6 h. ago Former gang member escapes from prison as public placed on high alert and police scale area

Liam Wall was sent to prison in 2017

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8 h. ago Urgent public alert after prisoner escapes and police scale area

Liam Wall was sent to prison in 2017

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8 h. ago 'Do not approach' warning from police as drug gang member escapes from UK jail

Liam Wall, 36, was convicted of drug offences at Cardiff Crown court in 2017 and has now escaped from HMP Prescoed in South Wales - police are urging members of the public not to approach him

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14 h. ago Convict Liam Wall escapes from South Wales prison as police warn public 'do not approach'

Police are appealing for information to help find the man that has escaped from prison

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26 h. ago Chances of EU trucking industry hitting zero emissions targets are dire, says industry body

Just 10,000 out of economic bloc’s 6m trucks are electric and are more likely to be operating on short routesBusiness live – latest updatesThe chances of the European trucking industry hitting zero emissions targets are “dire”, an industry body has warned, as it emerged that only a tiny amount of lorries delivering goods in the EU are electric.Speaking as the European Commission prepares to water down electric car targets, the boss of the association for commercial vehicles called on the commission to commit to an urgent review of the sector, tackling problems including a lack of public charging points, a lack of tax breaks for trucks and high energy costs. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago 24 Hours in Police Custody: Here's what happened to the Yarl’s Wood escapees

The criminal case follows the manhunt of eight Albanian men who escaped from an immigration removal centre.

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7 d. ago NHS boss tells public to 'wear a mask' amid urgent UK warning

Health chiefs have told people to wear a mask in public as a 'very nasty' strain of flu circulates

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9 d. ago Prison escape 'just like the movies' ends in tragedy as police issue warning

Three prisoners were able to make a daring escape out of jail in the US state of Louisiana — using a bizarre method straight out of Hollywood itself to bust themselves out

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1 week ago Moment handcuffed suspect leaps on police van before breaking his back by jumping over wall in escape attempt

Dylan Harrison, 33, shouted 'I'm not going back to jail as officers tried to detain him when he sprinted out the back of a police van at Ystrad Mynach police station in South Wales.

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1 week ago Prisoner on the run orders an Uber to escape from pursuing cops after crashing getaway car

POLICE are scrambling to find an "armed and dangerous" fugitive who escaped custody by ordering an Uber. Investigators are stumped by how an inmate - from the state of Georgia - managed to catch a lift with the popular ride share app, which aided his getaway over the weekend. Timothy Shane, 52, was admitted to...

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1 week ago Runaway reindeer gets new 'control measures' after escaping Christmas attraction

The owner of a Christmas attraction has welcomed back one of its stars, after his escape led to a huge search effort, involving armed police, the coast guard, and even the Royal Marines

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2 w. ago Sarah Everard's mother says the 'horror' of her daughter's final hours torments her

An inquiry has revealed perpetrators are often escaping detection and prosecution for sexually motivated crimes due to police inaction and a 'scattergun approach'.

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3 w. ago Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser found after escape with man, 42, who she is ‘in a relationship with,’ police say

Morgan Geyser went missing from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, with an adult acquaintance at around 8 p.m. Saturday

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4 w. ago 'Restricted patient' who escaped at dentist in Ayrshire found after police hunt

Owen Bonner, a restricted patient, has been located after a four-day search.

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