21 h. ago Invasion Day: police investigate ‘device’ thrown into Perth crowd as huge marches held across Australia

Anti-immigration protesters clash with First Nations people and supporters in Melbourne and Canberra at otherwise peaceful ralliesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice in Western Australia are investigating a “device” thrown into the crowd at the city’s Invasion Day rally, sparking a security scare that ended the protest.Speaking to the media on Monday afternoon, the WA police commissioner, Col Blanch, said a 31-year-old man had been arrested after allegedly throwing the device. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Invasion Day: police clear Perth protest site amid reports of ‘threat’ as huge marches held across Australia

Anti-immigration protesters clashed with First Nations people and supporters in Melbourne and Canberra at otherwise peaceful ralliesPolice in Western Australia have shut down the location of a planned Invasion Day rally after receiving reports of a threat targeting the Perth CBD.WA police issued a warning on Monday afternoon urging the public to stay away from the area and await further advice, saying they had deployed “significant police resources” to and set up an exclusion zone around Forrest Place. One person is in custody, they said. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Body found on Devon beach after swimmers went missing on Christmas Day

Discovery comes after antiques dealer Matthew Upham got into difficulty while taking part in a Christmas Day swim at Budleigh Salterton Beach

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44 h. ago French spies and police mobilise in Calais and Dunkirk to repel 'D

The French authorities imposed a sweeping ban on gatherings between Calais and Dunkirk on Saturday, and threatened to arrest and deport anyone arriving from the UK.

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64 h. ago Bride shouts 'not on my wedding day' as 'police' storm party in search of dad

Guests of Robyn Ellis-Robson, 31 and her new husband, Arron were left gobsmacked after 'officers' crashed their fairytale wedding in search of the father-of-the-bride

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3 d. ago Street of chaos had police there 'every day' then it all changed bar one sad exception

Police and the council have worked to clean up this street in Swansea's Penlan area and most people we spoke to now feel safer, but problems remain

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3 d. ago Schoolchildren clash with police as viral TikTok 'blind date' event descends into chaos after more than 200 teenagers gathered on south London high street

Videos on social media show more than 200 teenagers gathering in Sutton for the event that promised an 'exciting night of connections and fun'.

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4 d. ago The pub that changed me: ‘As soon as I got behind the bar, I panicked’

What could be better than working at the Friendship Inn with my best friend, Ned? Almost anything else, as it turned outI adored pubs. They were my natural home. And now, thanks to my best friend, Ned, I’d got a job at the Friendship Inn in Prestwich. It was the mid-1980s, and I was in my early 20s, preparing for the first shift. What could be better than working in a pub called the Friendship alongside my bezzy? And I understood drink – you left Guinness to stand, aimed for half an inch of head on a pint of bitter, and if someone asked for water with a whisky you didn’t fill the glass. Easy-peasy. As soon as I got behind the bar I panicked. There were perhaps half a dozen people waiting to order, but it looked like a sea of thousands. The bar was particularly tricky because it was shaped like the bow of a ship. Every time I went to one side, customers started calling from the other. I couldn’t remember the faces. Nor the drinks they ordered. I took a funny turn. The faces became tw...

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4 d. ago History was changed forever 100 years ago in this unassuming bar

Frith Street in Soho, where John Logie Baird gave the world's first public television demonstration in 1926, now houses a famous bar

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6 d. ago Coronation Street star confirms 'chaos' as fans for Shona after Jodie arrival

Jodie's arrival will expose Shona's past in the ITV soap

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1 week ago Coronation Street Carl Webster star has very famous Hollywood wife

Coronation Street villain Carl Webster has been causing chaos on the cobbles with dramatic storylines

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1 week ago Wes Streeting says he will be 'horrified' if under fire West Midlands Police chief is still in a job by the end of the day after he 'misled MPs and the public' over Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban

West Midlands Police chief Craig Guildford defied calls to step down and a Labour police and crime commissioner refused to remove him in the wake of a damning inquest.

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1 week ago Elon Musk’s X bans Grok AI tool from creating images of real people undressed

X announced the policy update the same day the state of California launched probe into allegations of nonconsensual AI-generated explicit images on the platform

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1 week ago Larry the cat causes chaos during Polish president’s visit to Downing Street

Larry the cat tripped up a photographer as he exited Downing Street following Polish president Karol Nawrocki's meeting with Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday, 13 January.

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2 w. ago 'We had a deal within three days, the aim is to change the bar's reputation and turn things around'

The city centre bar closed after violent street brawl but has reopened with new owners

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2 w. ago Wife and two children of police officer killed in Boxing Day blaze died from 'exposure' to fire, inquest told

Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, and her children Eve, seven, and four-year-old Ohner were killed when the fire destroyed their home in Brimscombe, Gloucestershire.

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2 w. ago Truckin’ on: Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings

From 46-minute jams to MTV video hits, here are the freedom-loving Dead guitarist and singer’s finest songs about ‘rainbows of sound’ and ‘enjoying the ride’• Bob Weir, co-founder of rock group the Grateful Dead, dies at age 78• Alexis Petridis: ‘Bob Weir was the chief custodian of the Dead’s legacy’• Aaron Dessner: ‘I’ll never forget playing with him’The Dead’s love for the road is in evidence on this segment from That’s It for the Other One, the four-part opening track of their second LP, Anthem of the Sun. A rare Bob Weir-penned lyric details the Dead’s youngest member being busted by the cops “for smiling on a cloudy day” – referencing a real-life incident when Weir pelted police with water balloons as they conducted what he took to be illegal searches outside the group’s Haight-Ashbury hangout. It then connects with the band’s spiritual forebears the Merry Pranksters by referencing Neal Cassady, driver of “a bus to never-ever land”. The song later evolved into The Other One, on...

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2 w. ago Murder who absconded from prison on New Year’s Day arrested after week

A convicted murderer and a second prisoner who absconded from prison on New Year’s Day has been arrested, police have said.

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2 w. ago Police release new CCTV of murderer and fellow inmate as they remain on the run after New Year's Day prison escape

Matthew Armstrong - jailed for killing a victim in a robbery - is on the run after fleeing HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire with fellow inmate Daniel Washbourne.

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2 w. ago Convicts make New Year's Day prison escape as police release CCTV of killer and criminal

Matthew Armstrong and Daniel Washbourne absconded from HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire on New Year's Day and police have now released CCTV of them in a bid to track them down

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