8 h. ago Schools plunged into lockdown amid major police firearms scare sparked by 'toys'

There was a big police presence and schools were placed on lockdown following reports by worried locals of a man walking with firearms, but cops eventually discovered he just had harmless toys

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8 h. ago Several schools on lockdown after person seen walking with firearms in Beaumont Hills

Several schools were plunged into lockdown and the public was warned to stay away as a major police operation in response to a firearms scare unfolded in Sydney’s north west

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9 d. ago Cops shoot and wound knifeman who threatened to kill his wife and children in Paris train station

French police carried out an operation on Friday afternoon at Montparnasse train station in central Paris.

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9 d. ago Police shoot and wound knifeman who threatened to kill his wife and children at Paris train station

French police carried out an operation on Friday afternoon at Montparnasse train station in central Paris.

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1 week ago Schoolgirl, 17, dies and woman is left seriously injured in attack at home

Police, including firearms officers, attended a property in the Cefn Fforest area of Blackwood, Gwent at around 7.15am this morning following reports two people had suffered serious injuries.

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1 week ago Fury as asylum seekers fleeing war zones housed near police firearms test site

The government plans to house asylum seekers at a military training camp in East Sussex - but campaigners fear its proximity to a police firearms test centre could be re-traumatising

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1 week ago Solihull school plunged into lockdown as man 'chants about demons'

Children were put into lockdown at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School in Solihull after reports of a man said to have been "chanting about demons"

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2 w. ago Liverpool closure RECAP: Man arrested after armed police block off major UK city centre road

Merseyside Police blocked off a section of Upper Parliament Street in Liverpool yesterday evening, armed police arrested one man on suspicion of possessing a firearm

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2 w. ago Loaded shotgun recovered after chase through garden in north Manchester

"Thanks to the vigilance of our neighbourhood policing team, a dangerous firearm was removed before it could be used in a serious crime."

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