50 h. ago Child 'assaulted near primary school' as police launch investigation

Witnesses said a person got out of a vehicle before assaulting the youngster

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57 h. ago The Story of Skids: Scotland’s No 1 Punk Band review – likable look back to the noise era

Very much the story of singer Ricard Jobson, this amiable portrait takes in tales of Sid Vicious and the pop culture hysteria when the genre explodedThis affable documentary should perhaps have a different title; it would be more accurate to call it The Richard Jobson Story, consisting as it does entirely of Jobson – erstwhile frontman of the Scottish punk act Skids, TV presenter, film-maker and novelist – ruminating on these and other endeavours that have kept him busy since his teen years in the 1970s. In between the bits of archive footage, Jobson gets a haircut, tries on a leather jacket or two, and trundles around the stage in a sleeveless T-shirt reliving the glory days.The way Jobson tells it, his and the band’s ascent to national prominence in the late 70s was bit of a miracle in itself: growing up in a bleak, postindustrial mining village outside Dunfermline, his first stroke of luck was bumping into Sid Vicious in Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop on a trip down to London as a 15...

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5 d. ago Woman gang raped in churchyard as police launch urgent investigation

Detective Sergeant Mark Personius described the incident as a “horrific crime”.

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6 d. ago Murder of sex shop manager strangled, doused in petrol & left in pool of blood may finally be solved 40 years later

THE murder of a sex shop manager who was brutally strangled, doused in petrol and left in a pool of blood may finally be solved 40 years later. Sandra Phillips, 37, was killed while at work in Swansea on June 14, 1985. An extensive re-investigation of the murder was launched in 2004, but all lines...

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6 d. ago British man dies in Costa Blanca after falling from his racing bike as police launch investigation

A British cyclist reportedly died in the residential area of Gran Alacant on the Costa Blanca, on Friday. Despite their efforts, emergency services pronounced the man dead at the scene.

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6 d. ago Full story of the savage Welsh sex shop murder police have never been able to solve

South Wales Police has confirmed it is carrying out a fresh forensic review of the brutal murder of Sandra Phillips after the last one in 2004 failed to find the killer

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7 d. ago Police launch new investigation into brutal killing of woman at sex shop

Sandra Phillips' body was discovered inside the Swansea shop where she worked more than 40 years ago

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7 d. ago Police launch investigation after person 'assaulted by white men with flags'

A man was allegedly assaulted by a group of five or six men carrying flags in Southsea on Sunday. He was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries, police said

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8 d. ago Man and woman found dead at home as police launch investigation

A man in his 70s and a woman in her 60s suffered serious injuries at a home in Camelford, Cornwall, and were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they were known to each other

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8 d. ago Man and woman found dead at property as police launch investigation

They were found at a house in Cornwall at, after emergency services were called to the scene

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1 week ago Police launch investigation after Man Utd fan attacked following social media stunt

A man was filmed repeatedly grabbing another man's hair and pushing him to the ground before onlookers intervened, as police and Manchester United both launched investigations

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1 week ago Police launch murder investigation after man dies following village 'disturbance'

Police have sealed off a street in a Welsh village after being called just before 1am on Tuesday

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2 w. ago Police launch murder investigation after man shot dead in Wolverhampton

Two men were found seriously injured in a vehicle Wolverhampton - with one shot and pronounced dead at the scene, and a second fighting for his life in hospital

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2 w. ago Police launch investigation after care home resident, 45, dies after choking on cupcake

Alexander Ballmann, 45, suffered from a rare genetic disorder that caused swallowing difficulties and collapsed at Sandsground Care Home in Highworth, Wiltshire.

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