6 h. ago Sir Edward Leigh MP is fined for breaking police officer's sternum by knocking him off his Brompton bike as he opened his car door

Parliament's longest serving member, Sir Edward Leigh, has been ordered to pay a £120 fine after he broke a police officer's sternum by knocking him off his Brompton bike last August.

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8 h. ago M3 traffic chaos as police close motorway after finding 'migrants hiding in lorry'

Long 10-mile delays have been reported on the M3 stretching all the way to the M25 after police stopped a lorry suspected to have migrants inside - photos show men huddled in foil blankets

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14 h. ago Gene Hackman dead: Police statement as actor, wife Betsy and their dog found at home

Santa Fe police said no foul play was suspected in the deaths of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa, but added that they're 'waiting on approval of a search warrant'

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36 h. ago BREAKING: Paris police shoot knifeman dead after 'throwing himself at cops with knives in each hand'

The suspect is said to have ‘thrown himself’ at officers in Paris - we'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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46 h. ago Woman's eerie last message before her mummified body was found in her flat

Laura Winham’s 'mummified' remains were found by her brother in her flat in Woking, Surrey, in 2021 - after relatives asked police to break in following concerns about her safety

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55 h. ago Armed police storm primary school after 'bomb threat' with 200m cordon in place

Police in Swindon are responding to reports of a bomb threat at a school - a 'malicious threat' was reported to police and the school confirmed that children have been evacuated

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55 h. ago Police storm primary school after 'bomb threat' with 200m cordon in place

Police in Swindon are responding to reports of a bomb threat at a school - a 'malicious threat' was reported to police and the school confirmed that children have been evacuated

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3 d. ago Hirwaun deaths: Two dead bodies found at house in sleepy Welsh village as cops launch probe

The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered at a property on Hirwaun High Street in Wales as police have launched an investigation into the deaths - which are being treated as 'unexplained'

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3 d. ago Police hunting for missing Brit in Kenya 'find body of strangled man in sack'

Police hunting for missing British man, Campbell Scott, have located the body of strangled man from shrubland in Kenya. The major update comes after he went missing earlier this month

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3 d. ago LIVE: Police cordon off flats in major emergency service response after fire breaks out

Emergency services are in attendance

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5 d. ago A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie

A historic number of arrests were made, but the days of targeted murder or massive political influence are long gonePalermo has not seen anything like it for years. Helicopters in the pre-dawn sky. Carabinieri barracks across Sicily emptied, with all 1,200 officers deployed. The Cacciatori – red-bereted shock cops – brought over from the wilds of Calabria. The Carabinieri’s own film units serving up a morning montage of flashing blue lights, balaclava-wearing officers with submachine guns, police dogs sniffing, cottage doors breaking, and burly, handcuffed men ushered into Alfa Romeos. And then, of course, in the press, the humiliating wiretaps of gangsters sharing their secrets. Cosa Nostra is back in the headlines, and back under the cosh.Italian law enforcement is good at this stuff. Not a single one of the 181 men and women targeted for arrest on 11 February managed to go on the lam before the crackdown. Based on the numbers alone, this raid was the biggest anti-mafia operation ...

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5 d. ago Cops seize £25k worth of cannabis and £21k cash in drug raids

Watch the moment when police break into an industrial unit using a chainsaw, as they seize £21,000 in cash and approximately £25,000 worth of cannabis during a series of drug raids

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6 d. ago Major police incident after stabbing at Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

The attack reportedly happened at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Mitte, Berlin

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