12 m. ago Tragedy as two teenagers killed on railway line as police launch probe

A major police incident was declared after officers were called to Poynton Station in Cheshire shortly before 10.30pm on Thursday following reports of a 'casualty' on the tracks

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2 h. ago Brothers used 'high level of violence' in airport arrest, court told

A police woman was left with a broken nose when officers tried to arrest the defendants

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2 h. ago Two brothers used 'high level of violence' to assault police officers at Manchester Airport, court hears

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are alleged to have struck out at police in the Terminal 2 building on July 23 last year.

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2 h. ago Gary Lineker fights back tears as he says BBC should 'hold its head in shame'

Gary Lineker has slammed the BBC for not airing a documentary on the doctors in Gaza less than six weeks after his 26-year run presenting Match of the Day came to an end in acrimonious circumstances

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3 h. ago Gary Lineker holds back tears as he says BBC should ‘hang its head in shame’

‘To see the way it’s declined in the last year or two has been devastating really,’ said the former BBC presenter

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4 h. ago Moment Rome petrol station explodes in a huge fireball causing multiple injuries

Among the injured were eight police officers and one firefighter

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4 h. ago Rome petrol station blast: At least nine injured in huge fireball explosion in Italian capital

Among the injured were eight police officers and one firefighter

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5 h. ago Moment police arrest county lines 'gang member' during dawn raid as they shut down 100 drugs networks in a week

This is the moment dozens of police officers smashed their way into the east London home of a suspected county lines criminal as they crackdown on 100 drug networks in a single week. 

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7 h. ago Hundreds of town centres to see more police patrols in crime ‘blitz’

More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office’s safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30

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11 h. ago Former senior police officer who was found with child abuse on her phone is SUING the Met after 'witch hunt destroyed her'

Ex Superintendent Novlett Williams is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of racial and sexual discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.

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13 h. ago Police officer, 38, who died suddenly on duty is pictured for first time as tributes pour in

Pc Ian Minett, aged 38, died last month while on duty with Gloucestershire Police, and has been described as a 'massive loss' by his colleagues as tributes pour in

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14 h. ago Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect tells judge he’s ‘looking forward’ to facts coming out at trial

Vance Boelter is facing state and federal charges related to the June 14 shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses

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18 h. ago Pair of Met Police officers are sacked after one broke wind in colleague's face and another took photos of his genitals on her phone

PC Wayne Sansom tilted his leg at a 45-degree angle before breaking wind just 10-15cm from the horrified woman's face at Wembley Police Station in northwest London back in November 2021.

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18 h. ago easyJet flight met by police after 'abusive' passenger urinates in aisle

Police officers stormed the plane on arrival in Tenerife on Wednesday morning.

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21 h. ago Police officer suddenly dies just days after Brazilian butt lift sparks extreme pain

Days after getting a Brazilian butt lift, a young police officer and army reservist with 'bright and promising future' dies after suffering a pulmonary embolism

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21 h. ago Harvey Willgoose told teacher 'as if anyone's going to stab me' just an hour before fellow schoolboy, 15, knifed him to death, court told

Harvey Willgoose, 15, suffered fatal injuries when another pupil attacked him on their lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

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25 h. ago Danish police deploy to Israeli embassy in Copenhagen to examine a suspicious package

Danish police say they have deployed officers to the Israeli embassy in the Nordic country’s capital to examine a suspicious package

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25 h. ago The toll it takes: Looking back at the times MPs cried in the Commons amid mystery over Chancellor Rachel Reeves' tears during PMQs

Looking back at times MPs shed tears in the House of Commons

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32 h. ago Met Police officer accused of coercive control and starving cat and dog

PC Chris Eckford-Soper is accused of sitting on the cat and dog and hitting the animals

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36 h. ago Revealed: more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects investigated by one of Britain's largest police forces in 59 separate abuse probes

Over 300 police officers in Greater Manchester alone have been conducting live inquiries into whether 714 victims were preyed upon, it says.

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