3 h. ago Emergency services rush to city centre street after car almost ploughs into Great Ancoats Street bar

Police, paramedics and fire crews were called to the scene after the car narrowly missed a bar

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6 h. ago Spanish train crashes pictured amid scenes of horror and hurt

Heartbreaking images revealed the aftermath of two deadly train crashes, just two days apart, in Spain - emergency services working through wreckage and passengers trapped inside carriages were caught

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6 h. ago Woman rescued after emergency services scrambled to city centre river

Rescue crews used a ladder to help the female up from the embankment

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7 h. ago Four children rushed to hospital after huge blaze tears through block of flats in central London

FOUR children have been hospitalised after an inferno tore through a block of city centre flats. The London Fire Brigade scrambled eight fire engines and sixty firefighters to the blaze in Lambeth, London, this morning. Two flats were completely destroyed by the flames with more than 20 residents forced to evacuate the 11-storey building shortly...

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9 h. ago Huge fire erupts at Linwood recycling plant as emergency services close area

Residents have been asked to close their windows while fire crews tackle the flames.

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11 h. ago Mum convicted of arson after setting fire to boyfriend's clothes while 'drunk and emotional'

Emergency services were called after Rachel Hunt started the blaze in her back yard

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25 h. ago Gateshead woodland taped off as large police presence swarm area

There is a large police presence on Old Durham Road in Gateshead with an area of woodland cordoned off by police as officers and emergency services work at the crime scene

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35 h. ago Detectives given more time to quiz suspect in Bolton murder probe

Emergency services were called to a flat in Kempton Gardens on Monday morning

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42 h. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after a grandmother, 68, was stabbed to death in her thatched cottage

Gilly Livie, 68, was discovered with a knife wound in her neck after emergency services raced to her home in Cheriton, Hampshire, at 10.30am on January 9.

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48 h. ago LIVE: M66 closed to traffic after crash as emergency services called to scene

The motorway is closed in both directions

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49 h. ago Firefighters tackle blaze at property in Glasgow as road shut

A local bystander explained a huge number of the emergency services have descended on the area.

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55 h. ago Wolverhampton pupils sent home as police swarm school after body found on grounds

West Midlands Police and other emergency services teams were called to the reports of a body found on the grounds of Smestow Academy, a Wolverhampton school, who have sent home pupils

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57 h. ago Air ambulance lands at Wales shopping centre following 'incident' in Tesco

An air ambulance has been seen by Broughton shopping park in Flintshire in a major emergency service response after an incident at a Tesco with multiple police vehicles at scene

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68 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks kill two as Ukrainian strikes trigger blackouts in occupied south

Kyiv’s forces say 30 Russian strikes recorded across 15 locations while hundreds of thousands left without electricity in occupied Zaporizhzhia. What we know on day 1,426Moscow kept up its hammering of Ukraine’s energy grid in attacks that killed at least two people overnight to Sunday, according to Ukrainian officials. At least six people were wounded in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the emergency service said. Russia also targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa region, it said. A fire broke out and was promptly extinguished. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that repairing the country’s energy system remained challenging “but we are doing everything we can to restore everything as quickly as possible”. The Ukrainian president said two people were killed in overnight attacks across the country that struck Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa and included more than 200 drones. The military said 30 strikes had been recorded across 15 locations. One person was k...

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3 d. ago At least ‘two dead & multiple passengers injured’ while others are trapped after two high

TWO high-speed trains have derailed in Spain, killing two and injuring many others. Emergency services were deployed to the scene, with images circulating on social media showing rescue teams working in pitch-black conditions. One of the trains had departed from Málaga and was travelling to Madrid when it came off the tracks. A second train,...

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3 d. ago M6 and M62 LIVE updates as slip road CLOSED with emergency services at scene following crash

A vehicle has left the road in a collision

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3 d. ago M6 and M62 slip road CLOSED with emergency services at scene following crash

A vehicle has left the road in a collision

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3 d. ago Firefighter and five civilians killed as huge fire sweeps through shopping mall in Karachi

Emergency services rushed to the Gul Plaza in Karachi shortly after 10pm local time on Saturday following reports of the blaze, police and rescue officials said.

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3 d. ago Australia news live: woman dead in powerful storm as landslide and flood warnings issued for Sydney

Woman killed by tree branch as NSW SES records more than 800 calls for help. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales State Emergency Services have received over 1400 calls for help and 20 requests for flood rescues after Sydney has been lashed with torrential rain.SES Assistant Commissioner Sonya Alston, speaking to ABC News, says the main areas affected by flash flooding and storm-related incidents are Illawarra, Sydney and the Hunter area.We did have an evacuation at Narrabeen overnight due to the rapid rising waters there and the localised heavy rainfall, so that continues around that. Those particular areas with the weather also moving up north, we’ll see around the north eastern New South Wales experiencing some of that heavy winds, heavy rain and large wind gusts.We’re hoping to see a little bit of relief for the Illawarra area today. But still in that Sydney northern area. So again urging everyone to keep safe, keep inside...

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3 d. ago Police called to smash on same road where four killed in horror crash just six days ago

Emergency services were called to Wigan Road in Bolton today to a collision involving at least two cars this afternoon

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