Views sought on Peterborough cemeteries plan
Peterborough residents are being asked for their views on plans for a new cemetery to meet the burial...
View ArticleHeadingley road hole causes traffic delays
A road in Leeds has been closed after utility workers uncovered a large hole...
View ArticleBritons hurt in Costa del Sol hotel blast
Four Britons were injured when a water pipe exploded at a hotel on the Costa del Sol, the Foreign Office has said. All were treated in hospital. One, a 50-year-old woman, is seriously ill. A...
View ArticleMan's jaw broken in unprovoked attack in Salisbury
A 21-year-old had his jaw broken in an apparently unprovoked attack in Wiltshire, police have said. A spokesman said the man was walking with a...
View ArticleVandals topple gravestones at Birmingham church
Vandals have toppled gravestones and daubed graffiti on a Birmingham church. West Midlands police have described the damage to St. Mary's...
View ArticlePc accused of pushing boy through window in Bromley
A Met police officer has been charged with assault after a teenage boy was pushed through a glass window. Pc Marcus Ballard,...
View ArticleGloucestershire police postpone recruitment
Gloucestershire police are to postpone further intakes of new recruits until the government's comprehensive spending review in the autumn. The force lifted its freeze on officer recruitment in April...
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood expands westward
When Egyptian school teacher Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 to teach his fellow Egyptians how to re-discover...
View ArticleMissing bald eagle returns to Lake District animal park
A bald eagle named after former US president Bill Clinton has returned to a Lake District animal park. Bill the eagle flew off on 19 August during a display at...
View ArticleTaxi driver arrested after Bridgend death
A 39-year-old man died after a taxi driver intervened in an argument he was having with his girlfriend. Police said the...
View ArticleDrumchapel Hospital ward closed after woman dies of bug
A hospital ward has been closed following an outbreak of a bacterial infection which claimed the life of an...
View ArticleExam body sorry for A-level mistake
Northern Ireland's exams body has said a mistake was...
View ArticleMan admits Sussex nightclub manslaughter
A 26-year-old has admitted attacking a man who died after suffering serious head injuries outside a nightclub in Sussex. Ricky...
View ArticleFears Taliban will fill aid void in flooded Swat Valley
A top United Nations official has called on the world to urgently step up its...
View ArticleFatal Scunthorpe HGV crash teenagers named
Two 16-year-olds who died in a road crash in North Lincolnshire at the weekend have been named by police. Laura McGowan, of Legard Avenue, Brigg, and Joshua Parkin, of Bluebell Grove, Brigg, were in...
View ArticleGirl, 10, mugged for 68p in purse in Wirral
A 10-year-old girl was mugged for 68p as she walked to the shop to buy some sweets near her home in Wirral. The young victim was pushed by her attacker, who grabbed her purse and ran off in The...
View ArticleChina traffic jam stretches 'nine days, 100km'
A massive traffic jam in China has slowed vehicles to a crawl for a ninth day near Beijing, local media say. Vehicles, mostly lorries bound for Beijing, are...
View ArticleBP Gulf oil spill compensation fund to begin payouts
A $20bn (£12.9bn) fund to compensate victims of the BP oil spill is set to begin accepting claims...
View ArticlePc admits to police data snooping
A police officer has admitted snooping through the force computer and obtaining personal data about people. Pc Adrian Merron, 46, a married dad-of-three, was due to face trial on a...
View ArticleBronze Brunel statue goes missing from Neyland
An 8ft-high (2.4m) solid bronze statue has vanished from a quayside...
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