13 h. ago Police attend park following reports of 'shooting' as they seal off children's play area

Emergency services have been called to a playing field following reports of loud bangs and shouting

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15 h. ago 'Shots fired' at children's play park as youths seen fleeing and cops swarm scene

Police were called to a playing field after reports of 'shots fired' and shouting heard in the area.

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18 h. ago Litherland 'shooting' LIVE: Police swarm kids' playground as youths seen fleeing

Merseyside Police were called to a playing field on Hapsford Road, Litherland, after reports of 'shots fired' after loud bangs and shouting heard in the area

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18 h. ago Cops swarm to Liverpool park as 'shots fired' and play area cordoned off

Merseyside Police were called to a playing field on Hapsford Road, Litherland to reports of several loud bangs and shouting - the area has been taped off while investigations are carried out

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67 h. ago Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python

An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World WarTerry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this newspaper, beginning one piece in 2011 like this: “In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare.” He even used to write jokes for Cliff Richard.It would be tempting in view of all this to call him a renaissance man, except that Jones rather despised the highfalutin Renaissance, preferring the earthiness of medieval times: his first published book was a scholarly reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, arguing that the hero’s fighting and pillaging was being presented satirically by the poet as something deplorable. Later he raided the Norse ...

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3 d. ago Memphis shopping mall 'shots fired' as armed police put area on lockdown

Police rushed to Wolfchase Galleria Mall in Memphis, Tennessee, following reports of a shooting

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3 d. ago Costa del Sol tragedy as Brit's body pulled from water and medics swarm scene

A 57-year-old British man has been found dead at a Costa del Sol marina after a member of the public spotted his lifeless body floating in the water

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4 d. ago Villagers who complained about 'noisy' football games at a children's play park are awarded £130,000

The games area in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire first opened in 2010 after a community fundraising campaign. The council started bulldozing it last month after losing a legal battle.

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5 d. ago Police investigate shots fired on Eastern Avenue in New London

Police investigate shots fired on Eastern Avenue in New London  WFSB

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6 d. ago Former vet laced sweets with drugs to sexually assault boys at summer camp

Jon Ruben asked the children to play a ‘sweet game’ before drugging them

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6 d. ago Paris train station locked down over 'armed man on train' as 'shots fired'

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6 d. ago Celtic fan group turns the AGM screw as key board member fired warning shot – 'your time has expired'

Former Labour politician Brian Wilson will stand for re-election at Celtic's AGM on Friday but the collective are demanding change

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7 d. ago Surveillance video shows Titans cornerback driving car minutes before alleged shooting

Surveillance video shows Tennessee Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed driving a Lamborghini Urus at a suburban Dallas dealership and nearby gas station minutes before two men allege that shots were fired at them from that vehicle last December

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7 d. ago Footage captures moment hitman fires shots at mobster Marc Webley in gangland execution

Grant Hunter admitted to shooting Marc Webley, 38, outside a pub in Granton, Edinburgh.

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7 d. ago Bolton helicopter crash LIVE: Aircraft 'falls out of sky' as fire crews swarm scene

A helicopter has crashed into a field this afternoon in the Lostock area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, with emergency services at the scene

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8 d. ago Trump signs bill to reopen the US government as he rages at Democrats and fires midterm warning shot

After 43 days, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have passed a budget to fund the U.S. government.

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9 d. ago Bin lorry smashes into Leominster house as police and firefighters swarm scene

Police, fire and ambulance crews are at the scene of the incident after a bin lorry ploughed into the side of the property in Leominster, Herefordshire, this morning

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9 d. ago Islamabad explosion: At least 12 dead in horror 'suicide blast' as police swarm scene

An explosion near Islamabad's High Court has killed twelve people amid claims of a 'suicide' attack

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1 week ago Nottingham stabbing horror as man knifed multiple times and cops swarm scene

Emergency services are currently at the scene of a cordoned-off road in the St Ann's area of Nottingham after a man was stabbed at around 12.50pm today in a "serious assault"

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1 week ago Mum finds out what really happens at son's nursery after listening to song

Alana found out her son's nursery were trying what she described as 'psych experiments' on the children after asking her Google device to play Mr Blue Sky

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