly violating the country's medical law

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing contestants 'negotiate higher fees as danger money' due to string of scandals

After the show revealed its full line-up last week, it was been hit by fresh claims that bosses have called in police to investigate a new allegation into the show.

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2 w. ago Federal prosecutors launch inquiry into Washington DC police over allegedly fudged crime statistics

Move comes after Donald Trump posted on social media about US capital’s ‘fake crime numbers’Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Washington DC police systematically manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer than it actually is.The probe, anonymous sources tell the Washington Post, NBC News and Fox News, being conducted by the US attorney’s office for the District of Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, is the latest escalation between the Trump administration and DC officials over federal control of local policing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Justice Department investigating DC police over Trump allegations of ‘fake’ crime data

Trump accused city officials of manipulating data to create ‘false illusion of safety’

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2 w. ago Future Queen's son charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, is facing 32 charges after a lengthy police investigation into allegations from several women

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2 w. ago Metropolitan Police called in to investigate Strictly 'cocaine use' allegations

The broadcaster has reportedly alerted the police to new allegations, according to the Sun

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2 w. ago ‘I was completely dehumanised by my father’: how Kate Price uncovered the horrifying truths of her childhood

She was sexually abused by her father until she was about 12 – and he would also sell her to other men. Then she grew up and began researching child sex trafficking, slowly piecing together clues about her own lifeKate Price is now an academic, but it was at six that she conducted her first piece of research, leaning into the cab of her father’s truck and pressing the side button of his CB radio, the black plastic hot from the sun. She spoke the name she’d heard into it, “Chicken Plucker”, and a man’s voice replied. It was her first proof that the name she’d somehow associated with being taken from her bed in the middle of the night was attached to a real person, and that perhaps he would have answers. Then her father caught her and she was too terrified to try to contact him again.Five decades on, Price has written This Happened To Me, a memoir that reads, in part, like a detective story, piecing together clues to create a picture of the horror that had been done to her as a child,...

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2 w. ago Is this Strictly's biggest scandal yet? As BBC 'call in police after launching external probe', how the beloved series has been rocked by claims of 'drug use' ahead of return

While the channel is storming ahead with plans for its new series, it has been hit by fresh scandal, with claims bosses have called in police to investigate a new allegation.

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2 w. ago BBC 'calls in police' to investigate new Strictly allegations

It comes after allegations that two of the hit show's stars used cocaine

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2 w. ago BBC asks police to investigate new Strictly allegations, reports say

Move comes after claims earlier this month that two stars of the TV dance show used cocaineThe BBC has asked the police to investigate Strictly Come Dancing amid fresh allegations, according to reports, after claims two of its stars used cocaine.The Sun on Sunday reported that the corporation has alerted the Metropolitan police to new allegations about the dance competition show, the details of which it does not specify. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BBC calls in police to investigate new Strictly allegations – reports

The broadcaster has reportedly alerted the police to new allegations, according to the Sun.

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2 w. ago Police investigate alleged racist abuse at Anfield as Liverpool release statement

Liverpool beat Bournemouth in their Premier League opener at Anfield but the match was stopped during the first half amid allegations of racist abuse from the stands

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3 w. ago Police investigate alleged child sex trafficking gang in Wales

An ongoing investigation is underway into child sexual exploitation and trafficking

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