3 h. ago Dissidents in UK warn of growing Iran danger amid alleged Israel embassy plot

Exclusive: Tehran denies any involvement after arrests as British-Iranians speak of increased terror threatIranian dissidents in the UK have warned that Tehran is growing “more aggressive and dangerous” overseas as it emerged that the Israeli embassy in London was the target of a major alleged terror plot.Four Iranian men are being questioned by police on suspicion of planning to target what police have only described publicly as a “specific premises”. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Police to be questioned on number of 20mph speeding stops in Stirling

More than 150 streets in five communities across the region became 20mph zones back in October 2019 - and now a councillor has led calls for figures on the number of drivers stopped in these areas.

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69 h. ago Police given more time to question seven held in two counter

The Home Secretary said the cases reflect the biggest counter state threat and counter terrorism operations in recent years.

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6 d. ago Royal Parks 20mph speed limit for cyclists could prevent return of London Duathlon

Fears that mass participation race and time trials will be banned from Richmond Park due to ‘considerate cycling’ rules

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6 d. ago Nasty Nigel Farage's Reform policies from NHS, Trump and fantasy economics

Nigel Farage will be buoyant today after gaining a new MP and a new mayor - but there are serious questions about what his party really believes in on key policy areas

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6 d. ago A Sydney police officer confronted a mass murderer. Her backup was a carpenter and construction worker wielding bollards

On 13 April 2024, two shots ended Sydney’s worst mass murder in more than a decade. As an inquest into the Bondi Junction stabbings continues, the question remains: what more could have been done?When police inspector Amy Scott entered a Sydney shopping centre in pursuit of a man who was stabbing people with a large knife, she did so without a partner or a bullet-proof vest. Fear, she said, made way for nausea.“Because, in my head, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was probably going to die”, she told the New South Wales coroner’s court on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump 100 days: ‘unpredictable’ US alienates allies and disrupts global trade

Trump has cut off Ukraine aid, brokered and lost a ceasefire in Gaza and took a sledgehammer to world commerce100 days of TrumpFor US foreign policy, Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were the weeks when decades happened.In just over three months, the US president has frayed alliances that stood since the second world war and alienated the US’s closest friends, cut off aid to Ukrainians on the frontlines against Vladimir Putin, emboldened US rivals around the world, brokered and then lost a crucial ceasefire in Gaza, launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and seesawed on key foreign policy and economic questions to the point where the US has been termed the “unpredictable ally”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump 100 days: from cornerstone of the west to unreliable ally

Trump has cut off Ukraine aid, brokered and lost a ceasefire in Gaza and took a sledgehammer to world commerce100 days of TrumpFor US foreign policy, Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were the weeks when decades happened.In just over three months, the US president has frayed alliances that stood since the second world war and alienated the US’s closest friends, cut off aid to Ukrainians on the frontlines against Vladimir Putin, emboldened US rivals around the world, brokered and then lost a crucial ceasefire in Gaza, launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and seesawed on key foreign policy and economic questions to the point where the US has been termed the “unpredictable ally”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Police issue images of people wanted for questioning after serious assault in Cardiff bar

The assault happened in the basement of Cardiff's Philharmonic nightspot

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1 week ago New 20mph speed limits among measures to cut collisions on Falkirk roads

The new safety plan hopes to save lives of young drivers and motorcylists as well as schoolchildren and pensioners

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1 week ago Speeding cyclists urged to slow down in London's Royal Parks as new 'be considerate' campaign launched

But it’s unclear how rule will be enforced after Royal Parks police axed

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2 w. ago Cyclists told to slow down in London parks as new cycling code of conduct launched – after 86% of Londoners said 20mph speed limits should apply to bikes

Cyclists told to slow down in London parks as new cycling code of conduct launched – after 86% of Londoners said 20mph speed limits should apply to bikes  Road.cc

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2 w. ago New 20mph speed limits to be introduced on series of Bury roads

Two of the new lower speed limit areas are being set up close to schools in a move to 'reduce the risks for all road users'

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2 w. ago NatWest changes its policy over investing in oil and gas companies

Changing its language around what it can invest in raises serious questions over the bank’s formerly-pioneering green policy, campaigners say

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2 w. ago Real Housewives star 'devastated' as brother is shot dead by police

Lydia McLaughlin from Real Housewives Of Orange County has been left heartbroken after her brother Geoffrey Shyam Stirling was shot dead by police during a traffic stop

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2 w. ago Former Real Housewife Lydia McLaughlin reveals brother killed during traffic stop

Geoffrey Shyam Stirling was fatally shot by law enforcement during routine traffic stop on the Pacific Coast Highway in California

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2 w. ago Stirlingshire villagers lose planning battle to stop last pub being turned into holiday let

Scottish Government appeal reporter backs developer over plans for former Buchlyvie Tavern

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3 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after house explosion kills 53

A 43-year-old man has been questioned on suspicion of murder and released on bail as police probe fatal Worksop blast

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3 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after father, 53, killed in horror 'gas explosion' that demolished house in Worksop

Nottinghamshire Police said a 43-year-old man was arrested and questioned on suspicion of murder before being bailed.

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3 w. ago ‘Stop Brexit Man’ cleared of flouting ban on playing music near Parliament

Steve Bray, 56, was playing music on March 20 last year before then-PM Rishi Sunak arrived for Prime Minister’s Questions.

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