3 d. ago Oasis reunion livestream faces big setback as BBC suffer technical difficulties

As excitement ramps up ahead of Oasis' big reunion in Cardiff tonight, the BBC has been covering the build-up in a livestream on iPlayer - however, it hasn't gone strictly to plan

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5 d. ago Scaffolding collapses and smashes window after falling into building on Scots street

The near miss caused a loud bang to echo around the area.

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9 d. ago Shocking moment patient throws bricks at paramedics and attacks ambulance: ‘It was like a horror movie’

This is the horrifying moment a patient trapped paramedics inside their ambulance, before smashing the vehicle’s windows and chucking bricks at them.

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1 week ago Fact check: Video shows incident where passengers evacuated from train

Passengers onboard the London Underground train smelled burning before smashing the windows.

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2 w. ago Police issue plea to youths over derelict Prudential site anti

The large former offices of the pensions and investments firm have been targeted by vandals in recent weeks with windows smashed and the building daubed in graffiti.

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2 w. ago Paloma Faith reveals she nearly died in violent attack by an ex who tried to run her off the road before smashing her car window and pulling her out

The singer, 43, opened up about the horrifying ordeal on her podcast Mad Sad Bad on Tuesday, where she was joined by Ruby Wax.

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3 w. ago Suffragette's horrifying account of being force fed pints of milk in prison after being jailed for London window

Frances and Margaret McPhun were both jailed after taking part in the window-smashing campaign in London in March 1912.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on riots in Northern Ireland: racist violence does not express ‘legitimate grievance’ | Editorial

Politicians must analyse the forces behind mob unrest, but not in terms that make excuses for itA reputation for political violence is one reason Northern Ireland has historically attracted fewer immigrants than the rest of the UK. In that context, increasing diversity could be read as a measure of progress; a peace dividend after the Troubles. That isn’t how it has felt to families cowering in fear of racist mobs this week. The riots started in Ballymena, ostensibly triggered by the arrest of two boys, reported to be of Romanian origin, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. A community vigil mutated into a racist rampage. Masked thugs targeted the local migrant population. When police came to quell the pogrom, officers were attacked with bricks, fireworks, petrol bombs. There was contagion. Windows were smashed and a fire started at a leisure centre in nearby Larne that had been used as a temporary refuge for those fleeing the Ballymena violence. There were outbreaks of di...

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3 w. ago Rioters livestream themselves burning down a HOUSE on TikTok in Ballymena after 'Romanian' teens 'tried to rape girl'

Footage shared on social media shows thugs giggling as they torch a residential home after smashing the windows and breaking in.

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3 w. ago Riot police at leisure centre blaze after 'masked thug's' cause disorder in UK town

Riots continue in Northern Ireland for the third night, as youth storm Larne Leisure Centre to smash window and set wheelie bins on fire before placing them inside

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3 w. ago ‘In 14 years, never anything like this’: Ballymena’s foreigners describe fear after rioting

Some residents put up union jacks in an attempt to be spared from attacks while others say their windows were smashedWhen the mob comes hunting down Clonavon Road, the foreigners who remain entrust their fate to stickers on front doors and flags on windows that signal they are the good foreigners, the foreigners who cause no trouble, and deserve to be spared.“Filipino lives here,” declare posters with the Filipino flag, pasted as talismans against destruction. Other families have erected union jacks and loyalist bunting in hope of deflecting the crowd’s wrath and avoiding selection. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rioters livestream themselves burning down a HOUSE on TikTok in Balleymena after 'Romanian' teens 'tried to rape girl'

Footage shared on social media shows thugs giggling as they torch a residential home after smashing the windows and breaking in.

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3 w. ago Riot police clash with masked yobs in second night of chaos as fires break out and hundreds take to the streets in Northern Ireland after 'Romanian' teens accused of attempted rape

A crowd of 300 yobs hurled petrol bombs at cops, smashed windows and torched cars the day after a peaceful vigil of 2,500 people on Monday descended into mayhem.

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3 w. ago Vandals with hammers smash windows at BBC headquarters in Newcastle and daub ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti

Police have appealed for information following the attack on the building in the early hours of Tuesday

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3 w. ago Windows smashed at BBC building and daubed with ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti

A clean-up operation had wiped off the graffiti by Tuesday lunchtime.

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4 w. ago Four arrested in horror incident after petrol poured through letterbox of flat

A number of windows were also smashed in the area, with a large police presence at the scene

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last month LA protesters 'smash police car windows' as Trump vows to send in National Guard

After protests broke out across a number of Los Angeles neighbourhoods over immigration enforcement, Donald Trump promised to take drastic measures to put an end to the demonstrations

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